""TODAY THE God Of Fuck is merely the Petty Officer Of Fucking About; the Local Ombudsman Of Mildly Irritating Behaviour. He's locked in his suitably grand room at a Park Lane hotel with plenty of absinthe and 'a young lady friend'. A wide-eyed reporter from a London free title eventually comes down the stairs declaring him to be "leathered"; saying that the lanky industro-goth was striding round his room with the girl tossed over his shoulder chatting bare nonsense."
- Journalist John Doran reaches the end of his tether while waiting for Marilyn Manson to turn up for a scheduled interview, 2009.
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The Fables Movie
I came across this list on the net and got all over excited. A Fables movie ! With a quite stellar cast ! Oh hang on though, it's got Charlie Sheen in it, that can't be a good thing.
Reading on through the list I was wondering how the producers had managed to pack all these stars into one film, and then it dawned on me, this is just fanfic isn't it ? Apparently there was due to be a Fables TV series but right now that project looks dead in the water.
I suppose the problem is that comics with complex plots and large casts don't translate easily to the large or small screen, just look at the hideous nightmare that Hellblazer became when reincarnated as Constantine in the cinema. Of course it didn't help that they cast the world's worst actor in the lead role, but the plot was also a load of rubbish.
Fables has numerous high profile characters, many of whom take prominent roles at different times in the story arcs, and the main story arc of The Adversary wouldn't easily cram into one movie, a trilogy perhaps ?
I wouldn't think that a series of films would be unworkable, provided a director with a feeling for the original comics was put in place. With so many of the characters being instantly recognisable to a western audience it should be a reasonably easy sell as well. Casting old Mazza Manson as Mr. Dark though ? I know he looks like him but do you seriously need a cast member who is almost as weird as the character he is portraying ?
Reading on through the list I was wondering how the producers had managed to pack all these stars into one film, and then it dawned on me, this is just fanfic isn't it ? Apparently there was due to be a Fables TV series but right now that project looks dead in the water.
I suppose the problem is that comics with complex plots and large casts don't translate easily to the large or small screen, just look at the hideous nightmare that Hellblazer became when reincarnated as Constantine in the cinema. Of course it didn't help that they cast the world's worst actor in the lead role, but the plot was also a load of rubbish.
Fables has numerous high profile characters, many of whom take prominent roles at different times in the story arcs, and the main story arc of The Adversary wouldn't easily cram into one movie, a trilogy perhaps ?
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