Vox Hunt: Adaptation Nomination
Book: What book would you like to see made into a movie?
Submitted by Felipe Anuel.
Grant Morrison's The Invisibles. Yes, yes, The Matrix did rip it off a little bit -- but not too much. It would have to be a trilogy (each movie roughly encompassing one of the series' three volumes), and there's no way in Hell you could ever make it right on studio money -- these would be both fantastically expensive, and fantastically provocative, movies. They certainly wouldn't seem like a viable risk to a major corporation. So realistically, you'd have to find some young, bored, complacent hedge-fund manager and essentially brainwash him into thinking he's the series' Mason Lang. It could be done.
The Invisibles, as I've said before, is one of the single most personally influential pieces of fiction I've ever encountered. I unquestionably wouldn't be in the comics business today if I'd never read it. The only piece of original comics art I own is from issue #13 of Vol. 2, the first issue of the series I ever read -- it's page 20, the moment immediately before Boy sees Barbelith for the first time. It's hanging next to my computer right now; you may see it every so often when I turn my iSight around (which generally means I don't feel like turning the webcam off but don't feel like showing people what I'm doing, either.)
"We're in the business of preserving life and saving souls. What do you want me to say, Lucille? You saw the dark down there and you overcame it. You saw the face of the enemy and you still didn't pull the trigger. Congratulations, kid. You're ready for contact."
[In case you have no clue what I'm talking about -- the summary I give when asked to describe the series is "Culture terrorists on a mission to utterly destroy reality as we know it, in favor of ushering in the new golden age. At least they think that's what will happen, anyway."]
The Invisibles, as I've said before, is one of the single most personally influential pieces of fiction I've ever encountered. I unquestionably wouldn't be in the comics business today if I'd never read it. The only piece of original comics art I own is from issue #13 of Vol. 2, the first issue of the series I ever read -- it's page 20, the moment immediately before Boy sees Barbelith for the first time. It's hanging next to my computer right now; you may see it every so often when I turn my iSight around (which generally means I don't feel like turning the webcam off but don't feel like showing people what I'm doing, either.)
"We're in the business of preserving life and saving souls. What do you want me to say, Lucille? You saw the dark down there and you overcame it. You saw the face of the enemy and you still didn't pull the trigger. Congratulations, kid. You're ready for contact."
[In case you have no clue what I'm talking about -- the summary I give when asked to describe the series is "Culture terrorists on a mission to utterly destroy reality as we know it, in favor of ushering in the new golden age. At least they think that's what will happen, anyway."]
