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Read quite a few of his books back in the day. He is one of the great as-yet-untapped writers by Hollywood. I messaged him on Facebook about The Wolf's Hour, which was at one time optioned for a film, but he informed me that nobody knows what's going on with that, sadly.
 

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Read quite a few of his books back in the day. He is one of the great as-yet-untapped writers by Hollywood. I messaged him on Facebook about The Wolf's Hour, which was at one time optioned for a film, but he informed me that nobody knows what's going on with that, sadly.
I keep praying that Mine will get filmed! I just can't fathom why it hasn't been done yet.
 
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I keep praying that Mine will get filmed! I just can't fathom why it hasn't been done yet.

Or Stinger, which shares one plot element with Under the Dome.

I dunno man. A lot of these guys like McCammon, Ramsey Campbell, Dan Simmons, they put out some great stuff. But Hollywood is just so fixated on a quick cash grab that they're not looking around for new material. It's all prequels, reboots, remakes, whatever.

Not to digress from the thread too much here, but have you read Simmons' Children of the Night? The segments "Tales of Blood & Iron" are early tales of Vlad Tepes before and after his vampiric transformation. That material is ripe for a film, or a series.
 

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Or Stinger, which shares one plot element with Under the Dome.

I dunno man. A lot of these guys like McCammon, Ramsey Campbell, Dan Simmons, they put out some great stuff. But Hollywood is just so fixated on a quick cash grab that they're not looking around for new material. It's all prequels, reboots, remakes, whatever.

Not to digress from the thread too much here, but have you read Simmons' Children of the Night? The segments "Tales of Blood & Iron" are early tales of Vlad Tepes before and after his vampiric transformation. That material is ripe for a film, or a series.
I've read all of Dan Simmons' books. He is one of my favorite authors. I started the thread 'Dan Simmons Anyone' in the 'Bred Any Good Books?' column. I read the first 4 Hyperion books but they're not my cup of tea. Speaking of which- Hyperion has been in 'development' for years. At one time Leonardo DiCaprio was to star with James Cameron to direct but it must have fallen through. That's LaLa Land for ya....
 

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I've read all of Dan Simmons' books. He is one of my favorite authors. I started the thread 'Dan Simmons Anyone' in the 'Bred Any Good Books?' column. I read the first 4 Hyperion books but they're not my cup of tea. Speaking of which- Hyperion has been in 'development' for years. At one time Leonardo DiCaprio was to star with James Cameron to direct but it must have fallen through. That's LaLa Land for ya....

Speaking of Dan Simmons, I highly recommend Fires of Eden. If you've not yet had the pleasure of reading it, you're going to look at one of the main characters and ruminate on what a prophet sai Simmons is. He didn't need any dang jawbone, either. ;)
 

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Or Stinger, which shares one plot element with Under the Dome.

I dunno man. A lot of these guys like McCammon, Ramsey Campbell, Dan Simmons, they put out some great stuff. But Hollywood is just so fixated on a quick cash grab that they're not looking around for new material. It's all prequels, reboots, remakes, whatever.

Not to digress from the thread too much here, but have you read Simmons' Children of the Night? The segments "Tales of Blood & Iron" are early tales of Vlad Tepes before and after his vampiric transformation. That material is ripe for a film, or a series.

I've read all of Dan Simmons' books. He is one of my favorite authors. I started the thread 'Dan Simmons Anyone' in the 'Bred Any Good Books?' column. I read the first 4 Hyperion books but they're not my cup of tea. Speaking of which- Hyperion has been in 'development' for years. At one time Leonardo DiCaprio was to star with James Cameron to direct but it must have fallen through. That's LaLa Land for ya....
Seems I read earlier today Summer of Night was recently sold to the movies. Can’t remember where I saw that, though. In the wake of IT’s success, maybe it’ll happen. :)
 

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Seems I read earlier today Summer of Night was recently sold to the movies. Can’t remember where I saw that, though. In the wake of IT’s success, maybe it’ll happen. :)
The basic storyline in SON is almost the same as in It. When the book was published Simmons got some flak for that. Simmons does a 'Hitchcock' (pertaining to what happens to a character in Psycho) in this book, too!
 

kingricefan

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Speaking of Dan Simmons, I highly recommend Fires of Eden. If you've not yet had the pleasure of reading it, you're going to look at one of the main characters and ruminate on what a prophet sai Simmons is. He didn't need any dang jawbone, either. ;)
Fires Of Eden isn't one of my favorite Simmons books. Maybe I should do a re-read?
 

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Again, I know I'm digressing from the thread here, so forgive me. Thanks for the book recommendations guys. I've been checking out Simmons' Summer of Night on Amazon, and I see it's subtitled Season of Horror Book 1. Is this an ongoing series?
 

kingricefan

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Again, I know I'm digressing from the thread here, so forgive me. Thanks for the book recommendations guys. I've been checking out Simmons' Summer of Night on Amazon, and I see it's subtitled Season of Horror Book 1. Is this an ongoing series?
He did write somewhat of a sequel called A Winter's Haunting.
 

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Today the mailman delivered my Subterranean Press signed limited edition of Swan Song. It's gorgeous! I want to do a re-read but I won't read this edition, I'll settle for my paperback as this new edition weighs a ton! ;-D
Oooooh Jealous here!
I wanted to get one of those, but they had sold out the pre-orders by the time I looked! :)