gondry interview

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Dan Clowes writing the Gondrys' animated film

We told you back in October that Michel Gondry was working on an animated feature with his son, but some additional details about the film have started to leak out. Gondry spoke with Slashfilm about the project, saying, "It’s based on [Gondry’s son Paul’s] universe. He’s a sixteen year old. He’s very unique, very funny and very violent in his drawing and his art, showing everything that you could think of that I should have stopped him from coming in contact with, but I failed. He grew up watching Tom & Jerry and Ren and Stimpy, Sponge Bob. If you take all that and mix it with Gangster movies with blood, you get his universe."
The most interesting news, though, is that Dan Clowes, author of the comics Ghostworld and David Boring, is writing the feature. Clowes had been meaning to work with Gondry on a different feature, Masters of Time and Space, since 2004. While nothing much else seems to have developed on that picture, Gondry did say this new feature is "about a dictator who runs a crazy world where hair is the source of energy. The people there are forced to create art, and if the art is too good they are executed. So the dictator there doesn’t want anyone to be better than him so he kills the inmates who make good art. They try to make rubbish art but sometimes the worse it is for them, the better it is for the dictator."
Sounds about as weird as his Return of the Ice Kings, which means you should get excited. Hopefully this film ends up actually getting made and not just lost in the conceptual phase like Tine and Space.

from Paste Mag.