Alan Moore’s Gorilla Army
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?Excuse me, did I say gorilla? I meant Gorillaz. From the Guardian:
For the follow-up to Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s opera
Monkey: Journey to the West, the duo have turned to a man best known
for flawed superheroes, melancholy swamp things and a nymphomaniac
Alice in Wonderland. Comics legend Alan Moore is to write the lyrics for the pair’s next production, he has revealed.“They
came down to Northampton last week because we’re planning for me to do
the libretto on their next opera ,” Moore recently told Mustard magazine. Though Moore offered no more details than that – and semi-erroneously referred to the pair as Gorillaz
– Moore’s news will still set Blur (and comics) fans salivating. Albarn
and Hewlett’s last show, Monkey: Journey to the West, was a hit in 2007
and led to a series of animated spots for the BBC’s Beijing Olympics
coverage.
The idea of an opera written by Alan Moore, scored by Damon Albarn and designed by jamie Hewlett has blown my mind. What would it possibly entail? Superheroes? Literary porn? That snake god he worships? (Via io9)
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