Alan Moore famously loathes film and TV adaptations of his work, and for a few years, he's been working on his own screen output through shorts. A first look at his move into full length movies, The Show, is online.
This indie pic will follow the characters from the series of Kickstarter-funded short films called Show Pieces and sees Moore reunite with director Mitch Jenkins. The Show follows Fletcher Dennis (Tom Burke), who has been hired to track down a stolen artifact. This leads him to Northampton, known in this world as a haunted town at England’s broken heart that has collapsed to a black hole of dreams. Burke finds himself sinking in a quicksand twilight world of dead Lotharios, comatose sleeping beauties, Voodoo gangsters, masked adventurers, unlikely 1930s private eyes and violent chiaroscuro women.
The cast also includes Siobhan Hewlett (a Show Pieces veteran), Ellie Bamber, Sheila Atim, Richard Dillane and Moore himself, who explains his reasoning for the new film. "With The Show, I wanted to apply the storytelling ability accumulated during the rest of my varied career to the medium of film. I wanted to see if it was possible to create an immersive and addictive world with no throwaway dialogue and no throwaway characters, a world where every character is memorable, distinctive and attempting to steal the whole show for themselves, just as we do in real life," he says in a statement picked up by Deadline. "I wanted to take some very old-school approaches to film and to find out, alongside Mitch Jenkins, what would happen if you connected them up with some very modern ideas and technical capabilities, and I wanted to make a piece of radical and progressive cinema that was also ridiculously sumptuous, involving and entertaining: a genuinely spectacular show."
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