Film in the works- Altered carbon

[Warren]

I was wondering about Richard K. Morgans book becoming a movie. So I did some checking. You could run through a couple sleeves just waiting for them to finally make the film. This will the the 3rd try. I think he originally sold the film rights for about a million dollars. I hope they do a good job of it.
"ALTERED CARBON film rights re-optioned"

http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2012/...

[terpkristin]

Hmm. Mayhaps we should read that one for a SF pick sometime. It was up for voting once but it didn't win. I don't remember what did...might have been Flashforward.

[Aloha]

I second that.

[Tamahome]

Maybe we can vote on 'past losers'.

[Warren]

From his web page- "also this month, look out for an official announcement and status update on the Altered Carbon film deal – some very  impressive names attached (none of which I’m at liberty to divulge right now, but watch this space….) - meanwhile, Market Forces is in informal development with Forward Films"
http://www.richardkmorgan.com/news/80...

[Keith]

"Optioned" means basically nothing.

Personally, I think Altered Carbon should be made into a series by the same people who brought us the Spartacus show.

[Warren]

Keith wrote: ""Optioned" means basically nothing.

What? After a mere ten years they're going to make make the movie
;-} Point taken- you probably shouldn't plan a world cruise based on a book being optioned. I agree, its going to hard to compress the book into a film. There are three books in that series so they have plenty of material.