Bill Ward's blog of all things genre
Michael Mann is badass. Bernard Cornwell is badass. Henry V was badass. So I’m pretty happy to hear that Mann has officially been attached to a project to bring Bernard Cornwell’s novel of Agincourt to the silver screen. I suspect the result might just be . . . badass. I have not read the book, [...]
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Apparently the start of some FX work has heralded the — still somewhat distant — coming of a film based on William Gibson’s seminal 1984 novel, Neuromancer, so says a brief article at Bleeding Cool. This is among my favorite novels (as anyone who has read my review of Neuromancer can no doubt infer), and [...]
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Summit Entertainment, the people that inflicted the Twilight Saga films on the world, is getting the rights to make an Ender’s Game film — hell, a bunch of them — and it seems this long awaited adaptation will finally happen. They are apparently aiming for a YA-style franchise to compete with the upcoming Hunger Games, [...]
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The last of the House featurettes from HBO’s Game of Thrones: House Lannister. Go Tyrion!
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Game of Thrones debuted last Sunday and my first impressions are positive (and HBO must be pretty happy, since they’ve already renewed Game of Thrones for a second season). I’ll probably get some thoughts together on the series after I’ve absorbed a few more episodes, but in the meantime I’ll just incubate some dragon eggs [...]
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Here is a nice little character summary (with pics) posted at the LA Times of the major players in HBO’s Game of Thrones, which debuts tonight. Great if you haven’t read the book — and even for everyone that has, but needs a refresher (like me!). Looks like a great cast, particularly Sean Bean, Charles [...]
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