"Personal" question(s) to John Jarrold

I have no comment to make at this moment in time.

But I'm looking forward to seeing Iron Man. He was one of my favourite superheroes back around 1966/7, when I got fed up with DC and realised that the Marvel characters were much more interesting. From what I've seen, Downey has done a good job as Tony Stark. Of course, I'm really waiting for Dr Strange...
 
66/67 ... Steve Ditko was still drawing it back in those days, wasn't he? ( Dr Strange, that is ...)
 
There's a fairly good Doctor Strange animated film that's straight-to-DVD. It's all updated, of course, but Stephen Strange looks pretty hawt ;)

My only quibble with it is that apparently as soon as you get a bit good at sorcery, your taste in clothing takes a turn for the seriously dramatic ;)
 
I notice they've started releasing those really old Marvel cartoons on DVD; the ones where the characters are just cut-outs, moving across the scenery ...

OK, they're a bit pants ... but I still wouldn't mind having a copy! As far as I can remember, they did it with Spiderman, Captain America, Hulk, Iron Man, and Thor ...

Don't ever remember a Dr Strange animation, though. I'll try and track that one down ...
 
Did anyone see the Steve Ditko documentary on BBC Four? Finding Steve Ditko, I think it was called; Jonathan Ross, Neil Gaiman, and Alan Moore were involved ...
 
I'm sure they'll repeat it at some point ...

Anyway, it was a really good programme! Certainly renewed my interest in comics. As a result of which, I'm currently working my way through Alan Moore's stuff ...
 
Right ... enough of this procrastination!

I'm going to attempt to wean myself away from the internet for the next month, so I can get a good bit of writing done, before I go on holiday!

Have a good few weeks, everyone!
 
You have to love it both personally and professionally. As a publisher I turned down books I loved, because they had no place in the commercial market - so does every other editor, in SF and Fantasy and every other area of publishing. You acquire books with a mixture of subjective love, gut instinct and a full awareness of the market. If you don't take all that on board, you will fail.

So you don't take on a book just because it's right for the market, or just because you love it personally. It has to fulfil both criteria.
 
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Do you think there's room in the market for an, um, brain surgeon-turned-sorceror supreme? He'd be called, ah, Senior House Officer Weird. Or something. And he'd have a girlfriend with white hair who wore tights around the house all the time. She'd be called Leah. And a faithful oriental manservant called Dong. SHO Weird has an amulet called the Eye of Yamamoto round his neck.
 
Of course, I'm really waiting for Dr Strange...
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Just spotted this on Wikipedia:
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"In April 2005, Paramount Pictures acquired Doctor Strange from Miramax, with a planned budget of $50—$165 million.[27]Guillermo Del Toro was attached to direct in February 2008, approaching Neil Gaiman to write the script."
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Sounds promising!
 
Love to have Neil involved too. Had a chat with him at Eastercon, we haven't been able to sit down together over a beer for years. Although we did once spend 24 hours at a convention in the bar, drinking, talking and singing...we were both a great deal younger...
 
Sounds like an entertaining day/night ...

I think he's a great choice for the screenplay! I loved what he did with Dr Strange in "1602" ...
 
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