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Oct. 5th, 2005 12:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Yes, that's me getting my copy of Stardust signed. Neil was a dear and very gracious, considering I was probably the three hundredth person he'd signed umpteenth copies of Anansi Boys for, as well as all sorts of other things. (In Portland, some woman asked if him signing her breasts would be one or two items. Rose City, represent. Neil, who I think must be unflappable, told her if she wanted separate signatures they would count as two items.) I'm betting he wished he had one of those damn Atwood machines right about then (bonus link: see Neil fanboy!). He looked very tired, and I wanted to take him home and feed him dinner, which is a very strange sort of thing to feel for a man old enough to be your dad.
He read from Anansi Boys and answered a few questions. Relevant points that I can remember:
* He did a presentation about Sandman to Warner Brothers to convine them not to make the movie. Sample dialogue from one script: MORPHEUS: Your puny mortal weapons cannot hurt me! I'm sure this was right before the gigantic fistfight with the Corinthian and sometime after the gigantic mechanical spider.
* Death: High Cost of Living will start production in spring or summer of next year. New Line will be distributing it, under the auspices of one of the producers of Lord of the Rings. He will most likely direct it, as Clive Barker put it, "in self defense" to make sure nobody else fucks it up.
* He's sorry he saw The Brothers Grimm instead of Batman Begins.
* Good Omens is not quite dead, but rather "lying in a glass coffin surrounded by seven dwarves." At the time Terry Gilliam pitched it to the studios, TPTB weren't quite sure what to do with a movie wherein Johnny Depp plays a demon with a British accent. Depp is still interested, so there is hope yet.
* "Todd McFarlane loses lawsuits like most people lose ballpoint pens." Ouch.
And that's all I can remember. A good time was had, and now I am braindead. Night now.
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Date: 2005-10-05 07:56 am (UTC)Ahem.
Still pissy that I didn't get to go here last night. Stupid work/school! OH CURSES I H8 MAH LYFE + WABT 2 DYE!1!!
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Date: 2005-10-05 09:03 pm (UTC)hallo my dear
Date: 2005-10-05 09:08 pm (UTC)What was the line again?
"After Good Omens, everyone thought I wrote funny books.
Then I came out with American Gods, which was a very serious story.
People came to realize that while I wrote about the Apocalypse, Terry Pratchett followed behind, like a pixie, inserting humor and footnotes along the way."
Something to that degree ♥