http://www.screenjunkies.com/movienews/exclusive-interview-rawson-marshall-thurber-magnum-pi-will-have-no-short-shorts-no-cameos-"SJ: Moving on to Elfquest. How did that project come about and how did you get involved?
RMT: I read the comics when I was eleven. My older sister gave them to me, and it was sort of my first introduction to the world of fantasy. Up until that point I had read pretty basic morality tales. Stuff that you read when your that old, don't do bad things, do good things. This was my first introduction into the world of complex characters and interweaving story lines. I was just sort of lost in it and wowed by it. So I fell in love with it when I was about eleven. I'd wanted to do it for a long long time, and I talked to my agent about it before Dodgeball came out, that it was something I was interested in. Finally the rights came up again and my agent called me and asked if I was still interested, and I said absolutely. And he said, "you should go sit down with Wendy and Richard Pini," the creators, and I went and saw Wendy and Richard and talked about it and they seemed to like me enough to say, "Okay, give it a shot." I went around town with the property and had a couple bidders on it. I ended up going with Warner Brothers' Courtenay Valenti who is fantastic, and I'm just fixing to start writing the script.
SJ: Do you know yet if it's going to be live action or CG?
RMT: No, we don't know, and that was a real part of the conversation between myself and Warner Brothers because I've always seen the film as animated. Frankly, i have a hard time seeing it any other way. I think Warner Brothers is a little more inclined to make it live action, or sort of a 300-style hybrid. We both agreed to shake hands that we don't quite see it the same way, but let's move down the road and write the script and see what it comes back as and do a test with it animated, and a test with a hybrid, and there's a lot of exciting technology that Warner Brothers has been working on, proprietary technology that they are very excited about, and I've had conversations with a couple of the big brains over there about a new way of giving me and the audience what we see on those comic book pages, so I'm excited to see what that means. I haven't seen the tests yet. That's the incredibly long answer. The short one is we're not sure yet. Whatever it'll be, it's going to be the best way to tell a story.
SJ: The artwork is so iconic.
RMT: I know. That's why when I hear live action, my brain kind of freezes. I'm not deathly opposed to a live action version, I would just need to see it and make sure it works."
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