![]() Walking in Designers’ Shoes: Project Runway Season 8 It’s not really a fair fight in terms of filmmaking or the depth of the ensemble, but The Happiest Season was nonetheless faced with the same narrative question as the year’s other attempts to “Queer the Christmas Movie” on cable: how do you reconcile the continued struggle LGBTQ individuals face in finding love (and living life) with the genre’s sweeping, romantic happy endings? Continue reading → MERLIN PROJECT RUNWAY MOVIEThis places the movie it into a different conversation about how the snowy cottage industry of “Cable Christmas Movies” is navigating similar questions of inclusion, with three channels (Hallmark, Lifetime, and Paramount Network) also using queerness as a point of articulation this holiday season.ĭirected by Clea DuVall, The Happiest Season has structural advantages compared to your average Hallmark or Lifetime Christmas movie: it has a veritable movie star in Kristen Stewart, supporting players like Aubrey Plaza and Alison Brie, and the budget to hire a stacked supporting cast and ensure it doesn’t aesthetically look like it was produced at the rapid pace of a daytime soap opera. And while that fact essentially remains true, the set at Christmas film’s move to Hulu obscured that distinction, meaning The Happiest Season launched at a time when Netflix and an increasingly large number of cable channels are releasing a slew of holiday rom-coms. It was originally touted as the first major studio lesbian romantic comedy, following in the footsteps of 2017’s Love, Simon in breaking new ground for queer representation within genres exclusively imagined as heterosexual in a theatrical context. I mean, we had to make the Four Horsemen into something much more condensed.Ī miniseries would indeed probably be the most enjoyable format for fans, and possibly new fans: as a collaboration between Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, there’s a lot of detail and small jokes in the book that would be a pity to lose.When The Happiest Season debuted on Hulu in November, having been shuffled to the streaming service after the COVID-19 pandemic closed cinemas around the world, the significance of its release was somewhat muted. I did talk to Terry Pratchett’s people and to Neil about getting it going again. I thought it might be perfect thing for maybe six-part TV, because then we could do the whole book. But he has one ray of comfort for fans: if he can’t get it made as a movie, he’s open to doing it as a miniseries. Terry Gilliam is still pushing a Good Omens adaptation around for producers and studios. MERLIN PROJECT RUNWAY FULLAccording to Deadline, Gaiman will executive produce the adaptation, and with him holding full rights over his own novel, I imagine that we will definitely be seeing the racially diverse cast of the book realized on screen.Īnother Gaiman project, however, is still languishing in the Doldrums of development hell, with the barest mention keeping it from being consigned to the “not currently happening” box. ![]() Well, anyway, the torch has been picked up by FreemantleMedia, a European production company most known for producing a variety of the biggest programs in reality television ( Project Runway, X Factor, the various international Idol programs), but their most recent well known success in scripted television would probably be Merlin. Or maybe it had balked at the idea of a special effects heavy miniseries that represented (a supernatural, granted) America through the eyes of a biracial main character? ![]() Three months ago author Neil Gaiman confirmed that an adaptation of his best selling novel American Gods was no longer in development at HBO, because, in my educated opinion, HBO momentarily decided it was allergic to money. ![]() Two items for fans of Neil Gaiman stories about anthropomorphic personifications: Good Omens is not yet completely lost, and American Gods has a new production studio and looks to be getting a new lease on televised life. ![]()
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