Jess Mahler on Nostr: #WritersCoffeeClub 27. If Hollywood wanted to adapt one of your books but change ...
#WritersCoffeeClub 27. If Hollywood wanted to adapt one of your books but change almost everything, would you do it?
I think I was in highschool when I saw The BeastMaster movie. I fell in love with the movie and found and began regularly watching the show as well.
Eventually I took note of the 'based on the books by...' at the bottom of the screen, and that was my introduction to Andre Norton, the Grand Dame of scifi. Who to this day is one of my fave authors I go back to again and again.
I have NEVER before or since since a book butchered the way The Beastmaster was. For anyone interested who doesn't care about spoilers, I'll go into a rant about it in a reply.
Anyway. I go into this story to explain (with some exception) why I don't stress about what Hollywood would do with my books, as long as they pay me.
As the old saying goes, there is no such thing as bad publicity, and any Hollywood movie will get my name and work before millions of people I could never read otherwise. If even the smallest fraction of them check out my work based on the movie, I'll have multiplied my readership by a significant number.
The exception is primarily that if they undermine the basic intent of the story (make Milthryth submissive to Reimond in an adaptation of Bound for instance) I would be LIVID. But if they want to do that there are literally a thousand books that already tell that story and I can't imagine why they'd want Bound instead of one of those other books.
I think I was in highschool when I saw The BeastMaster movie. I fell in love with the movie and found and began regularly watching the show as well.
Eventually I took note of the 'based on the books by...' at the bottom of the screen, and that was my introduction to Andre Norton, the Grand Dame of scifi. Who to this day is one of my fave authors I go back to again and again.
I have NEVER before or since since a book butchered the way The Beastmaster was. For anyone interested who doesn't care about spoilers, I'll go into a rant about it in a reply.
Anyway. I go into this story to explain (with some exception) why I don't stress about what Hollywood would do with my books, as long as they pay me.
As the old saying goes, there is no such thing as bad publicity, and any Hollywood movie will get my name and work before millions of people I could never read otherwise. If even the smallest fraction of them check out my work based on the movie, I'll have multiplied my readership by a significant number.
The exception is primarily that if they undermine the basic intent of the story (make Milthryth submissive to Reimond in an adaptation of Bound for instance) I would be LIVID. But if they want to do that there are literally a thousand books that already tell that story and I can't imagine why they'd want Bound instead of one of those other books.