Donnerstag, September 11, 2003

Warren Ellis über Constantine

Cinescape schreibt über Warren Ellis' Anmerkungen über den Film Constantine:

(...)Ellis had a chance meeting with actress Tilda Swinton who is contemplating taking the role of the archangel Gabriel in the picture. The two of them began discussing the movie, the comic series and the character Swinton may be playing. 'She said something I found fascinating: in an America where a president again invokes the term Evil in public statements, there's the potential to say something very interesting in a major-studio film about Biblical good and evil,' comments Ellis in his newsletter. 'To present the angel Gabriel as a figure of horror; there's space to say something that in the mainstream of American culture is certainly subversive. She characterised Reeves as an intelligent, 'spiritual' man, and thinks there might be the possibility, with Reeves there, to do something challenging.'(...)

Er erklärt auch, dass er sich Keanu Reeves gut als Titelheld vorstellen könne. Er verkörpere "den Teil von Constantine, der soziale Gerechtigkeit verlange und in einem ethischen Aufruhr" lebe.

von Jens Scholz   direct link