David and Goliath Steampunk

When I see images like this my mind races to imagine a story to go with the picture. This one is iconic and fortunately we have the artist's (Roger Nobs) notes to describe the genesis of the idea and its awesome. I can totally imagine the movie version as sort of an industrial Oliver Twist where the people of the grubby London streets rally behind brave David to bring down evil industrialists. Who can deny the beauty of steampunk?

"The famous British Industrialist and inventor, Sir Gerald Oswald Liath, of Liath Industries, has for the past 10 years been a recluse, seen only by those of his immediate household at his large country estate and workshop he build in the heart of the Oxfordshire countryside.

Sir Gerald has had dark dreams of the filth and sqallor of the slums his factories have helped to create in the sprawling slums of London. His mind becomes fixed on bring the whole festering mess down and re-building the city as the gleaming Eden it should have been. Sinking into madness, he finally creates his greatest work, the giant Goliath, the first of an army of machines that will bring about the visions of his crazed mind.

But the poor and downcast of London showed the genius of their spirit and hope in the young boy, David, who felled the giant on the dawn of the fatful day, with a small cobble from the mud of those same streets Sir Gerald loathed so much."