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So apparently there's an Arthurian fantasy adventure movie starring Colin Firth, Aishwarya Rai, Sir Ben Kingsley and half of Scottish Equity coming out in the US in a month and the first I'd heard about it is its trailer on the YouTube front page.
Jul. 24th, 2007
Buffy 8.05 preview
Jul. 24th, 2007 07:16 pmThree covers and six pages before the issue comes out here on Thursday.
Faeries. Disgusting creatures.
Faeries. Disgusting creatures.
Lord Voldemort: My Part In His Downfall
Jul. 24th, 2007 07:24 pmNo, no spoilers or anything...
Once upon a time there was a fairly successful children's book, a more quickly successful sequel, and an uncommonly large advance paid for the third in the series. And there were a number of film companies who wanted to adapt the first film, but the author held out to ensure that sequel rights were connected to her books rather than letting the companies just licence the first book and the setting.
At the same time, my brother was at the BBC. The possibility of adapting the books for a Radio Scotland abridgement or drama series had been raised and, being interested, he looked into it, and tapped me to help look at how adaptable the things were. I noted that the episodic structure would work pretty well over, say, eight half-hour parts, but it might need a narrator.
And then about three weeks after I finished reading the second book for this project, the third came out and sold about as many in a week as the first one had in a year. And the writer's film producer mate managed to wrangle the licence-all-the-books deal she wanted. The author went on to be able to buy Scotland, and the Radio 4 version never happened.
But I'm not bitter or anything, you understand...
Once upon a time there was a fairly successful children's book, a more quickly successful sequel, and an uncommonly large advance paid for the third in the series. And there were a number of film companies who wanted to adapt the first film, but the author held out to ensure that sequel rights were connected to her books rather than letting the companies just licence the first book and the setting.
At the same time, my brother was at the BBC. The possibility of adapting the books for a Radio Scotland abridgement or drama series had been raised and, being interested, he looked into it, and tapped me to help look at how adaptable the things were. I noted that the episodic structure would work pretty well over, say, eight half-hour parts, but it might need a narrator.
And then about three weeks after I finished reading the second book for this project, the third came out and sold about as many in a week as the first one had in a year. And the writer's film producer mate managed to wrangle the licence-all-the-books deal she wanted. The author went on to be able to buy Scotland, and the Radio 4 version never happened.
But I'm not bitter or anything, you understand...