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Hey, moderator, thanks for making that a proper link. Do I have to use a link script here?
Way to go, Cameron. That's great news. And funny it was news to you too. =)
Got this in the morning :
"bad signal WARREN ELLIS
Variety is reporting today that Grant
Morrison has sold a pitch for a family
action film, SLEEPLESS KNIGHTS, to
Dreamworks, with Guillermo Del Toro
(sp?) tentatively attached to direct.
This is Good News. All go and jerk off
for Morrison's success now. It worked
for THE INVISIBLES. He's being going
out to LA "in search of profit," in
his words, for a lot of years, and it's
about time it paid off for him.
While you're at it, direct admiration
and best wishes at my friends Ross
Richie, Andy Cosby and John Rogers,
who recently got their film adaptation
of Matt Wagner's MAGE greenlit.
PLANETARY/JLA is all written, and
Jerry Ordway's about halfway through
it, doing the best work I've seen from
him in years.
Next up for me is finishing the MORNING
DRAGONS script, which Steve Lieber
starts drawing later this month.
David Lloyd has agreed to do an issue
of GLOBAL FREQUENCY, and it looks
like the final issue of the twelve will
be done by Gene Ha.
Steve Rolston's cover designs for MEK,
based on my notes, are in, and they're
great. He starts work this month, and
I'll probably be able to show the covers
from July. Vertigo in 2003 is looking very
interesting, you know.
-- W"
And from Variety:
"D'Works pages 'Knights'
'X-Men' comix' Morrisson sells supernatural tale
By CLAUDE BRODESSER
DreamWorks has acquired "Sleepless Knights," a pitch from comicbook scribe Grant Morrisson with director Guillermo del Toro ("Blade 2") attached to helm.
Morrisson is best known for having penned what remains one of the top-selling graphic novels of all time, "Batman: Arkham Asylum." He also has worked on such D.C. Comics books as "New Doom Patrol" and "The Justice League."
Currently, he is penning Marvel Comics' "The X-Men" series and, in between, penned the treatment for "Sleepless Knights" producer and fellow Scotsman Susan Montford.
Story is designed as a family adventure about a time machine experiment that goes horribly wrong, leaving the planet permanently stuck on Halloween eve. Soon, ghosts and spirits realize they have free reign and run unchecked -- until a young boy is recruited to an elite ghostbusting squadron called the Sleepless Knights.
Project is being produced by Montford and Sony-based producer Don Murphy, via his Angry Films banner. Montford drew in del Toro after showing the "Knights" treatment to him during the development of "At the Mountains of Madness," which Montford and del Toro are making at DreamWorks, based on the H.P. Lovecraft novel of the same name.
Murphy, a graphic novel maven with strong ties to, and credibility in, the comicbook world, most recently produced Fox's "From Hell" and its upcoming Sean Connery starrer "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" -- both adapted from graphic novels and comicbooks. With Montford, Murphy also is producing "Speed Tribes" at Columbia, a remake of the cult film "Hell's Angels '69" being written by Peter Dowling.
"Knights" will be overseen by DreamWorks production prexy Michael De Luca -- who gave del Toro the reins of "Blade 2" at New Line -- and production exec Marc Haimes.
While del Toro's manager, Gary Ungar, confirmed his attachment to the project, a DreamWorks spokeswoman charactereized del Toro's involvement in "Knights" as very preliminary.
Del Toro is repped by the William Morris Agency and managed by Exile Entertainment, while Morrisson is repped by CAA."
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