Snippet from Moebius' The Long Tomorrow |
"Two sequences from the original Heavy Metal movie were borrowed from Moebius's work: The Long Tomorrow story and Arzach." Blais explains. "Given that till this day, Moebius and Jodorowsky are heralded as some of the world's greatest Sci-Fi visionaries," Blais reasons, "it seems to me that a film, based on their work would be even more successful than one inspired by it."
Bringing these incredible artist's work to the big screen, I am convinced would be a great success...so much so that I animated and directed this piece with other like artists..."
I was disappointed to find that this was not from a movie about to come out, but just a project Blais and friends did for fun. Hopefully Blais will continue to beat the bushes and maybe get this film made! I know I wanna see it...
holla!
samax.
2 comments:
It's always tough to adapt an artist's work to the screen. Since Moebius isn't an animator it would be a team of people drawing like him. So, is it really Moebius' work?
I love Moebius' art (how does he get so much texture and solidity from a few simple marks?) but, having recently read a pile of old TPBs I find that his writing is... bad (and I don't really think it's the cultural map)
For a lot of reasons I won't bore you with (they really ARE boring) I was late to getting to Moebius, and I found his writing to be kind of awkward, but I never got around to giving it a thumbs up or down.
As for the movie, even if he was an animator, it would still be a team of people drawing like him, he would just be their boss, nitpicking them. I would love to see this film get made. I like the idea comics works being faithfully adapted to other mediums, since what we usually see is (for better or worse) not so faithful.
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