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DreamWorks Picks up Neil Gaimans' Interworld
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."
The novel has not yet been published.
The author is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Gaiman
and he is on the Web at:
http://www.neilgaiman.com/
Neil Gaiman is probably best known for the critically acclaimed comic series "The Sandman" and has done a slew of other successful comic series and novels.
I'm glad to hear that an author I've never heard of has secured film rights to a book that hasn't been released yet, but I think I liked this movie better when it was called 'The One' and starred Jet Li.
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If you've not heard of the author, you might find an interview that he did for a little site called Slash-something useful.
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He also writes books that win so many awards that he is starting to turn them down. He won the Hugo for best novel one year, the Hugo for best novella the next year and then turned down the award for best novel the year after that.
Well, it has never been successfully tested.
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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Everything being done these days was done better in the '70's!
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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.
Yes, really! Although the bit about Interworld is somewhat interesting, this would have been a much better article if it explained the surrounding context: Neil Gaiman is hitting the silver screen in a BIG way right now. His graphic novel Stardust is coming this August, loaded with an astonishing number of name actors. And for the money shot, Gaiman's adaptation of Beowulf follows up in November, with another big batch of stars.
Depends on the weapons the war is fought with. An economic 'war' fought between rival corporations, for example, is better than a monopoly in a lot of ways. The Cold War, with the associated accelerated rate of technological growth, was almost certainly better than a McCarthyite or Soviet super-state.
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Anyone who enjoys Alice-in-Wonderland type stories, the book Neverwhere by Gaiman is probably one of my favorite books ever.
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Does an excellent job of telling a Wonderland type story where the protagonist is thrown into a totally different world, fairly close to this one. It is certainly my favorite work by Gaiman (much more so than American Gods, which seemed to be more 'critically acclaimed')
Amazon page: http://www.amazon.com/Neverwhere-Novel-Neil-Gaima
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From his website, "Neil Gaiman is the winner of 3 Hugos, 2 Nebulas, 1 World Fantasy Award, 4 Bram Stoker Awards, 6 Locus Awards, 2 British SF Awards, 1 British Fantasy Award, 3 Geffens, 1 International Horror Guild Award and 1 Mythopoeic."
Many of these are judged awards, not fan awards.