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Movie companies now work on the theory that if you have a script, will it one make them pots of money and two can they have merchandise with it..
Gone are the days where people want a film that is what it is, they want the lunchbox and the action figure.
And with most hollywood budgets even for a good indie film, starting at $20 million dollars.. For a company to stump up a huge amout on a film that may not make the money back is laughable...
So before we all start thinking yeah Nick Stone film, just remember they wanted to make bravo two zero as a hollywood film once, but if memory serves me, they wanted an american hero...
And when you think of how they not only change history, king arthur hahaha roman yeah oh look flying pigs, and U571 oh look we got the enigma machine and won the war on our own...
So if we do have a nick stone film let it be british..
>>By Xander Cage (Tuesday, 19 Oct 2004 15:56)
Bri/Xander, I left this part out of former article:
"Miramax Films has snapped up four of McNab’s bestsellers and hope to turn Stone into an action hero franchise to match James Bond.
Like Bond, Stone will have a series of glamorous and duplicitous girlfriends. But where 007 escapes a tight corner with dry wit and a raised eyebrow, Stone will be packing some heavy ammunition."
I am lighting a candle each time I go to church and pray it is a joke.
>>By Lynn (Tuesday, 19 Oct 2004 17:04)
Hi All,
I was looking around again.. love to just read what everyone has to say when I get time. Someone asked a question about Deep Black being released in the US the same time as in UK and that is no. Amazon.com does not even show it yet. Not to surprising seeing I've found little to known of AM's book on store shelves. They don't know what they are missing. So again will have to order through Amazon.co.uk for his new book. Can't wait it's been a long break since Dark Winter which I found so sad.
However, I have a question does anyone know what Boy Soldier 1 is. It's a book listed on Amazon.co.uk and it's not been released. So not sure what it is about.
It's not due to be release until May 2005. I hope that means there is another book after Deep Black.
>>By silly_girl87 (Tuesday, 19 Oct 2004 18:04)
<<Like Bond, Stone will have a series of glamorous and duplicitous girlfriends. >>
Huh? What books are they reading?? If my memory serves me, I can only remember ONE duplicitous girlfriend. Now he's going to have several? Glamorous ones, at that?
Here's my thought for the day: STICK TO THE ORIGINAL STORYLINE: A witty Brit with lots of grit, homemade kit, and NOT Brad Pitt!
Lynn, better light another candle for me. I don't make it to church all that often....
>>By Majorette (Tuesday, 19 Oct 2004 19:36)
Hi Silly Girl,
about boy soldier 1, its co-authored with a guy called robert rigby according to amazon.co.uk I was wondering if its the childrens author robert Rigby, who has written the byker grove series of books, and i'm wondering if this is Andy first book a new series aimed at younger readers, as i believe chris ryan has a series of books out for younger readers.. Wow an sas harry potter haha could be good.
>>By Xander Cage (Tuesday, 19 Oct 2004 19:38)
Yes on books for younger readers:
"Another author making a lucrative move into children's books is Andy McNab, the former SAS serviceman turned thriller writer. With scriptwriter Robert Rigby, he is to produce four action adventure books for teenagers, beginning with Young Blood, due out from Doubleday in spring 2005. McNab's rival, Chris Ryan, has already produced several titles in a teenage series called Alpha Force. Zenith Entertainment is planning to turn the McNab novels into a television series."
Apparently Young Blood has been translated to Boy Soldier 1.. Or the series is called Boy Soldier, Young Blood being first in series (just a thought)
Elendar, on the interviews: we have a lot of links that have been posted here in 212 pages, so if you don't mind I flork you where you can find them.
>>By Lynn (Tuesday, 19 Oct 2004 21:04)
Thanks, Lynn!! That was nice of you :) It can be a great deal to read all the pages, you have written already, even if they are much fun and there are much information in them..
I don't believe that they can or will betray Nick Stone like that. He's is the opposite of James Bond. More realistic, and I like him as he is in the books..
Oh, and btw... Did you cry at the end of Dark Winter? :(
>>By Elendar (Tuesday, 19 Oct 2004 21:18)
Hi Silly_girl, in a live chat (Nov 20, 2003) our Bethan answered this question:
"Does Dark Winter mean the end of Nick Stone and you'll start something else?"
