The first test arrives in 2011 with an animated adaptation of Morrison’s surreal but sweet All-Star Superman, which takes flight next winter as DC Comics and Warner Bros. 10th direct-to-DVD-and-download animated feature.
The new trailer above gives away little of Morrison and artist Frank Quitely‘s award-winning series, which poignantly and masterfully presented a Superman suddenly struck by mortality. There’s no Zibarro either, a Superman-like reverse Bizarro (got that?) Morrrison concocted to enhance All-Star Superman ‘s expansive wit and humor — and properly reboot the timeless hero for our cynical wasteland.
“We’ve deconstructed all our icons,” Morrison told Wired.com last year in an interview about his critically acclaimed All-Star Superman series. “The only truly moral, truly goodhearted man left is a made-up comic book character!”
Can the All-Star Superman animated feature, which is being written by Dwayne McDuffie ( Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths), translate Morrison’s comic without dumbing it down? The fact that McDuffie is writing the movie rather than Morrison could be instructive.
We’ll find out more about how Morrison’s probing mind works when Patrick Meaney’s documentary Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods arrives Oct. 26 on DVD. Until then, let’s not hope we don’t have another Alan Moore controversy on our hands.
