“The Alienist” Poster and Trailer Are Here!
I’ve never read The Alienist novel. I don’t think The Alienist poster really sells it. I am intrigued by the trailer and will tune in.
Category: Books
Sean Gordon Murphy’s Two Ultimate Team-Ups
I love this piece by Sean Gordon Murphy featuring characters he loves. Click on the image and you can see a larger version. You can also go here to see another ultimate team-up piece that Murphy created.
An Interview with Jonathan Maberry
An Interview with Jonathan Maberry is worth a read by fans of Mayberry’s fiction as well as folks who’d like advice on writing should check it out.
Jonathan Maberry: Born with a Love of Storytelling
Jonathan Maberry: Born with a Love of Storytelling is an interview with, well, Jonathon Maberry. Fans of Mayberry’s fiction as well as folks who’d like advice on writing should check it out.
If you don’t know… Jonathan Maberry is…
…a New York Times best-selling and multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning suspense author, editor, comic book writer, magazine feature writer, playwright, content creator and writing teacher/lecturer. Jonathan Maberry was named one of the Today’s Top Ten Horror Writers, and his books have been sold to more than two-dozen countries. Jonathan is known for his writing that spans several different genres; including horror, mystery and young adult fiction.
Source: The Reading Lists.
“1922” Trailer Starring Thomas Jane Adapted from Stephen King’s Novella
Thomas Jane in an adaptation of Stephen King’s 1922.
Barry Windsor Smith’s Classic Tupenny Conan Portfolio
If you’ve never seen Barry Windsor Smith’s Tupenny Conan Portfolio, you’re in for a treat. Even if you have seen it, you may want to click over to feast your eyes on seven pieces of art by the person many folks consider to be the premier Conan artist, Barry Windsor Smith.
Source: The Bristol Board.
The Last of the Mohicans (1936) / Z-View
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Director: George B. Seitz
Screenplay: Philip Dunne based on the novel by James Fenimore Cooper
Stars: Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, Henry Wilcoxon.
The Pitch: “Let’s turn the classic Last of the Mohicans into a movie!”
Tagline: James Fenimore Cooper’s Greatest Tale Of Rousing Adventure!
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
A classic love story set against the background of the Colonial Indian Wars. A half-breed Indian scout becomes entangled in a blood dispute between Magua and Colonial Munro, when Munro’s daughters are targeted for execution by Magua and his warriors.
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31 Things We Learned from Frank Darabont’s “The Mist” Commentary
Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects present 31 Things We Learned from Frank Darabont’s The Mist Commentary. Here are three of my favorites…
1. The opening set, where David Drayton (Thomas Jane) is painting, is designed after Drew Struzan’s actual studio and features copies of his most famous poster work including The Thing and Pan’s Labyrinth. “My idea was our artist here is painting a movie poster for a fictional Dark Tower film.”
6. He picked Melissa McBride (The Walking Dead) from tapes given them by the local casting director, and she impressed even the more seasoned actors during her initial scene in the market where she’s concerned about her kids. “The audition was thrilling, but what she did on set was even more thrilling.” The cast and crew burst into applause when he called cut.
23. The jump scare at 1:24:53 — William Sadler pounding on the glass door — made King jump in his seat on first viewing. “It was really one of the most gratifying moments because I scared the crap out of Stephen King, with the oldest trick in the book.”
Doc Savage vs Creature from the Black Lagoon!
If this ever happened I would have good reason to read my first ever Doc Savage story.
Source: Disgruntled Superman
Stephen King Interview!
Jenelle Riley has a nice interview with Stephen King at Variety. Here are a couple of tidbits…
Do you enjoy acting? A lot of people cite your performance in “Creepshow” as memorable.
What they really talk about is the bit I did in “Sons of Anarchy” where I played a crazy guy who cleans up bodies. That was fun. Look, I like to sing in the shower, too, but that doesn’t mean anybody’s ever going to put me on a record.Is there anything that scares you?
Oh God, yes. Air travel is a big one with me because I feel like I’m not in control. I’m close to 70 now, so I’m worried about basically having the cheese slide off my cracker — Alzheimer’s, dementia, stuff like that. I don’t like bugs, I don’t like bats, I don’t like things that creep and crawl. With the exception of snakes, somehow they don’t really turn my dials. But I’m also afraid of people like Brady Hartsfield, they’re out there. And it crosses my mind every time I do a public event. You think about somebody like Mark David Chapman, and you think maybe somebody’s got a knife out for you. But that’s part of life.
Hard to believe Stephen King has been knocking out best-sellers for over 40 years!
Jonathan Maberry Interview!
ComicBook101.com recently posted an interview with Jonathon Maberry that’s worth a read.
