Gondry Gets Animated For New Film
Source: MTV
A visionary director with a taste for the fantastic, the look of Michel Gondry's films have always seemed to have more in common with Bugs Bunny than Steven Spielberg - where the rules of space, and gravity, and time don't apply, and dreams can be as real as the girl in the next apartment.
Imagine what he could do with some paper and a few paints.
"I am working on an animated film with my son," Gondry revealed to MTV News. "It's going to be quite amazing."
Gondry has used some stop motion techniques in his films before, of course, most notably in "The Science of Sleep," but this is the first time the "Be Kind, Rewind" director will do a feature length animated film (and, no, we don't count "Fell in Love with a Girl.")
The time was finally right, the director enthused, saying that the story will be quite personal.
"We're translating our relationship into a futuristic story with a dictator and a rebel," he explained of the film's rudimentary outline. "He's the dictator in the story [and] it will be based on [his] art."
Gondry said he will co-direct the movie with his son.
this is a brilliant idea.
that kid, man. he's probly an annoying little shit but he's gonna grow up to be possibly the king of all the worlds and moons.
one of his fingers will be worth more than a million great directors. he'll have kubrick for a hand. he'll use the bones of peckinpah to stir his coffee and occasionally to play the drums. at night, he sleeps in orson welles. except he doesn't sleep.. he waits. the father/son story in CMBB is based on him. he will fly close to the sun and the SUN will melt in his presence. he will
He won't make the sun melt. Maybe just our hearts.
How does MTV always get these great news stories?
Dan Clowes To Write Paul and Michel Gondry's Animated Movie
Source: /film
Last year Michel Gondry let word leak that he and his 16-year-old son Paul are working on an animated film. Last week /Film got the chance to speak to Gondry in San Francisco, and learned that Dan Clowes, the comic book artist, best known for the film adaptation of Ghost World, is writing the film's screenplay. Clowes and Michel Gondry have discussed collaborating on a film adaptation of Rudy Rucker's novel Master of Space and Time, which has been in development heck since 2004. This would be their first collaboration.
"It's based on [Gondry's son Paul's] universe. He's a sixteen year old. He's very unique, very funny and very violent in his drawing and his art, showing everything that you could think of that I should have stopped him from coming in contact with, but I failed. He grew up watching Tom & Jerry and Ren and Stimpy, Sponge Bob. If you take all that and mix it with Gangster movies with blood, you get his universe."
"We're translating our relationship into a futuristic story with a dictator and a rebel. He's the dictator in the story and it will be based on his art."
Gondry also told me that the film is titled Migel Munya (SP? Gondry's French accent sometimes hakes him difficult to understand). So what is the movie about?
"[The movie is] about a dictator who runs a crazy world where hair is the source of energy. The people there are forced to create art, and if the art is too good they are executed. So the dictator there doesn't want anyone to be better than him so he kills the inmates who make good art. They try to make rubbish art but sometimes the worse it is for them, the better it is for the dictator."