Sci-Fi Mahbharata Prepares To Blow Your Mind
Graeme McMillan, io9.com: The first trailer for 18 Days, Grant Morrison’s much-discussed CGI retelling of The Mahbharata, is online. And after watching it, we can’t wait for next spring to see the finished version of the We3/Invisibles writer’s psychedelic excursion.
In addition to the trailer, the project’s website also includes notes from Morrison about how he approached the project, which he likened to “a psychedelic The Lord of the Rings with Star Wars technology”:
“As I see it, the whole of the Mahabharata, and indeed the whole of Hindu thought and ultimately of all contemplative thought, expands outwards like the Big Bang from one timeless Singularity – the moment when Krishna stops time to deliver the terrible wisdom of the Gita and reveal to Arjuna his – and our own – place in the cosmos. Here is the ‘crack’ in time, the crack between Ages and the crack in every human heart through which the light of A New Way To Think can come.”
