Grant Morrison Used Tarzan Movie Pitch In Wonder Woman Earth One

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Grant Morrison is constant to speak about their Wonder Woman Earth One graphic novel sequence with Yanick Paquette on the Xanaduum Substack.

Grant Morrison is constant to speak about their Wonder Woman Earth One graphic novel sequence with Yanick Paquette on the Xanaduum Substack, together with their use of bondage as textual content and subtext.

“Announcing our themes up front, we chose to show Wonder Woman our heroine, in chains on the cover. But we gave her a challenging, even superior, expression and the physical poise to suggest she can handle this. In fact, she’s arranged this…”

“With the notion of bondage as philosophy in our minds we chose, as the principal motif in the first book, the rope, twine, thread, or lasso, which winds through the story and binds its narrative.”

“It is Wonder Woman’s Lasso of Truth and the Fates’ Thread of Life. It was Yanick’s idea to makes this thread a visual element that could take the place of traditional panel borders (flowing curved shapes replacing the lined, ruled borders of a typical comics page layout – which then try to reassert themselves in the ‘Man’s World’ scenes). Yanick also added touches like the Greek pottery shards that frame panels in the opening scene and tell their own version of the story, as well as numerous other visual motifs that played as musical theme accompaniment to certain characters and settings.”

Previously, Grant Morrison talked about their many DC Comics film pitches, a few of which made their method into comics, like Wonder Woman Earth One. But evidently Morrison additionally pitched a Tarzan film, one side of which made it into Wonder Woman.

“Notice how quickly Diana learns English – when she first encounters Steve Trevor, her attempts to converse with him are halting – ‘Me Tarzan, you Jane…‘. Within 20 pages she’s discoursing conversationally.”

“Later, we see how she’s mastered the language sufficiently to deploy more poetic English when she faces the Army and goes all haughty Amazon Princess on them.”

“(Interestingly enough, this detail was borrowed from my Tarzan movie pitch, which remains for me the best revamp of a franchise character that I ever did. Tarzan, who’d been put in a position where he had to communicate fluently with numerous jungle animals, was, I decided, an expert communicator and could master human language in days. Typically, they made some other Tarzan that wasn’t as good…).”

As Grant Morrison beforehand stated, “”My printed work is the tip of an enormous iceberg of written materials that may by no means be seen!”. But  does anybody with the Tarzan license fancy speaking to Grant a couple of new tackle the Lord Of The Apes?

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