Thread:Gaarmyvet/@comment-4762474-20141220023155/@comment-4762474-20141220200536

But as I noted there was no Weapons in the Content catagory the only W is Watercolor! So for now I'll leave catagoyless for now

Taylor Anderson posted some neet posts while I was here on his blog http://www.taylorandersonauthor.com/blog/discussions/ discussing possibility of a Destroyermen movie etc: On December 20, 2014 Taylor says:Hmm. You may be right, Justin, but I hate to discourage everyone quite so thoroughly. There actually has been a great deal of interest in the film rights from both movie and television companies. I haven’t sold them yet simply because I am being fairly particular. Beyond that. I think you make a number of ill-informed assumptions:

I still have quite a few contacts in the movie business, and the series is actually quite well known in those circles. It is, in fact,familiar enough to “Hollywood” for “it” to, um, “borrow” certain aspects of it for a wide variety of other projects. This is very common, and there’s not a lot you can do about it. A couple of those nameless projects began production to pre-empt presumed destroyermen projects by other companies.

One reason there has been so much interest is because the series does NOT easily drop into a particular niche. There is a touch of Alt-Hist, but what is “Avatar,” for example, but “Historical Military Sci-fi Fantasy?” It’s Alan Eckert’s “Frontiersman,” or “Drums along the Mohawk,” or–(shudder)–“Dances with Wolves” in space. I still write the series as an “Old Fashioned Adventure Yarn with a twist,” and include a little bit of just about everything. Not because I deliberately aim for a theater audience, but because it amuses me–and enough readers to keep the books on the NY Times Bestseller list time after time. Pure “niche” books rarely touch that list.

Ultimately, it may never make it to the screen, but that will probably have as much to do with whether I’m convinced it won’t be butchered as any other factor. Really. On December 21, 2014 Taylor says:Stories–and movies–rip each other off all the time. There is actually a great deal of “espionage” between the various studios and they often make, essentially, the same movie at once, if they think there is a market. Remember when “Tombstone” and “Wyatt Earp” were released almost simultaneously? Half a dozen “Jesse James” movies came out at the same time I was working on the somewhat stupid “American Outlaws.” Just a few examples. Then, of course, you have the “genre tsunamis” when so many similar things come out at once that they are virtually indistinguishable. The “Buffy Syndrome” might be a good name for it, or “Paranormal Soap Opera Romance,” to be more specific to THAT particular tsunami. Apocalypse (insert Zombie, asteroid, killer bees, or whatever unpleasant scenario) movies and TV shows are riding high just now. One reason for the marvel of the success of the Marvel movies might be that it is difficult to rip them off because they are such a huge franchise–but that hasn’t stopped the “superhero tsunami,” has it? That brings up the main reason that Destroyermen would be tough to do “right,” and that is that it is truly “different,” and studios ARE extremely hesitant to visit Terra Incognita. In that sense, it might actually help that aspects of it have been borrowed from time to time because there is a baseline of measurable general interest, some good, some bad. Ultimately though, like I have said many times, whether the D-Men is ever put on film WELL depends on assurances that I have to that effect–and how adamant “fans” of the series are that it be so.

Ha! As to how “big” the “franchise” is becoming, the first time I realized that it had spread beyond a small group of dedicated readers was when I noticed how many times the books had gone back to print–and when highly identifiable terms such as “Doom Whomper” began turning up in very unexpected places as a general descriptive term for any Big A$$ Gun.