Watchmen creator Alan Moore is making a movie and it sounds really weird

Alan Moore is an interesting person. He’s the visionary writer behind beloved, influential graphic novels like Watchmen, V For Vendetta, From Hell, Batman:The Killing Joke and more many. He’s also famously reclusive, is a practicing wizard, and has the scraggled beard of a philosopher king who lives in a cave. Now, Deadline reports that he has a new project in the works: a movie called The Show, which is already kind of confusing even before you get to the premise:

So The Show is set in Northampton, Moore’s hometown in England. It follows a character named Fletcher Dennis (Tom Burke), who’s been charged with finding a rare artifact. During his search, he’ll encounter all manner of strange dangers, including “dead Lotharios, comatose sleeping beauties, Voodoo gangsters, masked adventurers, unlikely 1930s private eyes and violent chiaroscuro women.”

I know what a woman is, and I know what chiaroscuro is, but I have no idea what a chiaroscuro woman is. And all of that is just during the day. At night, it’s a whole other ballgame, “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.”

You get the idea that Moore wrote this synopsis?

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This is the first screenplay Moore has ever written, and he sounds extremely excited about it:

"With The Show, I wanted to apply the storytelling ability accumulated during the rest of my varied career to the medium of film.  I wanted to see if it was possible to create an immersive and addictive world with no throwaway dialogue and no throwaway characters, a world where every character is memorable, distinctive and attempting to steal the whole show for themselves, just as we do in real life. I wanted to take some very old-school approaches to film and to find out, alongside [director] Mitch Jenkins, what would happen if you connected them up with some very modern ideas and technical capabilities, and I wanted to make a piece of radical and progressive cinema that was also ridiculously sumptuous, involving and entertaining: a genuinely spectacular show."

It’s hard to know whether to I should look forward to this. It’s hard to even know what this is. But at the least, it doesn’t sound boring, which is worth more than a little.

The Show is coming to a theater near you. Maybe. I dunno if anyone will want to distribute this. I guess it depends on how weird it is. You’ll be able to see The Show somehow, at some point.

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