Posts Tagged ‘Elric’

Producer and director Chris Weitz mentioned Michael Sheen in a recent interview with ‘Paris Review’ while talking about culture.

He said:

I did have lunch with Michael Sheen, who is a very cultured fellow, so I shall ride on his coattails. Michael was good enough to play a genuinely weird vampire elder in New Moon. At the time, he said that he was channeling the Blue Meanies from Yellow Submarine; but I think it is a delightfully perverse performance in its own right. Lately, Michael has been interested in Edward Kelly, the con man who scammed John Dee, the Elizabethan magician; Edgar Allan Poe, whom he may end up playing on screen; and Kenneth Williams, the British comedian whom he recently played in Fantabulosa. That’s a word from Polari, the British gay slang that was complicated enough to be considered a dialect. Polari died with the social strictures that gave birth to it, unlike some other languages, which die when they are sanctioned against (as is the case with aboriginal languages around the world—cf. Philip Noyce’s Rabbit-Proof Fence). We also spoke about >Elric of Melniboné, the British fantasy series that I am dying to see come to life on film. It is a pity that the most banal children’s toy is proper fodder for the screen, so long as it is moving enough units at Walmart, whereas a genuinely seminal work of fantasy is hard to get traction for.

You can read the full interview HERE.

Michael Sheen took a few minutes to talk to Fear.net while at Comic-Con this weekend.

It seems that he has been working on a future project with New Moon director, Chris Weitz about the Michael Moorcock character, Elric. Weitz told Elric artist, John Picacio, that he is developing a movie about the famed sword-and-sorcery character.

Elric, an albinistic anti-hero, is a legendary character from the world of graphic novels and fantasy comics and has been around since the early 70s.

Michael also mentioned that he will be playing the macabre gothic fiction writer, Edgar Allen Poe, in a film about the last few months of his life. The project is currently called ‘The Raven’, named after one of his most famous tales ‘The Raven‘.

You can read the article at Fear.net