Hello there! EXCITING NEWS!!!! Daughter of Smoke & Bone is one step closer to becoming a movie! Some of the press releases are below. You know we have an amazing producer, and a fantastic studio. And now a screenwriter is on board! His name is Stuart Beattie, he's from Australia, and he has been in the business for a long time, and has penned a bunch of big, intricate movies as well as smaller, more intimate ones. Collateral! Thirty Days of Night! Pirates of the Caribbean! I've read some of his scripts and they're awesome. We met in LA last month and he blew us all away with his ideas for the adaptation, and then Universal flew Stuart up to Portland a couple of weeks ago so that we could go over notes on the treatment. Now the first draft of the script is in the works. I couldn't be happier!
YAY!
16 comments:
Congratulations! It's good a good screenwriter was found-Thirty Days of Night restored my faith in horror movies!
Congrats! I'm just reading your book and it's amazing! I' m happy to hear I'll soon see the movie too!
So exciting! It will be interesting to see who they cast as our beloved characters.
Yay! Yay! Yay! And I love that you have your hands on this!
Wow, congratulations! :)) So exciting!
How cool!
Congrats Laini! this is really really exciting news.
This is fantastic, congratulations!!!!
So thrilled for you Laini.
Huge congrats!!!!
So exciting! Yay! Congrats Laini!
Congratulations!! :D
Ooh, can we speculate on directors? I've had two candidates in mind for some time.
My first choice would be P.J. Hogan, given his CGI-intensive and romance-heavy adaptation of Peter Pan. My second choice is Troy Nixey, because any protege of Guillermo del Toro would be more than qualified to deliver dazzling monsters and awesome horror while keeping the film's heart intact.
I'm very interested to hear more fan suggestions, and I can't wait to hear more news as it comes. From one Portlander to another, Laini, all the best.
Holy smokes!! You must feel like you are living in a dream! Amazing.
I couldn't be more happy for you!!
:)
It will make a fantastic movie!
I'm so glad for you! I'm also glad that Hollywood is taking books adapted from YA novels seriously by hiring the best people they can find to work on them.
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