Recidiva...

[Samandiriel]

Where are you.........check in......I miss your face.

Stella is missing you, so it Sal and Cloudy and all your fans.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Where are you.........check in......I miss your face.

Stella is missing you, so it Sal and Cloudy and all your fans.

Indeed, Sam speaks for me.

 

[AchtungNight]

I miss Recidiva too. I would love comments from her on some recent stories she helped inspire. I even sent her a letter to that effect. I wonder where she is.

 

[Recidiva]

Hi

I've been hiding.

Achtung, thank you for your letter, I did read it, and yes, I did not respond.

It's that whole hiding thing.

 

[cloudy]

Hi

I've been hiding.

Achtung, thank you for your letter, I did read it, and yes, I did not respond.

It's that whole hiding thing.

 

[Recidiva]

Hey sweetheart!

Thank you thank you!

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

Hi

I've been hiding.

Achtung, thank you for your letter, I did read it, and yes, I did not respond.

It's that whole hiding thing.

DIVA!!!

sorry you've been hiding sweety. I would have looked in the underwear drawer, but that seemed kind of obvious.

 

[Recidiva]

DIVA!!!

sorry you've been hiding sweety. I would have looked in the underwear drawer, but that seemed kind of obvious.

I love the lavender sachets...

And the cedar smell...

Okay, now I'm sounding far more organized than I actually am.

 

[cloudy]

Hey sweetheart!

Thank you thank you!

I'm only around a few minutes a day lately, too. Not that I'm all that busy and popular, but I've been lost in my books for awhile.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

I love the lavender sachets...

And the cedar smell...

Okay, now I'm sounding far more organized than I actually am.

Huh, I usually check the underwear drawer for sexy things like leather thongs and lace boy shorts, and missing friends.


Who knew lavendar sachets and cedar would go in there too. Must be a girl thing.

 

[Recidiva]

I'm only around a few minutes a day lately, too. Not that I'm all that busy and popular, but I've been lost in my books for awhile.

I've started rereading everything I have...I haven't gotten that far, but I have been happily immersed in Tolkien and looking forward to Pratchett and Gabaldon and Heinlein.

 

[Recidiva]

Huh, I usually check the underwear drawer for sexy things like leather thongs and lace boy shorts, and missing friends.


Who knew lavendar sachets and cedar would go in there too. Must be a girl thing.

You'd be...so disappointed in my drawer.

 

[cloudy]

I've started rereading everything I have...I haven't gotten that far, but I have been happily immersed in Tolkien and looking forward to Pratchett and Gabaldon and Heinlein.

OOH! Knew there was something I wanted to tell you! Outlander is supposed to start production this spring, and be released in 2011.

SQUEEEEE!

 

[Recidiva]

OOH! Knew there was something I wanted to tell you! Outlander is supposed to start production this spring, and be released in 2011.

SQUEEEEE!

No Way!

Cast? Who is the cast?

Ohmigod! *hops up and down*

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

You'd be...so disappointed in my drawer.

In that case, I'll grab Cloudy and we go shopping for more sachets and cedar. She can do amazing things with sachets

 

[Recidiva]

In that case, I'll grab Cloudy and we go shopping for more sachets and cedar. She can do amazing things with sachets

If ever anybody could be given a budget to remake my life, I'd be happy if it went to you guys and I were left entirely out of it. I'd make out well in that deal.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

If ever anybody could be given a budget to remake my life, I'd be happy if it went to you guys and I were left entirely out of it. I'd make out well in that deal.

we'd be like Extreme Home Make Over, only not nearly as fucking annoying as Ty Pendleton, and half the stuff we did could never be aired, and instead of hiding your new life behind a big bus, we'd hide it behind a pack of elephants and yell "ELEPHANT DRIVERS!!! MOVE THOSE ELEPHANTS!"

 

[cloudy]

No Way!

Cast? Who is the cast?

Ohmigod! *hops up and down*

I don't know! IMDB has it listed, but you have to have an IMDBpro account to see the information, damn it. Everybody seems to be screaming for Gerard Butler as Jamie, and he'd be good, but not sure he could play a 22-year-old.

This is what it says on Diana Gabaldon's website:

Movie News Update

I’ve been getting a number of enquiries, since press releases have started appearing about the movie production of Outlander—excited folk asking “Is it true?” “When?” and (I hope you’ll pardon a brief roll of the eyes here), “Who would you cast?” (I couldn’t begin to guess how many thousands of times I’ve been asked that over the last twenty years.)

It’s very early days as yet, but I’ll answer what I can.

Yes, Essential Productions —is developing Outlander as a “major motion picture.” (What that means is that they want to make a two-to-two-and-a-half hour feature film.)

And yes, Randall Wallace (the talented gentleman who wrote both Braveheart and Pearl Harbor—hey, ancient Scots and—WWII, how about that?) is writing the script.

No, I have absolutely nothing to say about the casting of the movie. The production people do occasionally ask me what I think of this or that person, but this is simple politeness on their part.

No, I have no control whatever regarding the script.

No, I really don’t want to have anything personal 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 and a family to be with. I can’t be hopping planes every other week or dropping everything else at a moment’s notice to do script adjustments. (I do know that all movie scripts go through many (many, many) iterations, rewrites, etc. in the process of development and filming.) 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 the only possible reply is, “Yeah? Which forty pages do you want to see?”

Obviously, a book of the size and complexity of Oulander won’t fit into a two-hour movie. But it might be possible for a good movie based on the book to exist. 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!”

I’d really rather write a new novel.

Now, do 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 (my agents and I) get a lot of option requests. We decided to grant Essential Productions an option because 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 to make it a great movie.

But it is an option.

2) Not all movies that are optioned actually get made. Even movies that have excellent scripts, 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

 

[Recidiva]

we'd be like Extreme Home Make Over, only not nearly as fucking annoying as Ty Pendleton, and half the stuff we did could never be aired, and instead of hiding your new life behind a big bus, we'd hide it behind a pack of elephants and yell "ELEPHANT DRIVERS!!! MOVE THOSE ELEPHANTS!"

And I'd get to be on a runway, like on "How Do I Look"

I should start dressing in poodle skirts so I'm eligible for "crazy lady makeover money."

 

[Recidiva]

I don't know! IMDB has it listed, but you have to have an IMDBpro account to see the information, damn it. Everybody seems to be screaming for Gerard Butler as Jamie, and he'd be good, but not sure he could play a 22-year-old.

This is what it says on Diana Gabaldon's website:

I've always thought Gerard would be a good choice.

Oh please...oh PLEASE.

But then again, Gerard is unlikely to be able to begin the series and end the series looking youthful

 

[cloudy]

I've always thought Gerard would be a good choice.

Oh please...oh PLEASE.

But then again, Gerard is unlikely to be able to begin the series and end the series looking youthful

The seventh in the series, An Echo in the Bone, is supposed to be released in September this year. I'm so glad! I don't want it to end yet.

 

[rgraham666]

Hi Diva. Good to see you.

 

[Recidiva]

The seventh in the series, An Echo in the Bone, is supposed to be released in September this year. I'm so glad! I don't want it to end yet.

Wow.

...this time the Loch Ness monster is back and pissed that she only got two paragraphs.

And the stones...they are asking for a cut of the profits...

Yeah...

 

[Recidiva]

Hi Diva. Good to see you.

Hey there!

Good to see you too!

(this is fun. missed folks.)

That's one of the main benefits to hiding. Coming back out.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

And I'd get to be on a runway, like on "How Do I Look"

I should start dressing in poodle skirts so I'm eligible for "crazy lady makeover money."

Genius and insanity are but a hairbreadths apart.