Answer from Andy McNab:
"No, not at all, there's another two books on their way - and then who knows what will happen to him? I have to be careful not to make him too caring and sharing, because if he goes around hugging trees he wouldn't be able to do the work he does!"
Now...eerrr.. this tree hugging thing is a knotty question with me but I won't get into that (damnit, tree hugging done right is NOT for softies) and Majorette.. I certainly will but..."God always answers our prayers, but sometimes the answer is no" (Author Unknown) hehe
>>By Lynn (Tuesday, 19 Oct 2004 21:20)
You're welcome Elendar and about Dark Winter..eeeerr...duh duh duh.. ... nothing I'd admit on a public board ;-)
>>By Lynn (Tuesday, 19 Oct 2004 21:58)
Lynn, and others too,
In reference to B 's comment about NS movies, Being a vetre of many upon many book signings. Ok maybe 20, the question always comes from the audience, if there is one, "When is the movie being made?" Often the Author stumbles over the podium and announces that allthough the rights to the story have been bought by so-and -so they have little plans to produce the movie.
That being said the author can make an easy 100,000 dollars on that premise alone. And most times the author at that point has no say in what may really come about if a movie were made IE: Patriot Games by Tom Clancy, the Hollyweirds destoyed one of the best endings in a book ever written. In my humble opinion. Oh well.
So I think Dark Winter and Remote Control should be movies. And I will learn my Brit accent and be Nick ol' boy.
Sorry for the Typos but I ain't fighting this format, to lazy of me!
>>By DTO (Tuesday, 19 Oct 2004 23:13)
Sorry, all, missed the board recently, I was out buying my "Friday Night Lights," "Shall We Dance," and "The Forgotten," (current numbers 2, 4, and 7 in U.S. box office) action figures and lunch boxes.
I was also grieving, having recently found out that Hollywood producers expect a return on their investments.
I'd make a Nick Stone-related comment, but I cannot possibly fathom the depth of his character as I am not British.
Gotta go now, watching "EastEnders" over and over in hopes of cultural salvation.
>>By Just Jon (Wednesday, 20 Oct 2004 01:18)
Oh i see Just Jon, thats your attempt at humour, i'm sorry us brits are a bit on the slow side when it comes to american humour, mainly due to the fact, you guys dont really have any... I wont really waste my time explaining sarcasm or irony to you..
because like all yanks who think that they are great at everything sadly according to one of your fellow country men in yesterdays paper, that is not true...;0)
You play sports , and then have a world series and guess what, this is the ironic, or moronic part, you call it a world series, but no one esle playes in it..How Bizzare.
And what sport do you play rounders, oh sorry baseball we call it rounders here and we usually finish playing it when we aropund the age of six.
i would go on and on and explain the english langauge and the finer points of history, but frankly i'm bored and cant be bothered...
So have a nice day as you say and i reckomend the work of PG woodhouse to you, might help ...
>>By Xander Cage (Wednesday, 20 Oct 2004 16:57)
Wow. A snowstorm in the desert. That's what I call an unexpected turn of events. Bravo Two Zero is an exciting book. Darn it. I think I'm going to have to read them all. What have you people done to me?
>>By Mikey_Canuck (Wednesday, 20 Oct 2004 17:22)
We ?? All we did was talk about a fabulous writer and his matterial.
But we are glad to be of help to you :-)
>>By Ninjawoman (Wednesday, 20 Oct 2004 17:43)
Mikey says: Darn it. I think I'm going to have to read them all.
a-i-b says: And the downside is....?!?!?
Mikey says: What have you people done to me?
a-i-b says: Aaaaah, another successful mission!
Fanx, Mikey! You've made my day! :oD
>>By am-i-binned (Wednesday, 20 Oct 2004 17:48)
<<I think I'm going to have to read them all. >>
ahhhh, to be in your position right now. So much to look forward to; so much to anticipate. I wish I could read them all "for the first time" again, just one more time.
>>By Majorette (Wednesday, 20 Oct 2004 17:49)
Xander... anything ppl say is just words, it's the intention that counts and I know Just Jon well enough to know he did not have bad intentions. I'm sure you don't either.
Mikey anything we have done to you..it was done with pleasure ;-)
Hope you enjoy too
>>By Lynn (Wednesday, 20 Oct 2004 18:35)
LOL, Xander...
