The Vorrh

[dktd]

The Guardian says that Gilliam is trying to get Brian Catling's The Vorrh "on screen." But ..."

“The problem is, film producers want you to sum it up in one page,” Catling groans. “They haven’t got patience to read the thing. They say, ‘What is it? What does it do?’ Those questions are a blank wall to me.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/a...-interview

Being an ignoramus, I've not heard of the book, but why they think Gilliam and Hollywood have many links these days is another question ...

[bruttenholm]

I have the book somewhere, but being french, and the novel not being translated yet, I had a hard time digging into it. I just know it's heavy surrealist stuff, I can't imagine how they could get it financed, unless they use old school techniques a la Karel Zeman (transparencies, collage, I don't know). How on Earth would you produce a fantasy film with (according to the article) an aborted foetus coming back to life otherwise ?

[bruttenholm]

Given this old tweet from Brian Catling announcing the first opening of a production company with Gilliam, the adaptation is meant to be a TV series :

VORRHPLAY the flickering company of Terry Gilliam, Ray Cooper, Christian Gwinn & my humble self. Move over G o T.

https://twitter.com/briancatling/status/...2200702976

[bruttenholm]

So apparently Gilliam is working on this right now : https://www.filmstories.co.uk/news/terry...rh-for-tv/

[MercuryZap]

This seems a very exciting and progressive project.


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[bruttenholm]

In a new interview with the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten (which i purchased online), he describes the screenplay he's working on as such : "‘I’m working on an idea for yet another film I would like to make. It is about God and how he/she/they/it exterminates all of humanity because we have destroyed thousands of years of God's amazing creations. It won't involve anything like a virus, but I won't say more yet" ...
https://jyllands-posten.dk/kultur/ECE130...vaeler-os/
So in the end I'm not even sure it has anything to do with "The Vorrh", sounds more like a separate feature.

[MercuryZap]

Sure sounds relevant. The idea of Terry going full cosmic apocalypse could be very exciting and appropriately terrifying.

[bruttenholm]

From an interview with the ukrainian press while attending the film festival of Odessa last week, it turns out that Gilliam's screenplay is actually not related to The Vorrh, but rather an unrelated feature film... The script would tell a story "where God finally decides to destroy humanity - because they desecrated the beautiful garden he created." "The devil is trying to save all of humanity, or at least two people."
https://www.radiosvoboda.org/amp/gilliam...21639.html

[MercuryZap]

Hi ~ Thanks for this info. This project sounds very exciting and you could perhaps speculate that elements of Biblical learning from T.G.’s upbringing are being refracted more explicitly than usual in this intriguing premise.

I’ll be there (hopefully)…

[bruttenholm]

Also in a masterclass from the same festival, he seems to suggest that Satan would actually be a preacher in the film (?) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKT0F9ix8bA
(around 1h10)