Manson Goes to the Movies
Marilyn Manson is ready to unleash his inner artist...along with plenty of gore.
As he explains to RollingStone.com: "I just don't think the world is worth putting music into right now. I no longer want to make art that other people--particularly record companies--are turning into a product. I just want to make art."
While the shock-rocker is not giving up on music entirely--the "Dope Show" singer is getting ready to play a round of high-profile festival dates in Europe this summer and has nearly 20 new songs ready for release--he's ready to follow in the footsteps of Rob Zombie and focus on filmmaking.
Manson's arty vingnettes, titled Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll, are set for release this winter on his Website, MarilynManson.com. The series of shorts, in which the singer portrays Carroll, will be morphed into a feature film next year, he says.
Manson, born Brian Warner, has even coined a new word for his particular brand of cinema: "horripilation."
"It's horrifying, and it's depilatory," he told RollingStone.com
"The other night I took an 80-year-old taxidermied monkey, set it on fire in the pool and filmed it from beneath with an underwater camera. It was beautiful, like the Titanic, the Hindenburg and King Kong all mixed into one."
While fans await Manson's directorial debut, he is set to strut his stuff behind the lens in a few upcoming feature films.
Manson, who lobbied unsuccessfully for the role of Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that eventually went to Johnny Depp, had a small role in 2003's Party Monster and has a cameo opposite Lucy Liu in the forthcoming supernatural thriller Rise.
Although the Hollywood Reporter said that Manson would appear with Nia Vardalos, Alan Cumming and Daryl Hannah in another Alice in Wonderland-themed film this year, Living Neon Dreams, his agent at CAA said she was unfamiliar with the project.
While Manson apparently won't be living Neon Dreams, he will be seen next in the art-house circuit entry The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, which J.T. Leroy adapted from his novel. The controversial film has been playing film festivals and will get a limited theatrical release this November.
Finally, for those who can't wait to see Manson the thespian, they can check out his voice-acting prowess as Edgar the Alien in Midway Games' first-person shooter, Area 51.
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