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Post by PokerKitten on Jan 31, 2004 1:08:14 GMT
Oh come on! Don't you think Harry gets put through enough?!
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Post by nightnurse on Jan 31, 2004 1:13:05 GMT
Twas just a thought...heh heh...me and Bob, Harry would be mental in a day!
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Post by PokerKitten on Feb 20, 2004 0:09:22 GMT
Someone was saying they had heard the SciFi channel was optioning the Dresden Files, but that ain't so... yet. Jim responded: "The only option I'm aware of at the moment is between me and Morgan Gendel of Cashmere Road Productions. Morgan has been in talks with several different people and networks, but to the best of my knowledge nothing else has been done yet. There are some very promising possibilities which might become more solid in the future, but they're just as likely to vanish, poof. Nothing is a done deal. On the other hand, maybe I'm an innocent midwestern rube and the source of the rumor knows a lot more about Hollywood scuttlebutt than me, who knows. But I wouldn't start setting your Tivo to record the show just yet--and even if the papers were all signed tomorrow, I don't think the show could make it onto the air for the fall. I have to admit though, that I am fairly innocent of any knowledge of television production timetables. Believe you me, as soon as there's a done deal, I'll be screaming about it."
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Post by azazel on Feb 21, 2004 3:10:22 GMT
Would be a perfect time to begin the show with Angel finishing ;D
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Post by PokerKitten on Feb 29, 2004 13:00:01 GMT
Highlander II went to SheVaCon this week, met Jim, and had a high old time! Her report is at her LJ
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Post by PokerKitten on Apr 8, 2004 22:36:08 GMT
Do you remember the portrait of Jim that Evenstar had painted, and which he wanted to use as his cover pic in his new series of books? Well, his publishers have said they don't want it because people might think he is weird, using a painting not a photo. Obviously they want to really push his new series. And obviously they are as shortsighted and narrow minded as the likes of Jordan Levin What kind of people did they think buy fantasy books?! Obviously they don't think ithey are people who like something different, quirky, who appreciate talent. It's a bittersweet time for Jim - Dresden gets greenlighted but they release the news without telling him they are going to, and don't even tell him they have changed the lead character name. Then the first book in his new series is nearing publication, they have the cover art and stuff, and then they reject his choice of author pic
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Post by Ditto on Apr 9, 2004 1:03:39 GMT
Cos of bl**dy Harry Potter!! For goodness sake, as if peeps would get the Harry's mixed up. We're gonna have to get used to Erik now!!!!
Stupid and short sighted re the pic like you say PK *sigh*
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Post by PokerKitten on Apr 9, 2004 20:27:38 GMT
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Post by azazel on Apr 10, 2004 17:17:34 GMT
Thats pathetic re the picture. As PK's says what type of people do they think we are, normal or something?
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Post by PokerKitten on Apr 29, 2004 18:48:12 GMT
Jim, being a good egg, is keeping us up to date on the movie business: Subject: Finally, a Little Info on the Pilot
Hey all!
Just wanted to drop through and give you what information I can share about the upcoming potential project.
(Potential because it could still get the rug pulled out from under it, as well as possibly being greenlighted.)
You already know from the press release that Morgan Gendel is working with Lion's Gate Films and Nick Cage's Saturn Films to put the production together. He is also being joined in the writing/producing by Tony Peckham, whose most recent work is about to air on SciFi in the miniseries, 5 Days to Midnight. Morgan's had a ton of experience both in science fiction (like TNG and DS9 and Spider Man) and in crime drama (Law and Order, hello) so I remain strongly positive about the potential for the show in his hands. He's read all the books (including an early galley of book 6), and I think He Gets It. That's a very reassuring thought, to me anyway.
That said, I am not going to be doing any of the writing, at least for the near future. This comes as something of both a disappointment and a relief. I'm working my tail off on upcoming deadlines as it is. If I tried to add another, oh, twenty two hundred pages of copy (the scripts for a season of series) to my current 1100 pages (a Dresden book and an Alera book) I think I'd probably blow up like a baloon and explode. But not until after I got it all done and the bills were paid.
I'm disappointed that I'm not going to be doing a little more hands-on contributions to the show, but if I really wanted it all that much I should probably go out there and produce my own show. Since that seems like way too much work--you know, starting an entry level career, breaking into a whole 'nother business--I'm going to have to be happy with being a consultant to Morgan, and letting him pick which of my ideas are actually doable and which are insane while NOT forcing him to correct the mistakes of a newbie script writer who thinks he knows everything.
I can live with that.
The show itself is very likely to bear something of a passing resemblence to the Dresden books. Think of it in the same way that the X-Men movies bear only a slight resemblence to any of the three or four cartoons, which only bear a vague resemblence to the actual comic books. There are going to be most of the same pieces of story, but they might be put together in a very different fashion than the novels. We'll have to see how things pan out, but for those purists that wanted to see page go to screen unchanged, brace yourself for disappointments. I'll find out more about possible changes as quickly as I can corner anyone who might know and torture it out of them, and then come kibitz to the list.
