Vampire Academy trailer: I am in the wrong business

Thu, Jan 23, 2014

I should have been spending the last 16 years writing young adult fantasy novels set at a school for supernatural beings who live secretly among us muggles.

What an idiot I’ve been.

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Danielm80

Thu, Jan 23, 2014 4:26pm

What a great idea! The writer of Heathers and the director of Mean Girls teamed up to make the ultimate high-school satire, with vampires as a central metaphor. I hope the studio doesn’t promote it as a derivative supernatural romance.

RogerBW

Thu, Jan 23, 2014 4:43pm

Yeah, then you could sell the film rights and watch the thing nosedive out of cinemas. There really isn’t much second-mover advantage: City of Bones and Beautiful Creatures both just barely made their budgets back, and half of that goes to the cinemas. This one? It’ll have to be amazing even to be noticed.

Danielm80

reply to RogerBW

Thu, Jan 23, 2014 4:50pm

I think she should write about a support group for the ex-girlfriends of the male characters in other fantasy novels.

MaryAnn Johanson

reply to RogerBW

Thu, Jan 23, 2014 5:02pm

I’d laugh all the way to the bank, and then after.

RogerBW

reply to MaryAnn Johanson

Thu, Jan 23, 2014 6:45pm

As long as you weren’t on a percentage. No idea what sort of deals YA writers are being offered on film rights these days.

MaryAnn Johanson

reply to RogerBW

Thu, Jan 23, 2014 10:00pm

Forget the film rights. These books have sold millions of copies.

Dr. Rocketscience

reply to RogerBW

Fri, Jan 24, 2014 5:35am

If any of these YA authors are getting percentage of the net (only really top tier get points on the gross), they need to have their agents fired… and hanged.

Hank Graham

Thu, Jan 23, 2014 6:46pm

In 1976 I was doing a *very* successful film review show on the public radio station in Houston, and my best friend had a brainstorm: I should take this to TV!

But who’d want to watch some dork review movies, I asked. Wouldn’t it be boring to have some know-it-all lecturing people about what films to watch?
Easy! he said. Just get another reviewer, and have the two of you argue about what’s worthwhile or not.
That, I said, is the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard of for a tv show.