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More than that, it's really inexplicable. My dad was a Labour shop steward with the TGWU in Britain. For one election cycle he voted Conservative, as the country was in a bad way and genuinely thought it would course-correct. After having them in power he was appalled and never voted for them again.

Oh! Any word if the 2008 Jon Ronson documentary "Stanley Kubrick's Boxes" might be on "Eyes Wide Shut"? That would be terrific.

Alex Ho was the one who drove it. Despite getting two Oscar nominations (for "Born on The Fourth Of July" and "JFK"), he really loved anime and monster movies. In fact, he asked me to do a kaiju movie after we did "Lupin". I don't remember why I turned him down, but I regret it now. Alex is great.

I've done podcasts over the years talking about Hellboy, Alien vs Predator, Judge Dredd, War Of The Worlds, Freddy vs Jason, other things I've been hired to write on. Certainly mentioned this along the way.

Oh, I don't think any of us were thinking that far ahead. I like to "cast in my head" when I'm writing roles, but I was under a lot of pressure to get the first draft written, so I was just visualising the animated characters while writing it. Carrey was, I think, the only actor considered.

I'd love to dust it off and give it another pass. I've improved as a writer somewhat in the last 28 years. :)

I would LOVE to resurrect it as a two-part Japanese animated cartoon. If any of the Lupin fan community have an "in" with whoever's handling Monkey Punch stuff these days, have them call Alex or myself, and we'll get the ball rolling.

I'll happily work with the Japanese writers to finesse it.

-- Ninjas vs Goemon in a monastery, an Illuminati Flying Saucer abducting the Orient Express, an INSANE seaplane climax on Mount Everest...and that barely scratches the surface. It was BIG. I wrote it at the same time I was doing "Hellboy", and it nearly gave me a nervous breakdown!

It had a flashback heist in Paris with Lupin's Pop, a theft from the White House, a scene set in Antarctica with Fujiko, the theft of the Crown Jewels in London by robots, a fight in an underground lair in Paris, another heist in Venice, a robots vs Lupin car chase in Morocco --

Oh, you know it!

Put on Lupin's red jacket, get Jigen to drive you to my fortress, and have Fujiko distract me with her knockout-lipstick!

There's bits of everything from Lupin in there. Bits of Mamo, Wings Of Death - Albatross, Cagliostro. But a big, BIG storyline. No Lupin animated has even come close to the scale of craziness we had in our screenplay. I was surprised when I saw "Lupin III: The First": some of our stuff was in it.

What is that?

The weird thing is, I know from experience looking at Warners' live action rights catalog a bunch of their titles were sold to Columbia. So it'd help consolidate the rights situations. Columbia/Warner would be a good label. There's no reason, like Disney/20th they can't maintain their identities.

That's the spitting image of my ex-girlfriend. Looks like I got out in time.

Oh, I'll give that a listen. Thanks for that!

Oh, I already said over on my Facebook page who I thought it would be fun to have the Thunderbolts fighting...

I'm a big fan of Mamet's (screen/play) writing, as I like the idiosyncratic voice of his Dialog. I'm in a slight state of disbelief that I somehow forgot to read the memo that he "lost the plot"...all the way back in 2008! #scriptsky

I was genuinely expecting a darker ending. I'm still intrigued as to how the ship at the end of Thunderbolts is going to pay off.

I would still adapt that script for a cartoon, if the Japanese ever got in touch. It used a number of elements from the various Lupin shows (I literally watched everything, including all of the weekly episodes), but they could be tweaked. I think they'd love it.

I'm really glad he didn't. I prefer Fantastic Four hugely to Superman, and it didn't need his brand of snark.

If you're doing those, do them in reverse order.

In 2011, the Vice President of production at Columbia Pictures (who used to be Wolfgang Petersen's head of development) said to me: "Hey, wouldn't Angelina Jolie would be really great in your idea we pitched Wolfgang, once?"

16 years later, I'm thinking I should REALLY get around to doing this.

Don't think I haven't thought about it many times.

I was doing a movie with Tsui Hark (and Oliver Stone's producer, A. Kitman Ho), back in 1997. A live action adaption of "Lupin III", that we would have done with Jim Carrey. Alex Ho (lovely, lovely man) ended up losing the rights, so it never happened. Craziest screenplay I ever wrote! #scriptsky

Oh, others have spoken about it far more eloquently and at greater length. I'm just a mere consumer and adaptor.

I had that "Zap Gun", and I remember most of these covers.

The Mercerism thing is certainly the weirdest aspect of the book. It plays into Palmer Eldritch and all the rest of Dick's strange persecution/Jesus obsssions.

My favourite Dick book is actually "The Zap Gun", but nobody talks about that.

Whenever I think of anything ditched from the book, it's:

1) Luba Luft in the elevator.
2) The fake police department
3) The Sisyphus Mercer
4) Rach(a)el killing Deckard's goat