Diane Duane ([info]dduane) wrote,
@ 2007-01-17 21:37:00
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*heh heh*
A moment from a screenplay:

EXT. SCHOOL -- AFTERNOON

The door into the playground cracks softly open. Kit peers out, 
looks around. Then he slips out, followed by Nita.

From around the corner of the building, Joanne and her crowd emerge. 
Nita and Kit pause, look at each other. Then, together, they head 
toward Joanne and her gang. 

A "High Noon" moment: the two factions move toward each other, Nita 
and Kit grim and determined, Joanne and her bunch furious and bent on 
revenge. As they close -- 

A REALLY BIG BANG of displaced air -- and, out on the playground, a 
LEAR JET (with its engines idling) APPEARS out of nothing and DROPS 
a couple of feet to the ground. Everyone stops right where they are, 
staring. 

                      KIT
              (astonished, impressed)
        What. The.

Joanne's gang, also astounded, do what everyone else in the area does: 
they run over to look at the jet. Joanne, angry, goes after her posse.

                      JOANNE
              (to Nita)
         Later. Believe me.

Nita and Kit glance at each other, then at the still-flickering Fred 
as he REAPPEARS between them. 

                      KIT
         Fred! Nice going.

                      FRED
               (sounds sick)
         I saw them, so I exerted myself a little. 
         Can we go now?

                      NITA
         Yeah.

They head off around the corner of the building. Kit glances back 
at the playground, full of the vast assortment of Fred's emissions.

                      KIT
         What're they gonna do with all that stuff?

                      NITA
               (shrugs)
         Ebay?

They hurry O.S.


(snrk)



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[info]juliansinger
2007-01-17 09:48 pm UTC (link)
Screenplay?

Screenplay!

(Aw, his poor gnaester.)

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[info]dduane
2007-01-17 09:54 pm UTC (link)
I'm editing the first draft at the moment.

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(no subject) - [info]jfargo, 2007-01-17 10:11 pm UTC

[info]tiggsybabes
2007-01-17 09:49 pm UTC (link)
I read that book last week & loved it :) I was origianlly reading it loud to my 4 year old, but stopped as it got a bit scary for her.

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[info]batyatoon
2007-01-17 09:52 pm UTC (link)
...


*swoon*

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[info]replica
2007-01-17 09:55 pm UTC (link)
heheh. Ebay.

<3

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[info]replica
2007-01-17 09:56 pm UTC (link)
err. that should have been screenplay <3

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[info]countessmary
2007-01-17 09:56 pm UTC (link)
So, You Want to Be a Wizard is turning into a movie? Wow.

Also, what color mittens do you want?

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[info]dduane
2007-01-17 09:59 pm UTC (link)
Blue is good.

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(no subject) - [info]countessmary, 2007-01-17 10:11 pm UTC

[info]ffutures
2007-01-17 09:58 pm UTC (link)
YES!!!!!

About time!

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[info]jaxomsride
2007-01-17 09:58 pm UTC (link)
Ooooooh film!
When? Any say in who they get to play the characters?

Love "Ebay"!

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[info]dduane
2007-01-17 10:00 pm UTC (link)
(1) Too soon to tell. (2) Almost certainly not. (3) Thanks!

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(no subject) - [info]jaxomsride, 2007-01-17 10:30 pm UTC

[info]tysolna
2007-01-17 10:01 pm UTC (link)
Oh yes, please! *jiggles up and down with excited impatience* :-D

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[info]mercuriazs
2007-01-17 10:04 pm UTC (link)
Best school fundraiser EVER.

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[info]particle_person
2007-01-17 10:07 pm UTC (link)
You know, if you'd asked me yesterday I'd have said there was no way to improve on that book, and maybe there isn't, but you've convinced me that a movie is a great idea.

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[info]dduane
2007-01-17 10:11 pm UTC (link)
Kicking the script into the correct shape is going to be difficult, but it will work.

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(no subject) - [info]particle_person, 2007-01-17 10:21 pm UTC

[info]gfish
2007-01-17 10:08 pm UTC (link)
I'm utterly thrilled at the idea of a movie being made... except for the part of me that used to dream of directing it. =\

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[info]uozaki
2007-01-18 01:55 am UTC (link)
Your director part and mine should get together for drinks.

But after I'm done having a squee.

