A rather fine idea to raise money for Comic Relief, involving the creation of a book from vaguely amusing old blog posts in less than a week.
It’s like Victor Frankenstein, only with humour.
If you’re from or living in the UK, find out how to recycle your old blog posts for charity here.
And remember, Igor, not the criminal brain.
Some more show bibles have appeared (or re-appeared in the case of Dark Skies) on the Internet since my original bible round-up, so I thought I’d better let you have a look at them too.
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven – Bryce Zabel
Dark Skies – Bryce Zabel and Brent Friedman
Callan – James Mitchell
And if you’d rather have dead trees (and who wouldn’t, really?) you can also find bibles in the following books:
The Making of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Phase II
thirtysomething stories
The Making of Star Trek
Though of them all, it seems that only the DS9 one is actually in print at the moment.
And when I say International, what I actually mean is In The UK.
In 2006, a bunch of brave souls attempted to set up a screenwriting festival outside of the US mainland. While by all accounts there were some teething troubles, it generally did well enough to return for an encore this year.
It’s divvied up into two parts, one for n00bs and one for pros.
Last time, I was too broke to go to the pro days, and didn’t think it worthwhile going to the beginners area. Which was a good decision by all accounts. They claim to have fixed it this time by sprinkling more pro stuff into the n00b days, and by opening the pro days up to everyone.
So I guess the only question is, just the pro days, or go to all four?
Decisions, decisions…
Frankly barking employee orientation video sneaked out of the Universal backlot. Twisted genius from the boys behind South Park.
And you know what?
It is a scary black tower.
You can see who they are here.
As Phill Barron has posted his unsuccessful treatment on the web. I feel duty bound to release my own for your amusement.
It should be noted that mine was rejected sooner than Phill’s, who made it to the top ten.
Suffice it to say I came out much earlier.
Anyhow. Enjoy.
Well, as much as you can, anyway.
How happy was I?
The script for Heat Vision and Jack, as previously recommended by this site.
Also available at The Weekly Script are pilots for Desperate Housewives and Bewitched. And there’s plenty more where they came from.
Get reading. This is work, remember?
From The Hollywood Reporter: It seems that MGM is the latest studio to jump into the D2DVD market.
Interesting news.
And just possibly related to the recent decision to create two Direct to DVD Stargate movies. MGM owns the franchise, whose TV run is now coming to an end after ten years on two networks.
It’s a big hitter, with a solid fan-base – which translates into sales. Don’t be surprised to see this as part of the launch lineup.
David Bishop edited 2000AD seven years ago, before moving on to fresh pastures.
Before doing so, he wrote a rough guide to putting together a weekly comic as reference material for his successors.
If you’re at all interested in the technical aspects of running a comic, this is a fascinating read.
