An article about a the movie in the works!!
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1littlebear514
http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment/Highland-hopes-for-Hollywood-hit.4652352....
Finally- it looks like the movie production may finally have begun!! (Well, the article says that it starts filming next year.)
I emailed Diana Gabaldon to see if she could confirm the article's accuracy... keep your fingers crossed!!! I will post an update if I hear anything.
Finally- it looks like the movie production may finally have begun!! (Well, the article says that it starts filming next year.)
I emailed Diana Gabaldon to see if she could confirm the article's accuracy... keep your fingers crossed!!! I will post an update if I hear anything.
2cal8769
I don't know if I could watch it. I loved the book so much and a movie could only be disappointing. James McAvoy and Keira Knightly Yuck!
3littlebear514
While I do think it will ultimately be disappointing, I still am hoping for something decent... hopefully with Gerard Butler. I'm hoping that they are planning on casting James McAvoy as Frank/Jack (even though I don't really like that- waay better to have him as Frank than as Jamie) and Keira Knightly as Legohaire... hopefully!
5littlebear514
This is the link: http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment/Highland-hopes-for-Hollywood-hit.4652352....
And I did hear back from an email I sent to Diana Gabaldon- a generic response, but still!
Here it is!:
Yes, Essential Productions is developing OUTLANDER as a "major motion picture," as they say. (What that means is that they want to make a two-to-two-and-a-half hour feature film.)
And yes, Randall Wallace (he of "Braveheart" fame) is writing the script.
No, I have absolutely nothing to say about the casting of the movie.
No, I have no control whatever regarding the script.
No, I don't want to have anything to do with the development of the movie.
Why not? Well, two major reasons (putting aside the fact that producers seldom want the original writer sticking his or her oar in and causing trouble):
1. I have books to write. I can't be hopping planes every other week or dropping everything to do script adjustments. That kind of thing eats your time and sucks your soul, and to no good end.
2. For nearly twenty years now, people have been saying to me, "Oh! I'm dying to see the movie of your books! But I want it to be just like it is in the book!" To which my invariable reply has been, "Yeah? Which forty pages do you want to see?"
Look, guys. A book is a book and a movie is a movie. Different media, different forms, capisce? GONE WITH THE WIND is a terrific book. It's also a really good movie. Two thirds of the book is not in the movie. It's an adaptation.
Now, adaptations can be either good or bad—they're seldom indifferent—but a skilful adaptation is just as much a feat of skill as is writing an original book or script.
Yes, I could adapt the book myself. With the net result that even if a) no one then messed with the script (and they would; that's how film works), and b) the end result was wonderful (odds of about 900:1)—ten million people would still email me about, "But how could you leave out that scene?" Or "But why did you change this character?" Or "But you left out my favorite line in the whole book!"
Do I want to listen endlessly to this kind of thing? Nope.
So. Bear in mind a couple of things here:
1. Essential Productions have an option on the book. This means that they paid us a modest amount of money and we gave them a span of time, in which they can do anything they want to, in order to put together the necessary financing and logistics to make a movie (that includes hiring a scriptwriter).
We get option requests literally every month. We decided to grant Essential Productions an option because—really simply—we like them, we think they understand the book and its central characters, and insofar as such a thing is possible, we trust them to do their best.
But it is an option. This means they don't yet have their production stuff in place. If they don't manage to put everything together, the option lapses, and the rights return to me.
2. Not all movies that are optioned actually get made. Even movies that have excellent scripts, "attached" A-list directors and recognizable stars don't always get made. Naturally, we hope this one will, because we do like the EP people and think that of all the producers who've approached us about the film rights, they have the best chance of succeeding in making a great movie.
But we'll all have to wait and see what happens next.
And that's all I can tell you.
Le meas, --Diana
P.S. Well, I can also tell you that a) yes, Gerard Butler is a fine-looking specimen of Scottish manhood, even if he is a Lowlander, but b) I think he might have difficulty playing a 22-year-old virgin.
And I did hear back from an email I sent to Diana Gabaldon- a generic response, but still!
Here it is!:
Yes, Essential Productions is developing OUTLANDER as a "major motion picture," as they say. (What that means is that they want to make a two-to-two-and-a-half hour feature film.)
And yes, Randall Wallace (he of "Braveheart" fame) is writing the script.
No, I have absolutely nothing to say about the casting of the movie.
No, I have no control whatever regarding the script.
No, I don't want to have anything to do with the development of the movie.
