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Neal Gaiman and _Death and Me_

Tue Jul 27 07:38:44 PDT 2004

In case this hasn't been posted yet...

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-07/27/12.00.film

Author Neil Gaiman told SCI FI Wire that New Line Cinema is set to produce 
the film based on his graphic novel Death: The High Cost of Living. "We got 
it away from Warners, who developed it to the point where everybody was 
really happy with it, and then they turned around and said, 'Well, hang on. 
This is a $15 million movie, and we don't make them,'" Gaiman said in an 
interview at Comic-Con International in San Diego over the weekend. "At 
which point [Hellboy director] Guillermo del Toro became an executive 
producer on the project, and we put it together over at New Line, which is 
part of the [Warner Brothers] giant family. Death isn't allowed to leave."

Both Warner Brothers and New Line are owned by Time Warner, which also owns 
DC Comics, publisher of the original graphic novel and owner of the rights 
to the main character, a friendly, black-clad young woman who is the 
personification of Death. Although Variety previously reported the tentative 
title of the film as Death's Day, Gaiman referred to the working title as 
Death and Me.

The story revolves around the relationship between a suicidal teenager and 
Death, who must spend one day each century as a human being so that she can 
appreciate life. Gaiman, who wrote the script and plans to direct, said that 
he made few alterations to the story for the film version. "It's the whole 
story," he said. "It's a bit bigger, because if you filmed that comic you'd 
have a really good 45-minute movie. So more stuff happens. It's filled in."


johne (phy) cook
wisconsin, usa

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