Daily Archives: June 13, 2007

His Dark Materials – technical interview

The folk over at the His DarkMaterial.org have a interview with some of the technical team for the forthcoming film. technorati tags:his dark materials, film, philip pullman

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Comics and Cities

Joe Gordon over on the Forbidden Planet blog has a link to Henry Jenkins’s piece on comics and cities. Cities and literature have a symbiotic relationship which we often overlook – Batman and Gotham, Superman and Metropolis and so on. … Continue reading

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New Stephen King short story

The July issue of Esquire magazine (and I’m assuming that annoyingly this will only be the US version) has a short story called the Gingerbread Man by Stephen King. Apparently his next novel, Duma Key, grew out of the short. … Continue reading

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Fantasy on film?

Publisher’s Lunch has a short note that Terry Brooks’ Shannara series has been picked up for filming by Warner. It’ll probably take the second book “The Elfstones of Shannara” for a starting point.  

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