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Neil Gaiman appreciation station

Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punkhedge witchRegistered User regular
edited June 2011 in Social Entropy++
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a311009/neil-gaiman-confirms-american-gods-film.html

American Gods movie whoop whoopp

I will make a real OP later i promise

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  • I Win SwordfightsI Win Swordfights all the traits of greatness starlight at my feetRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Oh hey that's pretty cool.

    I think I'd rather just read it again.

    But this is cool too.

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  • mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    There are infinite ways for this to turn out infinitely horrible

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    mensch-o-matic wrote: »
    There are infinite ways for this to turn out infinitely horrible
    Likewise, there are infinite ways for this to turn out infinitely good!

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  • mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    mensch-o-matic wrote: »
    There are infinite ways for this to turn out infinitely horrible
    Likewise, there are infinite ways for this to turn out infinitely good!

    No there are definitely rather seldom ways for this to turn out good to great

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    mensch-o-matic wrote: »
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    mensch-o-matic wrote: »
    There are infinite ways for this to turn out infinitely horrible
    Likewise, there are infinite ways for this to turn out infinitely good!

    No there are definitely rather seldom ways for this to turn out good to great
    Not really!

    There is a pretty good chance it could be a damn good movie. We know nothing other than the fact that it exists.

    Saying OH GOD THIS IS GOING TO BE AWFUL is dumb.

    Plus, Gaiman has a pretty great track record with his stuff and films. Coraline was great, Stardust was great and Mirrormask was pretty fucking weird, but that was what it was trying to be.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    American Gods can translate to film just fine. It doesn't rely on any specific literature-only devices to tell it's story and it's plot follows a pretty solid formula.

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  • George Fornby GrillGeorge Fornby Grill ...Like Clockwork Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    antimatter gonna have a stroke

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  • mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I didn't say what it was going to be

    I said what it could be

    (and it could be really bad!)

    (really easily!)

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Although I think Anansi Boys would be a better movie to make.

    Love that book

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I'm Neil Gaiman in real life.

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    mensch-o-matic wrote: »
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    mensch-o-matic wrote: »
    There are infinite ways for this to turn out infinitely horrible
    Likewise, there are infinite ways for this to turn out infinitely good!

    No there are definitely rather seldom ways for this to turn out good to great

    I mean if you're going to complain about how bad adaptations are going to be, let's talk about Akira

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    mensch-o-matic wrote: »
    I didn't say what it was going to be

    I said what it could be

    (and it could be really bad!)

    (really easily!)
    And it could be really good!

    Really easily!

    You said it had little chance of that!

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    #pipe wrote: »
    mensch-o-matic wrote: »
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    mensch-o-matic wrote: »
    There are infinite ways for this to turn out infinitely horrible
    Likewise, there are infinite ways for this to turn out infinitely good!

    No there are definitely rather seldom ways for this to turn out good to great

    I mean if you're going to complain about how bad adaptations are going to be, let's talk about Akira

    Isn't that supposed to have Justin Timberlake in it?

    I love Justin Timberlake.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I was not a big fan of Anansi Boys


    American Gods ruled though

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  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I didn't know where else to go

    tell me, thread, is the glass half-empty or half-full?

    I'm cautiously optimistic about this movie! This is what I need after the Mountains of Madness died.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I read Anansi Boys first, which was weird

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  • GatsbyGatsby Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Fuck I just bought these new jeans

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    In a recent interview, Gaiman exclusively revealed to DS that a director "who has many, many Oscars" is already on board the project.

    "I'm going to be having a meeting in LA with the people that the film rights have been sold to," he confirmed. "I'm going to be... talking to them, find out where they're going and if there's any way that I can help."

    He also described the unnamed director attached to the film as "a genius".

    "He fell in love with this [novel] about six or seven years ago and has not given up," explained the writer.
    Glass is looking pretty full!

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  • mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I'm directing it

    and I'm gonna make it suck to spite Blankzilla

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    You

    you monster

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  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Dammit, Mensch, think of all the people you're hurting in your quest for revenge

    Blank isn't worth it

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  • mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    What I'm sorry I can't hear you over all this script-editing

    Now obviously Anansi's gonna be the wisecracking ethnic sidekick but I wanna know if his new name should be 'anan-sizzle' or 'A-spide' (A-DOGG would obviously be quite weird)

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  • mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I'm thinking of setting a homage to Zack Snyder (my hero) but I don't quite know which sex-scene should have Hallelujah blaring over it

