What are you hearing about Dylan Dog from fans? What are people insisting upon seeing in that character?
Routh: I can’t read it all because a lot of it is in Italian. There just aren’t a lot of American fans who know about it, but we’re going to put together a great cast of other people who fans of science fiction and comic books, those genres, are going to love. What I’ve been able to read is that of course they love the character of Groucho who is Dylan’s assistant in the comics. He’s a Groucho Marx impersonator. In the translation to film, it’s not going to quite translate the way that you want it to and so unfortunately Groucho won’t be a part of the film, but there’s going to be an amazing sidekick and assistant and he’s going to be a really great character that people will fall in love with, I think. They might be upset at first, but we’ll woo them and do our best to bring back all the elements in keeping with the Dylan Dog lore. It’s always a challenge when you go from a comic book to a film. You have to make decisions about what’s going to play and what’s not going to play and how
