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 23 Aug 2011, 18:31 #127823 Reply To Post
Neil Gaiman to adapt novel American Gods for HBO

Author tells Edinburgh book festival of project to develop tale of ancient gods in modern US into TV series

Neil Gaiman is to start work "in a couple of weeks" on adapting his bestselling novel American Gods into a TV series for the American cable channel HBO.

Speaking at the Guardian Book Club at the Edinburgh international book festival, the author said: "I got the email yesterday saying that the final contractual tos and fros have been sorted out and I should be free within a couple of weeks to start writing."

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NickPoole
 23 Aug 2011, 18:50 #127828 Reply To Post
I love Neil Gaiman.
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sulcus
 24 Aug 2011, 13:39 #127863 Reply To Post
Quote: NickPoole, Tuesday, 23 Aug 2011 18:50
I love Neil Gaiman.


In the biblical sense?

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Sammy
 24 Aug 2011, 19:25 #127872 Reply To Post
I liked his Doctor Who episode . . . in a timey-wimey, wibbly-wobbly sense.
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caz2108
 26 Aug 2011, 19:52 #128072 Reply To Post
Quote: Book News, Tuesday, 23 Aug 2011 18:31
Neil Gaiman to adapt novel American Gods for HBO

Author tells Edinburgh book festival of project to develop tale of ancient gods in modern US into TV series

Neil Gaiman is to start work "in a couple of weeks" on adapting his bestselling novel American Gods into a TV series for the American cable channel HBO.

Speaking at the Guardian Book Club at the Edinburgh international book festival, the author said: "I got the email yesterday saying that the final contractual tos and fros have been sorted out and I should be free within a couple of weeks to start writing."

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Love Graveyard Book. Would love to see that in film/or TimBurtoned...
sulcus
 26 Aug 2011, 22:36 #128095 Reply To Post
Quote: caz2108, Friday, 26 Aug 2011 19:52
Quote: Book News, Tuesday, 23 Aug 2011 18:31
Neil Gaiman to adapt novel American Gods for HBO

Author tells Edinburgh book festival of project to develop tale of ancient gods in modern US into TV series

Neil Gaiman is to start work "in a couple of weeks" on adapting his bestselling novel American Gods into a TV series for the American cable channel HBO.

Speaking at the Guardian Book Club at the Edinburgh international book festival, the author said: "I got the email yesterday saying that the final contractual tos and fros have been sorted out and I should be free within a couple of weeks to start writing."

View complete article




Love Graveyard Book. Would love to see that in film/or TimBurtoned...


see this is where I diverge. If a novel is written as a novel, it shoudl stay just that, unless a film maker or stage director wants to use it as the basis of a completely different artistic vision as Robert Wilson did with Henrich Muller's "Hamlet Machine". Otherwise the things that determined it being a novel in the first place get thrown out with the bathwater and inevitably it loses its creative lustre. If Gaiman had wanted to write it as a movie or a TV series, presumably he would have done that originally.

For me it can only ever be about the money flashed by production companies within the visual arts. Mind you, if someone came along to me with a multi-thousand pound contract, I WOULD think about it. But I'm fairly safe in the knowledge that my novels are unfilmable because they are internal monologues/ streams of consciousness.

What I particularly loathe are those authors who write with the film in mind. Their MC acts as though he/she has a camera affixed to the top of their head.
"A,B&E", "Not In My Name" and "52FF" (flash fiction anthology) all available on Amazon Kindle

"How a psychopath makes sweet love. I can get you ringside. Royal box even."
fxs60
 30 Aug 2011, 10:30 #128381 Reply To Post
Wow, I'll be watching out for this. I LOVE 'American Gods.'
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