MirrorMask

Note: This is a preview of “The Men Behind MirrorMask”, my 2005 interview with Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean. To read the full interview, please join my Patreon account at the $5 “It Came from the Morgue…” level.

With fifteen years of award-winning collaborations in the comicbook industry, writer Neil Gaiman and artist Dave McKean embarked upon a new phase of their respective careers with the creation of MirrorMask, a film produced by the Henson Company, co-plotted by Gaiman and McKean, with the former writing the screenplay and the latter directing the film.

“The first real conversation about it was between [producer] Lisa Henson and Neil Gaiman, because Lisa knew Neil,” said Dave McKean.

Gaiman continued, recounting Henson’s initial approach, “Would you like to write a family fantasy film? You’ve got a four-million-dollar budget and it could be anything.”

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JASON DAVIS
Freelance Writer