Oct
02
According to Publishers' Weekly, Patricia Brigg's Mercy Thompson series has been picked up by 50 Canon Entertainment.
Deets for the fans:
50 Canon is run by Mark Newell who has an eclectic directing background. His portfolio includes Four Weddings and a Funeral (loved*) and Pushing Tin (liked) and the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (never watched). Perhaps his biggest movie to do date was director of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The PW report also says that Ace, a division of Penguin, is set to publish four more Mercy Thompson books.
Deets for the authors:
Th deal is that Newell has optioned the series and will pay escalating amounts in the mid six figures for each title when the option is exercised.
*Am I a total philistine for admitting I hadn't read Auden before this movie?
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The Mercy Thompson series is a tricky one for me. 75% of me loved it, and 25% of me was lukewarm about it. Strange, I know, but it would definitely be great to see it rendered on the screen.
On an almost unrelated note, I’m noticing a huge trend: more and more books are being adapted to the big and small screens. I can think of four off the top of my head (Blindness, Twilight, the Sookie Stackhouse series, Nights in Rodanthe) and I’m sure there’s more. Makes me wonder how long this trend will continue.
Auden??
If you’re a philistine, what does that make me? I’ve never read Auden (nor do I have a desire to) or watched Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Sigh. Jane, I love Auden, but I don’t think you’re a philistine for not having encountered him before _Four Weddings and a Funeral_. A favorite film of mine, and it was nice to see ol’ W.H. get some mainstream exposure out of it.
When I admit I’ve never read any of the Mercy Thompson series, what does that make me?
Love Auden. Hope you went on to enjoy more of his poetry.
As for movies– isn’t the Time Traveler’s Wife being (been) made?
LKH just announced that Anita is either being made into a movie or a tv series or even both!
I think with Twilight around the corner and the success of True Blood I think we will see more Urban Fantasy being adapted-
But I am really happy for Patty - and I am psyched over this. I love the Mercy series and I hope the adaptation will do justice to the books.
Ugh, Anita Blake? Really?
You sure it wasn’t picked up by a porn company?
Mouse, LMAO. Good thing I didn’t have coffee in my mouth.
Anita’s been optioned before and nothing happened with it. I haven’t checked in on the LHK blogs in a while, but last I read, even she didn’t expect anything to happen with the new option. But, maybe a good director/writer team (say the guys who did Deadwood and John of Cincinnati) could do something really spectacular with it…
My understanding was that LKH’s new movie deal was with the Independent Film Channel so . . . not quite sure the caliber of that production.