Today Lucasfilm brings you the cover art for Star Wars: Red Harvest.
I like it.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
LA Play Date
I spent last week in Los Angeles meeting with people who had a chance to read Crazy European Chick, and it was great. Extremely busy, though -- I averaged five meetings a day all over town, from downtown to Burbank, driving a rental car back and forth up and down Santa Monica Boulevard, eating a whole lot of excellent sushi and almost never getting lost.
It had been a while since I'd been out on general meetings like this, pitching stories and talking about ideas with executives, producers and development people, and I'd forgotten how much fun it is to sit in a room with people who are genuinely excited about making movies. Many of them had common interests with me, and a lot of them liked the new ideas that I was talking about, both film and book concepts, although only two of them, Roy Lee and Irene Yeung from Vertigo, had the misfortune of having to watch me try to eat noodles with chopsticks while telling them about my great new ideas. Sorry, Roy and Irene. I'll try to practice more at home, I promise.
One of the most exciting pieces of news to come out of all of this is that I'll be doing the big screen adaptation of Ryan Brown's novel Play Dead. For those who haven't heard of it, Play Dead might best be described as a high school football zombie novel, a sort of Friday Night Lights meets Dawn of the Dead. Check it out...
Now I'm in Boston for the weekend, and tomorrow I'll be meeting with my editor at Houghton to talk about the book side of things, which is also moving forward. Recorded Books bought the audio rights to Crazy European Chick last week -- a piece of news that I got on Friday right before sitting down with Josh Schwartz and the creative team in their offices to discuss plans for the movie version. Again, very exciting, but for those with a taste for temporal dislocation, I recommend a meeting on the Warner lot followed by a redeye flight that delivers you the following morning to the East Coast...or perhaps not.
In any case, I'm almost fully recovered now, meaning that all I'll need is black coffee and a shave to get me ready to meet my editor and the publicity people at Houghton tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it. LA is a lot of fun...but I do love Boston, especially now that it's September.
It had been a while since I'd been out on general meetings like this, pitching stories and talking about ideas with executives, producers and development people, and I'd forgotten how much fun it is to sit in a room with people who are genuinely excited about making movies. Many of them had common interests with me, and a lot of them liked the new ideas that I was talking about, both film and book concepts, although only two of them, Roy Lee and Irene Yeung from Vertigo, had the misfortune of having to watch me try to eat noodles with chopsticks while telling them about my great new ideas. Sorry, Roy and Irene. I'll try to practice more at home, I promise.
One of the most exciting pieces of news to come out of all of this is that I'll be doing the big screen adaptation of Ryan Brown's novel Play Dead. For those who haven't heard of it, Play Dead might best be described as a high school football zombie novel, a sort of Friday Night Lights meets Dawn of the Dead. Check it out...
Now I'm in Boston for the weekend, and tomorrow I'll be meeting with my editor at Houghton to talk about the book side of things, which is also moving forward. Recorded Books bought the audio rights to Crazy European Chick last week -- a piece of news that I got on Friday right before sitting down with Josh Schwartz and the creative team in their offices to discuss plans for the movie version. Again, very exciting, but for those with a taste for temporal dislocation, I recommend a meeting on the Warner lot followed by a redeye flight that delivers you the following morning to the East Coast...or perhaps not.
In any case, I'm almost fully recovered now, meaning that all I'll need is black coffee and a shave to get me ready to meet my editor and the publicity people at Houghton tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it. LA is a lot of fun...but I do love Boston, especially now that it's September.
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