The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log

SFX mag draws our attention to an interview on LiveForFilm with director Paul McGuigan where he talks a little about the upcoming TV project he is working on with Grant Morrison and Stephen Fry:

“Yeah Grant Morrison and myself are working on – I wouldn’t call it a secret project – but a project with Stephen Fry. It’s a thriller set in Scotland. Me and Grant have been friends for a while and we wanted to do something together and Grant went off and wrote a treatment, so it’s at the treatment stage at the moment. It’s seven episodes. It takes place over seven days around an event that happens in Scotland. It’s a modern take on an old fable or fairy story. If you know Grant’s work you might have an idea of what it will be like. It’s like Twin Peaks meets Brigadoon! It’s off the wall and smart but in a watchable commercial way. It’s still in the early stages but I’m very excited about it.”

(Grant Morrison on the far left, with Brendan McCarthy, Rian Hughes, Peter Hogan and Charles Shaar Murray outside the Dublin Forbidden Planet during the 1990 Revolver tour)

To be quite honest the thought of Grant being let loose on a TV show, let alone one being set in his native land, is brilliant, but add in national treasure Stephen Fry and that’s quite a surreal combination that just has me wanting to know more…