Neal Asher writing story for new Heavy Metal movie?

Neal Asher is one of my fave Sci-Fi authors of the moment. Check out Gridlinked and follow it up with the rest of the Cormac saga. They are all high concept, mega violent stories with lots of cool war droids, AI spaceships, Terminator like Golem, Mr Crane, secret agents, immortal pirates, nasty aliens called Hooders, Gabbleducks, and a giant alien thing called Dragon. I have long wanted to see some of his work on the big screen. Cheers to Andy D for sending me this little snippet.

This from an interview back in March:

John Markley: Have anyone expressed interest in adapting your work for television or film?

Neal Asher: A company called Blue Train Entertainment expressed an interest in Gridlinked (they were involved in The Tuxedo along with Dreamworks) but nothing came of that, then recently I got a query from a story editor at Twentieth Century Fox about Hilldiggers, which again came to nothing. However, another query/request has come up through my own internet connection, y’know, all that compulsive communicating. It’s presently turning into something very interesting about which I am only allowed to say that "I’ve been working on some ideas for a ‘Heavy Metal’ feature". I’m afraid that if I said any more I’d have to shoot you. More about this, possibly, in a month or so.

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The Road - Photos from movie based on Cormac McCarthy's novel

USA Today have some photos from The Road. A movie based on the book by Cormac McCarthy. It's set in America after a nuclear winter has set in and follows a father and son travelling down a deserted road trying to get to the coast. All they have are the clothes on their back, a pistol and some food.

The film stars Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron and 11-year-old Kodi Smit-McPhee was shot in Pittsburgh, New Orleans and on Mount St. Helens in Washington state for scenes of devastation.

"It's tangible, the misery and hopelessness and the bleakness," Mortensen says. "It gives you much more to work with if you're filming in that world instead of a green screen."

Sounds like a bundle of laughs, but I've heard really good things about the book and Mortensen is a solid actor. Think I'll be picking up the book.

The Road is directed by ex-music video director John Hillcoat, of The Proposition. The screenplay was adapted by Joe Penhall, of Some Voices, Enduring Love, and The Undertaker and is based on Cormac McCarthy's novel of the same name first published in 2006. The Road hits in November 2008

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