Here’s Our First Look at Alan Moore’s First Feature Film, Wild Gothic Fantasy The Show

Legendary comics writer Alan Moore has had several of his works adapted for the screen, but we now have a first look at The Show, his first original feature film to be produced.

Directed by Mitch Jenkins from a script by Moore, The Show follows Fletcher Dennis (Tom Burke), who has been hired to track down a stolen artifact, an investigation that brings him into contact with the most unusual and dangerous elements in Moore and Jenkins’ hometown of Northampton.

“With The Show, I wanted to apply the storytelling ability accumulated during the rest of my varied career to the medium of film,” said Moore in a statement. “I wanted to take some very old-school approaches to film and to find out, alongside Mitch Jenkins, what would happen if you connected them up with some very modern ideas and technical capabilities, and I wanted to make a piece of radical and progressive cinema that was also ridiculously sumptuous, involving and entertaining: a genuinely spectacular show.”

In truly Moore-esque fashion, the project also comes with the following synopsis:

A frighteningly focussed man of many talents, passports and identities arrives at England’s broken heart, a haunted midlands town that has collapsed to a black hole of dreams, only to find that that this new territory is as at least as strange and dangerous as he is. Attempting to locate a certain person and a certain artefact for his insistent client, he finds himself sinking in a quicksand twilight world of dead Lotharios, comatose sleeping beauties, Voodoo gangsters, masked adventurers, unlikely 1930s private eyes and violent chiaroscuro women … and this is Northampton when it’s still awake. Once the town closes its eyes there is another world entirely going on beneath the twitching lids, a world of glittering and sinister delirium much worse than any social or economic devastation. Welcome to the British nightmare, with its gorgeous flesh, its tinsel and its luminous light-entertainment monsters; its hallucinatory austerity. Welcome to The Show.