...The Hell?
Posted at 1:53 PM Aug 19, 2008
Brad Meltzer's BOOK OF LIES exclusive trailer!
Brad Meltzer is bets known to nerds for writing DC's Identity Crisis series, although the general populace knows him for his crime fiction. His new novel The Book of Lies has a trailer—which is weird in and of itself—but then the trailer has folks like Josh Whedon and Brian K. Vaughan and the atheist/scholar/guy who wrote God Is Not Great doing this weird, awkward dog and pony show about how the murder weapon Cain used to kill Abel wasn't found, and how Jerry Siegel's—the guy who co-created Superman—dad was shot and killed, and implying that perhaps the two are sinisterly connected, although this is done through dramatic pauses and no actual information, real or otherwise. Now, this very much sounds like one of the dumbest books I've ever heard of, but I'll give Meltzer credit that it might be great. However, I can fault him for making this ridiculous trailer, which does nothing but make the book sound ridiculous. Joss Whedon might write great shows, but I do not trust him to know the secret divine conspiracies which lie hidden in this world. Sorry, Joss.
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I just picked up this hardcover in the Borders clearance section for 6 bucks. (Sorry, Brad.) Haven't cracked it open yet, though. This trailer makes me not want to.
Posted 08/19/2008 at 11:33:33 AMYeah, the Book of Lies does exist. Alistair Crowley wrote it in like 1913, asshole.
Posted 08/19/2008 at 11:41:36 AMUmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
Yeah.
Doesn't it look like they're all kind of kidding? Like this is a spoof of book trailers (which are actually becoming quite the vogue of late)? My guess this is a spoof or something.
However, it did make me think that the precious MacGuffin that Lucas is looking for should be the weapon Cain used to kill Abel, or the Spear of Destiny.
And then he should go and shoehorn in stupid fucking silly ideas as much as humanly possible. Has anyone read Darabont's original draft of "Kingdom"? That would have been a good Indy movie.
Posted 08/19/2008 at 12:43:00 PMIt's so sad how SOMEONE must have seen this on YouTube and thought it was real. The same kind of person who watches TV shows about haunted houses, and heard from an e-mail that the Govornment caused 9/11.
Posted 08/19/2008 at 07:28:36 PM