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Moore on From Hell Movie

 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
14:29 / 17.09.01
http://www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-Search-X!ArticleDetail-42032,00.html

The pic is rather "from hellish" too.
 
 
rizla mission
12:02 / 18.09.01
The implications in that article that Alan Moore's been spied on by the Special Branch are quite interesting..

..do you think they're picking on him because of his work or simply because he's the maddest looking fucker in the British Isles?

Also, the From Hell producer seems good at speaking out of his arse, and the film sounds increasingly dreadful.
 
 
moriarty
12:16 / 18.09.01
I read an interview in Rue Morgue, the best Horror mag on the stands, and Moore said that his best hope for the movie is that it's like Blade Runner was to Do Androids Dream of Elecric Sheep. Different, but still good. Both he and Campbell also expressed admiration in the period detail.

Is it going to be crap compared to the book? Well, yeah. But at least, judging by the trailer, a little of the Moore voodoo has seeped into the movie and made look just a tad better than most of the Ripper movies (I was a teenage Ripperologist!).

The last bit in the article was great. Moore said he would probably end up seeing it on video since he didn't have any desire to travel to the nearest cinema. He did add that he might attend the premiere, but only because his daughters had drawn up a very well thought out kidnapping plot involving Johnny Depp.
 
 
Pin
06:55 / 20.09.01
So wait a minute... They took out the bit with the Ripper, thus negating some of the best parts of it (the final murder, esp., I thought was wonderful)? And added a full-blooded romance?

Why the fuck are they even bothering to use From Hell as source material? The identity could easily just come from JTR: The Final Solution, and that bloody love story has no basis anywhere. Why sullly it's name?! Still might get more people to read it... Ottakers certainly has about 78549274052840 copies in right now. Only fucking comic they do have in quantty...
 
 
rizla mission
08:50 / 20.09.01
quote:Originally posted by moriarty:

He did add that he might attend the premiere, but only because his daughters had drawn up a very well thought out kidnapping plot involving Johnny Depp.


I so want that to happen.

"CHILDREN OF MAD COMICS WRITER KIDNAP HOLLYWOOD STAR!"
 
 
CameronStewart
10:47 / 20.09.01
>>>(I was a teenage Ripperologist!).<<<

Me too! Me too!

>>>and that bloody love story has no basis anywhere.<<<

We-e-e-ll, yes it does. Abberline and Mary Kelly do have the beginnings of a relationship in the comic (though not a hot n' steamy romp as it appears to be in the film).
 
 
Seth
14:10 / 20.09.01
quote:Originally posted by Rizla Year Zero:


I so want that to happen.

"CHILDREN OF MAD COMICS WRITER KIDNAP HOLLYWOOD STAR!"


Judging by Johnny Depp's appearance in The Fast Show, he'd probably be game for a laugh, too.
 
  
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