The postings have been slim here. Justine and I have done our bisummeral relocation to Sydney, where the weather is rather better than it is in New York.
I haz proof:
Yes, this is the view from where I work. Neener-neener.
Check this out. It is TOTALLY FAKE, but cool.
JarredSpekter of Deviant Art.
And it comes with this awesome FAKE poster, also by Jarred:
I quite like the fake movie trailer/poster art form.
But yes, this is me just being lazy, posting random stuff. I GET TO BE LAZY. I’ve been traveling all over the world the last few months, after all. And I’ve spent the last week working on a s3krit project, which I can’t even tell you about. (Yes, so why tell you that I can’t tell you? I dunno. Just to sound cool, I guess.)
Oh, also! Those of you who are e-book readers (or who know one) here’s a cool new thing:
It’s the Uglies Quartet all together in e-book form! Check it out here. And here’s a list of the many reading devices supported.
Anyway, I will get back to more regular postings in the new year. In the meantime, happy holidays to everyone.
December 19th, 2010 06:03
YES 1st!
that is a really good trailer
December 19th, 2010 06:42
i love box sets
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
December 19th, 2010 06:48
ohmygoodness! not gonna lie, but i just posted that comment because i wanted to be second… hehe
i just ACTUALLY read the post and that trailer/movie is AWESOME/hilarious. hehehe i love whoever that is!
-Lizzy-wa OUT! :blush:
December 19th, 2010 06:50
gasp! oh no! this is not good! its been years since i’ve not ended a post with a smiley! and LOOK!!!!! i couldv sworn that was a legitimate smiley! but its not! its : oops : !!! not blush!!! what the heck was i thinking?!
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
December 19th, 2010 08:28
That trailer is SICK! I can’t believe someone made that in their free time, just for kicks and giggles. So pro!
Also, thanks for using the word “haz” in a legitimate sentence. It’s nice to know I’m not the only author who sometimes finds herself reduced to lolcat-speak. Sometimes the forming of proper English sentences is simply too much to handle. It’s cool, I understand.
December 19th, 2010 08:34
SO jealous you are in a warm area of the world right now.
December 19th, 2010 09:25
Oh my gosh! I’m subscribed to the person who made that trailer on youtube, it’s actually the reason why I found out about the book Leviathan and am probably getting it for Christmas!!!!! Awesome!
December 19th, 2010 09:28
OMG! That trailer was so epic! It seemed so authentic.
December 19th, 2010 09:32
……..that trailer is BRILLIANT. Jaw dropped. It seems so real. I wish it was, for reals ^_^
December 19th, 2010 10:06
LOL I love this commercial. This would be awesome if it was an actual movie…..**sigh**Leviathan movie….why not?
December 19th, 2010 10:07
Love it. It should be an actual trailer. OMG Leviathan movie!
December 19th, 2010 10:23
Oh, I totally hate you at the moment. You get to bask in the 81 degree weather and I’m chattering my teeth in the FRIGID Midwestern temperatures. We’re talking 9-10 degrees Fahrenheit with windchill (17 without). I’m in THREE layers and I’m still cold.
The trailer was epic though. Did you recognize that the bridge at 0:52 is from the Sherlock Holmes, the one building at 0:19 from the Golden Compass and the typography is from the Golden Compass? There’s a few flashes of scenes from Atonement as well but I can’t pinpoint their times in the commercial. All of those scenes are from movies, but those are the only ones I’m recognizing the titles to at the moment. Grrrr, it’s so annoying when I recognize more than that but I don’t know where!
