Brain Movies Presents Blood's a Rover

In the early 1970s, filmmaker L. Q. Jones bought the movie rights to Harlan Ellison's Nebula Award-winning novella, "A Boy and His Dog." Ellison himself was engaged to write the screenplay, but exhaustion called a halt to the heroes' post-apocalyptic perambulations after only 14 pages. Jones took over the writing chores and produced and directed the Hugo Award-winning film.In the late 1970s, NBC took an interest in the movie's ongoing success, and Ellison was commissioned to create a two-hour pilot film, a sequel to the story of Vic and Blood seen on the big screen. Two drafts were written over the summer of 1977, but--for reasons best explained by the author in his essay "Huck and Tom: The Bizarre Liaison of Ellison and Jones"--the project never went before cameras.With the story of Vic and Blood...and Spike finally told in full by Subterranean Press's recent release of BLOOD'S A ROVER, Edgeworks Abbey now offers a special edition of BRAIN MOVIES focused on the tribulatory trio.