tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10831518.post7999801468235173497..comments2023-08-17T11:47:11.821+01:00Comments on James and the Blue Cat: Based on someone else's idea.James Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16604261370633794445noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10831518.post-26310864152777667502012-03-23T13:36:59.788+00:002012-03-23T13:36:59.788+00:00Joe Malozzi, former producer on the various incarn...Joe Malozzi, former producer on the various incarnations of Stargate, has a 4-part comic series out. It's titled Dark Matter and is actually quite good. (part 4 is yet to be published) <br /><br />It's a "ship-based scifi" project he specifically wrote as comic to pitch it as a TV show.<br /><br />He knows all the right people in all the right places, but even he couldn't get that project of the ground without a comic series as a proof of concept.SebiMeyernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10831518.post-13968653543621177852012-03-23T01:00:08.891+00:002012-03-23T01:00:08.891+00:00I so want to nick/please may I option your 'Ap...I so want to nick/please may I option your 'Apple-update-pixies-finish-writer's-work' original story idea (before Charlie Kaufman does). Then when it's a HUGE movie, that's another strike for the adaptations...as long as you get an 'original story' credit...and as long as you don't finish it yourself...which maybe you should...<br /><br />On the downside, I don't think there's a novel in it, nor much change from eleventy squillion dollars. But it'd be a fun read.PMGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17614742698397345183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10831518.post-75327774138100675832012-03-21T06:38:06.599+00:002012-03-21T06:38:06.599+00:00Boz: Yeah, I think The Raven's the only one I ...Boz: Yeah, I think The Raven's the only one I want to see there really.<br /><br />Adadinsane: I think it helped that the writers for Sky Captain and Monsters were also the directors, so they knew intimately how much they could/couldn't do with the CGI.<br /><br />John: that is has absolutely been put to me by producers as a way to get your film made, with some creative control over the process, although you can often tell when a book has been written with this in mind, as it tends to have 'I want to be a film' all through it. Like that there Robopocalypse thing.James Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16604261370633794445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10831518.post-6145161381353610342012-03-20T20:14:25.340+00:002012-03-20T20:14:25.340+00:00Perhaps the answer is to write a best-selling nove...Perhaps the answer is to write a best-selling novel instead. Then you can write the first draft of the screenplay and watch as your baby is dissected for fun and profit. You do get paid both ways, however.John Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10831518.post-66706357691968849572012-03-20T19:25:21.376+00:002012-03-20T19:25:21.376+00:00"Pre-awareness" that's the buzzword,..."Pre-awareness" that's the buzzword, if it's something that has pre-awareness that's a good thing. And if your industry operates on fear (as Hollywood does) then it's a Very Good Thing (tm) and trumps everything else even if it fails. (John Carter was a good movie.)<br /><br />I actually have two features with pre-awareness - unfortunately, at this time, I don't own the original rights to either. One probably doesn't matter so much, the original material is a song so I can pretend it's completely original. For the other it's critical - but I know the rights are available, I just need $10K.<br /><br />"'lalala they can do anything with computers lalala'" ah yes well, I just happen to also producing a webseries (wot I wrote) which will have a completely digital backlot. So yes, that's quite true. People keep saying it's impossible - it isn't.<br /><br />There was the demo cut of Sky Captain, and then there was Monsters, and there have been various things on the web with good CGI.<br /><br />You can do (almost) anything with computers.<br /><br />(I was going to say Spy vs Spy was a cartoon, but Piers got there before me.)Adaddinsanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10577587188266580561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10831518.post-11592041639414788992012-03-20T18:04:06.936+00:002012-03-20T18:04:06.936+00:00Yes but there's only two on that list I would ...Yes but there's only two on that list I would actually want to see. And I'm even being a bit charitable there, if I'm totally honest.Bozhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065257907482952779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10831518.post-78402679332073488442012-03-20T17:47:26.413+00:002012-03-20T17:47:26.413+00:00I suspect it may well have been, a long way back i...I suspect it may well have been, a long way back in the process...James Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16604261370633794445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10831518.post-79116894056719108052012-03-20T16:59:21.427+00:002012-03-20T16:59:21.427+00:00I assumed when I saw the trailer (back when it was...I assumed when I saw the trailer (back when it was still called Spy vs Spy) that it was based on the old cartoons in Mad magazine.Piershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04682054203119052550noreply@blogger.com