December 19th, 2010 10:59
I don’t get why a director doesn’t want to make leviathan into a movie. They’re way more exiting than some of the movies that have come out (which will remian nameless for now) the technology exists to make the fabricated animals, a good art crew can get a “stormwalker” running. Or there is anime which would be epic too. P.S. Not too cold (I geuss I haven’t gotten frostbite yet…)
December 19th, 2010 11:24
Just relized I am # 13 my lucky number yes. And I am jelous you get to go to australia, It’s a foriegn country for crying out loud!! That might be a good location for a novel since your right there! Grrr I hate being uderaged and having to be somewhere… man do I want to be famous. Being an invisable person is good and bad. I don’t have to worry about people missing me but nobody really looks at what you do!!! akk why can’t you do both? (that would be a good character delima) bye!
December 19th, 2010 14:52
Hem, hope that in a real film Alek won’t have such a sangoku-like haircut and that Deryn will be less feminine.
December 19th, 2010 15:05
Because, seriously, I rather see Alek as a nerdy-but-brave 15yo and Deryn as a total tomboy… This poster makes me think of “Fast & Furious steampunk edition” and definitely not of the Leviathan I like.
December 19th, 2010 17:40
That was basically the best movie trailer ever. Some awesome Hollywood director should totally make Leviathan a movie.
And was that the conductor from The Polar Express around 0:55?
December 19th, 2010 19:14
awesome trailer! and NO FAIR about the weather! i wish it was all sunny and rainbowy here. sigh. summer…
December 19th, 2010 19:16
awesome trailer! and NO FAIR about the weather! i wish it was all sunny and rainbowy here. *sigh*. summer…
December 19th, 2010 19:46
O.O
I am completely blown away by that trailer. How freaking awesome.
December 19th, 2010 21:23
My grandmum’s second husband is an Australian and they do the same thing you and Justine do! They are in Sydney now. Otherwise, from like may or june until thankagiving, they are in New Jersey (til Thanksgiving so they spend it with her family, like me)
December 19th, 2010 22:04
@Kate & Zena some of the scenes are from Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow as well, it’s one of my favourite movies.
December 19th, 2010 22:31
whoa that is an epic trailer, i kind wish it was real!
December 20th, 2010 00:30
That trailer is amazing, hopefully some director will see it, read Leviathan and then realize its potential for an EPIC movie! Of course, they would have to do it right… they CANNOT repeat what happened to Avatar: The Last Airbender, or the Lightning Theif. The moveis were good, but depressed me because the butchered the original stories! If any one ever makes a Leviathan movie, and as a note for the pontential Uglies movie; THE HAVE TO DO IT RIGHT! THEY CAN’T BUTCHER IT! If the guy who made that trailer were to direct a Leviathan, that would probably be okay……
December 20th, 2010 00:56
I totally agree with Jessi, I was super excited about seeing the Lightning Theif movie and throughout the whole thing I was like “That never happened!” and “This is all wrong!!!!” It makes me mad when movie directors butcher books that were really amazing.
December 20th, 2010 01:27
Jessi has a good idea there. Maybe a group of fans can scout out loyal, non-butcher, acsessible directors and e-mail the fake trailer to them with notes on the story. And a moment of silence for those butchered movies………………………………Okay moving on if they did make a movie every writer, editor, costume diesiner, make-up artist, and actor should have read the book and keep a copy around for refrence, if they don’t and butcher the movie I sue someone
December 20th, 2010 01:57
i love both of those fake movie promotionals
but does anybody think that Deryn (supposing this IS Deryn) looks too much like a girl? but maybe thats just me.
-R
ps i am currently in south carolina and its like 70 degrees i am perfectly fine with the weather here thank you very much
December 20th, 2010 04:06
i totally think deryn looks too girly. that’s one problem with movies where girls pretend to be boys; they have to look feminine enough for the audience to remember they’re girls, but if they look too feminine, all the other characters seem stupid for not noticing. i once spent half an hour watching a movie before i realized that a character i thought all the other characters knew was a girl was actually pretending to be a boy.
the thing about making a book out of a movie is, it’s impossible to stay entirely true to the book. your average book is too long and nuanced to make into a movie that any sane person could watch in one sitting. some stuff has to be cut from the plot, or altered to fit. the true test of merit for a movie based on a book is it’s ability to stand alone as a story in it’s own right. if you have to have read the book to understand the movie, the movie wasn’t done right.