Sarcasm exemplified! Ironically, I have a follow-up yank question... ;o)
>> i reckomend the work of PG woodhouse <<
Are you talking PG Wodehouse as in Jeeves and Wooster?
Every once in a while US Public Broadcasting Stations have the good sense and sensibility to import Brit programs, maybe in the hope that we can get past any pride and prejudice. It was PBS where I first encountered Bertie Wooster (Stephen Fry, an excellent Oscar Wilde, and who also narrates JK Rowling's books) and Jeeves (Hugh Laurie, a Blackadder veteran amongst other great shows as well!)... anyway... lots of incidental tangents -- always great grinning!!!
>>By am-i-binned (Wednesday, 20 Oct 2004 18:43)
To F- Troops best researchers,
When is Dark Winter being released in the USA?
Anyone?
>>By DTO (Wednesday, 20 Oct 2004 23:40)
Hmm... read all of AM's books all over again? You guys really have too much time on your hands! :-)
Mikey:
Snowstorm in the desert? Yeah, well.... as it happens, most (if not all) of the Regiment "who should be in the know" expected rolling sand dunes after the other. How funny isn't it, that there are *different* kinds of deserts? *gasp* Who would've thunk it?!
The thing that makes me laugh the most (laughing AT him, not with him), is when AM (or was it CR - can't remember) talks about how the Quartermaster looks quizzingly at him when he's asking for cold weather gear. "Oy... whaddya need 'dat for, you fookin' wanker? You're going into the fookin' desert!"
Consequence: SAS squaddies suffering hypothermia all over the place.
Come on... even I knew in 1st grade that it's goddamn hot during the day, and goddamn cold during the night in the desert (regardless of surface condition - sand or rock).
Seriously - the SAS' Gulf War deployment was a humungous logistical screw-up!
It is - sadly - the simple truth.
Recently, there are people going to Iran for skiing holidays, as a clever business conscience decision, seing as it's very cheap to go to Iran as opposed to the flashy skiing resorts in France, Austria, Switzerland etc.
I can hear the shit-for-brains quartermaster ranting off again: "Iran?!? That's in the middle of the fookin' desert, ya tosser!! Better pack your bloody suntan lotion." Hmm... well... as it happens you cockney tw*t : they have *regions* down there where the weather is different from the other....
Oh well.... better get back to me brew. Cheerio! :-)
>>By ortlieb (Thursday, 21 Oct 2004 02:22)
Evenin' all
Was searching the ole tinternet to get me a signed copy of Deep Black and came across this site, had a quick nosey about the pages but dont think Im up to readin' 212 of them just yet!!
I like most of you have read all the Nick Stone series and even got the man himself (Andy McNab) to sign my books for me, cost me a few quid mind but was well worth it and it's nice to know your reading a book signed by the man himself, he even sent me the later edition of Bravo Two Zero!!
It's nice to see that loads of people like me share an interest in McNabs books or the SAS, I've managed to get a great collection of Vids, DVDs, Books etc over the years and have taught myself plenty, perhaps not on the scale of actually doing the job myself but hey we can't have everything.
What I did want to do was recommend an absolutely brilliant book, I was bought it for my birthday back in March and from picking it up I couldn't put it down and that's no lie.
After reading the accounts of Bravo Two Zero and The One that got Away and then watching the DVD's I was itching to read this book by Mike Coburn. Soldier Five The Real Story of the Bravo Two Zero Mission. Not only does it give you another angle of what went on, this time we get to find out the mistakes that were made by US Pilots who forgot to report they heard the call sign and also the reason it took Mike Coburn 13 years to get this book printed after years of battling with the Government and all sorts of do gooders, it also gives you a little brain teaser working out who is really who and what their names were from book to book (Bravo Two Zero, The One that Got Away, Soldier Five) apart from the 3 men who sadly didn't make it... The book is a truly gripping read and anyone who says they didn't like it must have lost the plot.
Time for me to get on the phone to Transworld and see about a signed copy of Deep Black....
Until the next time team...
