Une interview de Neil Gaiman sur Coraline

[jerome]

Coraline sort prochainement en film d'animation.

Voici une interview de Neil Gaiman.

Extrait : "
Q: Is it true that you gave director, Henry Selick a copy of Coraline when it was still in manuscript form?

NG: I did! I was one of the few people, when I went to see Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, to notice that it was directed by Henry Selick. I thought ‘I really like his sensibilities; I like what he's doing, I like his willingness to scare!' I went and saw James and the Giant Peach, because Henry directed it. Now I thought there were problems with the film - chiefly the going in and out of live action, which I thought didn't do it any favours. In fact, when I met Henry the first time I said ‘What was that with the live action...?' and he said ‘budget'. The week that I finished Coraline, the first draft, I gave it to my agent and said ‘Get this on Henry Selick's desk'. Within a week I got a call from my agent saying ‘Henry loved it, he wants to meet with you' so I went up to Los Angeles and met him. The book wasn't published until 2002 and I actually signed the contract on the 7th of February 2001. Strangely, and utterly coincidentally, the film was released in America on the 7th of February 2009 which is how long it took to get from talking about it to the screen. Some people come to me and say ‘Why didn't Henry make the film look like the Dave McKean illustrations?' and the reason is that the Dave McKean illustrations wouldn't exist for another 18 months after Henry started work on the film. "



Il parle aussi de Sandman : "
Q:There have been rumours that you were going to direct the Sandman series?

NG: The problem is that these are owned by Warner Brothers and none of them are ever allowed outside the Warner Brothers stable. The problem is not finding someone to put up money or to make the film, lots of people would put up money and lots of people would make it, but it needs to be in the Warner Brothers stable. Originally the script was written for Warner Brothers and when I handed it in to them they said ‘This is a $15 million movie!' and I said ‘Well yes!' and they said ‘We're Warner Brothers! We don't make $15 million movies!' and I said ‘Well what do we do then?' and they said ‘We're going to have to find one of our sub-companies to do it'. So then they make you wait while lawyers at Warner Brothers talk to lawyers at sub companies and then we went off to New Line and they said ‘Yes, we're all on, we're all up for it'. Then it got bounced from New Line to Warner Independent Pictures. From there we were suddenly told that Warner Brothers wanted to do it again. So they did a budget on it and said ‘Hang on! This is a $20 million movie!' - time had gone by - and I said ‘Yes' and they said ‘But we're Warner Brothers! We don't make $20 million movies!' and I said ‘We had this conversation four years ago'. So then we went back to New Line. This time it looked like we really were good to go. Everything was in place, we had a casting team lined up and then by the method of the way these things happen, New Line, pretty much over night, stopped being a film company with offices and staff and the power to say yes or no to their own movies and, in essence, became a filing cabinet in Warner Brothers. I directed a short film a few years ago, purely because I wanted to find out whether directing a film is like making stuff up which I enjoy. Or if it is something that I don't, like putting up shelves. If you have shelves you don't want me putting them up, they'll fall down! Or things will slide off before they fall down! And I don't enjoy doing it! And I have to say I loved every little bit of the process, I loved the casting, I loved talking to the technical people, I loved saying ‘...because I said so' which is a wonderful power. I had been frustrated because you write a line of dialogue and then you watch it on the screen and you go ‘That was a really good line of dialogue. I know it was a good line of dialogue, I know how it works. I know how I would have made them say it and how the beat works and you didn't do any of that and now that line of dialogue is just lying there like a herring or something else that just lies there'. So I had much too much fun doing that."

[bormandg]

Coraline sort prochainement en film d'animation.

Il est passé à la dernière soirée du festival Jules Verne, et il vaut vraiment le coup d'oeil même si on y retrouve des idées connues et des références, et l'esthétique du Noël de Mr Jack (et pour cause).

[Hoêl]

En tout cas , le bouquin était excellent , ma gamine l'avait dévoré en deux jours à l'époque ; du coup , je suis obligé d'attendre qu'elle ait terminé celui qui vient de paraître chez Wiz car elle se l'est attribué d'office .

[jerome]

A noter que Coraline sera projeté au festival du film d'animation d'Annecy du 8 au 13 juin prochain.

Il a été pris dans la sélection américaine.

Sortie en salle le 10 juin.