    Actually you know what make it all of them

    Just do hip-hop and dubstep covers for the other two

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    mensch-o-matic wrote: »
    I'm thinking of setting a homage to Zack Snyder (my hero) but I don't quite know which sex-scene should have Hallelujah blaring over it

    Actually you know what make it all of them

    Just do hip-hop and dubstep covers for the other two

    i would see this

    unironically

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    mensch-o-matic wrote: »
    I'm thinking of setting a homage to Zack Snyder (my hero) but I don't quite know which sex-scene should have Hallelujah blaring over it

    Actually you know what make it all of them

    Just do hip-hop and dubstep covers for the other two
    Obviously you need to use
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UrA9zBSY8c


    you know when

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
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  • mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    mensch-o-matic wrote: »
    I'm thinking of setting a homage to Zack Snyder (my hero) but I don't quite know which sex-scene should have Hallelujah blaring over it

    Actually you know what make it all of them

    Just do hip-hop and dubstep covers for the other two
    Obviously you need to use
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UrA9zBSY8c


    you know when


    This kind of hands-on work deserves a spot of credit

    How do you feel about:

    MENSCH'S NEIL GAIMAN'S AMERICAN GODS

    DEDICATED, INSPIRED BY, AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF PENNY ARCADE FORUMER BLANKZILLA

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  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I love Neil Gaiman. Favourite Author ever.

    That said, I am terrified of what might become of this because.. well, I'm just going to quote myself here.
    Fishman wrote: »
    Also, the American Film industry has this habit of... ignoring anything vaguely unfamiliar to the hetero-normative Judeo-Christian middle America psyche. The whole point of the story is that all these Gods and myths don't thrive in American culture and have bugger all profile. I'm somewhat afraid of what compromises the movie will make in a studios search to make the movie more appealing to White middle America. A film that challenges the audience's knowledge of non-Christian religion and has at its center a story that will be denounced by the religious conservatives of the midwest as heresy? You couldn't pitch a worse concept to the the film industry at the moment.

    Also, Neverwhere: yes.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    mensch-o-matic wrote: »
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    mensch-o-matic wrote: »
    I'm thinking of setting a homage to Zack Snyder (my hero) but I don't quite know which sex-scene should have Hallelujah blaring over it

    Actually you know what make it all of them

    Just do hip-hop and dubstep covers for the other two
    Obviously you need to use
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UrA9zBSY8c


    you know when


    This kind of hands-on work deserves a spot of credit

    How do you feel about:

    MENSCH'S NEIL GAIMAN'S AMERICAN GODS

    DEDICATED, INSPIRED BY, AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF PENNY ARCADE FORUMER BLANKZILLA
    Oh god I am dying of shame

    wait

    no


    you planned this aaaaaagh

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  • mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Replace Thor with Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and Loki with Satan

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  • RedZeroRedZero Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Oh please dear god let this movie not be a complete fucking train wreck.

    Didn't they make another Gaiman book into a movie? Stardust? Never saw it, but never heard much about it either.

    If the line "'Fuck you,' said the raven," doesn't make it into this I will be horribly disappointed.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Seriously guys


    Thor comes out in less than a month

    we really don't need to be worried about them going "SHADOW IS NOW CHILLIN WITH JESUS"

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2011
    can't wait to see the scene where a man gets devoured by a fertility goddess through her vagina on celluloid

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  • George Fornby GrillGeorge Fornby Grill ...Like Clockwork Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Orikaeshigitae wrote: »
    can't wait to see the scene where a man gets devoured by a fertility goddess through her vagina on celluloid

    un-ironic SAME

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    mensch-o-matic wrote: »
    Replace Thor with Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and Loki with Satan

    Oden is also Satan.

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  • mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Orikaeshigitae wrote: »
    can't wait to see the scene where a man gets devoured by a fertility goddess through her vagina on celluloid

    I can't wait to watch a slave be anally raped by an imp-god!

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2011
    I should really reread American Gods. It's been a while since I first read it and I've reread everything else by him (since I own it all) except this (which I don't.)

    they should adapt Deathbird Stories as a series of shorts and then wait for people to say that it ripped off American Gods.

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2011
    also obligatory reminder that neil gaiman is married to amanda palmer and it's impossible for there to be a more awesome marriage than that

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  • EndEnd Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    American Gods is actually the only book of his I own.

    should probably fix that

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Orikaeshigitae wrote: »
    also obligatory reminder that neil gaiman is married to amanda palmer and it's impossible for there to be a more awesome marriage than that

    whoa I didn't know that!

    for some reason I thought she was gay?

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