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[info]blues_dream
2007-01-17 10:23 pm UTC (link)
A movie? Really?? Awesome!

Man, first Ice & Fire, and now this! This is a great day for fantasy novel-related movie news.

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[info]dduane
2007-01-17 10:25 pm UTC (link)
Nothing official yet. I've got the screenplay, that's all.

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(no subject) - [info]blues_dream, 2007-01-17 10:26 pm UTC
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[info]atrypical
2007-01-17 10:28 pm UTC (link)
AMAZING. I'm so freaking Happy-with-a-capital-H right now.

Happy when I should be doing Statistics.

In any case, all the YW fans are going to FREAK.

UP WITH FRED.

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[info]brightling
2007-01-17 10:35 pm UTC (link)
I'm smiling so hard I think I might scare my roommates! Ooh, best screenplaying wishes your way - I have no idea what the ups and downs of the process are so I quite happily leave those details to you.

Yay! Hopes of this to come, and Golden Compass later this year if all goes well. [Here's hoping my favourite books become my favourite movies!]

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[info]dduane
2007-01-17 10:39 pm UTC (link)
I read a draft of the "Golden Compass" script not too long ago: it was terrific (but then it had been written by Tom Stoppard). I hope they don't move too far from what I read.

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(no subject) - [info]anamin, 2007-01-18 12:45 am UTC

[info]wetdryvac
2007-01-17 10:36 pm UTC (link)
Ooo, draft one - good to hear!

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So Psyched!!!!
(Anonymous)
2007-01-17 10:38 pm UTC (link)
A movie is SUCH a good idea! I am so excited! With you writing the script I have no worries at all about being disappointed.*Jumps up and down in an 
undignified manner*

-Lamae

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[info]chattycheese
2007-01-17 10:42 pm UTC (link)
Screenplay? That just about makes my day.

Poor Fred, though. I always feel so bad for him and his Gnaester.

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[info]txvoodoo
2007-01-17 10:44 pm UTC (link)
ALL RIGHT! Am very happy about this. CONGRATS!

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[info]katenigma
2007-01-17 10:49 pm UTC (link)
Let me add in my own WOOOHOOOO!

I'd definitely go see it, especially since you're the screenwriter and can be relied upon to maintain the integrity of the story while still making it fit into the time constraints and Hollywood's ideas of what will sell.

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[info]conmoto
2007-01-17 11:07 pm UTC (link)
I almost thought you were teasing, now I'm glad I read the comments! =)

Will you be putting up anything more of the screenplay? I'd definitely be interested in seeing how one of my favourite childhood books is developed into a screenplay.

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[info]dduane
2007-01-17 11:20 pm UTC (link)
I can really only let out a scrap here and there: and after ink dries on the contract, probably nothing. But of course I'll be saving all my drafts for the DVD. :)

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[info]aaangyl
2007-01-17 11:09 pm UTC (link)
Dear Powers That Be,

Please let the actors be better than in Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King. Failing that, turn the "High Camp" meter up to 11 so I can make another drinking game.

Love,
Angyl

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[info]dduane
2007-01-17 11:19 pm UTC (link)
I think we can safely say that Benno won't be in this. ;) For the most part, the other actors can't really be blamed: the direction, uh, wasn't optimal.

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[info]krisw
2007-01-17 11:29 pm UTC (link)
oooooooooh..... shiny.....

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[info]mitchy
2007-01-17 11:31 pm UTC (link)
*fails to find her copy of SYWTBAW*

What did Nita originally say here instead of Ebay? And great update :)

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[info]nightskywarlock
2007-01-18 04:06 am UTC (link)
if memory serves, the question didn't come up...

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(no subject) - [info]serenityfallen, 2007-01-18 04:20 pm UTC

[info]seldear
2007-01-18 12:06 am UTC (link)
I'd slip into netspeak to indicate how excited I am at the prospect of a movie for a fantasy book with the screenplay that's actually written by the author of said book, but that would probably make your eyes all sore.

So I'll settle for: WOOHOO!

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[info]lilly_rose
2007-01-18 12:30 am UTC (link)
Ebay! Nita for the win!

Okay.

I greet this possibility with equal parts hope, trepidation, and sheer fan girl squee. But mostly squee. I read SYWTBAW when it first came out and I have been a fan ever since. To see these characters I've grown up with on the screen? Awesome. Bittersweet. Mindblowing.

Here's wishing!

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