Aurelio
Voltaire to direct film version of his comic book OH MY GOTH!: an irreverent,
comedic trip through horror and science fiction
“Monsters,
rock and roll, comedy and sex”
(May
7th, 2013 – NYC, New York) - On behalf of musician and filmmaker Aurelio
Voltaire, we’re excited to announce his upcoming full-length film as director:
an adaptation of his comic book OH MY GOTH! featuring his musical talents.
Synopsis:
When
the reanimated skeletons of Necronus, a cemetery planet across the dark expanse
of space, decide they need Earth paved into a landing strip, they send,
possibly the worst of their agents to undertake the task. Arrogant, pompous and
not the brightest laser in the arsenal, Heironymous Poshe , takes on human form
and travels to Earth aboard his Black Spire, a space ship that could easily
pass for a giant, black cathedral. However, Poshe has plans of his own, namely
to avoid a desk job on the Necrid home world and live a life of leisure in a
fixed orbit above Earth. For centuries, Poshe (along with his robot slave and
an imprisoned midget) has avoided his prime directive. Instead he has spent his
time abducting Earth women, celebrities and bands for a non-stop, nightly party
above the Black Spire.
But
Poshe’s days of care-free, hot-babe abduction are coming to an end. Tired of
Poshe’s lack or results, Lord Krom Wrath, supreme ruler of the Necrus, launches
a full scale invasion of Earth. Poshe bands with the only people on Earth who
understand his cause (a group of Goth kids, a cadre of ninja priests and a
small army of Hasidic Rabbis- ironically, all of them people who wear all
black!) to repel the oncoming armada of Necrid ships. The final space battle is
the “Jews in Space” Mel Brooks promised us and never delivered!
After
performing worldwide onstage, directing commercially, and following the film
festival circuit with his stop-motion animated films, Voltaire will now direct
a feature film based on his own comic work. The feature version of OH MY GOTH!
will have that strange brand of dark comedy and music that he has been
performing at Goth clubs and sci-fi and horror conventions across the land.
“It
was time to finally unite my storytelling, my music, my twisted humor and
filmmaking sensibilities all into one project,” says Voltaire. “It has all the
things I love: monsters, rock and roll, comedy and sex mashed into a giant ball
of awesome.”
Producer
Keryn Thompson is very excited about the content: “There's loud music. There's
scantily clad girls. There's Satan,” she says.
James
Morgart, also producing, says that he joined the project because “Voltaire’s
material stretches across so many genres that he sort of encompasses
every bastardized sub-genre to be associated with the Gothic
tradition since Walpole's Castle of Otranto. His plans for this
film are to give his fans all of their favorite aspects of his work:
music, animation, and subversively witty humor.”
OH
MY GOTH! the film is currently in pre-production and will shoot in the New York
City metro area.
Genre: Horror/Musical
Directed
by: Aurelio Voltaire
Screenplay
by: Aurelio Voltaire, Based on his comic book OH MY GOTH!
Produced by: James Morgart, Keryn Thompson
About
Voltaire
Aurelio
Voltaire is a media personality and respected authority on all things Gothic,
Horror, Sci-fi, Steampunk and involving “geek” culture. He is often referred to
as a modern day renaissance man having achieved success in the fields of
animation, music, comics, books and toys.
Voltaire’s
career began in the 1980s as a stop-motion animator and director, creating some
of the award-winning, classic MTV and SyFy channel station IDs. He worked in
television, animating and directing commercials for nearly twenty years when he
realized it was time for him to tell his own stories. Finding comic books to be
a vastly more economical tool than feature films Voltaire told his first epic
tale, “Chi-chian” in comic book form. This dark, Cinderella story set in
Manhattan’s future, was published and led to a 14-episode animated web series
directed by Voltaire for the SyFy channel’s website. His success in comic books
also led to several underground hits including the comic book series Oh My
Goth!, Human Suck! and most recently Deady. The latter featured collaborations
with some of the biggest names in horror and comics including Neil Gaiman,
Clive Barker, James O'Barr, Roman Dirge, Gris Grimly and many others. It also
spawned a long list of toys including plush toys for Six Flags, Hot Wheels cars
for the Japanese market and over a dozen vinyl toy releases including collaborations
with Disney and Skelanimals.
In
yet another career swerve, 1995 saw Voltaire took the stage at a New York City
club where he launched his music career. His songs are a strange brew of murder
ballads, tongue-in-cheek exercises in the macabre with just enough bawdy Star
Trek and Star Wars songs to keep convention audiences rolling in the aisles.
Many in the mainstream know Voltaire as the writer and performer of the songs Brains!
and Land of the Dead from the Cartoon Network show, The Grim Adventures of
Billy And Mandy. Almost constantly on tour, he has played his music around the
world and released eleven full length CDs to date.
Voltaire
also wrote the popular books What is Goth? and Paint it Black: a Guide to
Gothic Homemaking (Weiser Books) and has appeared on numerous television shows
and documentaries as an authority on Goth, Horror and Steampunk. Appearances
include Fox News, Biography, MTV News, Fearnet, IFC, PBS and others.
When
not touring, writing books or designing toys, Voltaire teaches stop-motion
animation at the School of Visual arts and continues to make short films. His
“Chimerascope” series of stop-motion shorts are perennial film festival
favorites. The five shorts have won a combined 31 awards and feature the voice
talents of Deborah Harry, Richard Butler, Gerard Way, Gary Numan and Danny
Elfman.
More on Aurelio Voltaire can be found on his official website: www.voltaire.net
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