Tori Amos loves Death. Who wouldn’t? She’s the coolest chick in DC/Vertigo's Sandman universe, and so when Neil Gaiman asked the singer if she wouldn’t mind contributing a song to his film adaptation of “Death: The High Cost of Living,” she said yes (even if the character Tori is closest to is actually Delirium, who used to be Delight).
“There is a specific song I want her to do on the soundtrack,” Neil told us when he was promoting “Stardust.”. I know exactly what it is, I asked her about it, and she said yes.”
Then the project got delayed. “Now that New Line has sort of expunged itself from existence,” Neil told us when he was in town for New York’s Comic-Con , “we are right now figuring out where in the Warner [Bros.] family it will be and what is happening with it. It’s not back to the drawing board – we do have a script and a lot of stuff – but we’re figuring out where and when.”
Plus, Neil noted, “Tori is very busy. But when we’re ready, Tori will write the song.”
But every woman reserves the right to change her mind, and now, Tori’s answer is more of a maybe. When we caught up with the singer at San Diego’s Comic-Con, she hesitated when asked about doing “Death.”
“I love Neil,” she said. “Neil is my big brother. He’s so close to me, that sometimes I think, ‘Am I the best person to…?’ I’m so close to it. I know the blood. I taste it. But should they bring in other blood because I know it so well? The most important thing is what’s right for the work. Because Neil is busy, too. He’s a busy, busy boy.”
Should Tori Amos write a song for “Death”? Or should they, as she says, consider bringing in fresh blood? What music do you think would fit, and for that matter, who do you think they should cast?
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