Chemical Wedding book to coincide with film
By Psyche | April 24, 2008
Last week I posted about the release of Chemical Wedding, a new movie about Aleister Crowley that will hit theatres May 23rd1, following the May 4th2 premiere at Sci-Fi London (tickets are available at Apollo Cinemas).3
Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden front man and writer for the film, and director Julian Doyle will be self-publishing a tie-in book for Chemical Wedding under Matador.
The book will be published to coincide with the film’s release on May 23rd, and will retail for £7.99 and will be available from Matador.
Simon Callow plays bumbling Professor Haddo who becomes Aleister Crowley. John Shrapnel plays Aleister Crowley. Also starring in the film is Kal Weber as Dr Mathers and Geoff Breton as John Symonds.
Apparently there’s even a tie-in with Jack Parsons:
In 1952 Jack Parsons was blown up in his laboratory in Pasadena. L. Ron Hubbard died on his yacht as leader of the Church of Scientology. But did the issue end with these three deaths? Would Crowley, as he claimed, ever return from death to rule the world? Why did US astronauts name a crater on the moon after Jack Parsons? Is L. Ron Hubbard really dead? What had been generated by the ceremony in California that seemed to signal Crowley’s demise? And what happened to the missing pocket-watch?
Unanswered questions till, late in the twentieth century, Dr. Joshua Mathers brought a ‘state of the art ‘Interactive Suit’ from Cal Tech California to Cambridge in England to begin an experiment that, unknown to mankind, changed the course of our planet.
Matador, “Chemical Wedding“
Film synopsis from BruceFans.com:
At Cambridge University a groundbreaking experiment integrates the human brain with a super-computer using a state-of-the art ‘interactive suit’. One of the Cambridge boffins is an obsessive follower of the turn-of- the-century occult leader, Aleister Crowley, and has reduced Crowley’s rituals to a series of equations and entered them in to the system. Bumbling academic, Professor Haddo (Simon Callow) is the willing volunteer, desperate to get inside the mind of the long-dead Crowley. The computer feeds directly into Haddo’s brain, transforming him from a shy and stuttering academic into the charismatic but sexually depraved Crowley who wreaks havoc around the Cambridge campus. Haddo believes himself to be the reincarnation of Crowley and as he plays out Crowley’s rituals, his associates realise he has knowledge that only the real Crowley could have…
I really want to watch this movie. How do you think it will fare?
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BOOK LAUNCH
The Book Launch will be on – FRIDAY 23rd May 2008
It will take place at a bookshop frequented by Aleister Crowley – the ATLANTIS BOOKSHOP 49a Museum Street. London. WC1 1LY 0207 405 2120
It will start at 7.30 pm till 9.0
The director Julian Doyle will be there to sign copies of the book and will run the ‘Trailer’ and the ‘Making of the Film’.
The bookshop will supply a few snacks / Cava / orange juice / water / and glasses. More socialising in the Plough pub across the road afterwards.
See you there!
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