Movie News: Joe Golem and the Drowning City
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Alex Proyas to Script and Direct Hellboy Creator’s ‘Joe Golem And The Drowning City’
(slashfilm.com) The last Alex Proyas film, Paradise Lost, came apart at the seams before it really got moving, thanks to budget issues that made the production unfeasible in the eyes of the Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. beancounters, and technological hurdles that got in the way of realizing the film’s ambitious sci-fi vision of battles in Heaven.
But Proyas now has another film project coming together, and it is one that also lives in the realm of the fantastic. The property is Joe Golem And The Drowning City, a graphic novel by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, and Christopher Golden.
The graphic novel follows “an orphaned teenage girl, an aging magician, a lunatic scientist, a Victorian occult detective, and the stalwart sidekick, Joe Golem—a man whose strange dreams hint of a history he has forgotten–as they struggle for the fate of an alternate 1970s lower Manhattan.” So that sounds pretty alright.
Deadline says that Proyas will script and direct the film, and that like Paradise Lost the film will shoot in Australia.
And lest you wonder about the practical problems of creating Manhattan in Australia, this story’s version of the island is very different from the one we know. Mignola and Golden imagined an alternate Manhattan, where a massive earthquake caused the lower half of the city to sink into the water, turning the affected area into something that resembles Venice.
(slashfilm.com) The last Alex Proyas film, Paradise Lost, came apart at the seams before it really got moving, thanks to budget issues that made the production unfeasible in the eyes of the Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. beancounters, and technological hurdles that got in the way of realizing the film’s ambitious sci-fi vision of battles in Heaven.
But Proyas now has another film project coming together, and it is one that also lives in the realm of the fantastic. The property is Joe Golem And The Drowning City, a graphic novel by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, and Christopher Golden.
The graphic novel follows “an orphaned teenage girl, an aging magician, a lunatic scientist, a Victorian occult detective, and the stalwart sidekick, Joe Golem—a man whose strange dreams hint of a history he has forgotten–as they struggle for the fate of an alternate 1970s lower Manhattan.” So that sounds pretty alright.
Deadline says that Proyas will script and direct the film, and that like Paradise Lost the film will shoot in Australia.
And lest you wonder about the practical problems of creating Manhattan in Australia, this story’s version of the island is very different from the one we know. Mignola and Golden imagined an alternate Manhattan, where a massive earthquake caused the lower half of the city to sink into the water, turning the affected area into something that resembles Venice.