Did you know All - Star Superman scribe Grant Morrison has written a psychedelic Western invigorate in part by Red Dead Redemption ? Well , now you do ! io9 spoke to Morrison and music director Adam Egypt Mortimer about their forthcoming film , entitle Sinatoro .
At Comic - Con , I spoke with Morrison and Sinatoro director Adam Egypt Mortimer of Zdonk Productions about this project . Here ’s what they had to say .
Tell us about the plot of Sinatoro .
Grant Morrison : I kind of want to do something base on the Tibetan Book of the Dead and modernize it . The one experience that we all go through ( but no one require to think much about ) is death . We ’re going to examine all the modish information on what happens to consciousness during the process of demise . We wanted to look at what ’s supposed to happen after based on all the confessions we can canvas and interpret . But as a story , it ’s son meets girl and all that form of thing . It expend the edifice pulley block of Hollywood .
Adam Egypt Mortimer : The story and its surreal landscape painting haul from American pop culture . The principal character is a bright - eyed , beautiful , 20 - class - sometime minor with no memory . He walks away from a car clash in the desert where everybody pop off . Sinatoro is a shamanistic codification word for “ Frank Sinatra . ” There ’s no real analogue to Sinatra , but the movie draws from the Sinatra ideal — the gamey - eyed American pop ikon with these strange aspirations to be connected to mobster . It ’s a mnemonic computer code , it ’s an pilot .
What other American archetypes will appear in Sinatoro ?
AEM : There ’s the biker gang , the lonesome , drunken cowboy , the spaceman who be in the centre of desert , the wandering hobos from the thirty and 40s . There ’s pass to be visual cues to the American daddy universe . [ For illustration , ] there ’s a view when someone gets shot and it mimics a Jackson Pollock painting .
GM : Because we have the exemption , we wanted to do a flick that does Hollywood better than Hollywood . It ’s my interlingual rendition of what the the twenty-first century American picture looks like . It ’s all about the Western , the Bad Lands . It ’s the idea of the dateless route , which is usually be by the honest-to-goodness Route 66 . We ’re take theme of the Western , the route movie , the crime plastic film Natural Born Killers .
Grant , as a Scottish writer , what ’s the significance of sic Sinatoro in the American West ?
GM : There ’s a darkness to a lot of Americans . They have a sense of disgrace and play down how cool America is because of – to a large extent – a lot of strange policy decision in the States . But that ’s not what this is about . As an foreigner looking at all the stuff we sleep together about America , I want to take that stuff and make a myth for the 21st century .
How are you storyboarding the film ? Are any of your artistic collaborators helping out ?
GM : I ’m working on my own – I run to do my own illustrations anyway . Since nobody see storyboards , it ’s okay if they ’re shit . It ’s not like I ’m going to call Frank Quitely to do this – I ’ve get the visuals in my school principal . I ’ve already storyboarded some of the script .
We3 is in ontogeny and it looks likeJoe the Barbarianwill be coming down the pike . How is exercise on Sinatoro different from your other dealing with the plastic film industriousness ?
GM : It ’s the infrangible freedom . If you ’re working in Hollywood , there ’s regulation , that whole Robert McKee “ Story ” hooey . Think of video games . I was just play Red Dead Redemption . It ’s a subjective experience . There ’s a narration behind it even though it ’s not a moving picture . you may ignore the cut scenes but still play it and feel like you ’ve had an experience .
We began to think , “ Why are we as an consultation see Tom Cruise profess to be someone else when we can log on and become someone else ? ” We can be Batman in the Arkham Asylum game . We do n’t need Christian Bale ! He ’s a great actor , but people can lumber on and become Batman for hour [ within the biz ] . Hollywood has a tight structure and I think a lot of that storytelling has become outmoded . We desire to add the young influence we ’re dumbfound from games and other media and add it to this moving-picture show story .
AEM : I ’ve known Grant for years [ … ] I cerebrate about a year or two ago , I became cognisant that Grant does whatever he wants in comics . I said to him , “ If we do something ace low - budget , I promise you I can find producer who will get you do the movie and not give you musical note . ” I brought his mind to producer , and they were excited about making a consummate Grant Morrison moving picture .
More information on Sinatoro will become useable atthe moving picture ’s siteandZdonk Productions . Photo viaCBR .
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