Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...
This makes me silly happy:
Hi,
You did a story about this project a while ago when it was first mentioned in an interview:
Now the Chris Cunningham website reports that the project has been GREENLIT!!! This will indeed finally become Chris' first feature film! Oh, and if you use this call me WETBONES.
+Ranx / Happy Birthday Lubna :
Funding is finally in place for Chris to direct (and co-write) his first feature film. Entitled either Happy Birthday Lubna or Ranx, it is an adaptation of the comic book RanXerox by Tanino Liberatore and Stefano Tamburini.
The UK Film Council awarded Chris and Rule 8 Productions Ltd. £95,300 ($164,200). Dec 8 Variety reports that the script, which is in its early stage, is being co-written by Gordy Hoffman.
Two men are checked as producers: Paris-based Fernando Sulichin (Jonas Ã…kerlund's Spun, three Oliver Stone films), and former FilmFour executive producer Jim Wilson. Several websites around - and, no, don't trust us on this one - peg Chris Hanley (Spun, Virgin Suicides) as another producer.
A short explanation: the comic book series RanXerox "features a punk, Frankenstein's monster (made from photocopier parts) named RanXerox and Lubna his teenage sidekick. Together they form a bizarre beauty and beast team in a post-apocalyptic world."
The film was originally titled RanXerox, until a lawsuit from Xerox.
Happy Birthday, Lubna is the second book in the RanXerox series.
Personally, I don’t give a shit what Cunningham’s directing, as long as he’s directing. This guy has more talent in his little finger than most of the people in Los Angeles combined.
"Moriarty" out.
