Writer Neil Gaiman reports this week from the set of Stardust:
I think my first response to the Stardust film half-hour reel was to breathe a sigh of relief. I hadn’t realised I’d been holding my breath nervously for the last 3 months, but I think I had. I won’t exhale completely until the whole thing is finished, cut together, and done, and I can see that it all works. But I think I can sleep more easily at night now.
The movie, based on the Gaiman story of the same name, stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert DeNiro and Claire Danes. Gaiman sounds pretty happy with the results so far:
It looks like all the money is up on the screen. Best of all, it felt like its own thing. I’ve been trying to think of what to compare it to, but it’s leaving me a bit blank — it exists half-way between The Princess Bride and Pirates of the Caribbean, and there’s nothing I’ve seen quite like it out there in the world before.
