Jack Kirby Production Designs For New George Clooney Movie?
The upcoming George Clooney film Escape from Tehran tells the story of how the CIA used the cover of a movie shoot to get Americans out of Iran. This is, as reported, based upon true events.
In reality, the film co-opted by the CIA was Lord of Light, adapted by a Roger Zelazny novel. It had been trapped in development for a while but had already been through a lot of pre-production work. Most incredibly, a lot of the design work had been carried out by comicbook legend Jack Kirby. I would post some examples below, but that'd lose me a limb or two - the copyright notices have been laid on pretty thick.
Will Clooney's film honour this history, and use Kirby designs? Maybe they will fictionalise matters to the extent that the film-within-the-film has nothing to do with Lord of Light, but even still, they could still tip their hat to Jack.
3 comments:
I've read this novel, and I've seen Kirby's designs (in THE JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR magazine, many moons ago), and it'd bear a decent adaptation in its own right. It's a great book that'd make a rousing space opera, with lots of regularly paced action set pieces (hey, like George Lucas!). Kirby's designs - not that feasible, really. I'll tell you who could design the hell out of this project - Brendan McCarthy (but then, me championing McCarthy is as predictable as you with Gilliam!).
Doesn't mean we're not both right, though, does it, Mark?
Och, aye.
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