when comics and movies get it on

THE FOUNTAIN, a new 176 page oversized graphic novel from filmmaker Darren Aronofsky (the director of πand requiem for a dream) and acclaimed painter/artist Kent Williams (Blood: A Tale, Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold) is slated to release in november. It is adapted from Aronofsky's original screenplay for the movie, and tis a "story so grand", one medium couldn’t contain it. Aronofsky wanted The Fountain to be realized in the unique storytelling power and artistic beauty of the graphic novel, in tandem with the movie - a feature film version of the story starring Hugh Jackman (X-Men, Van Helsing) and actress Rachel Weisz (Constantine, The Mummy, The Constant Gardener) is slated to hit the silver screens in late 2006. meanwhile do check out the trailer HERE


"The Fountain crisscrosses through three distinct time periods: in 1535, during an ancient Mayan war; the present day, following one doctor’s desperate search for the cure for cancer; and the far future, through the vast exotic reaches of space. Interweaving these three periods, THE FOUNTAIN follows Tomas — warrior, doctor, explorer — as he feverishly tries to beat death and prolong the life of the woman he loves."
decidedly intriguing, more so the illustrations of Kent Williams then the trailer showing a bald wolverine Hugh Jackman (yes, im being a dick :p), the trailer leaves a lot to the imagination (and mayhap "faith" in the deft-hand of the director?) and at the same time burrows itself into a supposedly niche-genre-"time travel/immortality"-corner (does it? IMHO anyways :p) ... and the reality (for me anyways) would be that i might catch the movie for the sake of completing the comicbook (?) ... but to be fair, i have yet to either see nor read the graphic novel in the first place, innit? and gawd forbid if i suddenly sound like a comicbook-snob, innit? *heh*

but of coz im NOT! am just elated that the two genres are becoming as one, which is sorta a g"good" thing for us fanboys, innit? *innit????* ;p

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i mean, there was even a time when Aronofsky was going to direct the big screen adaptation of Alan Moore's (together with artist, Dave Gibbons) The Watchmen!
*how effin cool would that have been?*

... and then he was not again, choosing to direct The Fountain instead ... which i reckon its cool for what it's worth lah ...

consider this:

found on the www = a fanboy wish for the casting of The Watchmen:
(am sorry but i dunno who created this, so can't credit properly - do lemme know otherwise, yeah? thanx!)

Ed Harris as Dr. Manhattan?
Mel Gibson as The Comedian?
Ralph Fiennes as Ozymandias?
Michael Douglas as Captain Metropolis?
... tho i'd reckon maybe even Michael Keaton as Rorschach?
and i'd hedge my bets on Catherine Zeta-Jones as The Silk Spectre and a maybe George Clooney as the Nite Owl (of having a second chance at superhero-dom, that was the agony of Batman and Robin *nudge-nudge-heh* :p)

heck, this'll sure be a power-packed cast wouldn't it? tho the reality being no one might wanna cast a movie filled with old "mature-actors" (as the original comicbook story is about) and hence harder to greenlight something that "doesn't cater to the general/mass demographic" (in my own lil conspiracy-addled-mindworld, i insist :p) ... for mayhap some comic-books are not meant for celluloid adaptation (*especially the classics* IMHO) ... and perhaps the future lies in the creation of new characters and new stories that blend/meld comicbooks and the celluloid (ala The Fountain) and that would be fine by me, that would - IMHO, of coz.
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