David Slade helming Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere
Posted by Matt Holmes
Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere has made a strange journey to the big screen…
In 1996, the story was made for a television mini-series and also written into a book at the same time which was released a year later. Then came it’s own comic book series and even a frikkin’ stage production of the story until finally in 2007 it looks like a movie adaptation is on the way from a script Gaiman wrote seven years ago!
That’s a huge ten year journey from the small screen to the big one.
David Slade will direct the movie for the big screen. He previously directed the well received Hardy Candy and is the man behind the upcoming graphic novel adaptation of 30 Days of Night. He is being touted as the next big thing, much like Zack Snyder was in 2004 and an adaptation of a Neil Gaiman story is a great next career move for him.
The story follows a bumbling businessman named Richard Mayhew, who ends up in an alternate dimension world called London Below. While there he must help a girl named Door, who is looking for answers regarding the murder of her family members.
This is just one of many, many projects that Gaiman has upcoming as his work is getting more attention than that of Frank Miller at the moment. Of course, his latest work to be adapted for the screen Stardust bombed this week at the box office, despite being well reviewed by most.
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Words cannot express how excited I am about this project. I remember watching the original mini-series on BBC2 back in the day and falling in love with it, so a big-screen version? Lovely stuff!
I saw Neverwhere on DVD last year. I didn’t really click with any of the characters except the Marquis -he was great. Vinnie Jones being in it was weird. And why the hell was it shot on video? Dumb, dumb, DUMB!
If they make a movie I hope it’s on film/digitial video, a director with real vision for a tale like this, a new cast (expcet the Marquis, they can keep him) and for heaven’s sake, better production values!
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