If you’re a fan of comic books, especially those from the past four decades, you likely owe quite a bit to writer Alan Moore. With his landmark series such as “Watchmen,” “Batman: The Killing Joke,” “V for Vendetta,” “From Hell,” and “Swamp Thing,” the writer revolutionized an industry, introducing a more adult, literary take on the kid-friendly medium. And now, it appears he’s moving to the world of feature films as the writer and star in the upcoming film, “The Show.”
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As you might expect from any story featuring the mark of Alan Moore, “The Show” looks to be a very interesting, if not completely batshit crazy feature about…okay, I have no clue what it’s about and the synopsis doesn’t help much. Apparently, the film is about “a frighteningly focussed man of many talents, passports and identities arrives at England’s broken heart, a haunted midlands town that has collapsed to a black hole of dreams, only to find that this new territory is as at least as strange and dangerous as he is.” Okay, sure.
The film stars Alan Moore, as well as Tom Burke, Siobhan Hewlett, Ellie Bamber, Darrell D’Silva, Richard Dillane, Christopher Fairbank, and Sheila Atim. Of those names, perhaps Burke is the most well-known. He recently had a breakout performance in Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir.” He’s also set to play Orson Welles in the upcoming David Fincher film, “Mank.” “The Show” is directed by Mitch Jenkins. The filmmaker previous helmed the feature, “Show Pieces,” back in 2014.
“The Show” has yet to be given an official release date, as the teaser just says “coming soon.” That being said, judging by the bonkers imagery, this is a film that most film fans are going to want to check out when it arrives. Whenever that is.
Here’s the synopsis:
A frighteningly focussed man of many talents, passports and identities arrives at England’s broken heart, a haunted midlands town that has collapsed to a black hole of dreams, only to find that this new territory is as at least as strange and dangerous as he is. Attempting to locate a certain person and a certain artefact for his insistent client, he 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…and this is Northampton when it’s still awake. Once the town closes its eyes there is another world entirely going on beneath the twitching lids, a world of glittering and sinister delirium much worse than any social or economic devastation. Welcome to the British nightmare, with its gorgeous flesh, its tinsel and its luminous light-entertainment monsters; its hallucinatory austerity.