A Solomon Grundy Movie?…It Almost Happened
Wed, September 23, 2009
This Solomon Grundy was to be based on the old nursery rhyme poem, from which The Marshfield Monster is named after:
Yes, a Solomon Grundy movie was in the works a couple of years ago, but it had no association with DC Comics’ super villain zombie character, whom I personally would love to see have a cameo in the Green Arrow: Escape From Supermax (if said project ever sees the light of day).
Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday,
Christened on Tuesday, Married on Wednesday,
Took ill on Thursday, Grew worse on Friday,
Died on Saturday, Buried on Sunday.
That was the end of Solomon Grundy.
Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle was to have helmed the film, which was shelved due to having too many similarities to another Oscar winning film, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button.
“It’s sort of a crossover with ‘Benjamin Button’ only they’ve done it backwards, so it really fell apart because of the competition from that one,” Boyle told MTV in an interview last year. “It is a wonderful idea, and it’s got really potential still. Maybe. No one knows what ‘Benjamin Button’ is going to be like, so maybe it won’t be similar to t hat at all. Maybe it will feel really different to that, so [that ‘Solomon’] might come alive again.”
What would’ve made ‘Grundy’ differ from ‘Benjamin Button’? The casting of the lead, or should I say the multiple casting of the titular character, a move much like the Bob Dylan centered film I’m Not There.
“’Solomon Grundy’ is a story about a guy who ages seven days. He lives his whole life in seven days. He’s born on a Monday, christened on a Tuesday, grew up on Wednesday, marries on Thursday, took on Friday, and it was like that,” Boyle explained. “And we were going to cast seven different actors to play the part because he starts at zero and ends up at eighty-five.”
Sounds like an interesting concept, so who knows, this may not be the end of Solomon Grundy.
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