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Grant Morrison Working On A TV Show, Our Head Explodes

By | February 24th, 2010
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In an interview with Live for Films, Paul McGuigan (director of Push) dropped a bomb shell (on me) that he and Grant Morrison are working on something together with Stephen Fry. It had been known that Morrison was doing some work in the television/film medium for a while now, but to have actual confirmation makes me excessively excited. The article reads:

LFF: The Acid House is still the only thing you have filmed in Scotland, would you be interested in making something else there?

PM: Yeah Grant Morrison and myself are working on, I wouldn’t call it a secret project, but a project with Stephen Fry and it’s a thriller set in Scotland. Me and Grant have been friends for a while and we wanted to do something together and Grant went off and wrote a treatment, so it’s at the treatment stage at the moment.

LFF: Is it a full series?

PM: It’s seven episodes. It takes place over seven days around an event that happens in Scotland. It’s a modern take on an old fable or fairy story. If you know Grants work you might have an idea of what it will be like. It’s like Twin Peaks meets Brigadoon! It’s off the wall and smart but in a watchable commercial way. It’s still in the early stages but I’m very excited about it.

Can you just imagine that? 7 episodes of a series with Grant Morrison as a writer? I mean, I go crazy over the books he writes, and those usually take a 15-minute sitting to read (just the first time). Now we’re talking something that could be up to an hour! The EIC me is trying to be a serious reporter, but the fanboy me is pretty much crazy excited over the possibility in this.

So what is it about? No clue. I have heard rumors that “they” are trying to make a Push series, but I’m not sure if this would be it, especially when they say it’s a modern take on an old fable. That seems right up Grant’s alley, especially with Joe the Barbarian currently being released. And with the quote “if ou know Grants work you might have an idea of what it will be like,” I can only be MORE excited (as David, I assume, shudders in terror, knowing I will force him to watch it if he wants to keep his job).

Thoughts, anyone? Perhaps Joe The Barbarian: the TV show? And how would Stephen Fry factor into all this?


Matthew Meylikhov

Once upon a time, Matthew Meylikhov became the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Multiversity Comics, where he was known for his beard and fondness for cats. Then he became only one of those things. Now, if you listen really carefully at night, you may still hear from whispers on the wind a faint voice saying, "X-Men Origins: Wolverine is not as bad as everyone says it issss."

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