Alan Moore Wrote a Gothic Fantasy Film Called THE SHOW and Here's Our First Look
Alan Moore, the comic book writing legend behind Watchmen, Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, has written a script for a new film called The Show. The photo above is our first look at the movie and it certainly looks interestingly odd.
Moore is known for distancing himself from the movies that are based on his work. He’s also been vocally angry with Hollywood over the years, so it’s weird to see that he’s actually doing a film project of his own now. This is his very first original feature film screenplay that will be produced.
Tom Burke (Only God Forgives) is set to star in the film and the story is described as a gothic fantasy drama that follows “Fletcher Dennis (Burke), who has been hired to track down a stolen artifact. This leads him to Northampton, a haunted town at England’s broken heart that has collapsed to a black hole of dreams. Burke finds himself sinking in a quicksand twilight world of dead Lotharios, comatose sleeping beauties, Voodoo gangsters, masked adventurers, unlikely 1930s private eyes and violent chiaroscuro women.”
This sounds and looks like it could be pretty wild! The image above kinda looks like it could be a mix of Moore himself and the old McDonalds character Mac Tonight.
The movie is being directed by Mitch Jenkins and this is what Moore had to say about the film project in a statement:
“I wanted to apply the storytelling ability accumulated during the rest of my varied career to the medium of film. I wanted to see if it was possible to create an immersive and addictive world with no throwaway dialogue and no throwaway characters, a world where every character is memorable, distinctive and attempting to steal the whole show for themselves, just as we do in real life. I wanted to take some very old-school approaches to film and to find out, alongside Mitch Jenkins, what would happen if you connected them up with some very modern ideas and technical capabilities, and I wanted to make a piece of radical and progressive cinema that was also ridiculously sumptuous, involving and entertaining: a genuinely spectacular show.”
I like where this is headed and I’m pretty stoked about eventually checking it out. It’s said to deliver “a tapestry of madness, malevolence and murderous misdeeds, intersecting to form an original, occult noir thriller.”
Burke will be joined by Siobhan Hewlett (Redemption), Ellie Bamber (Nocturnal Animals), Sheila Atim (Girl From The North Country), Richard Dillane (The White Princess) and even Moore himself will appear.
What do you think about the concept behind Alan Moore’s upcoming film project?
Source: Deadline
