Although many hits have already achieved over the years, Rock Band Sparks has enjoyed the huge increase in visibility in 2021 with the announcement of "Edgar Wright's brothers." Documentary about their decade -long career and fertile production. The Ron and Russell Mael brothers performed together under the Sparks flag of 1972 and have released 26 original studio albums since 2025. Those who are familiar with the group can tell you about their unwanted wonder. Sparks is a strange, often humorous and often hires drops and jokes in their music. One of their albums is called "my house kimono". Another is titled "Angst in Pants". Stern and Strange Ron writes the music, while the charming and handsome Russell sings. They are still touring, and both brothers are in the late 70's.

For decades, Sparks has owned film ambitions and was looking forward to writing a movie musical. They finally got their wish in 2021 with the announcement of Annette, the Gonzo opera directed by Leos Karax and acting Adam Driver and Marion Kotilar. The film is for the two main characters that are in the running and have a child, only the child is a puppet puppet. It is a very strange film, as it can be expected, possessed vigorous, little out-of-centric music and Karax for surrealism that bends in reality. Annette won the best director of the Cannes Film Festival and five awards Cesar (French Oscars).

Of course, Annette was just, with coincidence, the film that Sparks eventually made. As early as the end of the 1980s, the band was interested in a vague manga series called "May, Mental Girl", hoping to write the music adaptation. Mai, which lasted from 1985 to 1986, is for a 14-year-old girl with psychic forces, who is pursuing the shadow of the cabin's cabin, whose purpose is to kidnap and use her strength for evil. Sparks used the idea of Carolco Pictures ... and even Tim Burton was briefly floating around the project.

Much of the story of MAI's film in 2009 when Sparks released its audio-based musical "Ungmar Bergman's seduction". Concept album and collaboration with Sverige Radio, "seduction" tells stories of what it's like to do ... or not to do it ... in Hollywood. Indeed, many "seduction" was inspired by the sick six -year -old sparks dedicated to making MAI.

The story says that Ron and Russell Mael have discovered and have been in -bodies in "May, a psychic girl" when she was still in the initial print. This was the mid-1980s, so Mangas was still considered a pop culture in the United States. Sparks brought Mai to "Kerolko Pictures", a studio that first saw Blockbuster success in 1982 with "First Blood" (marked by Sylvester Stallone's debut in the role of Ramon Rambo). Kerolko eventually was worn for several years before buying Mai's film rights, with sparks, in 1991.

The late 1980s were also a good time for Burton, who had already exploded on stage with the 1985 "Great Adventure" in 1985, Bubyus in 1988, and then Ultra-blockbuster "Batman" in 1989. That same year, Karolko bought the rights of MAI, Burton has already completed his personal project, Edward SSSorhands and has completed the work of Batman Returns. Despite (or perhaps because of) Burton's unique aesthetic cartoon, he suddenly became one of the most sought -after directors in Hollywood. Burton, it seems, was also interested in adjusting Mai to the film, as he knew about Sparks and seemed to be an intriguing project - the one on which Sparks had already started working, having more songs written about it.

According to 2009 The Sunday Times The report that includes "seduction of Ingmar Bergman", however, Burton was at a crossroads in his career. With Batman's success under the belt, Burton had his choice of projects and a few dangerous before him. Instead of making Mai, he took an offer from TouchStone Pictures for the production and design of the animated film "Nightmare Before Christmas" (based on his own song) and direct "Ed Wood", the Z-Grade Biopia Director Edward D. Wood Runior. "Nightmare" is now a brand for itself Disney, while "Ed Wood" is loved by many, having the revitalized Wood's own filmography.

Mai, meanwhile, collapsed. Kerolko allowed the rights to expire, so the project began to be transferred around. In 2000, Diversity Report Kirk Wong, the director of the "big hit", was attached to the project, but that iteration also collapsed. In the same article for the variety he noted that "Mai" was also briefly in the hands of Francis Ford Coppola, adding that he had only developed a little; There was no serious movement of Mai on behalf of Coppola.

Many Sparks fans again became interested in the MAI project again in 2009 when the band sang for "Section of Ingmar Bergman", and there were rumors - only rumors - that Burton might be interested in returning to the project. Unfortunately, MAI has not been moved since then, and the company seems to be dead in the water. Burton's career continued to approach, and Sparks returned to make records at a furious pace. They will eventually make their dream film made with Annette. Time will tell if they ever have the energy to make "May, a psychic girl" again. Although, in 2025, it seems unlikely that someone is more interested.