Well Halo 8 dropped a press release today announcing an all star cast of genre mainstays. Here’s the names: Lance Henriksen, Bill Moseley, Tiffany Shepis (below), Justin Pierre, Lydia Lunch, and Davey Havok. Some genre legends… some musicians… all good. I’m intrigued. The ‘illustrated film’ will be written and directed by Pizzolo. What exactly is an ‘illustrated film?’ Well here it is straight from the press release:
The ‘illustrated film’ Pizzolo is creating for the adaption mixes elements of anime, radio drama, video games, and motion comics. Utilizing the original artwork from the comic book, the ‘illustrated film’ adds motion animation, visual effects, elaborate sound design, music, and voice-acting performances.
I’m down for checking this out. Halo 8 will be releasing limited-edition, serialized, short-form DVDs within the next few months with the full-length theatrical release this Fall. Here’s what Pizzolo had to say:
“I’m astonished and excited by the incredible talents who’ll be joining us to bring these characters to life. We want to create something really cool and unique and different from everything else out there… it’s truly humbling to have such accomplished collaborators on the team…. when we decided to make an anime adaptation of the comic book, I couldn’t see how a traditional animated approach would do justice to Anna’s incredibly lush and detailed illustrations. It made perfect sense to adapt the medium to suit her art, rather than vice versa.”
GODKILLER takes place in a dark-future after economic collapse, after nuclear holy war, and after Earth is colonized by alien races. Tommy and his kid sister Lucy live in an orphanage in one of the few remaining city-states, but Lucy is critically ill and desperately in need of a new heart. Tommy’s odyssey to find a new heart for his sister begins when he follows an organ-stealing prostitute named Halfpipe out of the city-state and into the savage borderland known as Outer City. GODKILLER mixes unforgiving brutality, quantum physics, conspiracy theory, and secret history for an iconoclastic hero’s journey like none before it. We’ll be keeping an eye on this one so keep it here for updates!