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.
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!