Shugufa
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Michael Grant:
Hey Mr. Grant! My friend Tyler and I are major fans of your "Gone" book series! We both had a competition two years ago to finish the books in that series before each other. We have been anxious and hoping that eventually, the series will become a show or a series of movies that we may be able to watch. We really wanted to know where you got the idea to write these novels and how you came up with the characters??
Michael Grant
The possible TV series is still alive and well and supposedly making slow progress. But I honestly don't know anything but what they tell me.
The idea - like most ideas - just sort of popped into my head. It was a combination of the TV show LOST, the Stephen King novel THE STAND, and Disney movies. Why Disney movies? Because what's the thing that unites virtually all Disney movies? Dead parents, that's what.
Disney is notorious for eliminating unwanted parents. Aladdin is an orphan, Jasmine has lost her mother, Mermaid likewise, Nemo ditto. The old dude in Up? Dead wife. Bambi has a mother, so they shoot her. And I thought, hey, why play around? Why not simply eliminate ALL parents in one fell swoop? Take that, Disney!
The idea - like most ideas - just sort of popped into my head. It was a combination of the TV show LOST, the Stephen King novel THE STAND, and Disney movies. Why Disney movies? Because what's the thing that unites virtually all Disney movies? Dead parents, that's what.
Disney is notorious for eliminating unwanted parents. Aladdin is an orphan, Jasmine has lost her mother, Mermaid likewise, Nemo ditto. The old dude in Up? Dead wife. Bambi has a mother, so they shoot her. And I thought, hey, why play around? Why not simply eliminate ALL parents in one fell swoop? Take that, Disney!
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Hanzel
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Michael Grant:
Hey Big fan of your books especially the Gone series with all its amazing character and thrilling story. Which character was your favorite and least favorite to write? Also how did you decide which powers each character would get like Sam and Cain for instance? Did you ever just give a character powers just to advance the story or did you always know which character will have powers?
Scarlet Benoit
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Michael Grant:
In the first book in the gone series when Sam goes into the burning building, it says that the little girl can shoot fire out of her hands, just like Sam. Yet in the last book they remark on how no one has the same power. Is this a plot hole or mistake or was this statement just wrong?
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