We3 - Morrison's Homeward Bound meets Robocop has a script and a director.

Don Murphy, one of the producers of the planned adaptation of Morrison’s graphic novel We3, spoke with Sci Fi Wire about the film. According to Murphy it is ready with a script and a director — all it needs now is a studio.

“We’re working with a director named John Stevenson,” Murphy said. “Don’t be confused, though. Even though he directed ‘Kung Fu Panda,’ the movie’s going to be live action. It’s going to be a combination CG, puppetry [and] real animals. We have a great script, a great director, and we’re trying to figure out who’s going to pay for it in this marketplace, but we’re looking.”

Described as an amalgamation of “Homeward Bound” and “RoboCop,” Morrison’s “We3″ focused on three domestic animals — a dog, a cat and a rabbit — that are turned into high-tech, cybernetic weapons courtesy of the military. The animals eventually flee their masters, but are left to wonder where they can exist peacefully in the outside world.

“Well, they talk like in the comic book,” Murphy said. “There’s a little electrode on their larynx, and they don’t have full conversations. It’s more like [in robotic monotone], ‘Where go do we,’ that kind of thing.”

The comic mini-series was excellent and extremely violent. I do hope that they stay faithfull to the book as it will make an excellent film.

I'm not sure about the choice of John Stevenson to direct, but we'll have to wait and see what he does with it. What studio would be the best home for We3?

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The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break

Kung Fu Panda co-director John Stevenson will helm The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Mike Jones adapted Steven Sherrill's 2000 novel about the mythological creature - half-man, half-bull - who survived Theseus' attack in the labyrinth and walks among us today.

I know, I know, it's a tale that has been done a thousand times. Mythological beastie lives through the ages, ends up becoming a short-order cook in a Midwestern diner not far from his trailer-park home who falls for an epileptic waitress named Kelly.

Films such as The Griffin Buys Some Cheese, The Kraken Changes His Trunks, The Centaur Cooks An Egg, and the classic Cyclops Checks His Address Book, all covered the same ground.

Bad jokes aside, this does sound pretty darn weird but cool and I may well have a read of the book.

The film will be a live-action love story with CG elements.


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By the Power of Grayskull - He-Man gets another rewrite

Warner Bros. and Silver Pictures have signed on Evan Daugherty to write the latest draft of Grayskull, the studio's big-screen version of Mattel's He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoon and toy line.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, John Stevenson (Kung Fu Panda) is attached to direct the adaptation of the show, which followed a blond warrior named Prince Adam who, when uttering the magic words, "By the power of Grayskull -- I have the power," turned into the heroic He-Man. He and his allies -- Battle Cat, Man-at-Arms and Orko -- defended their planet Eternia from the evil forces of Skeletor, who tried week after week to conquer the fortress Castle Grayskull, which imbued He-Man with his powers.

Warners sees the big-screen version as a gritty fantasy and reimagines Adam as a soldier who sets off to find his destiny, happening upon the magical world of Eternia. There, Skeletor has raised a technological army and is bent on eradicating magic.

That sounds as if Prince Adam could well be from Earth and ends up in Eternia which is basically a reversal of the previous film that starred Dolph Lundgren.

Who would you like to see play the various characters in the film?

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We3 heading to the big screen - Cyborg Dog, Cat and Rabbit will kill you nasty

Kung Fu Panda co-director John Stevenson will direct a big screen adaptation of Grant Morrison’s comic book miniseries We3. Producer Don Murphy has also spoken to ShockTillYouDrop and confirmed that the film will be live action and rated R. This is cool news as the original graphic novel has scenes of immense violence and death my cyborg critters.

The original comic was published in 2004 by Vertigo and is well worth picking up. It's got lovely art work by Frank Quitely (Morrison and Quitely also worked on the critically acclaimed All-Star Superman which is twelve issues of the best Superman stories ever).

“WE3 tells the unforgettable story of three innocent pets — a dog, a cat and a rabbit who have been converted into deadly cyborgs by a sinister military weapons program. With nervous systems amplified to match their terrifying mechanical exoskeletons, the members of Animal Weapon 3 have the firepower of a battalion between them. But they are just the programs prototypes and, now that their testing is complete, theyre slated to be permanently decommissioned” until they seize their one chance to make a desperate run for freedom! Relentlessly pursued by their makers, the WE3 team must navigate a frightening and confusing world where their instincts and heightened abilities make them as much a threat as those hunting them but a world, nonetheless, in which there is something called Home. Action-packed and heart-wrenching, WE3 is a new high mark from two of comics greatest talents.”

Source: /film

Have you read the comic book? Did you enjoy it? Do you think it will work as a big action movie?

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