All Bruce Dickinson needs now is his own cooking show. The Iron Maiden singer/renaissance man is not only a famous metal frontman and a licensed pilot, but now we can add screenwriter to his list of estimable credits.
Dickinson has co-written a supernatural horror/thriller, “Chemical Wedding,” which is set to be unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival in May and then to be released in British cinemas in the summer.
The film stars noted British thespian Simon Callow as a reincarnation of noted English occultist Aleister Crowley, once described as Britain’s most evil man according to the BBC (and the inspiration behind many a dark and arguably cheesy song by British metal and hard rock bands including Maiden, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Ozzy Osbourne). Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page was once a rather large Crowley devotee, buying his former mansion, dabbling in the occult and almost scoring the “Lucifer Rising,” film by experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger, but his strung out nonsense was ultimately rejected.
Dickinson plans on flying guests out to the screening at Cannes, so if they happen to arrive late or not at all, you can pretty much guess what happened.
[d’oh: we wrote Rob Dickinson instead of Bruce initially. We’re retarded. This is what happens when you work, blog and run on no sleep. Our apologies for the glaring error.]