Maybe it will boost my Hard Magic sales…. I figured I might as well tell you guys as soon as I could. I’ve known about this deal since SHOT Show, but haven’t been allowed to say anything online until today. It is a good that (according to a some chump blogger a couple of weeks back) I’m not a *real* bestseller, otherwise these things might have gone to my head! (Oh, got a voice mail from another movie producer… Let’s check him on IMDB… Aaaand… he’s produced two Academy Award winners, better call Vince), that kind of thing. Last year I started getting queries again from various interested parties, including a few that I had to look up on the IMDB, and when I’d seen what they’d done, it was rather mind blowing. (though I was shocked by who some of my fans are out there, including a couple of successful producers and one particularly awesome Oscar winning actor who I happen to be a huge fan of). I’ve not been able to say anything about this for a long time. In ’09 there was some serious interest in MHI from a couple of movie studios. Luckily for me, Baen’s Hollywood agent is Vince Gerardis (currently the executive producer on HBO’s Game of Thrones) and he’s a complete badass who knows how to get the job done. Monster Hunter International certainly fits the bill. Right now is a great time for quality shows on cable, and because of the sucess of things like True Blood and the Walking Dead, other big channels are also looking for urban fantasy/horror properties. So it is harder to get optioned than it used to be, but now your odds of it actually getting produced once optioned are better. (I have no idea how their business works, I stick with writing books, not screenplays). Post-strike, now Hollywood is a lot more picky and only options a handful of novels. For the novelists, that meant that we basically got paid money to just not sell the rights to someobdy else. You would have literally a hundred books optioned for every one that actually went into production. This just means that there is now a very real and serious possibility that MHI could end up on TV.īack in ye olde tymes before the writer’s strike, lots and lots of books got optioned by Hollywood. Tell your friends and then come visit me while I’m on book tour so we can geek out together. This is just the sale of the rights, so don’t get too excited… Heck, okay, get excited. It is up to them now if they will proceed with a pilot, and which network would be interested in it. It just means that Entertainment One has bought the option to produce MHI. What does this mean? This does not mean that a TV show is actually being made yet or anything like that. (hey, might not be my thing, but you can’t fault her for sleeping on gigantic piles of money, but it illustrates that these folks are Big Time) I am pleased to finally be able to annouce that Monster Hunter International has been optioned by Entertainment One for the possible production of a TV show.įor everything: For TV: You may recognize them from such awesome things as the Walking Dead on AMC, Red with Bruce Willis, and even… sigh… Twilight. If a monster has a given or formal name, it will be listed in the named antagonists section above.No, this is not like last year’s April Fools joke. This is a list of monsters and other nasty beings which appear in (or are mentioned in) Monster Hunter International. Lord Machado, also known as the Cursed One.These are characters who are mentioned but don't actually appear in the book. This is a list of characters who appear in Monster Hunter International. Owen Pitt with the help of MHI must race against time to stop Lord Machado from destroying the world, and time itself. With the clock ticking towards Armageddon, Owen finds himself trapped between legions of undead minions, belligerent federal agents, a cryptic ghost who has taken up residence inside his head, and the cursed family of the woman he loves. Should the Cursed One succeed, it means the end of the world, and MHI is the only thing standing in his way. An ancient entity known as the Cursed One has returned to settle a centuries old vendetta. It’s actually a pretty sweet gig, except for one little problem. Monster Hunter International is the premier eradication company in the business. On the other side are the people who kill monsters for a living. Officially secret, some of them are evil, and some are just hungry. All the things from myth, legend, and B-movies are out there, waiting in the shadows. Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a fourteenth story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer.
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