directed by Patrick Meaney and Kevin Thurman

This feature-length documentary covers the career of celebrated comics writer Warren Ellis, focusing on his worldview. It also features interviews with many of Ellis's artistic collaborators over the years.

The film is scheduled for completion in 2011.

This project was announced at C2E2 in April 2010, where the above teaser trailer premiered. This has been covered on Comic Book Resources, Bleeding Cool (April 17 and 20), Warren Ellis.com (April 18 and 20), Threat Quality, and Live for Films.

Patrick Meaney is a writer / filmmaker based in New York. He is co-founder and president of Respect! Films, where he's producing, among other things, feature-length documentaries for Sequart.

Also by this author: Minutes to Midnight: Twelve Essays on Watchmen (contributor), Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods (director), Our Sentence is Up: Seeing Grant Morrison's The Invisibles (author)