Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Barry Malzberg: Push Your Themes to the Limit

So I've been thinking about those historical pastiches lately -- you know, like Nicholas Meyer's The Seven Percent Solution, Jack the Ripper against Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud -- and I thought, wouldn't it be cool to push this as far as it can go, and have JTR & Sherlock & Freud, and Dickinson, and Lee Harvey Oswald, Oedipa Maas, and Jesus and Emma Goldman and Frankenstein's monster and Mark Twain and Jim (Huck's Jim) and Roderick Usher, and Hawthorne (who needs to make a kind of low-key, mournful pass at someone) and Boo Radley, Prospero, Elizabeth II, William Shatner, Teddy Roosevelt, and Nat Turner? And Ted Turner, and everyone else who might be interesting?
Obviously the plot will have to have somebody murdered in such a way that the entire space-time continuum, whatever that is, is in peril. Suggestions welcome.

2 Comments:

Blogger Godzilla47 said...

it boggles the mind to think how much of a challenge casting a movie based on this idea would be...unless you could get the souls and ghosts and fictional ethers of all to play themselves.

9:39 AM  
Blogger RC said...

Anybody heard anything lately about that tech that's supposed to be able to sample/reprogram/cast great dead movie actors, so that you can really have a virtual Vincent Price or Francis the Talking Mule cast opposite Carmen Electra?

12:26 PM  

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