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[Dave Monroe]

Tuesday, October 19, 2004

... I'm so cheered up generally that I'll actually
talk about something other than politics for a minute:
the proposed film of Pattern Recognition.

Where this stands at the moment, and literally all I
know about it: Peter Weir (of whom I have been a huge
fan since age twenty or so, so that's very nice
indeed) wants to direct it, there's an option deal in
place, and Weir has a contract with Warner to...well,
not to go ahead and shoot it, but to go forward toward
that end. Toward which he's hired a screenwriter --
whose name I've forgotten (which is actually a good
sign with regard to Weir's choice) -- and has gone to
London, Tokyo and Moscow to look at locations.

Absolutely nothing else known by me as to casting or
anything else.

Though I should warn you, should you happen to bump
into me in the meantime, that I don't regard films of
novels as being the ultimate form in which a novel may
be lucky enough to manifest. I regard *the novel* as
the ultimate form in which the novel manifests. And if
I should suspect that you think otherwise, I'm liable
to snap at you.

http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2004_10_01_archive.asp

August 23, 2005

Interview with Peter Weir

On this episode of DVD Talk Radio we sit down and talk
with Director Peter Weir about the DVD re-release of
his films: Witness with Harrison Ford and The Truman
Show with Jim Carrey. We talk to Peter Weir about his
career, the experience of revisiting these films, and
get the scoop on his work with on William Gibson's
amazing Pattern Recognition.

http://www.dvdtalkradio.com/archives/2005/08/interview_with_6.html

--- Rcfchess at aol.com wrote:

> ... I'd nominate Peter Weir for a director. 
> Apparently he's been announced as the director for
> Pattern  Recognition - William Gibson's book, I'd
> guess - so maybe that's a good sign that he's
> returning to that mode...?!


		
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