December 20th, 2010 04:12
You know, I really could see James Cameron doing a good job with that movie (if he were to pick it up). I mean his CGI stuff is amazing. I think he’d probably have fun playing with the alternate world. I mean, he’d really probably up the romance, but the effects would soooooo be worth it. Anyone else think he should do this, or am I just insane?
Plus considering how long his movies are, he might stay true to the book. (But i doubt that. look what happened to Percy Jackson!)
~HMF
December 20th, 2010 05:40
The trailer was amazing – very precise cuts from many good movies. I didn’t recognize the music but it was very effective.
Glad you & Justine are resting from your world travels & hopefully WRITING!
I can’t complain about temperature (our “cold” snap here in the South means low 50s F.), but I can envy your view.
Just finished Midnighters series & loved the math! Don’t normally think of myself as a math person but as a geography major, was facinated. And “tridecalogisms”! Recently a Facebook friend asked for sci fi or fantasy suggestions. Gave her a few titles but said “anything by Scott Westerfeld”. I hate to sound ‘fan girly’, but thank you for the mutiple facinating worlds you’ve created.
December 20th, 2010 06:02
Haha the trailer was pretty epic. I don’t like the poster though because they picked a girl that wouldn’t pass very well for boy. Too feminine I guess? But just the thought of Leviathan as a movie is awesome, and I think it has enough war and guns and stuff that my boyfriend would probably enjoy watching it (much more than Twilight anyways).
Apparently I’m getting an e-book for Christmas so I will definitely be getting the Uglies series put onto it =]]
Hope you enjoy being in sunny, warm Sydney!
December 20th, 2010 07:10
I just red leviathan in 10 days (mostly 2) and i’m reading behemoth right now. I got to say that you are right now one of my favorites righters. I red the uglies series last year and since then i search for your books all the time (wich is tought because in Brazil we just have peeps, so yesterday and the uglies are coming out almost now) so i end up buying on amazon and reading in english. Anyways, i alredy looking forward to the third book of leviathan or any other new book =D
December 20th, 2010 07:27
me so jelly at weather in Sydney )x
I loved the movie trailer, it was barking awesome. The poster, however….
Alek looks too brawny, too Edward Cullen-like to be the Clanker genius child-prince we all love. Deryn looks far too feminine and too emo-goth.
AND THEY BOTH LOOK TOO OLD. AND THEY BOTH LOOK LIKE MARY-SUES.
But the trailer was perfect. Brilliant choice of music, brilliant screenshots, perfect for Leviathan. Hats off to you, JarredSpekter
December 20th, 2010 10:28
@flarglepuf No, that is definitely not the conductor from the Polar Express.
@Kayla Thank you! I noticed after I posted that the ship being pulled under by the octopus is from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (aka Pirates: 2). I actually cheated because I was getting so frustrated and looked for a comment from him on the YT video for a comment on all the videos he used. Sky Captain was used, but not World of Tomorrow. It kinda stinks when you have this list of movies that you swear you see in the fake trailers (Star Wars was on my list) and then you find that it’s not used.
I can see James Cameron doing Leviathan. However, I can see Chris Columbus doing Leviathan more successfully. He’s just more experienced with successfully adapting books to film, in my opinion. He did the first two Harry Potter films (which were beyond successful). He also directed the not-so-successful steampunk film The Golden Compass which I think was a beautiful adaption of the book; it failed financially to the controversy that surrounds the books. The books are on the most frequently banned books of the decade due to the religion aspect. Yes, he did Lighting Thief, but I think that was a case of a veeeeeeeeeery bad screenwriter. Sometimes directors pick awful screenwriters (ahem, ERAGON. There are not enough words to describe how much I want to punch and throttle that one. Just *shudder*).
