Calling All Transmetropolitan Fans!

[Wesley Dodds]

For years, we've been hearing about a possible animated series and about how a couple years ago it came reeeeallly close to becoming an online cartoon show...
Well here, for your viewing pleasure, is the 15 second test piece that Warren Ellis himself wrote for company Noodle Soup to help them get the gig...

http://stereostations.blogspot.com/2007/12/transmetropolitan-flash-animation-short.html

I gotta say, i kinda like it... The simplicity of the animation works in it's favour and it feels very, very Transmetropolitan... Not so sure about Patrick Stewart as the voice of Spider... Dont get me wrong, I love Patrick Stewart in most things and i know he's a big fan of the book but he's not exactly the voice my imagination conjured up when i read Transmet... He's just not Spider...

What do you guys think about it?

 

[fifthfiend]

I think it's kind of ******ed to make a cartoon character out of a character that the comic itself argued would be ******ed as a cartoon character.

Or alternately - brilliant!

But probably ******ed.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

I think it's kind of ******ed to make a cartoon character out of a character that the comic itself argued would be ******ed as a cartoon character.

Or alternately - brilliant!

But probably ******ed.

I'm not sure i'd agree with that. Seems too easy a way to put it. The cartoon of him in the book was a gross caricature of SJ and used as a weapon against him to smear his reputation. This would've been a straight port of Transmetropolitan and the real Spider Jerusalem we know and love... Besides, Ellis wrote it and was completely up for it...

 

[Addendum]

It should be interesting if something happens with it, as long as Ellis is involved in some capacity to keep the project in the style of the comic

As for a voice, the one that stuck in my read from my initial reading onward has been Malcolm McDowell

 

[Wesley Dodds]

It should be interesting if something happens with it, as long as Ellis is involved in some capacity to keep the project in the style of the comic

As for a voice, the one that stuck in my read from my initial reading onward has been Malcolm McDowell

McDowell? Thats a pretty interesting choice. I never saw Spider as having a British accent, to me he was always a very specifically american character... Its a shame Bill Hicks aint around anymore, his is the voice most similar to how i imagine Spiders... I can actually see Hicks being up for it too...

 

[Wesley Dodds]

B-b-b-bump!

 

[VodkaVince]

kinda reminded me of the BATTLE POPE animations.

 

[Captain Useless]

The voice will be tricky.
I always imagined it to be very close to Hunter S. Thompson,

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Yeah, there's definite HST overtones to the character... But i always imagined it a little bit more high pitched... Sam Rockwell would make a great Spider Jerusalem.