Maybe 13 is gonna be a lucky number for Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson.
After over 12 years of working to have a script he wrote about the life of renowned occult author and magician Aleister Crowley turned into a full-length motion picture, it looks like he might finally be making some serious progress. Blabbermouth.net has reported that Dickinson told UK journalist Dave Ling that the film will go into production soon and actor Simon Callow (“Amadeus,” “Shakespeare in Love,” “The Phantom of the Opera”) will play the lead role.
Dickinson’s film is reportedly about an English university professor who becomes “obsessed with Crowley’s soul” and “enchanted by a very beautiful red-haired student.” Blabbermouth adds that Crowley was “very much into red-haired women.”
In an interview last year with Revolver magazine, Dickinson said “We’ve got producers, we’ve got a director, we’ve got a casting director, we’ve got finance and letters in place and we’re talking to distributors now for the remaining 50 percent of the finance. So we’re quite close to making this thing happen.” The singer added that the budget for the movie will likely be between $2 million and $3 million.
“Aleister Crowley was quite an interesting man and nobody ever made a movie about him,” Dickinson told Revolver. “I’ve read far more of his material than I should have and still be a sane man.”
Dickinson told Ling that he and producer/guitarist Roy Z. may get together soon to write new music for the soundtrack. “This would be my first soundtrack, so that’s why I’m looking forward to it,” Dickinson told Revolver.
This isn’t the first time Dickinson’s movie has been close to going into production. In 2000, MTVnews.com reported that Monty Python alumnus Terry Jones’ Messiah Pictures would be financing the film, which was reportedly going to be called “The Chemical Wedding,” after his 1998 solo album of the same name.
The script for the film, reported MTVnews.com in 2000 was conceived in the early 1990s, and is a “light fantasy about Crowley, who is conjured up in the story.”
Crowley was born in 1875 and died in 1947, and has reportedly been Dickinson’s idol for years. MTVnews.com reported that occult hero was the subject of Dickinson's song "Man Of Sorrows" from his 1997 album Accident Of Birth album, and, according to Blabbermouth.net, the Iron Maiden song “Revelations” is about Crowley’s claim that he was the “anti-Christ 666” reincarnated.
Funny, we thought that was Justin Timberlake.
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