Is that a 'flock of seagulls'?
Neil Gaiman Talks MirrorMask
First off, if you have yet to see the MirrorMask trailer, CLICK
HERE and get ready to wonder what the hell just happened
to you. This 'Henson' movie looks so strange in the trailer, I couldn't
even begin to tell you what it entails; the Hollywood Reporter calls MirrorMask
"The Wizard of Oz of the 21st Century." Here is what ropeofsilicon.com
says about the film:
If you have seen the trailer you know just
how much of an escape from the real world MirrorMask will be. Gaiman compares
it to such films as Labyrinth, Spirited Away and Paper House, "films of
a certain kind of genre in which a girl gets to go somewhere and search
something out." The story centers on Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family
of circus entertainers, whose mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced
that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother's major surgery, she
dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre
creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the
white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and
it's up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins
to wonder whether she's in a dream, or something far more sinister.
Gaiman's imagination has taken him further than many of us can dream, and
when asking him about his plans for the future, it is a future so bright
he may have to wear shades as he says, "Most people have careers, fortunately
I have had a run at the candy store from books to film. I did a short film
last year and I am directing a film for New Line this year based on my book,
'Death: The High Cost of Living'... I actually turned in the third draft
of the script just the other day, it will be 100 percent live-action."
[more below]
During the MirrorMask interview, it turned out that Gaiman was
willing to mention a little information about his involvement in the Beowulf
adaptation.
Neil Gaiman Mentions Beowulf
Neil Gaiman teamed up with Richard Avery to crank out a two-million dollar
Beowulf script for Robert Zemeckis to direct. It turns out that
the Beowulf script has been circulating for some time without any
response from distibutors or directors up until the arrival of Zemeckis.
Gaiman states:
I wrote the script six years ago, and it is
based off the whole poem... It will be the story you read in high school,
filled with bravery, need, sex and lots of fun spanning from Beowulf
battling Grendel to 50 years later when he sets out to kill the dragon that
attacks his people. Robert [Zemeckis] really wanted to do something more
adult after The Polar Express and this is it.
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