Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
Both VARIETY and THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER ran the story tonight that Zack Snyder and his wife Deborah will be co-producing with Denise Di Novi and Frank Darabont a new film adaptation of THE ILLUSTRATED MAN, a Ray Bradbury collection of short stories. The stories aren’t directly related, but they all play out as scenes tattooed on the body of the titular character.
Here’s what Borys Kit had to say in part in his story in THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER:
Some of the better-known stories include "The Veldt," about two parents who use an artificial nursery that re-creates the African savanna to placate their children but get locked inside it by the kids; "The Other Foot," in which Mars has been colonized by black people who want to create a system of segregation when they learn that a rocket filled with white travelers is arriving from Earth; and "Marionettes Inc.," in which a man attempts to escape his unhappy marriage by replacing himself with a robot to fool his wife, only to discover that his wife left a while ago and he had been living with a robot version of her.
I’m not crazy about the film version from the ‘60s, which Warner finally released on DVD earlier this year, so there’s room for this to easily be better than the first film. Alex Tse, who was the final writer on WATCHMEN, is going to be writing this one, and it should reunite the full WATCHMEN creative team sometime after that film is finished.
Drew McWeeny, Los Angeles
Drew McWeeny, Los Angeles
