OT- Honour Harrington movie

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Well, if they don't, there's going to be an awfull lot of angry people.

Plus, DW isn't exactly a starving artist - I'm pretty sure the studio would have difficulty presuring him.

[El_Phil]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
Plus, DW isn't exactly a starving artist - I'm pretty sure the studio would have difficulty presuring him.

I remember reading a line in a Puzo novel. Someone had asked a charahter how he bribed cops and judges to let him deal drugs. He replied you just find out their annual salary and then offer them five times that plus bonuses.

And in the scheme of things a 'huge' cheque for DW isn't going to be alot of money compared to the sfx budget. Throw in a promise of a % of earnings (gross if he's naive, net if ne's not) and voila! You've brought yourself an author.

[Baron Munchausen]

Actually, if he's naive he'll accept a percentage of the profits like Stan Lee did for the Spiderman movies. It's amazing that anyone in the general public, let alone the publishing business, could be so clueless that he wouldn't know movies never make a 'profit'... but Stan Lee didn't and he had to go to court to make Sony share some of the money from the Spiderman movies when he realized his share of the 'profit' was useless.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

The difficulty is that you can ultimatly only bribe someone who's willing to be bribed.

I don't know if DW fits that catagory or not, though. However, he seems to pick up good friends.

[Siirenias]

Remember that, via his writings, DW seems a bit skeptical of the media as a whole. I just love how Andrew LaFollet stares down a newsie in Fields of Dishonor

[Phoenix-D]

I'd hope they get up to Flag In Exile just to see if they have the balls to do the duel the way its done in the book. A nice lead in, a bit of standoff and..its over.