This is good news indeed. The rights are owned by someone who (probably) loves the material and wants to do right by it.
Now I'd say that there needs to be several layers placed between Morrison and his baby. I cringe when I read back a lot of the final third of the last volume, as he let his attachment to King Mob get the better of the story. Who else thinks that Dane and KM's places should have been switched in the final story, but that Morrison wanted to claim Dane's final moments for himself? It reads like he was too invested in it as an act of self change, and wanted to grasp all the cool moments for himself.
So yeah, it could do with a substantial rewrite. That needs to be done by a decent screenwriter working hand-in-hand with a director who knows how to manipulate the medium as skillfully as Morrison knows how to manipulate a comic. I'm specifically thinking of the panel in which KM grabs the edge of the page and pulls it in towards him... there needs to be a director attached who can make that work only using film technqiue.
A lot of the reference points could probably do with updating now, too. They've become pretty ubiquitous. There's been a lot of movement since the Nineties and filming a straight adaptation would seem immediately dated. Removing all reference to Kula Shaker goes without saying.
I'd love to see this done as a three movie deal with people like Kaufman rewriting and Jonze/Gondry directing. It's in with a serious chance of being better than the original text.
If this is going to happen they probably need our help, boys and girls. It'll become apparent pretty quick that the more help we give George the more he'll need... X |
