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The Left Hand of Darkness Optioned for Film
by Chadwick Ginther - Sunday Jan 04 2009 11:19 am permalink Post a comment
Posted in: buzz, SciFi & Fantasy, movies


Screenwriter and director Will Phillips has optioned the feature film rights to Ursula K. Le Guin 's Hugo and Nebula Award winning novel, The Left Hand of Darkness. The novel tells the story of Genly Ai, a human emissary to the planet Winter, a world where people are of no gender -- or both.


David Fincher to Direct Black Hole
by Chadwick Ginther - Wednesday Feb 20 2008 6:37 pm permalink Post a comment
Posted in: buzz, SciFi & Fantasy, movies, Graphic Novels


David Fincher, acclaimed director of among other films, Fight Club and Zodiac has been attached to direct the live action movie based on Charles Burns' Harvey Award winning graphic novel Black Hole.

Originally serialized over ten years by Kitchen Sink Press and then Fantagraphics Books, Black Hole was finally collected in hardcover and now trade paperback by Pantheon Books.

Black Hole features a group of suburban Seattle teens in the 1970's who catch The Bug, an STD that causes physical mutations, some subtle, some grotesque. The alienated teens face prejudice and exile.

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Talking to Satrapi
by Chadwick Ginther - Wednesday Jan 02 2008 12:02 pm permalink Post a comment
Posted in: buzz, Authors, movies

In the wake of the movie adaptation of her biography Persepolis' opening on Christmas Day, Marjane Satrapi was interviewed at Newsarama, along with her co-director Vincent Paronnaud.

Persepolis tells the story of Satrapi's childhood growing up in Tehran. A time that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime and the triumph of the Islamic Revolution.

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Good News for Stephenie Meyer Fans
by Sarah Gritzfeldt - Saturday Nov 03 2007 8:09 pm permalink Post a comment
Posted in: buzz, movies, Publishing News


For those of you in Eclipse withdrawal - here's something to look forward to: two more books and a movie!

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Cinema Continues It's Love Affair With the Graphic Novel
by Chadwick Ginther - Wednesday Aug 22 2007 11:50 am permalink Post a comment
Posted in: buzz, movies

According to Publisher's Weekly, the movies are still wooing comic books. It has been a long and difficult courtship, but comic fans are finally starting to see the pay off.

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