He's extricated himself from at least two previous badly-botched movie deals, including the original Ivan Reitman one where he had already sold the rights. Eventually he bought the rights back and I believe paid more than he sold them for.
No, not Miramax. The deal was definitely made with Disney; Miramax deals are generally made somewhat autonomously by that division. In the beginning it was pretty clearly stated Hollywood Pictures would be the imprint, then later they came back and said "well, we're not really sure which imprint it'll be". We do know the director is Jay Roach, whom DNA is excited to be working with. (He did mention that in this interview.) The producer is to be Roger Birnbaum with his Spyglass Pictures (formerly Caravan Pictures) being the production company. The most notable recent Spyglass production I know of is The Sixth Sense.
I like both authors as well, though I read Adams first. Pratchett's been far less successful in the US than Adams has; it took a British friend to introduce me to Pratchett several years ago. Anyway, I digress a bit. The real problem with this question is that its one of the ones he's asked all the time and thus he's sick of it. I suppose he could be a bit less short about it, and I'm sure it's not as bad as any 42-related question, but I've seen this come up in more than one other interview (and I think it came up during the Q&A when I saw him speak live once) and you get the feeling he's a bit irritated with it.
This will very definitely be met with a simple no or even a sarcastic remark.
Someone's going to notice that I'm going through here replying to all these questions, but I assure you my only intention is to help you get the most mileage out of only 10 questions. Ask a frequently asked one and we learn nothing new.
Altavista now has a permanent link to h2g2.com on the bottom of their babelfish pages. As I understand it, this satisfied any copyright conflict. My guess is that someone named it that because they were a fan.
I'm pretty certain I can vouch for the fact that DNA will not answer and will in fact frown upon any question that suggests he knows more about the fictional universe he writes in than what he's already written in the books. Real questions about the real world go over much better with him and in fact gain us more insight in the long run.
Heh, pretty much get a strange look I think when you ask him if he thought his books would develop a cult-like following. And a thoughtful "No, there's no way you can really plan that" or something to that effect.
I've seen Adams answer this before. It's generally something along the lines of that he hasn't read Pratchett, and though he's aware of the comparisons, doesn't know enough to comment on their validity. He hasn't ever met Pratchett either as I recall.
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He's extricated himself from at least two previous badly-botched movie deals, including the original Ivan Reitman one where he had already sold the rights. Eventually he bought the rights back and I believe paid more than he sold them for.
No, not Miramax. The deal was definitely made with Disney; Miramax deals are generally made somewhat autonomously by that division. In the beginning it was pretty clearly stated Hollywood Pictures would be the imprint, then later they came back and said "well, we're not really sure which imprint it'll be". We do know the director is Jay Roach, whom DNA is excited to be working with. (He did mention that in this interview.) The producer is to be Roger Birnbaum with his Spyglass Pictures (formerly Caravan Pictures) being the production company. The most notable recent Spyglass production I know of is The Sixth Sense.
I like both authors as well, though I read Adams first. Pratchett's been far less successful in the US than Adams has; it took a British friend to introduce me to Pratchett several years ago. Anyway, I digress a bit. The real problem with this question is that its one of the ones he's asked all the time and thus he's sick of it. I suppose he could be a bit less short about it, and I'm sure it's not as bad as any 42-related question, but I've seen this come up in more than one other interview (and I think it came up during the Q&A when I saw him speak live once) and you get the feeling he's a bit irritated with it.
This will very definitely be met with a simple no or even a sarcastic remark.
Someone's going to notice that I'm going through here replying to all these questions, but I assure you my only intention is to help you get the most mileage out of only 10 questions. Ask a frequently asked one and we learn nothing new.
Altavista now has a permanent link to h2g2.com on the bottom of their babelfish pages. As I understand it, this satisfied any copyright conflict. My guess is that someone named it that because they were a fan.
I'm pretty certain I can vouch for the fact that DNA will not answer and will in fact frown upon any question that suggests he knows more about the fictional universe he writes in than what he's already written in the books. Real questions about the real world go over much better with him and in fact gain us more insight in the long run.
Heh, pretty much get a strange look I think when you ask him if he thought his books would develop a cult-like following. And a thoughtful "No, there's no way you can really plan that" or something to that effect.
I've seen Adams answer this before. It's generally something along the lines of that he hasn't read Pratchett, and though he's aware of the comparisons, doesn't know enough to comment on their validity. He hasn't ever met Pratchett either as I recall.