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DreamWorks Picks up Neil Gaimans' Interworld

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the they-all-have-goatees dept.

Lisandro writes to tell us Geeks of Doom is reporting that author Neil Gaiman recently announced DreamWorks has optioned the film rights for his upcoming novel, 'Interworld'. "Gaiman said that in 1996 he began working with Michael Reaves on the idea for a story 'about a boy who finds himself in the middle of a war between two equally powerful forces, who joins a super-team consisting of versions of himself from different alternate realities to try and maintain the cosmic balance.' Soon after, the idea was pitched to DreamWorks and other studios, but was turned down."

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  1. "Stuff That Matters" by jessiej · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "Stuff That Matters"... I understand a lot of nerds like scifi, but it doesn't seem like this is very significant news

  2. Good news by Selfbain · · Score: 2, Insightful

    but I'm far more excited about the fact he has a new book coming out right away than I am over the fact they're making a movie based on it.

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  3. Hold your horses... by Incompetnce · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't it only something like 10% of stuff that gets optioned actually ever gets produced? Or possibly even less.

    And given the difficulty Gaiman has had with Sandman and movie studios, I don't think this will ever see daylight.

  4. Movie futures by TheWoozle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wonder if we could start a commodities market where movie studios sell tickets/DVDs/downloads for future movie productions. Maybe then "news" like this might be worth something.

    Otherwise, wake me up when the movie has actually started *filming*.

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  5. Michael Moorcock Ripoff anyone? by MuChild · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I obviously haven't read the book yet, but it sounds an awful lot like Michael Moorcock's "Eternal Champion"/Elric of Melniboné material.

    Everything being done these days was done better in the '70's!

  6. Re:Confused by Achromatic1978 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Although difficult to pull off well, I could see a film of American Gods being pretty fantastic (though it'd piss off the Religious Right no end). Someone needs to option that.

  7. Re:Confused by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Winning a Hugo award isn't really a good measure of literary merit. That's not to say that good novels can't win a Hugo, but choosing winners by a poll of fans lets through some popular but fairly vacuous stuff. A lot of sci-fi fans are smart, but not many of them really understand what literary merit is.