Can I play with madness? Bruce Dickinson writes horror script.
Mar 16th, 2008 by Bryan White
Let me tell you something about Iron Maiden. They are fucking awesome. Even today. The band manages to crank out decent metal albums that all have a tendency to sound a lot like Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, but you know what? They’ve earned it. Just like how it’s okay for Judas Priest to write a song about the Loch Ness Monster. It’s fucking cheesy as hell but those dudes built the foundation on which all contemporary metal is built upon. Without Maiden, Priest and the host of other New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands, metal would probably still sound a lot like white-man’s blues with distortion. So go ahead, guys. Do what you like.
I haven’t even gotten near the point and I’m already way off track. Here’s the sweetness: Geeks of Doom reported yesterday that Iron Maiden front-man, competitive fencer, commercial airline pilot, novelist, radio host and vocal acrobat, Bruce Dickinson has penned a script along with director Julian Doyle (who directed the band’s awesome Can I Play With Madness video). The script deals with Professor Haddo, the reincarnation of Aleister Crowley, perhaps the most misunderstood man in the history of the world. But more to the point, Crowley dedicated himself to the obsessive study of the occult which led many people to believe that he was the ultimate satanist. There’s a lot of weird myth and legend surrounding his life, so I can only imagine what Dickinson dredged up for this movie. Needless to say, I can’t wait.
Dickinson is on tap to cameo in the movie, which opens this summer in the UK as well as provide the soundtrack.
Awesome.
