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Impractical Demonkeeping

Another Movie That I Don't Hate Yet / TK

Trade News | March 23, 2009 | Comments (8)

Sam Fells, who directed the animated Tale of Despereaux (which Bedhead enjoyed in her review), has been tapped to direct a movie based on the young adult novel Demonkeeper, by Royce Buckingham. It’s not a bad little premise — an orphan is raised by some old weirdo who lives in a house filled with demons. The kid is charged with maintaining the house, which, as you can imagine, puts a damper on his social life. Finally he decides to try to get out there and get his ashes hauled, and in doing so a demon called Julie The Beast is released.

And hijinks ensue.

It doesn’t fill me with glee, but it doesn’t make me want to start cutting throats, either, which these days is pretty much one for the win column, right? No word on actors, but the script is being written by Laeta Kalogridis who has a potentially promising pedigree (though I doubt my gift for alluringly amusing alliteration) — she also wrote the scripts for Scorcese’s Shutter Island (based on the Dennis Lehane novel) and Cameron’s Battle Angel (which is somewhere between next and a millionth on his slate).

We’ll see.


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Comments

They'll probably make it campy as hell, I'm not sure I'm in the mood for that. (unless the book is like that. Is the book like that?)

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at March 23, 2009 8:07 PM

TK, Your trickery is foul indeed. From the title, I really thought Practical Demonkeeping was going to be made. Now I'm disappointed.

I'm a fan of mayhem, oddball characters, witty satire and zombies so I think I'd rather see The Stupidest Angel made first. Who can resist a story of miracles, Yuletide cheer, and zombies. As Tucker Case says, “Ah, Christmas, the time when all good people go about not decapitating each other!”

Posted by: Sharopa at March 23, 2009 9:06 PM

I was hoping for a Practical Demonkeeping movie too, but alas. Gullibled again.

Posted by: Edwina the Magnificent at March 23, 2009 9:25 PM

I would imagine that demon-Julie would only enhance a young boy's social life, provided her alcohol consumption and sex drive are left intact.

Posted by: Sean at March 23, 2009 9:51 PM

Battle Angel? As in Battle Angel Alita?

FUCKING BULLSHIT.

Okay seriously you cockgobblers, no more manga and anime needs to be made into live-action Hollywood movies. We're done with this now, you fucking hear me? I'm already dead inside because you're making Akira into some unholy travesty, let's just stop now before it gets any worse.

Posted by: Snath at March 24, 2009 9:10 AM

HEY!!!

:thinks about it:

...I would be perfectly fine if my nickname were The Beast.

Posted by: Julie at March 24, 2009 11:47 AM

Can I only ask that you consider "The Beast from the East". It's geographically apt and calls to mind images of Professional Wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at March 24, 2009 12:52 PM

Hey! It's me...the author.

Thanks for not hating my movie yet. I gotta say I'm happy with the choice of director. He should be a CG god, and he's funny, which the book is...now.

Here's a tidbit - I originally wrote the book as a serious horror script for adults, which didn't sell. Hollywood convinced me to change it into a kids' script, then a book...and then it sold (big "wahoo" here).

Story is an analogy to how kids get eaten up by street life. I used to put kids in prison (as a prosecutor), and I'd see how life on the streets ate them up, so I made it into a serious horror script and then (Hollywood intervention here) a kids' movie. Got high hopes for it in that incarnation considering the talent they're throwing at it. I'm thinking Puscifer's "Mission" for the theme song.

Should be great. My best,

Royce


www.demonkeeper.com

Posted by: Royce Buckingham at March 27, 2009 1:46 PM





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