by Mary | Apr 27, 2012 | THE SPARROW, The Sparrow movie
The Sparrow remains unfilmed, after 15 years of sustained effort by people passionate about getting a movie adaptation produced. What’s the problem? Here’s the conventional wisdom. There’s a big market for science fiction action movies, but despite...
by Mary | Dec 1, 2011 | DOC, DOC on HBO, The Sparrow movie
Lots of readers are asking if I’ll be writing any episodes of the HBO series based on Doc. There’s a two-part answer to that question. Part 1: Not a chance. In Hollywood, it is customary to ignore the author of “source material” once the...
by Mary | Dec 18, 2010 | The Sparrow movie
As you may know from an earlier post, I’ve written a screen adaptation of The Sparrow in partnership with Karen Hall. Director Scott Derrickson has been a fan of the novel for many years, but it wasn’t until the screen rights reverted to me this year that...
