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Posted by St. Yogi (Member # 5974) on :

I don't know if this is old news around here but:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=2613

This sounds really cool!

Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :

Thanks for the news. I had not heard of it. I predict it will make back at least five times the money they put into it. [Smile]

Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :

Yeah, I've had my eye on that for a long time, as well as the Coraline movie.

Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :

PS Neil Gaiman always looks hilarious.

Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :

His whole bit with wearing sunglasses at every possible photo op is starting to kind of bug me to the point that I'm afraid he is beginning to slide off into wanker land. :/

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

Storm, I once asked him why he wore the sunglasses and leather jacket to every signing and photo op, and his response was, "So I don't need to figure out what to wear." [Smile]

Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :

Not that I don't like Neil Gaiman, because I do, but I have this odd feeling that he was just blowing you off, Tom. I don't know. In some respects, putting the stuff on every day so he doesn't have to decide what to wear is pretty wankery, too.

Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :

quote:
In some respects, putting the stuff on every day so he doesn't have to decide what to wear is pretty wankery, too.

<looks down at jeans> [Frown]

Posted by Fyfe (Member # 937) on :

I have just discovered that this movie will exist. Here is a trailer. Dave McKean doesn't like it.

MirrorMask trailer page

Jen

Posted by prolixshore (Member # 4496) on :

Cool. I like the music.

In reference to the earlier part of this thread, I am fairly certain than Gaiman has lived in wanker-land for quite a while now. I'm also certain that is the reason his stories are so good.

--ApostleRadio

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

I hope that's just a teaser trailer, because it looked singularly uninteresting.

And it shouldn't have - it's got lots of elements I like in a movie, plus Neil Gaiman.

But this looked too caught up in itself. Hopefully just bad editing for the trailer.

Dagonee

Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :

from Neil Gaiman's website:

http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/journal.asp

quote:
The music's not actually music from the film, and the trailer's just moving images really, with no sense of the story (or even that there is a story), but it's the first moving anything that's been seen on the web so far. The next trailer will be longer, and feel more like the film. Still, it's Dave McKean's images, and they move. It's more of a taster than a trailer...

Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :

Looks neat. However, I think the music is terrible.

Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :

Not many trailers use music from the films. Common exceptions would probably be sequels and such. Music (especially the sweeping orchestral productions) take forever so they are usually not done in time for trailers.

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

That note is encouraging.

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

That's like megaweird. I could've sworn I've seen a completely and entirely different trailer for Mirrormask which in feel was somewhat like a combination of the Orlando and TheCell trailers; scenes not of and yet as if from a surreal masque ball brightly lit to highlight the dark decadence.

That or my imagination/dreamlife is better than Gaiman's; which I find to be unlikely.

[ October 05, 2004, 04:57 AM: Message edited by: aspectre ]