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Max Evry |
Posted: 29-Oct-06 07:58 |
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From my interview earlier this month:
"There’s another one that’s come my way recently that I didn’t write and I’m trying to decide… I can knock it out in six weeks and get it done, get back to work. I’m tempted.
Q: You’d be doing the same thing you did on Tideland, the quick decision-making.
Yeah, but it’s not as good a story. It’s less magical, wondrous, disturbing, anger making. You don’t know anything about this – it’s written by a guy who has never written a screenplay before."
And today I discover this:
http://gorillaz-news.livejournal.com/169939.html#cutid1
Connection???
Gorillaz... Gilliam... SWEET!
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Donald McKinney |
Posted: 29-Oct-06 13:47 |
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Oh, hell yeah!! I heard rumours, but I wasn't sure whether it was official or not. If so, will it be animated or live-action, or maybe both??  |
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cyboexpo2002 |
Posted: 31-Oct-06 16:20 |
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Hmm... I'm note sure what Terry would be able to do with this sort of thing... but maybe I'm incredibly wrong? I'm interested in him pushing the boundaries any day of the week. |
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Max Evry |
Posted: 12-Nov-06 08:08 |
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Hung out at Borders tonight and took a look at a new book all about Gorillaz, and TG is given a special thanks mention in the acknowledgements. Just wanted to keep this fire stoked, I really hope this thing is true. Gorillaz are one of the best bands of the decade, and there's already this great mythology and visual iconography built up by Jaime and Damon. In the book there's even a great Gilliamesque image of a floating island with a windmill on it. DO THIS MOVIE TERRY! |
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flyingnelly |
Posted: 18-Nov-06 15:34 |
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Hmmmmm. If the original project Gilliam talks about is what I think it is, he was approached with it after the Curzon Soho Q&A when a few of us got to talk to him for a half-hour or so - if I remember rightly, it was an adaptation of a French novel, and nothing to do with Gorillaz.
That said, I'd love to see this happen - there's actually a couple of bands I'd love to see him team up with. The line's getting increasingly blurred between the two mediums nowadays, and that's no bad thing in my opinion. |
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Bruttenholm |
Posted: 18-Nov-06 19:32 |
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>"if I remember rightly, it was an adaptation of a French novel, and nothing to do with Gorillaz"
Are you sure it's the same project ? ('cause Gilliam has A LOT of projects) Gilliam seemed to talk about a screenplay someone brought to him and not about a novel... |
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flyingnelly |
Posted: 18-Nov-06 21:17 |
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It was a screenplay the guy in question had already done off his own back. Sorry, should have been clearer on that. |
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Mad Matt |
Posted: 22-Nov-06 14:24 |
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According to Planet Sound last night, Damon Albarn told the reporter that there is a Gorillaz movie and that Terry Gilliam is directing it. So there you have it - if anyone would know it would be him! Good news indeed! |
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Bruttenholm |
Posted: 23-Nov-06 10:05 |
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But will this Gorillaz movie be an animation film or "live-action" film ? Or both ? Terry Gilliam doing animation again would be great news but it would also be a much longer process than live action... (but perhaps it would let him some time to work on pre-production for other projects) |
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Mad Matt |
Posted: 23-Nov-06 15:26 |
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I have no idea. That's the one thing I haven't seen anything about anywhere. The characters in the band are cartoons to begin with, but there's nothing to say that they wouldn't be animated characters against a live action back drop (see some of the videos for evidence of how that might work).
I have to say I like the idea of Terry making his first full-length animated feature film, though! As you suggest, he could work on it simultaneously with other projects. But I was a little surprised that Jamie Hewlett wasn't the automatic choice to helm the flick, despite the obvious Gilliam/Miyazaki influences. I mean, doesn't he direct the videos already? Or have I got the wrong end of the stick there? |
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phildreams |
Posted: 23-Nov-06 17:28 |
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I've no info on this yet but so far there's no clarification that Gilliam's performing full directing duties yet. Maybe's he's advising or exec-producing at some level. |
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Mad Matt |
Posted: 24-Nov-06 14:24 |
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Thanks for that! I guess we'll just have to wait and see. |
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brendon |
Posted: 26-Nov-06 00:31 |
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I think the Albarn quote we keep hearing comes from the one time he opened his mouth on the subject... Gilliam's involvement would be as a director, but that's only if he does do it.
Pete Candeland is the 'real' director of the vids... Hewlett is the 'art director', essentially. |
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Mad Matt |
Posted: 26-Nov-06 15:19 |
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Ah, right. Thanks for the clarification! I have a vague recollection of a documentary clip behind the scenes of a Gorillaz 'production' with Hewlett walking around telling various computer animators/designers what to do in a director-esque fashion, hence my confusion. |
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