I'm seeing that too, Hec. I'm also seeing people guessing it's a cine/director person.
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Daisy Jane - Mar 28, 2011 11:29:16 am PDT #13794 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
SailAweigh - Mar 28, 2011 11:30:58 am PDT #13795 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I like your thinking, Jilli. The visuals we'd get with him!
-t - Mar 28, 2011 11:31:57 am PDT #13796 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Coen Brothers
Wouldn't that be interesting! In a way, it'd be very much their thing.
DawnK - Mar 28, 2011 11:45:24 am PDT #13797 of 30000
giraffe mode
I'd love to see del Toro do it!
I keep wondering at the "many, many Oscars" quote I keep seeing... Spielberg has 3, Howard has 2. Curiouser and curiouser.
Strega - Mar 28, 2011 12:15:00 pm PDT #13798 of 30000
Gaiman says, "There is one cinematographer and director on board who has many, many Oscars and is, I think, a genius, and I love the fact that he fell in love with this about six or seven years ago and has not given up."
I suspect that the "many Oscars" stuff should be interpreted loosely, given that he wasn't consulting Wikipedia bios at the time. I do think he's describing a single person there, because I suspect that his subject-verb agreement is more reliable than his knowledge of Hollywood trivia.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 28, 2011 12:24:17 pm PDT #13799 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Is there a cinematographer-turned-director who's won multiple Oscars for the former?
Daisy Jane - Mar 28, 2011 12:27:53 pm PDT #13800 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I was also looking for a director saying he'd like to do it 4 or 5 years ago.
Consuela - Mar 28, 2011 12:58:10 pm PDT #13801 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I like Jilli's thinking. Of course I'm still mourning the del Toro version of The Hobbit, which we'll never see.
That said, it occurred to me recently that I might live long enough to see a second adaptation of Lord of the Rings, because the cost of effects just keeps going down, and at some point the animators are going to bridge the Uncanny Valley. We may yet see a fully-animated LOTR that looks real enough to work. Which could be interesting.
Consuela - Mar 28, 2011 12:59:27 pm PDT #13802 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Although thinking about American Gods, if Hollywood's going to do it, I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to cast Shadow with a white guy. But Gaiman may have enough pull to control that.
Polter-Cow - Mar 28, 2011 1:05:18 pm PDT #13803 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Is Shadow not a white guy? I don't remember any references to race, but I read it a while ago.