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Wait... They Hired A Writer For JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL''!
Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...
Somehow I missed this one. I lovelovelove this book. It’s one of the great reads I’ve had in recent memory, a complete surprise, dense and wonderfully rich in detail. You can’t compare it to HARRY POTTER or LORD OF THE RINGS or any other current fantasy property in the public eye. Susanna Clarke has an amazing original voice, and the idea of this particular writer adapting her novel into screenplay form bodes well for where New Line’s going with it:
Hi Harry
Neil Gaiman describes this book as "unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last seventy years." High praise indeed, well Mark Ordesky of Lord of the Rings fame has brought this project into New Line Cinema and Academy Award winner Christopher Hampton (/Dangerous Liaisons)/ is adapting the script.
CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY!!
Thanks
Jonathan
Depending on who they hire to direct this, it may well end up being one of the most anticipated films of the near-future in my book. I’ll definitely try to keep a closer eye on this one from now on.

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Reader Talkback
The story is certainly great by elab49 | Apr 15th, 2005 04:01:01 AM | Never heard of it by phanboi | Apr 15th, 2005 04:03:47 AM | Norrell & strange first last
everything by megtdog | Apr 15th, 2005 04:20:33 AM | Sorry. I nearly forgot. by megtdog | Apr 15th, 2005 04:30:44 AM | Hi PHanboi by elab49 | Apr 15th, 2005 06:10:02 AM | This is a big book with small
words and few pictures by chrth | Apr 15th, 2005 08:05:36 AM | I hadn't actually realised it
had a US release at all by elab49 | Apr 15th, 2005 08:12:14 AM | I thought this book was great
too---would make a fantastic
movie by JohnnyTremaine | Apr 15th, 2005 09:10:32 AM | Neil Gaiman by ErrantTwin | Apr 15th, 2005 09:56:42 AM | I dislike Dickens a great
deal... by JTylor | Apr 15th, 2005 10:31:42 AM | This book is great, and as
Mori says, was a complete
surprise! by Atticus Finch | Apr 15th, 2005 11:22:56 AM | Not that good by 2LeggedFreak | Apr 15th, 2005 11:53:59 AM | "Fantasy for adults" by Prankster | Apr 15th, 2005 05:03:05 PM | This novel is by TuxedoJunction | Apr 15th, 2005 10:02:16 PM | strange & norrell + dangerous
liasons + new line + weta? =
good by atomheartbrother | Apr 16th, 2005 10:31:46 AM | A Branching DVD would be great by The UnGod | Apr 16th, 2005 04:59:08 PM | Oh and about Neil Gaiman's
quotes by The UnGod | Apr 16th, 2005 05:08:50 PM | The Dickens mainly comes fromq by elab49 | Apr 18th, 2005 04:23:54 AM | Overrated by Sepulchrave | Apr 20th, 2005 09:58:15 PM |
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