Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
Great kids films transcend their target audience and speak to all of us in a really wonderful way. One e-mail today confirmed a bunch of rumors I’d been hearing and give me reason to believe there’s something really special in our immediate future:
Hey Harry,
probably not the only one to point it out, but Neil Gaiman has announced in his 'blog some cool news about a film adaptation of his new Children's book, Coraline.
From: www.neilgaiman.com
"The official press release about the Coraline movie should be going out in the next day or so, telling the world that Henry "Nightmare Before Christmas" Selick will be directing it (and wrote the script), for Bill Mechanic's Pandemonium films, to be distributed by Disney, and starring Michelle Pfeiffer as the mother and the other mother, and that it will start shooting in early 2003 for a late 2003 release. Consider this a sneak wossname. Preview.
(Unless it isn't and doesn't, this being Hollywood we're talking about of course.)"
Just thought I'd give the heads-up.
Dare.
I haven’t read this Gaiman piece yet, but it sounds incredible. A friend of mine called me after a reading of this by Gaiman, absolutely in love with it. He thinks it’s one of Gaiman’s strongest piece. Personally, I just got through with AMERICAN GODS, which I missed completely in hardcover. Loved it, and I’m dying to see what he’s done with this story, and what Selick is going to do with this project that sounds to me like a very hip spin on Svanmejer’s LITTLE OTIK.
And in other news... yes... it has been confirmed that Alfonso Cuaron is directing HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN. Thank you to all 89,000 people who e-mailed to tell me. He’s a great choice, as one viewing of A LITTLE PRINCESS should reveal to anyone who’s interested. Yes, Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN is a very adult picture, but he’s already proven that’s not all he’s capable of.
I’d say both of these are films I have high hopes for now. Very, very exciting stuff.
"Moriarty" out.