Columbus is also well-versed in filming stunts and gags. He did, after all, do Home Alone and Home Alone: Lost in New York (my two favorite full-length Christmas films).
I’m arguing for directors and we don’t even know if there’s going to be a film made. Good golly I need a life.
December 21st, 2010 01:48
Grrr, I hate my computer! For some reason it only decides to download certain videos, and usually those are the not-so-important ones. I so wish I can see that trailer!
December 21st, 2010 03:23
niceness scotty! i still like snow better but is must be lovely there.
mermaidnotebook.blogspot.com
December 21st, 2010 06:20
the trailer was AWESOME! i hope they make an actual leviathan movie!!!!!!!!! I <3 leviathan(and behemoth, and goliath/ziz)
*HETALIA!!!!!! muahahahahahahahaha*
December 21st, 2010 06:47
Poster Deryn and Alek do look a little… out of character. I guess I’m a hater for saying that. Also, is it bad that I noticed the “The Golden Compass” footage by the font?
December 21st, 2010 08:08
@jasmine Nope, I don’t think so anyway. I noticed it by font (aka typography) too. It’s a very distinctive font.
December 21st, 2010 10:42
I think the most important thing when converting a book into a movie is capturing the spirit of the book. the lord of the rings did so well even though they changed alot (and completely messed up farimere) you still got that same feeling you get after you hear a really great story.
December 21st, 2010 18:58
Oh wow. An author is actually in SYDNEY!
Can I knock on your door so you can sign my book? (books in Australia are too expensive for an unemployed bum like me
) Looking from that photo, I think I know where you are. (heh kidding..)
December 22nd, 2010 00:30
Scott-la, that was the most epic movie trailer I have ever seen…
but you know what would be even epic-er!!!????
AN UGLIES (REAL) MOVIE TRAILER!!!
PLEASE!
UGLIES UPDATE???
December 22nd, 2010 00:34
Anyone got the link to the trailer? My computer occasionally goes all screwy and puts a big white box where the video should be… help a sister out and post it below. Sorry about that… I can’t talk ghetto to save my life. Link, anyone?
December 22nd, 2010 00:46
OMG I love the Trailer!!! I watched it 4 times in a row! lol My younger cousin actually said “Cool! I wanna see that movie” He was disappointed that it wasnt a real move lmao! Great job Jarred Spekter
I totally would agree to a Leviathan movie, but I’m scared to go for it, for the very real fear that it would be butchered…
Its very hard to take one art form (ie, book) and turn it into another (ie movie) without compromising the spirit of the original. Especially since the perception of the audience would invariably different than the re-creator. But, I have watched The Lightning Thief without reading the book, and I thought it was very cliche. I hope to get the book for Christmas, however
December 22nd, 2010 02:53
amazing!!! love the trailor and poster!
December 22nd, 2010 03:08
I read anything I can get my hands on. Rarely, do I ever stumble across a book I want to see made into a movie. Leviathan would be an amazing film. Like with most other comments about making Leviathan into a movie, it would need to be done right. I’m not a producer, or director, but I think too often, producers and directors that choose to make books into films forget that they’re potentially playing with fire from an extremely loyal fan base of the written word. All too often, books that are turned into movies are ruined. Adding events, taking events away, changing plots…it all gets ruined, leaving a lover of the book, a hater of the movie. I don’t know if there is such a thing as a “lets make it a movie” petition, but if there is, I’d sign it. And, if there’s not, how do we start one and who do we give it to?
December 22nd, 2010 03:53
Who cares about the film at this current moment, all I want is to read Goliath!! Ahhhh it’s killing me, and please do walk on by into Melbourne for signings
You are an alternate universe star!
December 22nd, 2010 04:51
Was that rainbow there just for the photo, or is it some kind of permanent fixture in Australia?
December 22nd, 2010 07:27
I agree with muahahahahaness!!!
