Tuesday, October 14, 2003

Warren Ellis' new project: Get Swing!

I have today completed my next epic screenplay, a Ken Russellesque period take on the Southern England farm labourers' riots of 1830 as fomented by the mythical "Captain Swing." My friend Patrick Stewart stars as Swing, a part which he performs entirely naked for the whole three-hour running time. The soundtrack for GET SWING! is to be created by The Flaming Lips, by arrangement with their manager Scott Booker. There is a glorious moment near the end where the band burst into "Do You Realise" as Patrick kills Augusto Pinochet by screwing a sharpened wine glass into his chest, coring out his heart, and a flock of angels rise out of the ring of burning threshing machines surrounding them, take out long slim feathered penises, and piss blood all over his body.

The CGI will be done in China. Apparently the popular Aaron Kwok, beloved all over the Pearl River Delta for his pop singing and acting, inadvertantly had his penis digitally scanned in by an ambitious and technologically able Thai knockout-hooker who sedated him with tranquilliser-smeared nipples and then applied an imaging device stored somewhere terrible. So it's his penis we're using for the angels. I mean, can you imagine what it'd cost if we used Industrial Light And Magic and Richard Gere's penis? Or James Woods'?

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