Jen
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Daniel Price:
Have any studios approached you about movie rights to "Flight of the Silvers"? As I was reading it, I kept thinking it would make a great movie, and I was hoping somebody had bought it from you so I would get to see it in a theater!
Daniel Price
Hi Jennifer,
Radar Pictures currently holds the film/TV rights to the Silvers trilogy, with the full intention of turning it into a TV show. Progress is slowly being made on that front, but it's still a long and tenuous process. Getting anything made in Hollywood is a mile-long tightrope walk. The production company has barely begun the whole pitching/packaging/schmoozing part.
As for the movie option, everyone involved with the project agrees that "The Flight of the Silvers" just too damn big to fit into a two-hour movie, or even a pair of two-hour movies. The book itself is sort of episodic in nature. A TV format would give the story and characters much more room to breathe, in my opinion.
It's still a huge uphill climb (wait, didn't I just call it a tightrope walk?), but I'm guardedly optimistic. In the meantime, all I can do is keep plugging away at the novels. I expect the "Song of the Orphans" edits to take me through the summer. Then, Lord help me, I'm moving on the third and final book of the series.
Radar Pictures currently holds the film/TV rights to the Silvers trilogy, with the full intention of turning it into a TV show. Progress is slowly being made on that front, but it's still a long and tenuous process. Getting anything made in Hollywood is a mile-long tightrope walk. The production company has barely begun the whole pitching/packaging/schmoozing part.
As for the movie option, everyone involved with the project agrees that "The Flight of the Silvers" just too damn big to fit into a two-hour movie, or even a pair of two-hour movies. The book itself is sort of episodic in nature. A TV format would give the story and characters much more room to breathe, in my opinion.
It's still a huge uphill climb (wait, didn't I just call it a tightrope walk?), but I'm guardedly optimistic. In the meantime, all I can do is keep plugging away at the novels. I expect the "Song of the Orphans" edits to take me through the summer. Then, Lord help me, I'm moving on the third and final book of the series.
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John Hagan
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Daniel Price:
No question, just praise. I loved this book. I feel it's in the spirit of Phillip Pullman. I have read many, many stories that have gotten close to this theme, but you have taken it to another level. I hope you take your time, but I am very excited to read the next chapter of this story?
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May 18, 2016 10:22AM