OK, Neil Gaiman officially rocks. (But you knew that, right?)

[unixronin]

From this Time interview with Neil and Joss Whedon:

[NG] [...] The brief with Mirrormask was Henson coming to us and saying, in the Eighties, Henson's did The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.  They were family fantasy films.  They cost $40 million each.  We'd like to do another one.  We have $4 million.  If we gave you that $4 million, could you come back with a movie, and we won't tell you what to do?  As deals go, it's that bit at the end that said, we won't tell you what to do that was, okay, yes, I will happily take not enough money to make a huge fantasy movie and try and make a huge fantasy movie with it.

[NG] But then, I get fascinated because, in America, it almost seems like family has become a code word for something that you can put a five-year-old in front of, go out for two hours, and come back secure in the knowledge that your child will not have been exposed to any ideas.  [...]

Ideas.  Wow, what a concept.  Clearly subversive.

Really, go read the interview.  It's brilliant, subversive, and genuinely funny.

[NG] Last time I was at Comicon, there were like 5,000 people there, and the audience was going to try and cut me off with stuff to sign.  They had to figure out how to get me off the stage.  All of a sudden, I'm getting to the end of the conversation.  Dave McKean and I were doing a Mirrormask thing and we're ready to leave the stage.  I look up and they have a bodyguard line of 30 Klingons.  They're six-foot six and four-feet wide and they have the foreheads and they had linked arms.  We were being led off behind a human wall —a Klingon wall—of Klingon warriors.  And I thought, how good does it get?

Comments

[sierra-nevada.livejournal.com]

A Narn bodyguard line would have been good, too.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Let's hear it for the Narn Bat Squad!