Why not? Well, two major reasons (putting aside the fact that producers seldom want the original writer sticking his or her oar in and causing trouble):
1. I have books to write. I can't be hopping planes every other week or dropping everything to do script adjustments. That kind of thing eats your time and sucks your soul, and to no good end.
2. For nearly twenty years now, people have been saying to me, "Oh! I'm dying to see the movie of your books! But I want it to be just like it is in the book!" To which my invariable reply has been, "Yeah? Which forty pages do you want to see?"
Look, guys. A book is a book and a movie is a movie. Different media, different forms, capisce? GONE WITH THE WIND is a terrific book. It's also a really good movie. Two thirds of the book is not in the movie. It's an adaptation.
Now, adaptations can be either good or bad—they're seldom indifferent—but a skilful adaptation is just as much a feat of skill as is writing an original book or script.
Yes, I could adapt the book myself. With the net result that even if a) no one then messed with the script (and they would; that's how film works), and b) the end result was wonderful (odds of about 900:1)—ten million people would still email me about, "But how could you leave out that scene?" Or "But why did you change this character?" Or "But you left out my favorite line in the whole book!"
Do I want to listen endlessly to this kind of thing? Nope.
So. Bear in mind a couple of things here:
1. Essential Productions have an option on the book. This means that they paid us a modest amount of money and we gave them a span of time, in which they can do anything they want to, in order to put together the necessary financing and logistics to make a movie (that includes hiring a scriptwriter).
We get option requests literally every month. We decided to grant Essential Productions an option because—really simply—we like them, we think they understand the book and its central characters, and insofar as such a thing is possible, we trust them to do their best.
But it is an option. This means they don't yet have their production stuff in place. If they don't manage to put everything together, the option lapses, and the rights return to me.
2. Not all movies that are optioned actually get made. Even movies that have excellent scripts, "attached" A-list directors and recognizable stars don't always get made. Naturally, we hope this one will, because we do like the EP people and think that of all the producers who've approached us about the film rights, they have the best chance of succeeding in making a great movie.
But we'll all have to wait and see what happens next.
And that's all I can tell you.
Le meas, --Diana
P.S. Well, I can also tell you that a) yes, Gerard Butler is a fine-looking specimen of Scottish manhood, even if he is a Lowlander, but b) I think he might have difficulty playing a 22-year-old virgin.
6MDLady
Thanks for posting!
I really can't think of anyone but Gerard Butler as jamie, but I guess I will have to live with whoever I get.
I really can't think of anyone but Gerard Butler as jamie, but I guess I will have to live with whoever I get.
7alcottacre
Sorry, but I know that if the casting stands the way they have tentatively put it with MacAvoy and Knightley, I for one will not be going to see the movie. Jamie is supposed to be a tall, blue eyed, husky Scot - MacAvoy certainly is not! And the thoughts of Knightley as Claire make me shudder.
8littlebear514
I'm REALLY hoping that they are casted for other roles- that would really suck if they are Jamie & Claire!!!
9ktleyed
Uggh, I would throw up if KK were cast as Claire - and James McAvoy for one think isn't even tall - so unlike Jamie - I see him more as an Ian or something. I was so disappointed when they cast KK as Elizabeth Bennet, it would be even worse as Claire! Let her be Geneva, if they'll go into Voyager. She'd be a perfect Geneva.
10icedtea
Very cool that it's been optioned. But, yeah, I'm with the not-KK-for-Claire-party, the girl is cast in everything. James McAvoy while I like, just isn't physically right for Jamie.
I'd say it's just the writer throwing out names/ideas though, he says "Now the country is set to star again, in a series of big-budget Hollywood adventures that could attract actors of the calibre of James McAvoy and Keira Knightley."
I'd say it's just the writer throwing out names/ideas though, he says "Now the country is set to star again, in a series of big-budget Hollywood adventures that could attract actors of the calibre of James McAvoy and Keira Knightley."
11homeschoolmom
A movie would be wonderful, but never as good as the book. I don' t think I've seen many movies that were decent interpretations of the book.
How about Kate Winset for Claire?
How about Kate Winset for Claire?
12alcottacre
#11 homeschoolmom: I agree with you about the movie never being as good as the book. On top of that, I do not know that I want Hollywood interfering with my imagination as far as what Jamie, Claire, and all the other characters look like.
13MDLady
#12 I am with you. But I can't deny that deep down I would love to see it on screen. As far as the cast...the only 2 that concern me of course, is Jamie and Claire. I would prefer that they be newcomers. That is only because everyone says that Gerard Butler is too old for the part. But it seems that everyone is forgeting that the series starts out with a 22 year old Jamie...the rest of the series has an older Jamie and Gerard Butler would be perfect!