Actually, I think it's going to be sort of neat to see how things change. The medium has so many demands on it (both practical and political and economic) that a novelist just doesn't need to worry about. It's going to be a real creative challenge to carry the best of the books over to the screen. Darn it, I want to see already!
I have done some talking with various peoples involved, and have managed to pin down rough estimates as to when things are going to get done. If the script gets the go-ahead from the network, it'll get written (and rewritten) more or less over the summer. Budget approval and the actual expenditure of money for doing the production will most likely happen sometime in the autumn of 04--which will be when the casting will get done. Until then, there's no way to guess at who they're going to be able to afford and who they're going to be looking at.
(Sorry, Mobsters. At this time, I have no word on if anyone is looking at James, if anyone wants to look at James, or indeed if James is even terribly interested in the project. At this time there is no word at all about anyone at all, castingwise.)
If all of that that happens in the fall, the actual shooting will get done over the winter and/or early spring, and post production will take place after that to have the whole shebang ready to go late the next autumn (of 05) or early the next spring (in 06).
Keep in mind, that these are educated guesses as far as timing goes. GUESSES. It might happen just like that. On the other hand, the network could decide that they want it for THIS autumn/winter, and greenlight the whole thing through to get done before summer 04 is out. OR, they could decide it was a bad idea from the get-go and pull the rug out from under it at virtually any point before the money has been committed. There are simply too many variables to predict anything with perfect accuracy.
But, there you go. Now you guys know more or less what I know. I'll share more information as soon as I am able to swindle it out of the people who have it.
Jim
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Post by psychonetic on May 21, 2004 21:02:35 GMT
I bought Storm Front off ebay last week and after reading the first few chapters, I have now ordered the others off Amazon. Im totally hooked so far...its the type of book that I can never put down. Only thing thats bugging me, what age group is this aimed at? I was thinking 15+ cause of the content. Anyhow, so far a really good book! ;D
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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 3, 2004 10:46:58 GMT
I don't think books are written with an age group in mind, are they? (Unless they are children's books, lol!) We are all ready to read different material at different ages.
Anyhoo, Jim is very busy right now! Which is good for us. here's part of a message he sent to the McAnally's list yesterday:
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Post by psychonetic on Jun 26, 2004 17:04:57 GMT
Is it just me, or does anyone else picture Elizabeth Rohm as Karrin Murphy? I just keep visualising Kate Lockley when I see the name Karrin Murphy in the books. She just has the same kind of attitude and persona.....
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Post by PokerKitten on Jul 25, 2004 13:48:59 GMT
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Post by psychonetic on Jul 26, 2004 3:15:17 GMT
Kate Lockley was a was a re-occuring character on Angel for season 1 and 2
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Post by Cyrus on Jul 26, 2004 3:44:39 GMT
Yeah, you know. Kate, the detective. Angel bit her in "The Shroud of Rahmond". Vamps killed her father, a cop. I couldn't find a decent screen cap, and haven't yet figured out how to make them off my DVDs... really bad cap here
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Post by PokerKitten on Jul 26, 2004 10:08:23 GMT
*slaps self in head* Oh yeah! And I liked her. But no, I don't particularly see her as Karrin, but then, I don't imagine any actors as characters in books - or should that be the other way round - unless something happens, like James reading the books and making Harry his own. I make up their faces and whatnot myself.
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Post by PokerKitten on Aug 18, 2004 20:45:58 GMT
Has anyone read "Blood Rites" yet? I have it, but can't get to it until I finsih "Summer Knight" and "Death Masks" *hangs head in shame* Meanwhile.. The first book of Jim Butcher's new Codex Alera series, Furies of Calderon, is available for pre-order, both through your local independent bookstore and from Amazon. While the book isn't due out until October, now's the perfect time to reserve your copies, and maybe even buy one for a friend for the upcoming holiday season.
This is Jim's first hard-cover book, and really signifies a step up for Jim in the publishing world. Please join with us in making this new series from Jim just as popular as the first!
You can read more about Furies of Calderon here on this website
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Post by deborahw37 on Aug 18, 2004 21:17:56 GMT
Yep I read it and then I read it again, it's great! best one yet and oh boy I can't wait for James to read it to me .. erm I mean to us
Hurry up and get to it PK you're going to be amazed.
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Post by PokerKitten on Aug 18, 2004 21:28:42 GMT
I allowed myself to read the first of the sneak preview chapters a while back and I got very hot and bothered... THOMAS! *swoon, thunk* I am shockingly bad at sitting down to read books these days I have a copy to send to my mum, which should be an incentive because I hate that she has gobbled them all up, overtaken me, and knows stuff I don't know now!
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