Out of Ambit
Film and TV
“Oh, to be young… and feel love’s keen sting.”
A trailer that pitches the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince film as a screwball teen comedy. Not much else to be done but watch it repeatedly and roll around laughing…
Since you were asking: The Door into Starlight
ETA, 23 November 2011: I’m Tweeting about this post for the last time(s) this year, as I’m about to judge the results at year’s end and decide what to do. Want to take action (assuming you haven’t already) to help me decide? If the Ebooks Direct store is part of your plans, you may want [...]
Cool news from some filming friends
Our friends and colleagues at Tandem Communications in Germany have just announced that they’re ready to go to principal photography on Ken Follett’s World Without End. Tandem (predictably) did a spectacular job on Pillars of the Earth: their commitment to long-form event-TV storytelling (and their success at it) would certainly have been one of the [...]
What, no Burton?
Was watching the BBC program last night on the Arabian Nights, featuring Richard Grant. When they started dealing with the issue of translations, it surprised me a little that not a single word was said about Sir Richard Burton, though a fair amount of air time was spent on Edward William Lane, whose version of [...]
ScriptFrenzy 2011: “Dead and Breakfast”, pages 108-114
(back to pp 103-107) [scrippet] HARRY (to Joy) I forgot to call, earlier. JOY That’s okay… HARRY You forgot something, too. (hint, hint) She stares, uncomprehending. HARRY I don’t even get to die in a clean shirt! And Joy finally GETS IT. The pentagram BRIGHTENS and the HUM increases. Erickson and his Senior Tech are [...]
About the blogger
30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
That said, sometimes I want to talk about anything but writing. This is one place where that happens.
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