Books Into Movies
May 23rd, 2006Here are some humorous ads promoting books [via AdJab]. The tagline: “Read it Before Hollywood Does”. I’m not sure if they’re real, but they’re still funny.
On a related note, I am now reading Richard K. Morgan’s Woken Furies. I am enjoying it so far, and I noticed from the author’s bio that he seems to be making a decent living from optioning his books to movie studios. I wonder what percentage of options get filmed and released.
It must be a very small number, but also a difficult number to quantify. For example, Michael Chabon’s Mysteries of Pittsburgh, a 1988 novel, is just beginning to get the film treatment 18 years later. And 2000’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay could be next, though we’ll see how long that takes..