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I wrote it in London and was contacted by Michael Moorcock of New Worlds and he wanted a story and he gave me the cover story and I said, “Well, I think this part stands alone, but there’s more to come,” and he ran it and the next thing I knew I was getting movie offers left and right. It’s still sitting here, but it’s a huge long novel, one of my longest novels, and this section of it got written first.
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We were going to do it as a two-hour movie and then a series on television and it never happened, so that has never been published. The story of that section, “A Boy And His Dog” which is preceded by a short story called “Eggsucker” and followed by a story called “Run, Spot, Run” and then the longest part, which is called Blood’s A Rover, which I did as a script for CBS. Cagney was retired and didn’t want to do it, so they went with Tim McIntire, who I think is absolutely spectacular. Originally, my voice was going to be used, and then I suggested James Cagney. The dog is me, of course-I always think I’m the smartest one on the block. And the story itself is a cross between parody and grittiness.
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So the irony of the title “A Boy And His Dog” is that it stands that idiom on its head, in the stories and the full novel and the graphic novel. People mistakenly think I’m saying Albert Einstein, but I’m not. Blood keeps calling Vic “Albert,” and Vic doesn’t understand why. I parodied the Albert Payson Terhune dog books, like Lad: A Dog, and so many others that were staples of my childhood. That’s why the telepathic dog is called Blood. This section, “A Boy And His Dog,” which was made into the movie, is only the center section of a very long novel called Blood’s A Rover, from the A.E. This story, I wrote to please my dog, Abu. And very few people, if any, were writing about the state of mind of the people in the United States, that we were so abyssally divided between those who lived in a kind of head-in-the-sand Down Under, as portrayed in the movie, full of phony patriotism and prejudice, and those who were above ground and railing against the changing paradigm of American culture and social unrest. The story and the subsequent movie, now out on this remarkable Blu-ray, was perhaps 25 years ahead of its time. The sociological aspects of the story, which have been imitated many, many times-I’m not even going to mention the Cormac McCarthy book which owes, it seems to me, a great debt to “A Boy And His Dog,” which is unacknowledged on his part. And she was outraged."Įllison: Oh absolutely. The Dissolve: Did the other stories coming out at the time influence you in writing it? "I got a letter, a furious letter, from a very old woman who had taken her grandson to see it, thinking it was a Disney film, with a title like A Boy And His Dog. Harlan Ellison: Well, we were in the middle of a Cold War. The Dissolve: When “A Boy And His Dog” was published, there was a huge fascination in the culture with post-atomic dystopian films and stories. To commemorate the film’s collectors’ edition re-release, Ellison discussed that final line, Jones’ adaptation, and the environment in which the original story was written decades ago. But he couldn’t shake Jones on the film’s controversial final line, which makes a sick pun out of what Ellison saw as a tragedy, and that line is still contentious today. It’s a startlingly close adaptation of Ellison’s grim story, but upon seeing the rough cut, Ellison was apoplectic about some of Blood’s misogynistic dialogue, and took up a collection to fund some re-dubbing of the dog’s voiceover. In a lengthy dialogue on the newly restored Shout! Factory Blu-ray release of A Boy And His Dog, Ellison and Jones walk through the history of the film together: Ellison had writer’s block over the screenplay, so Jones wrote the script and directed the film. Jones adapted the original story into the feature film A Boy And His Dog, starring Don Johnson as Vic, and Tiger, the dog from The Brady Bunch, as Blood. And in 1975, longtime Sam Peckinpah actor L.Q. All three stories and an unproduced feature-film screenplay for CBS formed the core of Ellison’s as-yet-unpublished book Blood’s A Rover. The story and two others featuring the same characters, “Eggsucker” and “Run, Spot, Run,” were collectively adapted into the 1989 graphic novel Vic And Blood. First published in short-story form in 1969, “A Boy And His Dog” was expanded to novella-length for Ellison’s anthology The Beast Who Shouted Love At The Heart Of The World. Harlan Ellison’s Nebula-winning story about a young post-apocalyptic survivor named Vic and his best friend, a telepathic, intelligent dog named Blood, has been through many forms.
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