Planetary Forum

Via Warren Ellis' "Bad Signal" mailing list:

Almost ten years to the month that John Cassaday and I had our

first conversation at San Diego about creating a new series: I have

just completed and delivered the full script for PLANETARY #27,

the final issue of the series.

I am now going to get drunk and find something to have sex

with. I'm home alone, so the chinchilla has a right to look nervous.

Done. Never ask me anything about it again. DONE.

-- W

Written, delivered, and the first page of script looks like this:

PAGE ONE

Pic 1

Three page-wide pics: The Planetary Building, NYC, in the afternoon sun, like a bright glass needle poked into the middle of Manhattan:

JAGGED (NO TAIL)

– RUSH TRIALS OF THE SO-CALLED “ANTI-CANCER” TREATMENT

DEVELOPED BY THE PLANETARY ORGANISATION –

JAGGED (NO TAIL)

– NEW YORK OFFICES OF THE PLANETARY ORGANISATION

TODAY DEMONSTRATED A CHEAP ELECTRICAL LEVITATION

SYSTEM WITH APPLICATIONS IN –

JAGGED (NO TAIL)

– NEW ORLEANS, THE PLANETARY ORGANISATION’S “SUPER-

FABBER” FOR GENERATING INSTANT TEMPORARY SHELTERS –

Pic 2

INT. CORRIDOR: people rushing both ways down the corridor, carrying files, stacks of paper, tablet computers, busy busy busy…

JAGGED (NO TAIL)

– LEGAL CHALLENGES TO THE PLANETARY ORGANISATION’S

"LIFE STATIONS,” COMMUNITY DEVICES THAT PROVIDE WATER,

BASIC PROTEIN, HEATING AND LIGHT FOR FREE –

JAGGED (NO TAIL)

– TOWARDS THE END OF ITS NINE-MONTH VOYAGE

TO MARS, CARRYING, MOST FAMOUSLY, THE PLANETARY SOCIETY’S

“QUNET” DEVICE FOR INSTANT COMMUNICATION ACROSS DEEP SPACE –

JAGGED (NO TAIL)

– PLANETARY SOCIETY’S “HYPER-COLLIMATION” SHEETS,

CARBON FABRICS THAT BECOME BOMBPROOF SHIELDS –

Pic 3

INT: BIG LECTURE HALL: where the DRUMMER addresses a room full of techies all holding tablet computers — behind him, a wall-size flat-panel display of computer file folders, arranged almost like the petals of a chrysanthemum:

DRUMMER

– INTO FILES TEN THOUSAND TO TEN NINE HUNDRED

NINETY NINE. THAT’S THE TWENTY PERCENT MARK.

DRUMMER

ONE YEAR, TWENTY PERCENT OF THE RANDALL

DOWLING DATABASE EXPLORED.

DRUMMER

ELIJAH’S GOING INSANE OVER THIS. I’M KEEPING YOU

COVERED, BUT, SERIOUSLY, DEPARTMENT HEADS, YOU

NEED TO CONSIDER HIRING MORE BODIES –

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=4459

There's also going to be a Planetary one shot. The info about it is that it will be expensive.

Buckshot says:

"There's also going to be a Planetary one shot. The info about it is that it will be expensive."

really well then it better damn well be big one shot

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From Warren Ellis: Heard from John Cassaday over the weekend -- sounds like he's about halfway through issue 27 of PLANETARY.

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