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In space, no one can hear you scream.

So, we're eating dinner and Chris springs this bit of news on me. Three words: Hellblazer. Constantine. Keanu. One response: Aieeee!

<comic_book_girl>What microcephalic studio executive green-lighted this train wreck of a project? No wonder Alan Moore has divorced himself from the film, "[washing] his hands of the entire debacle." Worst. Idea. Ever. I must register my disgust on the internet for all to see.</comic_book_girl>

Update (9:57 a.m.): Neil Gaiman refutes the above claim, stating:

Oh, it's true that Alan's rejected the money for CONSTANTINE and assigned it to his cocreators, but he's now done that for all films of his and things he's done that might one day be filmed. This was because he was deeply hurt and offended and irritated by being accused in the Larry Cohen lawsuit of having written League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as some kind of studio shill, and because Alan never does anything by halves. Up until the lawsuit his position was that he didn't care about the films people made from his work, but was happy to cash the cheques; after, he decided that he didn't even want to cash the cheques.

Posted by rv at March 6, 2004 01:03 AM to comix | movie