DAN STEVENS IS DICKENS IN
'MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS'
Now this is certainly a lovely cast: as 'Deadline' reports today, Dan Stevens is to play young Charles Dickens in THE MAN WHO 
INVENTED CHRISTMAS next to Christopher Plummer as Scrooge and Jonathan Pryce as Dickens' father.
INVENTED CHRISTMAS next to Christopher Plummer as Scrooge and Jonathan Pryce as Dickens' father.
Based on Les Staniford's book, the movie will describe how Dickens
wrote his famous A Christmas Carol! The story begins in October 1843,
when Dickens was broke and distressed with his previous three books
having failed. Rejected by his publishers, he set out to write and self
publish a book he hoped would keep his family afloat, and after six
fever pitched weeks, he created A Christmas Carol.
'THE DIABOLIC' SF YA NOVEL
MOVIE RIGHTS SOLD!
If you're into YA sf, you will be interested to know that Columbia Pictures has bought the movie rights to the last week published THE DIABOLIC by S.J. Kincaid, a mix of Red Queen and The Hunger Games: as the galaxy’s most fierce warrior, a humanoid teen masquerades as a senator’s daughter and a hostage of the galactic court. When the power mad emperor learned the young girl’s senator father is planning a rebellion, she is summoned to the Galactic Court to be turned into a hostage. The deadly humanoid assumes her identity and has an awakening as she deals with all the backstabbing and politics inherent in a crumbling empire.
SANDERSON'S 'COSMERE'
TO BE TURNED INTO MOVIES
Variety, meanwhile, reports that DMG Entertainment will spend close
to $300 million to turn Brandon Sanderson's COSMERE saga into three
movies! These books are a mixture of science fiction and fantasy, and
they unfold in a number of different worlds and time periods, but are
unified by an intricate system of magic that drives the plots. The team
that wrote Saw is already writing a script for THE WAY OF KINGS, the
first in Sanderson's THE STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE series. Their plan is to
simultaneously adapt the first book of his MISTBORN series as well!
Variety, meanwhile, reports that DMG Entertainment will spend close
to $300 million to turn Brandon Sanderson's COSMERE saga into three
movies! These books are a mixture of science fiction and fantasy, and
they unfold in a number of different worlds and time periods, but are
unified by an intricate system of magic that drives the plots. The team
that wrote Saw is already writing a script for THE WAY OF KINGS, the
first in Sanderson's THE STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE series. Their plan is to
simultaneously adapt the first book of his MISTBORN series as well! 
I'm curious about the plan's for Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere, but how the heck do you condense all that material into just 3 movies? The Way of Kings is 1000 pages - it would take 3 movies just to cover the basics there.
ReplyDeleteI knew you'd be the first one to comment on this :) If I got it right those three movies are just the beginning... they're seeking partners who will give the rest of the megabudget
Delete$300 Million is a lot of scratch! I think The Man Who Invented Christmas will be lovely. Jason watches many different versions of A Christmas Carol each year (I only watch one or two) but it really is a beloved holiday classic. It will be nice to learn a little more about the back story.
ReplyDeleteA lot and yet ain't enough :) it is just half of what they are trying to collect :) I've only seen Scrooge in BBC's Dickensian, and once in Donald Duck version in which his rich uncle was the Scrooge LOL
DeleteYep, I watch the Donald Duck version every year and have since I was a child. I also like the Jim Carey version, though it did take a few views before it grew on me.
DeleteThey don't air Christmas programmes here, so we never really enjoyed them, sadly
DeleteThe Way of Kings...mmm, sounds interesting...
ReplyDeletethe fans of epic fantasy usually adore him, Philie!
DeleteThat Dickens one sounds awesome. Looking forward to seeing it. So yeah, even the greats in literature faced their share of rejection.
ReplyDeleteand were able to finish a masterpiece in six weeks :)))
DeleteI want to see the diabolic...
ReplyDeleteyou can also read it first :)
DeleteI'm into OA sf....
ReplyDeletewhat's that?
DeleteOld Adult sf. Duh!
Deletewhat's that? Sf porn with old ladies?
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