BtVS Rewatch 2012-2013; One Gifset Per Episode
➞ 6x05 - Life SerialBuffy: I don’t really know how to say this… but it’s a little like having Mom back.
Giles: In this scenario, I am your mother?
Buffy: Wanna be my shiftless absentee father?
Giles: Is there some sort of, um, rakish uncle?
Buffy: I’m just saying… Thank you. So much.
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From the (figurative) cutthroat world of American politics to the (literal) cutthroat world of Panem: EW has confirmed that Danny Strong — who won an Emmy last month for writing the HBO movie Game Change about the 2008 G.O.P. presidential campaign — is in talks to adapt Suzanne Collins’ Mockingjay for the two-part finale of The Hunger Games saga. Part one of Mockingjay is already set for theaters on Nov. 21, 2014; part two on Nov. 20, 2015.
Though Strong began his career as an actor on shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls, and Mad Men, the Hunger Games gig cements him as one of the most sought-after working writers in Hollywood. His first writing credit was for the HBO movie Recount, about the 2000 presidential recount battle, and his upcoming projects include co-writer-director Lee Daniels’ life-in-the-White-House biopic The Butler, and the adaptation of Dan Brown’s bestseller The Lost Symbol.
Between Strong’s ability to refashion complicated narratives into a feature film timeframe and his clear affinity for stories with a robust political bent, he makes for a strong choice to handle Mockingjay‘s thorny tale of uprising and betrayal.
Variety first broke the news. Lionsgate had no comment.
Comic-Con 2004.
Warner Bros. has scooped up the rights to David Liss’ novel A Conspiracy of Paper. Ridley and Tony Scott will produce the film through their Scott Free production company. Published in 2000, the novel is a mystery period tale set in London leading up to the bursting of the South Sea Bubble in 1720. Variety reports that Danny Strong (Recount), has been hired to write the screenplay.
Strong recently appeared the latest season of Mad Men as the incapable Danny Siegel. After being nominated for an Emmy for writing Recount, Strong has been a hot commodity lately. He wrote The Butler for Lee Daniels (Precious), is currently rewriting the alien-invasion film EDF for Sam Raimi, and is set to reteam with Recount director Jay Roach on HBO’s Game Change.
Here’s the synopsis for A Conspiracy of Paper (via Wikipedia):
The novel’s story is told in the form of a first-person memoir penned by the elderly Benjamin Weaver (born Lienzo), London-born son of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish parents. After a successful career in bare-knuckle boxing, Weaver has found a new calling as a ‘thief-taker’—roughly equivalent to a modern private investigator. Believing that his estranged father died in a tragic accident, Weaver is shocked when a prospective client claims that the ‘accident’ was, in fact, murder. Weaver’s subsequent investigation involves him in the new London financial world of banks, stocks, speculation, violence and scandal leading up to the world’s first stock-market crash, the South Sea Bubble. In order to solve the mystery, he must learn the inner workings of this new world of paper money. The murder investigation moves toward its conclusion in lock-step with the accelerating frenzy of the Bubble’s final days.
A sub-plot involves Benjamin’s gradual reintegration, after years of estrangement, into his family’s community and traditions. This gives the author the opportunity to introduce the Lienzo family, and their struggles to survive and prosper as Jews and foreigners in 18th century London. Benjamin finds added incentive to rejoin his family when he meets the beautiful Miriam, widow of his cousin and now living in his uncle Miguel’s household.
