MTV Hanging Out with Neil Gaiman part 6 (of 7)
I good good news and bad news. The bad news is that it won't be 10 parts as I previously mentioned. Part of the good news is that I've actually been transcribing ahead of schedule, and giving you more than the allotted two minutes per segment which I originally planned (since I didn't want to cut the interviews short while Mr. Gaiman was speaking). There's just like two and a half minutes of dialogue which I haven't transcribed, and that'll comprise the last part, part seven.
Since Anansi Boys will be released on September 20 (not sure if that's the same date for here in the Philippines), I'll try to release the last part on that day. In the meantime, you might want to check out this interview by Powells which tackles his latest novel, among other things.
Colby: Welcome back to Hanging Out at MTV, we have a very special guest, Mr. Neil Gaiman here. And, we have an audience asking him some bright questions. If you look closely at the audience, there's another MTV VJ who claims to be sick, but heard that Mr. Gaiman was coming, and he got out of bed. So Claire, Don.
Claire: All right, it's me Don, that's VJ Jojo hanging out, looking sick, getting there. We have a friend here, Cathy, she works here by the way, and she has a question for you.
Cathy: What's the status on the Death movie?
Neil: The status on the Death movie is it all seems to be chugging ahead. It's now with New Line, remember with Warner because [can't understand] of Warner Bros. Time Warner and usually Warner accepts that once we finish it, they said it's great but it's a fifty million dollar movie and we don't make that. So then there's that nine months to figure out how to transfer it over to New Line, which is another Warner's branch, whether with a smaller office. I'm going to be directing, everybody likes the script, we've sort of begun casting it, and we blew up and we'll be shooting it early next year. I never know really honestly if things are going to happen and how long they're holding on. Those things that seem absolutely certain never happen, and then those things you've given up on five years ago, suddenly you wake up, and this year in January, the [can't understand, name] decided that what you wanted to make in 1997 script directing with Roger Ebert and they're off shooting it in September, so there's no prediction. But we're going to be shooting it next year.
Don: We have another fan with another question. What's your name?
Gianne: Gianne.
Don: All right, what's your question?
Gianne: Who among your works [can't understand what she's saying]?
Neil: Oh, all of them! The joy of being a writer is if you're going to write to convince some characters and you're going to make them interesting, you're going to make people like them, good or bad, you're gonna have to find that little bit of you that's them, to like them. And whether it's a character like the Corinthian who's a gay serial killer who eats them and eats people's eyes, none of which, oddly enough, I actually am (laughs), but he has some losses, a lot of losses, we have some affinity there. Or you know, Coraline's evil other mother, who points to this sort of blubber and eats black beetles. And it's I go, I'm not very good at it but you can find those parts of you that treats love as possessions, treats love as ownership. And then you go okay, I can take all of that, and put that into that character. In the new novel Anansi Boys, probably my favorite villain ever, which is a cricket agent named Graham Coates, just because he's everything, everything I would hate about myself if I ever became a cricket agent. And he speaks in cliché's, and he's quite possibly the most irritating character I've ever written. So that.
Colby: Good stuff, good stuff. We're gonna have more with Mr. Gaiman when we return. And now another video…
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I good good news and bad news. The bad news is that it won't be 10 parts as I previously mentioned. Part of the good news is that I've actually been transcribing ahead of schedule, and giving you more than the allotted two minutes per segment which I originally planned (since I didn't want to cut the interviews short while Mr. Gaiman was speaking). There's just like two and a half minutes of dialogue which I haven't transcribed, and that'll comprise the last part, part seven.
Since Anansi Boys will be released on September 20 (not sure if that's the same date for here in the Philippines), I'll try to release the last part on that day. In the meantime, you might want to check out this interview by Powells which tackles his latest novel, among other things.
Colby: Welcome back to Hanging Out at MTV, we have a very special guest, Mr. Neil Gaiman here. And, we have an audience asking him some bright questions. If you look closely at the audience, there's another MTV VJ who claims to be sick, but heard that Mr. Gaiman was coming, and he got out of bed. So Claire, Don.
Claire: All right, it's me Don, that's VJ Jojo hanging out, looking sick, getting there. We have a friend here, Cathy, she works here by the way, and she has a question for you.
Cathy: What's the status on the Death movie?
Neil: The status on the Death movie is it all seems to be chugging ahead. It's now with New Line, remember with Warner because [can't understand] of Warner Bros. Time Warner and usually Warner accepts that once we finish it, they said it's great but it's a fifty million dollar movie and we don't make that. So then there's that nine months to figure out how to transfer it over to New Line, which is another Warner's branch, whether with a smaller office. I'm going to be directing, everybody likes the script, we've sort of begun casting it, and we blew up and we'll be shooting it early next year. I never know really honestly if things are going to happen and how long they're holding on. Those things that seem absolutely certain never happen, and then those things you've given up on five years ago, suddenly you wake up, and this year in January, the [can't understand, name] decided that what you wanted to make in 1997 script directing with Roger Ebert and they're off shooting it in September, so there's no prediction. But we're going to be shooting it next year.
Don: We have another fan with another question. What's your name?
Gianne: Gianne.
Don: All right, what's your question?
Gianne: Who among your works [can't understand what she's saying]?
Neil: Oh, all of them! The joy of being a writer is if you're going to write to convince some characters and you're going to make them interesting, you're going to make people like them, good or bad, you're gonna have to find that little bit of you that's them, to like them. And whether it's a character like the Corinthian who's a gay serial killer who eats them and eats people's eyes, none of which, oddly enough, I actually am (laughs), but he has some losses, a lot of losses, we have some affinity there. Or you know, Coraline's evil other mother, who points to this sort of blubber and eats black beetles. And it's I go, I'm not very good at it but you can find those parts of you that treats love as possessions, treats love as ownership. And then you go okay, I can take all of that, and put that into that character. In the new novel Anansi Boys, probably my favorite villain ever, which is a cricket agent named Graham Coates, just because he's everything, everything I would hate about myself if I ever became a cricket agent. And he speaks in cliché's, and he's quite possibly the most irritating character I've ever written. So that.
Colby: Good stuff, good stuff. We're gonna have more with Mr. Gaiman when we return. And now another video…
-video-
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