Peter S.Beagle au cinéma ?

[jerome]

Peter S.Beagle (La dernière chanson de Sirit Byar, Le magicien de Karakosk, Le rhinocéros qui citait Nietzsche) était l'invité du numéro de juillet de Locus. Le site Locusmag a mis quelques extraits en ligne dont celui qui parle d'une éventuelle adaptation de Tasmin. Voilà ce qu'il en dit :

“Last October, I was in Los Angeles, meeting with people who want to make a movie out of Tamsin. Two producers and a screenwriter and me -- by now, we're an act! -- and we've been doing pitch meetings with DreamWorks and Disney. Everybody seems to like the story, and I think sooner or later it will happen. Tamsin started out, weirdly enough, as a movie idea. I got a call from someone at Disney who asked me if I could come up with an original story for a future film. I actually worked out something original, in what I imagined was the Disney style. Sent it in -- never heard back. (That's how you tell they turned it down; they never actually tell you.) A few years later, looking around for something that might work as a book, I came on my notes for it. I made a lot of changes (since it wasn't Disney, I no longer needed the villain to have a comical sidekick), but if you saw the notes you'd recognize the book.”

Il parle également de son prochain roman :
“I'm currently working on a novel, the only baseball thing I've ever written, a fantasy set in Pittsburgh in the 1950s (which is when I was going to college there), back when it was still blue-collar and funky and smelly. I was 16, away from home for the first time, and I roomed in a place that had always rented to baseball players, within walking distance of the ballpark. It was a totally different world as far as sports pay and sports heroes went. There was no such thing as free agency -- players belonged to their clubs essentially for life. Nobody but a Joe DiMaggio or a Ted Williams could afford not to work in the off-season, so the Pirates’ ace relief pitcher, who’d command millions today, ran a bar across from the ballpark, and you would see the players on their way walking to work like anybody else.

Tout est ici : http://www.locusmag.com/2007/Issue07_Beagle.html