If this is Saturday it must be... where the hell am I anyway?
I was on the West Coast yesterday, am on the East Coast today and will be home again tomorrow. Yes, I travel too much.
There are links to all the Hugo Award nominated fiction that's on-line up at http://is.rice.edu/~pound/hugo.html. Lots of really good reading there.
The site of the Library of Alexandria has been found: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3707641.stm
Jason Ahlquist has an interview which he wanted to do just before Penguicon, only nobody told me about it, so I wasn't there yet, which meant that he did it at the very end of Penguicon, when I was exhausted. He did an excellent job, though: it's at http://www.marsdust.com/neilgaiman.htm. The beard is still on -- I wanted to keep it until the horror-hosting thingie was done with. I think it probably comes off today or tomorrow...
Hey Neil. I just read something about directors being found for the film adaptation of "The Books of Magic," and I was wondering if you had any information about the project.
Also, and I'm not sure if you'd know this, but the article I read mentioned two guys as directing the movie, and I thought the Director's Guild has a rule stating that only one person can get the "Directed By" credit, which is why, if I remember correctly, Robert Rodriguez dropped out of the Director's Guild, because they wouldn't allow Frank Miller to share a "Directed By" credit for the upcoming "Sin City" movie...or maybe they wouldn't allow Frank to have a credit because he's not a member of the Guild...I might have just answered my own question.
Still curious about "The Books of Magic," though.
dave golbitz
As far as I know, the Director's Guild lets you co-direct films if you started out as a directorial team -- like the Wachowski brothers. Here's an article about the Sin City Film -- no idea how accurate it is.
I signed on as Executive Producer of the Books of Magic film about five years ago, which meant I got to read the scripts, and offer opinions. It didn't mean they had to listen to my opinions.
My current opinion is that I hope that they make the Books of Magic movie closer in spirit to the comic than it currently is, otherwise they'll have a lot of very grumpy comics fans and me. But it's still in the development process, and now they have directors on board we'll see what happens.
Hey Neil, just a note: The feed you recommend in the RSS link at the top of your journal (http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/blogger_rss.xml) is now offering bizarre URLs for all of your entries (the latest is http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2004/05/sorry-again-i-hope-thats-last-sorry.asp) which results in an Internal Server Error:
The include file '../asp/css.asp' was not found.
/journal/2004/05/sorry-again-i-hope-thats-last-sorry.asp, line 5
Since you claimed in this latest entry that everything was now worked out, I figured I should let you know about this problem. Good luck!
Oh dear. Well, I'm sure that Blogger will fix it -- they're incredibly helpful -- and I'll try and get them to do it without dumping another dozen posts into people's livejournal friends list.
There are links to all the Hugo Award nominated fiction that's on-line up at http://is.rice.edu/~pound/hugo.html. Lots of really good reading there.
The site of the Library of Alexandria has been found: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3707641.stm
Jason Ahlquist has an interview which he wanted to do just before Penguicon, only nobody told me about it, so I wasn't there yet, which meant that he did it at the very end of Penguicon, when I was exhausted. He did an excellent job, though: it's at http://www.marsdust.com/neilgaiman.htm. The beard is still on -- I wanted to keep it until the horror-hosting thingie was done with. I think it probably comes off today or tomorrow...
Hey Neil. I just read something about directors being found for the film adaptation of "The Books of Magic," and I was wondering if you had any information about the project.
Also, and I'm not sure if you'd know this, but the article I read mentioned two guys as directing the movie, and I thought the Director's Guild has a rule stating that only one person can get the "Directed By" credit, which is why, if I remember correctly, Robert Rodriguez dropped out of the Director's Guild, because they wouldn't allow Frank Miller to share a "Directed By" credit for the upcoming "Sin City" movie...or maybe they wouldn't allow Frank to have a credit because he's not a member of the Guild...I might have just answered my own question.
Still curious about "The Books of Magic," though.
dave golbitz
As far as I know, the Director's Guild lets you co-direct films if you started out as a directorial team -- like the Wachowski brothers. Here's an article about the Sin City Film -- no idea how accurate it is.
I signed on as Executive Producer of the Books of Magic film about five years ago, which meant I got to read the scripts, and offer opinions. It didn't mean they had to listen to my opinions.
My current opinion is that I hope that they make the Books of Magic movie closer in spirit to the comic than it currently is, otherwise they'll have a lot of very grumpy comics fans and me. But it's still in the development process, and now they have directors on board we'll see what happens.
Hey Neil, just a note: The feed you recommend in the RSS link at the top of your journal (http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/blogger_rss.xml) is now offering bizarre URLs for all of your entries (the latest is http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2004/05/sorry-again-i-hope-thats-last-sorry.asp) which results in an Internal Server Error:
The include file '../asp/css.asp' was not found.
/journal/2004/05/sorry-again-i-hope-thats-last-sorry.asp, line 5
Since you claimed in this latest entry that everything was now worked out, I figured I should let you know about this problem. Good luck!
Oh dear. Well, I'm sure that Blogger will fix it -- they're incredibly helpful -- and I'll try and get them to do it without dumping another dozen posts into people's livejournal friends list.