>>By Big G (Thursday, 21 Oct 2004 02:26)
<Hmm... read all of AM's books all over again? You guys really have too much time on your hands! :-)>
Operative word was WISH, Orty. tsk. And if I had a nickle for everytime I saw YOU online wiling away the hours, hmmmm, I'd be a rich b*tch. As it is, I'm only a poor one! ;-)
awww, don't pout, you know I'm just joshin ya.......
slacker. :-P
Welcome Big G. Good luck getting Transworld on the phone at any time of the day, much less the evening. You must know something (or somebody) the rest of us don't. ;-)
>>By Majorette (Thursday, 21 Oct 2004 02:37)
Slacker, eh?
Once there was a gal named Majorette.
One day she got her pilots license - no sweat!
But suddently she said "aw, f**k it all!"
Apparantly she had had one too many Paracetamol.
'cause crashing into the Twin Towers had already been done by a jet.
Hmmm.... well... cya later M'ette. :-D
>>By ortlieb (Thursday, 21 Oct 2004 03:50)
My eyes.... my eyes!!! Why did I have to read that? I don't know what's worse, Orty, the content or the quality of that limerick! LOL!
*sigh* You have much to learn regarding the art of the limerick, grasshoppa. I see my teachings went in one ear and out the other so many moons ago.
Let's begin anew. Lines 1, 2, and 5 have 9 beats. Lines 3 & 4 have 6........
>>By Majorette (Thursday, 21 Oct 2004 04:51)
Ninjawoman, feigning innocence, wrote:
> We ?? All we did was talk about a fabulous writer and his matterial.
Let me put it this way. McNab is the drug. You folks are the pushers. You stand on the corner luring innocent passer-bys like myself into your strange little cult.
The worst of part of this is that I'm becoming my brother. He has a little military experience is always reading books about war and military equipment. I'm going to have to ask him if he's read any of McNab's books. If not, I'll get him hooked.
>>By Mikey_Canuck (Thursday, 21 Oct 2004 06:17)
Majorette said:
> I wish I could read them all "for the first time" again, just one more time.
I don't know if other people do this, but I often read books more than once. If it's a good book, I get something new out of it every time I read it. I know I'm going to be reading Bravo Two Zero again. All kidding aside, it is a good book that for me at least raises a lot of questions about how the military works. It's entertaining, but it's more than just an adventure story.
>>By Mikey_Canuck (Thursday, 21 Oct 2004 06:21)
Like Mikey, I, too, read good books over and over. My reason is simple...Why go out and buy a book that may or may not suck when you can re-read one you KNOW is good?
Any of my friends here care to share your records on re-reads of McNab? I've read "Immediate Action" a sickening 8-10 times completely through, with "Firewall" close behind.
<disclaimer> No, I am not proud of these facts. Yes, I've re-read other authors, in particular that guy who writes the warning labels for cigarette packs. And, yes...I know I should buy a new book occasionally.
>>By Just Jon (Thursday, 21 Oct 2004 11:46)
Amazon inform that 'Deep Black' has been despatched to me, the race is on!
>>By camban (Thursday, 21 Oct 2004 11:49)
PS the post has arrived and I now have it in my hands (the book I mean) trouble is, I must finish my current book first! There is a web link:
www.booksattransworld.co.uk/andymcnab which is quite good, it includes a little piece explaining why he wrote 'Liberation Day' and some other stuff.
>>By camban (Thursday, 21 Oct 2004 12:40)
Just Jon....
I re-read books all the time mate...cos I'm tighter than a gnats chuff and wont buy new books if I can steal them from someone else!!!
and I find the quality of the work done by the guy who does the labels is sometimes bizzare...as in 'Think of babies when you smoke'........why do they want a ciggy too?
and 'Smoking is detrimental to your sperm'......great!!! dont have to buy no more conodms then!! hang on.... I'm a sad lonely w**nker so I dont need condoms anyway!!
And to reopen old wounds...get the Aussie Pisshead to play Nick stone...yes you know who I mean...Paul Hogan.....no hang on ....I mean Russell Crowe...come on girls you know he makes you moist... and Hollywoooooood LUUUUUUUURVES him..(when he's not pissed and behaves himself that is)...and he did make a rather convincing ex SAS type chappie in that pic with Meg Ryan...sorry crap at film titles...don't ever invite me around to play charades!!!
>>By ToeKnee (Thursday, 21 Oct 2004 12:53)
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