Jonathan Maberry is a NY Times bestselling author, executing a wide-ranging body of work for Marvel, Dark Horse, and more. He is currently doing loads of stuff with IDW, from the frenetically-paced, terrifyingly good ‘V-Wars’, to the angst-loaded, twist-laden ‘Rot & Ruin’. A fan would be breathless following the work of this writer, just as we were when he granted us the following interview, in which he promised lots of rot, ruin, and paranoia, among other things.
Lee Goldberg & Simon Brand Present Victor Gischler’s GUN MONKEYS Test Footage!
From Lee Goldberg’s site:
Covert Media is also producing my screenplay adaptation of Victor Gischler‘s Edgar-nominated novel GUN MONKEYS , which will be directed by Simon Brand. The development history of GUN MONKEYS goes back years. I optioned the book myself, wrote the script on spec, and for a long while it was set up with actor Kevin Costner and director Ryuhei Kitamura. That project came real close to getting made…and then fell apart. A new producing team came on board, offers are going out to big-name actors now, and we’re on track to shoot in late 2017/early 2018.
Back in September, Simon shot an action scene from my script as a camera/lighting test…and I’ve just been given the okay to share it now that he’s posted it on his site. The key parts are played by his friends and it has a voice-over that isn’t in the script — I wrote it just for this so that the action makes sense out of context. I think the footage looks terrific. Here it is. I hope you like it!
Gun Monkeys from simon brand on Vimeo.
I dig everything about this test footage. Gun Monkeys by Victor Gischler is an excellent book. Kudos to Lee Goldberg for having the faith in it and himself to option the book, write the spec script and stick with it until a deal was made.
Goldberg managed in a short video that is mostly action to create a main character that we care about, a feeling that everyone in the clip has a backstory, plus he gives us a twist at the end not only in the climax but how things are resolved. Bravo, Lee Goldberg!
My hat is also off to director, Simon Brand and director of photography, Pedro Luque. I certainly hope that they will work together to create this feature film. I don’t know who the actors are in the Gun Monkeys test but I’d like to see more of the actors playing Charlie and Milt.
I’ll be in line to get a ticket when Gun Monkeys hits the big screen and will keep us posted on any updates.
Andy “The Martian” Weir is Back with Artemis!
Andy Weir, who burst onto the scene with his blockbuster first novel, The Martian, is back with his second novel Artemis.
Jazz Bashara is a criminal.
Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you’re not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you’ve got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent.
Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. But pulling off the impossible is just the start of her problems, as she learns that she’s stepped square into a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself—and that now, her only chance at survival lies in a gambit even riskier than the first.
If you’ve read this far, you’ll probably want to check out
Jonathon Maberry Talks George A. Romero & Nights of the Living Dead!
Most George A. Romero and Night of the Living Dead fans have probably already ordered Nights of the Living Dead edited by Jonathon Maberry and George A. Romero. (I did!)
Nights of the Living Dead is a…
…a collection of all-new tales set during the forty-eight hours of that legendary outbreak.
Nights of the Living Dead includes stories by some of today’s most important writers: Brian Keene, Carrie Ryan, Chuck Wendig, Craig E. Engler, David J. Schow, David Wellington, Isaac Marion, Jay Bonansinga, Joe R. Lansdale, John A. Russo, John Skipp, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Max Brallier, Mike Carey, Mira Grant, Neal and Brenda Shusterman, and Ryan Brown. Plus original stories by Romero and Maberry!
The fact that Romero signed off on this anthology makes the stories part of the Night of the Living Dead canon.
Jonathon Maberry recently spoke to Derek Anderson at Daily Dead about how Nights of the Living Dead came together and his thrill at getting to work with George Romero. As an added bonus we get access to an excerpt from Maberry’s contribution to the anthology!
Stephen Franck’s Silver Volume 3 Kickstarter is Live!
Stephen Franck, the creative genius behind Silver is back with Volume 3 and his Kickstarter for the project is live. Franck is the writer and artist for Silver which can be summed up as…
…a high-concept, super fun genre-blender, featuring pulp-era conmen and a troubled female vampire-hunter as they try to steal a mystical treasure from a castle full of vampires — what could go wrong with that plan?!
Silver is great fun. Franck is a talented writer/artist who has created a tale that meshes a horror story with a heist yarn pitting an unlikely team consisting of a rouge thief, his two partners, a con man, a old forger, a ten year old who can catch glimpses of the future and young woman who hunts vampires against Dracula and a castle full of the undead.
If you like what you see, you can jump on board with Franck’s Kickstarter for Silver Volume 3. Volume 1 and 2 are also available through the Kickstarter, if needed.
Man, I can’t wait to get my mitts on Volume 3!
