Last year, it was an episode of Arthur. This year, it's an episode of The Simpsons. Do they give Emmys to people who guest-star on cartoons, and if so, is Neil Gaiman gunning for one?Labels: Cartoons, Neil Gaiman, TV
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Neil Gaiman gets animated
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Monday, June 13, 2011
American Gods on TV?
I didn't have the stomach to enjoy this book (the thought of the main character's undead wife slowly decomposing body still makes me queasy, and I read the book almost ten years ago), but Neil Gaiman's less delicate fans will be pleased to hear that Tom Hanks is looking to produce an open-ended TV series for HBO based on Gaimain's novel American Gods. Nothing is set in stone yet, but it's slated for six seasons, each of which will consist of 10 to 12 hour-long episodes, with a hefty budget ($35 to 40 million per season) and a projected start date of 2013.Labels: Neil Gaiman, TV
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Tuesday, April 05, 2011
Good Omens to hit British TV
Someone is adapting Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's novel Good Omens into a TV show? But how will they include all the footnotes? Those are my favorite parts!Labels: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, TV
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Thursday, September 02, 2010
Don't do it, guys.
A television adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series, created without involvement by the author?
This, dear readers, is a Very Bad Idea.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Congratulations to 'em both.
Whoa. I'd heard that Neil Gaiman was getting married again to musician Amanda Palmer, but I hadn't actually seen the happy couple. Now, thanks to GoFugYourself's Golden Globes coverage, I have. (Link semi-NSFW.)She seems... cheery?
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Neil Gaiman makes a Christmas movie!
Neil Gaiman's long-hinted-at short film will happen, and it will apparently star ubiquitous character actor Bill Nighy. According to Cinematical, the movie will be a silent short described as "a love story involving two statues and Christmas shoppers".Eh, it's a tough call. At his best, Gaiman can be adorable, but he can also be pretentious as all-git-out. However, I do like Bill Nighy, so we'll have to see....
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Summer reading picks straight from the source!
Salon.com has asked a variety of authors, including Wordcandy-approved authors like Neil Gaiman, Berkeley Breathed, and Diana Gabaldon, for their summer reading picks, some of which are actually pretty great.Labels: Berkeley Breathed, Neil Gaiman, other websites
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Why, thank you again, Mr. Colbert.
Stephen Colbert has been doing his part to make my job easier today (which, seeing as I am STILL SICK, I really appreciate). He had another Wordcandy-friendly interview last night, this time with author Neil Gaiman. And unless these interviews are scripted, Mr. Colbert also proved himself to be quite the Tolkien fan:
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Friday, February 06, 2009
The critics (heart) Coraline, but I have my doubts.
Lots of good reviews coming out about the film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline, due out in theaters today. But what's with this new character, "Wybie"? I hate it when they stick in completely new characters--particularly ones described as "a figure of eventual dramatic importance but questionable comic value".
Scary words for fans of the original book...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
The full-length Coraline trailer is up...
...and frankly, it's something of a disappointment:
It's not that it looks bad, exactly (although I still want to know why they went with American actors). But I think the original illustrator, longtime Gaiman collaborator Dave McKean, played a major role in making the story genuinely creepy. Behold:
As it is, the movie looks adorable-creepy*, and I think it will lend itself to all kinds of merchandising tie-ins, but that wasn't the look I was hoping for.
*Just like director Henry Selick's earlier works, The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach.
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Friday, November 07, 2008
Gaiman fans take note...
There are still tickets available for this Vertigo/Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) event, apparently:Veteran voice actor Tom Wayland and others, will read from some of the most politically charged excerpts of THE SANDMAN written by New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman, in honor of the 20th Anniversary of THE SANDMAN.Hey, if you're flush with cash and low on plans for tomorrow, it sounds awesome.
Hosted by the CBLDF and Vertigo, the dramatic reading will be will be held it the Helen Mills Theater in New York City on Saturday, November 8 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are available for a $50 donation to the CBLDF. Only 100 tickets are available to this special reading event.
THE SANDMAN is a series that is often hailed as one of the finest achievements in graphic storytelling and which Norman Mailer famously praised as, "a comic strip for intellectuals." This very special evening will bring two of the series most beloved stories to life with a multimedia presentation that marries comics and live theater.
