Prestigious Priest

[undyingking]

There's going to be a film of Chris Priest's The Prestige! -- with David Bowie as Nikola Tesla! -- directed by Christopher Nolan of Memento fame! -- and Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman as the two magicians Borden and Angier. How cool is that? (Very.)

Is this the first film of a Priest novel?

Comments

[smiorgan.livejournal.com]

Jesus H. Fucking Christ, that's even cooler than my bollocks are going to be cycling home this evening.

[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

IMDB suggests no other films. I would rather have liked a film of The Glamour (without the annoying post-modernism, obviously).

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Mm, that would be good. Or even A Dream of Wessex.

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

He explained about it in his GoH speech at Worldcon - very much in a Marvinish "sounds fantastic so inevitably it'll all fall through" vibe.
He loved the script, and they've given him significant wodges of (much-needed) cash, so it's all good news. Bit of a leap for Jackman though (although it's been a while since I read it, maybe I just forgot the swordfights and explosions).

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

He did a strange period thing with Meg Ryan a few years ago, I seem to remember... but yes, not the obvious choice.

[jackfirecat.livejournal.com]

David Bowie - uh-oh. Christopher Nolan, oh OK then.

Why excited over a book you clearly already like? Has there ever been a film of a book that is better then the experience of reading the book?

Having said that, Narnia .. bring it on! *anticipation* If only to tell my C S Lewis stories to a new generation. As in the Eagle and Child the other day ...

Christopher Nolan.. Memento .. wouldn't he be at home with Chis Priest's different frames of reality stuff - more like that novel about the archipelago of dreams/alternate-reality (and much Chis Priest cannon) - maybe he, if anyone, could translate that to the screen, the fine, disolving boundrary between the imagined and the real - now that would be something to see.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Mm, that shifting reality stuff I would be wary of seeing filmed, because its conceptual interest was very internal. But The Prestige is more of a yarn, so I think it'd be fun to see it brought to life -- I can think of several better films of good books, which all fall into that broad category of the story looking after itself and the visuals adding vividity. Farewell my Lovely (Dmytryk), Strangers on a Train, Frankenstein (Whale) or more recently Schindler's List, Fight Club, Trainspotting... none of which are brilliant books or all-time favourites of mine, but nor is The Prestige.

[thalinoviel.livejournal.com]

*Fangirl squeeeeeeeeeee* I must go. And so must everyone else I know.