Just imagine a Moby Dick that looked like this!
Shane Acker and Timur Bekmambetov, director and producer respectively of the movie 9, told comingsoon.net (not a porn site) they dream of making a bizarre version of Moby Dick.
CS: You’ve been attached to a lot of other movies, so have you been working to develop some of them?
Bekmambetov: Yes, yeah, we’ve been developing “Moby Dick,” for example, which is my true love. We’re making it all about Moby Dick as Frankenstein, it’s a supernatural creature. The concept is that if you have a supernatural creature than you need whalers with supernatural abilities.CS: So this is more of a fantasy version of “Moby Dick” rather than another adaptation of the book.
Bekmambetov: Yes.
Meh…I don’t know. 9, which opens this weekend on 9/9/09, looked to me in the previews like another mildly cool cutesy-goth Tim Burton thing that would sit at the ass-end of my Netflix queue for the rest of my natural life, but it’s got a preliminary 87% positive rating on rottentomatoes.com.
I just don’t understand why Werner Herzog won’t just go ahead and make a great Moby Dick movie. Hell, I’d settle for a documentary that Herzog made about himself as he tries to raise Klaus Kinski from the dead to play Ahab.
[...] Some guy named Mike Barker who directed some Canadian miniseries version of Jack London’s “Sea Wolf” is going to make a TV miniseries about Moby Dick, and, according to one of my favorite “newspaper” sentences of all times, “Although very little is being released at this time about the project, it has been confirmed that it is a period film set in the 1850s.” I should hope so, but you never freakin’ know these days. [...]