Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
> I don't know what you think of the man, but have you heard that
> John Rhys-Davies is available? Do you prefer them over
> contemporary? TVG: What science-fiction novels have you enjoyed?
> Would you sign up if the opportunity presented itself?
> Wouldn't you?

Hmmm...interesting....

jms

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More than I can tell you, I would *love* to do a film or
miniseries version of "Canticle." I *love* that book.

jms

(blocked) asks:
> Did you ever hear the NPR radio dramatization?

I caught bits and pieces of it...what I heard, I liked.

jms

(blocked) asks:
> Is it a possibility?
> Did anyone ever buy the dramatization rights?

Given that it's a seminal work of SF, I'm sure *somebody* must
have the rights....

jms

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The deal is that what makes for a great novel is not what makes
for a great movie in most cases; novels are internal, movies are
external. And often execs hear about a big SF book, they don't know
anything about it except that it's popular or famous, and they option
it...then find out what it is and have no idea how to make it...or what
it was...or why it works... and after buying it for what it *is* they
try to make it into something it's *not* because they're more
comfortable wit what it isn't but could be than what it is and can't
be.

And the fact that I actually understood what I wrote and was
entirely serious in it suddenly tells me that I've been in this town
WAY too long.

jms