Today sees the launch of The Literary Tarot campaign on Kickstarter, pairing some of the world's best authors and artists for a great cause: the Brink Literacy Project!
This project tasked authors with pairing a tarot card with a seminal book that embodies the meaning of the arcana and we are exclusively revealing horror authors that are taking part in this project, along with the novel and card they have chosen:
Guggenheim Fellowship recipient Victor Lavalle (The Changeling) pairs The Tower with H.P. Lovecraft's "The Outsider"
Bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones (The Only Good Indians) pairs Three of Quills (Swords) with W. W. Jacobs’s seminal, supernatural short story Monkey's Paw
Isaac Marion (the author of the bestselling Warm Bodies series) pairs The Hermit with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Bestselling Mexican Gothic novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia pairs The Lovers with Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence
Brink Literacy...
This project tasked authors with pairing a tarot card with a seminal book that embodies the meaning of the arcana and we are exclusively revealing horror authors that are taking part in this project, along with the novel and card they have chosen:
Guggenheim Fellowship recipient Victor Lavalle (The Changeling) pairs The Tower with H.P. Lovecraft's "The Outsider"
Bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones (The Only Good Indians) pairs Three of Quills (Swords) with W. W. Jacobs’s seminal, supernatural short story Monkey's Paw
Isaac Marion (the author of the bestselling Warm Bodies series) pairs The Hermit with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Bestselling Mexican Gothic novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia pairs The Lovers with Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence
Brink Literacy...
- 6/1/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
I'm pretty stoked about The Lord of the Rings series that Amazon is developing so I'll soak up whatever information I can get! The last thing we heard was that Jackson would not really be involved, but he was helping put together a creative team to help them.
Amazon is currently on the hunt for a team of writers to bring the series to life. In preparation for developing the series, Variety reports the new head of Amazon, Jennifer Salke, spent three hours with J.R.R. Tolkien’s grandson, Simon Tolkien, to talk about Amazon’s plans for the franchise. Once they have a team together they will meet with the Tolkien estate to see how they would like to proceed. Salke explained:
"It’s a partnership. They have some lines in the play on this on strategy and on vision. The great news about that is that they’re actually really thoughtful and smart,...
Amazon is currently on the hunt for a team of writers to bring the series to life. In preparation for developing the series, Variety reports the new head of Amazon, Jennifer Salke, spent three hours with J.R.R. Tolkien’s grandson, Simon Tolkien, to talk about Amazon’s plans for the franchise. Once they have a team together they will meet with the Tolkien estate to see how they would like to proceed. Salke explained:
"It’s a partnership. They have some lines in the play on this on strategy and on vision. The great news about that is that they’re actually really thoughtful and smart,...
- 6/12/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
For an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s dense and incredibly rich fantasy saga, it’s only fitting that The Lord of the Rings TV series is progressing at a slow and steady pace.
It’s said to be a multi-season revival of the legendary IP, one which is coming by way of Amazon Studios – the online retail giant reportedly shelled out millions of dollars in order to acquire TV rights to what is arguably one of the biggest franchises in entertainment.
For Jennifer Salke, newly-appointed boss of Amazon Studios, the small-screen adaptation is teeming with potential, as it gives the Powers That Be an opportunity to breath new life into The Lord of the Rings – with or without Peter Jackson’s involvement.
But more on that later. Up first, Salke addressed the company’s landmark deal for Lotr:
Lord of the Rings, the deal only closed like a month ago.
It’s said to be a multi-season revival of the legendary IP, one which is coming by way of Amazon Studios – the online retail giant reportedly shelled out millions of dollars in order to acquire TV rights to what is arguably one of the biggest franchises in entertainment.
For Jennifer Salke, newly-appointed boss of Amazon Studios, the small-screen adaptation is teeming with potential, as it gives the Powers That Be an opportunity to breath new life into The Lord of the Rings – with or without Peter Jackson’s involvement.
But more on that later. Up first, Salke addressed the company’s landmark deal for Lotr:
Lord of the Rings, the deal only closed like a month ago.
- 6/11/2018
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
When Jennifer Salke took over as the head of Amazon Studios earlier this year, she inherited the company’s most expensive and anticipated original offering to date: A television series based on “The Lord of the Rings” franchise. Salke didn’t strike the multimillion dollar deal between Amazon and the J.R.R. Tolkien estate, but she is fully committing to making sure her studio’s investment in Middle Earth pays off creatively and financially. A new report from Variety confirms Salke and her Amazon team are now looking for writers to work on the series.
Variety reports Salke spent three hours with J.R.R. Tolkien’s grandson, Simon Tolkien, to talk about Amazon’s plans for the franchise. The next step is getting the prospective writers in front of the Tolkien estate to see how it would like to proceed. Salke referred to the relationship between Amazon and the Tolkien...
Variety reports Salke spent three hours with J.R.R. Tolkien’s grandson, Simon Tolkien, to talk about Amazon’s plans for the franchise. The next step is getting the prospective writers in front of the Tolkien estate to see how it would like to proceed. Salke referred to the relationship between Amazon and the Tolkien...
- 6/11/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
On Jennifer Salke’s first official day as head of Amazon Studios, she spent time wandering the company’s Santa Monica offices, introducing herself. She could see that people were surprised by the move.
“They were like ‘What are you doing? We’ve never seen that before,’ ” Salke said. “So I think very quickly I was able to establish that this is a very different kind of leadership style and communication style.”
Salke was named head of Amazon Studios in February, after spending the past six years as entertainment president at NBC. In an interview in her office at the Culver Studios campus that Amazon is converting into its Southern California base of operation, Salke spoke for the first time about the changes she has begun to implement to the entertainment division’s management structure and its programming strategy. She also provided new information on high-profile projects such as the...
“They were like ‘What are you doing? We’ve never seen that before,’ ” Salke said. “So I think very quickly I was able to establish that this is a very different kind of leadership style and communication style.”
Salke was named head of Amazon Studios in February, after spending the past six years as entertainment president at NBC. In an interview in her office at the Culver Studios campus that Amazon is converting into its Southern California base of operation, Salke spoke for the first time about the changes she has begun to implement to the entertainment division’s management structure and its programming strategy. She also provided new information on high-profile projects such as the...
- 6/11/2018
- by Daniel Holloway
- Variety Film + TV
Simon Tolkien was always close to his famous grandfather. But the creator of The Hobbit cast a very long shadow
As creator of The Hobbit, Middle-earth and The Lord of the Rings, Jrr Tolkien is one of the most successful authors in history. And yet, says Simon Tolkien, the grandfather he remembers seemed to think he had failed.
It wasn't that his work hadn't met with acclaim: by the time of his death in 1973, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were bestsellers. The problem, says Simon, was that the bigger picture Tolkien had wanted the world to know – the complex hinterland of which The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were but a small part – had not been deemed publishable. "He'd produced this huge output that covered everything from the history of the gods to the history of the people he called the Silmarils – that was his...
As creator of The Hobbit, Middle-earth and The Lord of the Rings, Jrr Tolkien is one of the most successful authors in history. And yet, says Simon Tolkien, the grandfather he remembers seemed to think he had failed.
It wasn't that his work hadn't met with acclaim: by the time of his death in 1973, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were bestsellers. The problem, says Simon, was that the bigger picture Tolkien had wanted the world to know – the complex hinterland of which The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were but a small part – had not been deemed publishable. "He'd produced this huge output that covered everything from the history of the gods to the history of the people he called the Silmarils – that was his...
- 11/24/2012
- by Joanna Moorhead
- The Guardian - Film News
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