Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi
REVIEW SUMMARY: A humorous romp through the trials and tribulations of human’s first contact with aliens.
BRIEF SYNOPSIS: A first contact story like no other — aliens finally come to Earth, but because their forms are distasteful, need an image makeover and hire a Hollywood agent to introduce them to [...]
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Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi - Review
Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi - Review
Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi
Zoe’s Tale wouldn’t work if it weren’t for Zoë. John Scalzi insists the character is not based on his daughter. But he has poured enough paternal love into the creation and development of his plucky teen heroine to raise global sea levels by a full meter. Result: the character breathes such [...]
Deryni Rising by Katherine Kurtz - Movie News
Deryni Rising (Chronicles of the Deryni) by Katherine Kurtz
Columbia Pictures is bringing Katherine Kurtz’s fantasy book Deryni Rising to the big screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The studio has picked up Deryni as a spec script by Alex Sabeti. Jimmy Miller is producing via his Mosaic banner.
Deryni is a historical fantasy novel first published in [...]
Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - Movie News
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Anne Hathaway, who is generating buzz for her performance in Rachel Getting Married, has signed for a role in Alice in Wonderland, which Tim Burton is directing for Disney, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Helena Bonham Carter also has joined the film.
The movie, which stars [...]
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson - TV Adaptation
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy) by Kim Stanley Robinson
AMC is developing Red Mars, a series based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s 1982 novel, from writer/executive producer Jonathan Hensleigh (Armageddon), according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Robinson’s acclaimed book chronicles the first human colony on the Red Planet. Hensleigh is the writer and will executive-produce, alongside Michael Jaffe and Howard [...]
The Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon Ronson - Movie News
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
Even the writer can’t believe his luck. The cast of a film version of British journalist Jon Ronson’s acclaimed book The Men Who Stare at Goats sounds too starry to be true. Actor George Clooney, who bought the film rights at the Cannes film festival this spring, [...]
Chocky by John Wyndham - Movie News
Chocky by John Wyndham
DreamWorks has acquired the dramatic rights to the science fiction novel Chocky from Pollinger Ltd., the U.K. agency that handles the literary estate of the late author John Wyndham, and Steven Spielberg is said to be keen to make the adaptation his next directing project, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Chocky tells the [...]
Airman by Eoin Colfer - Movie News
Airman by Eoin Colfer
Gil Kenan and Robert Zemeckis, who teamed for the animated Oscar-nominated Monster House, are partnering again for a big-screen version of Airman, a children’s adventure book by Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Kenan (City of Ember) will direct the adaptation, which will be done using performance-capture technology. Zemeckis [...]
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