wordcandy.net

Dan Simmons news

The Denver Decider* has posted a great interview with Wordcandy favorite Dan Simmons. In addition to being chatty and charming and generally awesome, Mr. Simmons mentions in passing that director Guillermo Del Toro has optioned the film rights for Simmons's new book, the just-released Drood.

*Is that a George Bush reference? Seriously, I have no idea.

Labels: Dan Simmons, Movie Adaptations

Dan Simmons movie moves forward

According to the SCI FI Wire, Warner Brothers has picked Scott Derrickson (director of the recent The Day the Earth Stood Still remake) to direct the film adaptation of Dan Simmons's Hyperion series. I have no idea how the producers of this project are planning to condense two complex, zillion-page-long books into a single feature film, and their choice of director isn't filling my heart with confidence, but who knows? Maybe it'll all work out...

...but it probably won't.

Labels: Dan Simmons, Movie Adaptations

Dan Simmons remains awesome.

Dan Simmons (who is God's gift to sci-fi/fantasy fans, seriously) is taking on Charles Dickens:

Here's the publisher's synopsis:

On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever.

Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean London mere research . . . or something more terrifying?

SOLD!

Labels: Charles Dickens, Dan Simmons, Upcoming Books

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Dan Simmons news

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Dan Simmons movie moves forward

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Dan Simmons remains awesome.