1: The rumors are true, Dakota Fanning will play the Innocent Sister.We'll need state of the art aging technology, since Dakota is 12, and IS is about 33. But Dakota has stated to Celluloid Magazine: "I am confident that first class acting and a big helping of Suspension of Disbelief on the part of the audience will help us over this hurdle."
2: Bono has pledged to do a song for it.
He says he wants it to be a madrigal. Not an obvious choice for a space opera adventure, but we'll make it work.
3: It will be five hours long.
No intermissions. The audience today don't like being pampered. We'll only sell small drinks in the theatre bar.
4: It will be filmed on mini-DVD and Hi-8.
This will provide a nice contrast with the $40M effects budget.
5: Working title: "A Boy and His Dog".
Charles Schulz' estate has sued us, but we don't think they have a case. Harlan Ellison has not commented.
6: Taking a page from the success of Lord of the Rings (which admittedly I did not care for), we will release the DVD in six different versions, spaced out with two months between them.
The Christmas edition will have everybody in santa hats.
7: Neil Gaiman is working on the script.
I have said to him: "Neil, it is a space opera. No faeries, please!" But we'll see how it turns out.
8: Marlon Brando was supposed to play the hero's long dead father, but it turns out (ironically) that Brando himself is dead.Our computer animation department is working on a digital version of him, but I want him in his later years, and they are having trouble finding enough pixels to render him.
