My head's cold.
Allow me to explain. Halfway down the Revelations new films bit
www.clivebarker.info/newfilmse.html
this
And it starts shooting - in Edinburgh, rather than Glasgow - next week and I'm going to be in it. I had chatted with director and co-writer John Harrison in September when he was over here and he'd mentioned the possibility. I had, in truth, forgotten all about it, so it was a pleasant surprise when they came back to me with an offer for a cameo role which I've happily accepted. The script is in the first instance a conflation of the two parts of The Book Of Blood which bookend the entire Books Of Blood cycle (The Book Of Blood and The Book Of Blood (postscript); On Jerusalem Street) which has then been cleverly teased out to paint a bigger picture for a full-length screenplay.
It's set in the present day, but I play a character called Tollington who has been dead for pretty much a century. He was an occultist who occupied the house in Tollington Place (mentioned in Clive's original story). It's a brief but memorable appearance and I'm looking forward to it. I was up there yesterday for a photo shoot (for portrait and newspaper article which appear elsewhere in the movie and in discussion with the make-up department, agreed that my current cut does not sell the period and so we agreed to shave my head completely. It works too, because any similarities between Tollington and a certain Aleister Crowley would not be at all inappropriate,,,
Hence the chilly bonce. I know there wasn't much insulation left, bit dunn'alf make a difference!
(Doug Bradley, 30 Nov 2007)
Allow me to explain. Halfway down the Revelations new films bit
www.clivebarker.info/newfilmse.html
this
Quote:
The Book Of Blood
...This project has been quietly building in the lee of other higher-profile Midnight Picture Show films - adapted and directed by John Harrison from the book-end stories to Clive's Books of Blood, preparations are now being made for a December 2007 shoot in Scotland with Joe Daley again in the producer's chair...
"There was a man called John Harrison, who did Children of Dune for Sci-Fi channel and a bunch of other movies, and who has just done a really smart version of the bookend tale from The Books of Blood; it's really very, very good."
Sowing The Seeds Of The Story Tree
By Phil and Sarah Stokes, 28 August and 4 September 2006 (note - full text here)
"I dont believe a movies a go movie until all the money is in the bank... but if everything is set then the movie will have been shot by Christmas. You know, well be back over here editing.
"It still remains the dream, my hope, if we get to make a lot of these movies, to package them up so that we will have a lot of the Books of Blood as full-length movies. John Harrisons doing the Book of Blood - the Ur story, the root story - you know the story of an older womans love for a young trickster and its just the right kind of story - and we have a concept for the dead, for the ghosts, which is without precedent..."
Hellfire And The Demonation
By Phil and Sarah Stokes, 7 September 2007 (note - full text here)
"John did a superb piece of work with the expansion and reinvention of the story, because it is really very simple. He filled it out, gave it meat and deepened the characters. My understanding is that were looking at shooting it in Glasgow, which is wonderful. Its great that we should be going back to Britain, that [the] house where the dead walk, where the highways of the dead converge, should be situated in one of the bleaker cities. Its perfect!"
Gone And Back Again
By Carnell, Fangoria, No 268, November 2007
John Harrison : "Im about to start an adaptation of one of his Books of Blood stories for a series of movies that theyre making... Book of Blood. Im going to do the first one. Were going to turn that into a movie which I hope to direct. Clive and I have been looking for ways to keep working with one another. He was very happy with the adaptation of Abarat, and I was happy that he was happy."
John Harrison (Effects)
By Devin Faraci, Cinematic Happenings Under Development, 6 November 2005 (Note: full text online at www.chud.com)
John Harrison : "We had become friends through the Abarat process and [Clive] liked my Dune mini-series a whole lot, so we started talking about why did I do one of these. So I have taken the first and the last short stories of the books of blood collection and Ive turned them into one movie called Clive Barker's Books of Blood. The screenplay is finished, were putting the financing together, and Im hopeful that well be in production after I finish Georges movie.
"[Clive]d be one of the producers, of course. He has been reading every step of the way the drafts of the script that I co-wrote with another young writer named Darren Silverman. Hes very excited about it, and he will be involved creatively. Even though I will be directing, hell be the go to guy."
Producer John Harrison Talks To iF About Romero's Diary Of The Dead - Part One
By Sean Elliott, iF Magazine, 1 September 2006 (Note: full text online at ifmagazine.com)
And it starts shooting - in Edinburgh, rather than Glasgow - next week and I'm going to be in it. I had chatted with director and co-writer John Harrison in September when he was over here and he'd mentioned the possibility. I had, in truth, forgotten all about it, so it was a pleasant surprise when they came back to me with an offer for a cameo role which I've happily accepted. The script is in the first instance a conflation of the two parts of The Book Of Blood which bookend the entire Books Of Blood cycle (The Book Of Blood and The Book Of Blood (postscript); On Jerusalem Street) which has then been cleverly teased out to paint a bigger picture for a full-length screenplay.
It's set in the present day, but I play a character called Tollington who has been dead for pretty much a century. He was an occultist who occupied the house in Tollington Place (mentioned in Clive's original story). It's a brief but memorable appearance and I'm looking forward to it. I was up there yesterday for a photo shoot (for portrait and newspaper article which appear elsewhere in the movie and in discussion with the make-up department, agreed that my current cut does not sell the period and so we agreed to shave my head completely. It works too, because any similarities between Tollington and a certain Aleister Crowley would not be at all inappropriate,,,
Hence the chilly bonce. I know there wasn't much insulation left, bit dunn'alf make a difference!
(Doug Bradley, 30 Nov 2007)