OMG LEVIATHAN/HETALIA FAN-CROSSOVER!!!!
WITH BARKING PASTAAA~!!
…thinking of Italy’s reaction to the Leviathan airship…
December 22nd, 2010 16:03
three things to say:
1. yes Australian weather is pretty damn amazing
2. That is one freaking epic trailer and i think im gonna watch it again and again
3. and i cant wait for Goliath (seriously its killing me)
December 23rd, 2010 02:58
Omigosh! i thought that the trailer was awesome and they should totally make it a movie…..i also think that they should make the uglies series a movie! how awesome would that be…lol
-peace out, sophie
December 23rd, 2010 20:27
when did the actions on ebay end
December 27th, 2010 11:38
I wasn’t planning on commenting, but that trailor was just plain EPIC! I can’t even imagine how much time it must’ve taken to find all of those perfect clips and lay them just right. Major kudos and love to whoever made it! They have good taste in books, too
December 28th, 2010 05:07
dude when will there be an update for the uglies movie!!!!
December 28th, 2010 20:56
That trailer and poster are amazing! I’m so glad I decided to check back in here it’s been awhile
December 28th, 2010 20:56
Also Grace, checking in to IMDB may help.
December 28th, 2010 21:53
yay, Grace, someone who wants an Uglies update too!!! see, Scott-la? I’m 127% positive that I am not the only one wanting an Uglies update.
January 8th, 2011 02:17
Heh, according to the trailer,the Leviathan movie is supposed to come out today. Thinking of going to the theater and asking for a ticket just to see how the ticket lady would react.
Funny, this trailer reminded me of another fake trailer for the Legend of Zelda movie.
It also seems I’m the first new post of the year.YAAAAAAAAY!
January 8th, 2011 10:09
So Scott, we have a few things to discuss.
One: While I live the Levithian series, give your other books some love, okay? They get so lonely in the back of your mind…
Two: I like rainbows.
Three: Do you know how much money you could make with a Levithian movie? Imagine all the trips you could take! If fangirl devotion isn’t enough, maybe the cash will be. (As long as the director doesn’t butcher it like it’s a piece of meat–what an unapeitizing image.)
Alright, Westerfeld, ball’s in your court now.
January 12th, 2011 10:34
Hi Scott Westerfeld!
That was a really cool trailer! They picked great clips to show, and they all seemed really realistic.
I have a blog that reviews books, for young adult readers like me, as I am in eighth grade. I just wanted to let you know that I emailed you recently about my review on your book Leviathan. I would love if you could check it out and let me know what you think! Oh, and I have also reviewed your book Uglies, which I loved! You can reach my blog, From The Bookshelf of T.B., at http://www.ftbotbblog.blogspot.com.
Thank you for your support!
-Tessa
January 16th, 2011 05:26
this should be made into a movie
January 22nd, 2011 02:26
Hello! I am a Brazilian girl who loves adventure books! I honestly loved all the plot, but expecting a different end in Petties : ( It was well to read the second book BUT … even then expect a happy ending of the book’s number two series Ugly … Sorry if the english is wrong is I’m using Google translator rsrsrsrsrsrsrs
Well, keep writing, ALWAYS, I think our society prescisa of people who think like you … I identified with the VERY Tally, it was as if you were describing me! I think who needs someone like David or Zane to help me maintain my integrity Oo would love to meet you but it will be tough, well-bye and keep writing because I loved the books I read in a Petties in one day, without a break, ah ! And wonder how to pronounce Dr. Cable, who always try to speak, is strange.
Kisses a yours fan!!
January 23rd, 2011 19:48
I wish that trailer weren’t TOTALLY FAKE. I’d love to watch the movie.
January 23rd, 2011 19:53
I wish that trailer weren’t TOTALLY FAKE. Are there any plans for a movie remake in the future?
May 27th, 2011 05:49
Eep i love the trailer and movie poster they make me smile