Comments | dtissagirl: listen to the color of your dreams

dtissagirl

listen to the color of your dreams

Jan 13, 2007 00:08

OH. MY. GOD.

The Sci-Fi channel is developing The Diamond Age into a mini-series. Adapted by Neal Stephenson himself. Produced by GEORGE CLOONEY.

I... I think I died and went to geeky heaven on the expectation alone.

OMG YAY SQUEEEEE!

squee!, neal stephenson, george clooney for president, geeks are love, books: the diamond age

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hollydb January 13 2007, 02:23:44 UTC

I got to read that in my cyborg's class last year...

dtissagirl January 13 2007, 02:30:12 UTC

Neal Stephenson is pretty much my favorite writer in the world. Just the fact that he's writing the adaptation himself makes me squee with glee. :)

anonymous January 13 2007, 03:23:54 UTC

oooh. That could be very cool.

hecatehatesthat January 13 2007, 07:03:35 UTC

OH MY GOD YES THE MOUSE ARMY IN WIDESCREEN!!

Bring it ON!

dtissagirl January 15 2007, 15:41:18 UTC

I KNOW, RIGHT? OMG Jill, this is gonna be so awesomely awesome I MIGHT DIE. :)

ispahan January 13 2007, 16:22:49 UTC

That's really exciting! I'm currently working my way through everything Neal Stephenson's every written, I think The Diamond Age might be next in line now.

dtissagirl January 15 2007, 15:42:26 UTC

Oooh, that's great to know! :) I love the way he writes, and while I've always been wary of the idea of his books being adapted into movies, I'm pretty cool with them turning into mini-series. That way they have time to develop the storyline well.

ispahan January 16 2007, 22:11:11 UTC

I've just finished Cryptonomicon and the sheer amount of detail in the book means it would probably never work as a two-hour movie. They'd have to leave out a huge amount of the plot and really strip it down. I could see them working better as a mini-series, for exactly the same reason you mentioned, more time for the story... and if Stephenson's doing it himself... it might rock hard.

dtissagirl January 17 2007, 13:29:48 UTC

Yeah, it's just like Snow Crash and all of its parallel storylines -- it would never work as a feature film, but I guess it could be made into a longer medium.

I just love the fact that Neal himself is involved in The Diamond Age adaptation, that makes it A LOT easier to anticipate. :)

treacle_a January 13 2007, 17:55:25 UTC

And Stephenson is adapting it himself!!!!

::joins you in geeky insanity of joyjoyjoy::

dtissagirl January 15 2007, 15:43:45 UTC

YES. I don't think anyone else could do it properly anyway, but it's just great to know it's happening. And as as mini-series, which means enough TIME to develop the storyline the right way. SQUEE! :)