"After spending years criticizing how Hollywood has adapted his iconic graphic novels, Alan Moore [Watchmen] is finally taking matters into his own hands," Deadline reported, noting that Protagonist Pictures has unveiled a "first look" at Moore's upcoming fantasy film, The Show.
Production is currently underway on the project, which Moore wrote and also has a role in. He said he was trying to create a world with "no throwaway dialogue and no throwaway characters," and to build a large epic fantasy. "A world where every character is memorable, distinctive, and attempting to steal the whole show for themselves--just as we do in real life. And I wanted to make a piece of radical and progressive cinema that was also ridiculously sumptuous, involving and entertaining. A genuinely spectacular show."
Directed by Mitch Jenkins, who worked with Moore on the short films that this movie is based on, The Show stars Tom Burke, Siobhan Hewlett, Ellie Bamber, Sheila Atim and Richard Dillane.