Dan Clowes, Michel Gondry, and Son

POSTED BY Alex Zalben, 14 January 2008

This is certainly a holy trinity, isn't it? Well, at least a holy duo, with one unknown, but totally cool quantity.

Here's the scoop, for those of you who can't parse what I'm talking about from the post title... Michel Gondry wrote a movie with his 16 year old son. Dan Clowes will be animating the film. Awesomeness will ensue. Dan Clowes elaborates:

“It’s based on [Gondry’s son Paul’s] universe. He’s a sixteen year old. He’s very unique, very funny and very violent in his drawing and his art, showing everything that you could think of that I should have stopped him from coming in contact with, but I failed. He grew up watching Tom & Jerry and Ren and Stimpy, Sponge Bob. If you take all that and mix it with Gangster movies with blood, you get his universe. We’re translating our relationship into a futuristic story with a dictator and a rebel. He’s the dictator in the story and it will be based on his art.”