Be Excellent To Each Other

As I have mentioned from time to time in this column, there has been motion picture interest in my fantasy series. Two of three options were exercised and things are in progress: Anime for Split Infinity, and a potential TV series for On A Pale Horse. Then Warner Pictures had a two year option on A Spell for Chameleon, which they extended for two more years. Yes, they paid handsomely for each year, so it seems to me they were serious. It got extended without pay for another hundred days because of the writer's strike. I held this column open two extra days to get the result. Finally, December 3, 2008, the decision: and Warner didn't show. After all that, it seems they let it expire by default. I suspect the recent financial crash made it impossible for them to raise the necessary money, because they surely wanted to make the movie. Sigh; I wanted them to make it too.