ecstaticAhem. From today's announcement at Publishers Weekly:
"Film rights: Mira Grant's trilogy, Feed, Deadline, and Blackout, optioned to Rachel Olschan, producer at Electric Entertainment, by Pouya Shahbazian of FinePrint, on behlf of Diana Fox at Fox Literary."
WE OPTIONED THE FILM RIGHTS TO FEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now, this doesn't mean this will necessarily be a movie (although I hope there will), but it takes us a huge, huge step closer to that becoming a reality. Everyone I've dealt with has been amazing, supportive, and enthusiastic, and now there's a beautiful chance that maybe, we can see Shaun and Georgia Mason on the big screen.
How's that for a book-day present?
ETA: Belated comment amnesty, because you guys are awesomely enthusiastic, and wow will I never get to all these comments!
May 22 2012, 19:28:33 UTC 5 years ago
"YAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!"
It can definitely be a long process from option to movie screen, if it ever happens at all. I recall reading sometime in 1996 that Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" was going to be made into a movie, with Tom Hanks in the lead role. Still waiting. Mike Resnick's "Santiago" has been on option since 1990, and he says that he and his wife have sold the movie script they wrote for it 4 times.
On the other hand, you never know. Books covering the full gamut from utterly fantastic to absolute dreck have been made into movies lately. I won't give examples in the hopes of avoiding irrelevant arguments.
I fervently hope that chance, luck, and the power of best wishes result in a Summer 2014 release of a reasonably faithful adaptation. (I was monumentally annoyed that a "Space:1999" movie wasn't released 13 years ago, even though Hollywood was already well into the phase of moviefying old TV shows.)
Congratulations!