A LEMONY SNICKET animated sequel?
Monday, June 1, 2009
Speaking with SCI FI Wire, director Brad Siberling said he still hasn't ruled out a sequel to his 2004 film Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, and he's considering doing it with animation.
"My thing I talked to (author Lemony Snicket) about was if you start the movie with everybody thinking you're heading into another live-action movie," Silberling said. "But it's taken so long for this one to happen, and Olaf is still stuck in the makeup trailer and everyone else, and so Lemony Snicket basically tells you, 'Unfortunately, enough waiting: No, we're going to have to tell you the real story.' Boom, you dial through a soundstage door, and you're introduced into a stop-motion universe, and actually that's my hope is for the next film, that it can be stop-motion."
While I'm always interested in new stop-motion and it could be a good match for the world of Lemony Snicket, I have to admit I don't quite see what Siberling is going for here. From a real-world, practical perspective, the switch to animation makes sense. (It's been four years, and the kids have gotten too old.) But within the film itself, why would Snicket announce it's time to tell us the "real story," and then lead us out of live-action and into animation? Is the idea that the stop-motion characters are "real," and the flesh-and-blood characters in the first film were just actors trying to tell the story of the "real" stop-motion puppet people? Wha..?
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3 comments:
Hi, Koki here (I comment a lot on Rich's comic's and found your link) ^_^
This looks really interesting! First I've heard of it (and I'm a big fan of Lemony Snicket)
Maybe what they mean by telling the "real" story is that the animation will stick more closely to the books (I mean the 'real-person' film mixed the whole plot around, and the ending was to light-hearted for SOUE - Count Olaf never got his just deserts for his crimes - unless you count what happened to him in 'The End' ;D) So that's what I figured from reading your review - that the animation will stick true to the story, and leaving the mystery of VFD and the Fires until the later books =D - the film itself was, in my opinion too rushed - like they were trying to squeeze the entire series plot into the plot of those first 3 books.
I'll be interested to see how they do the animation =)
Your idea makes at least as much sense as mine. I'm baffled by what he meant... And I tend to suspect the film won't happen, unfortunately. It's been years since the first one, and I haven't heard anybody clamoring for a sequel. Too bad, I'd like to see a stop-motion take on the material.
If you want it live-action again with Jim Carrey, Liam Aiken and Emily Browning back, join us:
http://snicketsequelsociety.moonfruit.com
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