About the stories being performed:
Three Septembers & A January, originally published in THE SANDMAN #31 / Trade #6
The story of Joshua Abraham Norton the first, last and only Emperor of the United States of America that incorporates an explanation for his strange career centering on a challenge between Morpheus and Despair.
The Golden Boy, originally published in THE SANDMAN #51-56 / Trade #8
A revival of a 1970s DC character named Prez, it’s the story of the US’s first teenage president that considers how we view our leaders—while they’re in office . . . and once they’re gone.
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Unforseen awesomeness ahead
I haven't been particularly excited about the upcoming film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline. I enjoyed the book (although I prefer Gaiman's short story The Wolves in the Walls), but I was disappointed by the Teri Hatchter/Dakota Fanning casting—what, were there no British actors available?—and I've always thought that director Henry Selick's The Nightmare Before Christmas was totally overrated. (Sorry, emo readers, but it's true.)
But then I discovered that John Hodgman (!!) is playing Coraline's father, and Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French (!!!!) are playing Miss Forcible and Miss Spink, and the coolness factor of the entire project shot up approximately 10,000%!
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Gaiman gets choosy.
Neil Gaiman—who's obviously in full promotion-mode for his upcoming novel The Graveyard Book—has compiled a list of his 10 favorite "New Classic Monsters" for Entertainment Weekly. I’m not sure I agree with his choices (apart from Pennywise the Clown, who is, obviously, creepy as hell), but it’s worth a look-see.Labels: Horror, Neil Gaiman
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Friday, April 06, 2007
Stardust Trailer
We've been keeping an eye on the new Stardust movie, and we now have a trailer. Take a look:
There's a better version on the official Stardust website, located here.
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006
More Stardust pics...
Including one of Claire Danes, looking be-wigged (although that might just be a really unfortunate dye job):
One of Michelle Pfeiffer and some goats, looking misty:
And one of Sienna Miller and Charlie Cox, looking incredibly dorky:
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Saturday, September 30, 2006
MirrorMask
I finally got around to watching Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's movie MirrorMask last night, and it was pretty good! I put off watching it for ages because (and I'm sorry to say it, but it's true) those guys can be unbelievably pretentious, and I don't like too much high-minded-ness fouling up my cinematic entertainment*.Sure, it was arty and murky and full of circus performers and clunky symbolism. Also, certain aspects of the plot were very similar to Diana Wynne Jones's novel Charmed Life, which also features a selfish girl using a mirror to steal the life of one of her doppelgangers in a parallel world. But, all in all, it was a lot of fun--entertaining and gorgeous to look at.
*Which is why my favorite movie is, and will always be, Army of Darkness.
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Friday, September 08, 2006
Gaiman movie update
The official homepage for the film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Stardust is up. There's hardly anything there, but it looks awfully pretty.Labels: Movie, Neil Gaiman, website
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Sunday, August 13, 2006
Wordcandy particularly loves her short stories.
Just a reminder, Clarke fans: you can read one of the short stories found in The Ladies of Grace Adieu here. It's called The Duke of Wellington Misplaces His Horse, and it originally appeared on Neil Gaiman's website.Labels: Neil Gaiman, Susanna Clarke, website
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Saturday, July 08, 2006
Bleagh.
Okay. At first, I was pretty excited about the upcoming film version of Neil Gaiman's novel Stardust. He wasn't going to direct it (good), it's one of my favorite Gaiman novels (good), and it was inspired by Lud-in-the-Mist, which I just read for the first time, thereby making me feel like a smartypants (excellent). But there's always a rub, isn't there? And this movie's rub is that it has Claire Danes and Sienna freakin' Miller in it. I'm not much of a Claire Danes fan (eat a sandwich, honey--angular is not your look), and (as longtime readers of the blog know) I can't STAND Sienna Miller, damn it.Labels: Hollywood, Movie, Neil Gaiman
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Saturday, June 24, 2006
Seeing Ear Theatre
We here at Wordcandy were extremely stoked to discover the Sci-fi Channel's Seeing Ear Theatre, an online archive of radio-play versions of stories by authors like Neil Gaiman, Lewis Carroll, and H.G. Wells. Sure, some of them are abridged (we spit upon abridged!), some of them are read by people like John Ritter, and some of them are versions that were "inspired" by the original... but it's still an awesome idea. Streaming the stories is free, so be sure to check out the site!Labels: Lewis Carroll, Neil Gaiman, TV, website
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