“What do I care for the symbolism of it all? What do I care if the castle’s heart is sound or not? I don’t want to be sound anyway! Anybody can be sound if they’re always doing what they’re told. By the second novel, seven-year-old Titus is contending with the ambitions of kitchen boy Steerpike – “limb by limb, it appeared that he was sound enough, but the sum of these several members accrued to an unexpectedly twisted total” - as he begins to take on the mantle of the ruler of Gormenghast: The sequence opens with Titus’s birth, “suckled on shadows weaned, as it were, on webs of ritual: for his ears, echoes, for his eyes, a labyrinth of stone: and yet within his body something other – other than this umbrageous legacy”. Peake’s three novels, Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone, were published in 1946, 19. Plans for making a film, with Neil Gaiman as the writer, have been going on for a while now,” he said, describing himself as “very excited by the prospect of a Gormenghast film”. “It is wonderful news that progress is being made on the filming of my father’s books. I ★would★, but I don’t want to.”įabian Peake, Mervyn Peake’s son, welcomed the possibility. I don’t want to watch 9 Gormenghast films. “Tomorrow we start talking to studios, and will soon find out which of them wants to make Mervyn Peake’s wonderful Gormenghast as a movie,” he wrote on Twitter, later retweeting a fan who had advised him: “do not let Peter Jackson anywhere near it. But Gaiman, a fan of the series, revealed last week that he was set to begin discussions about turning the novels into a film.
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