Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
"I look on Spider as one of the most novel and delightful characters i've ever encountered."
-- Patrick Stewart
"If you loved me, you'd all kill yourselves today."
-- Spider Jerusalem
Hey Head Geek, the Talkback League of A$$holes thought you might be interested in this news from Warren Ellis today (via his mailing list) regarding the possibility of a TRANSMETROPOLITAN film starring Patrick Stewart. Stewart as you probably know has been supporting the recently-concluded Transmet for years, and wrote the introduction to the Lonely City collection. Recently he has been talking up a potential film version, saying in Cinescape Magazine that he'd like to co-produce as well as take on the role of Spider Jerusalem. It looks there's nothing official in the works after all, according to Ellis's response below. It would sure be great if this project could come together, though. Let's make some noise.
Lizzybeth
Okay, I got a bunch of emails about this today, so let's deal with it now:
Patrick Stewart has apparently said, in a dozen places, that he still wants to make a TRANSMET film.
This does not mean one is in production, nor that anyone's actively working to develop it right now.
I think Patrick's brilliant. I think he'd make an excellent Spider Jerusalem. Providing Darick was amenable, and I can't imagine he wouldn't be, we'd go and make a film with Patrick and Wendy Stewart in a second. But right now, nothing's happening.
Patrick and I haven't spoken in a while - he did the last TREK film and X-MEN 2 back-to-back - and I haven't caught up with Wendy in a little while now. When we do talk, we talk TRANSMET. There were overtures made to Darick and I by a director about a year ago, and I kept Patrick and Wendy updated whenever anything happened - it
came to nothing, as you can tell. Hollywood's built on talk. It's no big deal. Before that, we all tried to set up TRANSMET as a web animation with rich media around it, as a stepping stone to a movie, but the company involved tried to screw us all, and that was that.
What Patrick is saying is that he still wants to make the film. He knows I'm right there with him. We see things the same way. Patrick publicly attaching himself to the project doesn't hurt. But right now, nothing's happening. Okay?
I'm attaching a blanket permission for news services to quote the above in its entirety - no excerpting.
-- W
Thanks for forwarding that one, Lizzybeth, and thanks to Warren Ellis for clearing that one up.
"Moriarty" out.
