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Mandalay Upgrades To "Machine Man"
Dark Horizons - News —
Mandalay Pictures has picked up the film rights to Max Barry's online novel thriller "Machine Man" reports Variety.
The story concerns a tech engineer who's tired of going through life average and unnoticed, so he replaces parts of his body with titanium upgrades of his own design. He then discovers that he isn't the only one with plans for his new body.
Barry is revealing one page of the unfolding tome each day on his official site in an 'interactive literary experiment'. Reader suggestions are incorporated into the plot as the story unfolds.
When complete, the book will get a hard copy publication in 2011 through ...
Sci-Fi Serial Machine Man Getting Tooled Up For the Big Screen
/Film —
... Two of Barry’s more conventional novels, by which I mean those he published in a solid block of paper that is oh-so-fun to crack open for the very first time before shoving your snout in for a good sniff of glue, have already been optioned, with Variety reminding us that Company lurks at Universal while Jennifer Government has fallen under the spell of George Clooney and Stephen Soderbergh. Did nobody like Syrup? ...
Mandalay Adapting Web Sci-Fi Thriller Novel Machine Man
FirstShowing.net —
While this is yet another announcement of a project involving an adaptation of a novel, the circumstances surrounding the novel in question are quite intriguing. As part of an interactive literary experiment in which suggestions from readers are integrated into the plot as the story continues to unfold, author Max ...
Mandalay Adapting Web Sci-Fi Thriller Novel Machine Man
FirstShowing.net —
While this is yet another announcement of a project involving an adaptation of a novel, the circumstances surrounding the novel in question are quite intriguing. As part of an interactive literary experiment in which suggestions from readers are integrated into the plot as the story continues to unfold, author Max ...
Max Barry's Weird Cyborg Publishing Experiment Could Be A Movie [Machine Man]
io9 —
... that the Warner Bros. deal "didn't work out," sadly.) I can literally think of no other novelist whose works I'd be more excited to see filmed. Okay, maybe Jim Munroe. But that's it. [Variety] ...
Machine Man film
Filmstalker —
... of the novel the film is based on is all online. The story is unique because it's serialised, it's being written a page at a time, and the page is placed on-line for everyone to read. The writer Max Barry says he doesn't really know how long it will be and doesn't really know the story of it, we'll see as he sees it appear on the computer. So what happens after the forty-third free page of Machine Man? Well you pay a mere US$6.95 and you get to keep going, reading as he writes it. Variety through ...
Mandalay Picks Up Machine Man
Horror-Movies.ca! —
... Author Max Barry has been posting pages of his upcoming novel Machine Man for fans of his work. Today Variety reports that Mandalay Pictures has picked up the film rights to the novel that will be published by Vantage Books in 2011. ...
