The Astoundingly Good Case For Making A Ziggy Movie

"I see this as a summer tentpole movie, definitely." I'm laughing so hard it's coming out as a panting horse noise, because I just listened to this rapid-fire pitch for a Ziggy movie. There's everything: Why Wallace Shawn is the ideal actor for the role, how Ziggy could be the nature side of man vs. nature, why it should be live action instead of CGI, the role of the parrot as god, possible set pieces, the teaser trailer starting at the complaints department, the bonus scene after the credits. If you are still in your chair by the end of this routine, you are soulless.

4:23 PM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By Nick Douglas
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DorothyMantooth at 04:29 PM on 04/18/08
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...not Wallace Shawn?
Curious!
they_live at 04:30 PM on 04/18/08
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Wallace Stevens?
Loved him in "The Emperor of Ice Cream."
they_live at 04:31 PM on 04/18/08
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@DorothyMantooth: Curses. Foiled again.
Knucklehead Babylon at 04:32 PM on 04/18/08
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I'm holding out for the Andy Cap movie with Mickey Rourke in the title role.
TedSez at 04:33 PM on 04/18/08
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Maybe it was supposed to say Wallace Shawn? He practically is Ziggy.
TedSez at 04:34 PM on 04/18/08
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Sigh... Nerd squad: Activate!
Nick Douglas at 04:34 PM on 04/18/08
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@they_live: Fixed.
they_live at 04:37 PM on 04/18/08
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@Nick Douglas: But when you fix the copy you make my comments look idiotic.

I prefer to take care of that on my own.
Gregoire at 04:39 PM on 04/18/08
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Fingers crossed for a 'Lockhorns' film starring Ben Kingsley and Kathy Bates in ugly prosthetic noses
TedSez at 04:39 PM on 04/18/08
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The Zigster: He's just like us!

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NYM at 04:41 PM on 04/18/08
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I must disagree with you about Wallace Shawn. The role of Ziggy must go to my ex-boyfriend's father. He is Ziggy's human twin. Who do I have to get in touch with to get him cast?
crumb-bun at 04:43 PM on 04/18/08
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Wallace Stevens the insurance executive or Wallace Stevens the poet? I thought they were both dead.
DorothyMantooth at 04:47 PM on 04/18/08
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@Nick Douglas: Really?!
An @they_live? And here I thought we meant something to each other.

Sigh.
disslexic at 04:49 PM on 04/18/08
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Rob Zombie optioned my screenplay for a slasher pic starring the characters from The Family Circus. Fingers crossed, everybody!
Mediahohoho at 04:50 PM on 04/18/08
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That was pretty funny. Perhaps we could hear the pitch for the Love Is... movie starring Elijah North and an Olsen twin next?

And I always imagined Bob Hoskins as Andy Capp.
disslexic at 04:51 PM on 04/18/08
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@disslexic: Gregoire has their fingers occupied already, dope. Ask them to knock wood.
NinaHagen at 04:58 PM on 04/18/08
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I stopped speaking to someone once because they sent me a Ziggy card. I used to have standards.
ThighHigh at 05:04 PM on 04/18/08
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Only LOL in the thing was Ziggy Ultimatum.

I'd see it if it was Shawn.
VoxPopuli at 09:18 PM on 04/18/08
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If they cast Wallace Shawn, I hope they give him pants. Because in real life, that ain't cute.
kellycu at 11:39 PM on 04/18/08
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I've heard some of their longer podcasts--funny stuff.
dezeinstein at 01:18 PM on 04/19/08
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I picture ziggy younger - evan handler maybe?
jackvinyl at 03:07 PM on 04/21/08
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looking forward to this... and:

Minnie Driver is "Kathy!"

Calvin & Hobbes - screenplay rewritten by Ed Norton who will play both roles

Jonah Hill in Judd Apatow's, Berkeley Breathed's "OPUS"