Death on screen
Film Ick (via) are reporting that Neil Gaiman is to direct his first feature film - an adaptation of his Death: The High Cost of Living graphic novel.
Death… is a spin-off from the hugely successful Sandman series and tells of how once every 100 years, Death - the anthropomorphic personification of the end of life - takes human form and lives among us, to understand what it is that we’re losing when she dies. In the story she meets, and befriends, Sexton Furnival a suicidal teenager and finds herself being hunted by evil forces which prey on her new vulnerability now that she is human. Meanwhile, Mad Hettie threatens to kill Death’s suicidal friend if Death won’t help her find her heart.
The story has it that the role of Death has caught the interest of one famous young actress in particular, although there is no indication of who. So I shall cross my fingers and hope that the film does get made and that Natalie Portman gets the title role.
Wednesday 30 May 2007 | Paul | Rumours
