Q&A avec des fans de Mike Preger, le producteur du film Vampire Academy
Mike Preger, qui a acheté les droits d'adaptation de la saga Vampire Academy pour le cinéma, a répondu à des questions de fans sur Facebook sur l'avancée du film.
Quelques réponses intéressantes... et parfois flippantes pour le devenir
Are you planning on making each book a separate film or are you thinking about combining any of them?
Yes, to all of the above. Ideally each book could stand on it's own. But since the first film installment in a series is so critical to the success and continuation of that series, we feel the first book (VA) may possibly require some combination with book two (FB) to really establish and grab the film audience.
Ils pourraient mixer les tomes 1 et 2 dans le 1er film afin de capter le public.
Many authors have recently been involved/on-set during production as a consultant. Have you considered having Richelle Mead involved in the film?
As busy as our favorite author is, I would love to have Richelle's involvement and thoughts on everything. But at the end of the day, a filmmaker (Director) will be brought in. Creatively the "production set" is his/her domain, so we will just have to wait and see.
What will happen if you cannot find a studio?
This leads to a number of other opportunities. An Independent deal to produce the movie before a sale is always possible. Among the proposals talked about above, one such opportunity was among them already. Beyond that there remains possibilities for exploring a "made for cable" film series, or network mini-series, or even a television series like True Blood or Vampire Diaries.
S'ils ne trouvent pas de studio pour produire le film, il y a d'autres possibilités comme une saga de films pour la TV, ou une mini série sur internet, ou une série TV.
Have you started looking for any screenwriters?
We have discussed screenwriters, and have had some great discussions with screenwriters as well. Again, so much relies on what deal we can achieve, what venue we are creating for, and what scale of production a studio intends to commit to, before we can finalize any relationship in this area.
En gros, ils ne peuvent rien faire avant d'avoir un studio.
Are you interested in making Bloodlines into a movie as well?
As a sequel to Vampire Academy, we have reserved first/last negotiations to the Bloodline series. Once Vampire Academy is set up, we will continue working with Richelle to figure all that out. But yes, we are excitedly awaiting the debut of Bloodlines in August.
Ils ont pris l'option pour Bloodlines mais n'y réfléchiront avec Richelle que lorsque le film Vampire Academy sera lancé.
Although VA is a “Young Adult Book,” it does have a lot of violence and sex. What rating do you think the film will have?
Once the venue has been established, i.e. Motion Picture, Cable, TV, a target audience will be decided by a Studio or Network and the material will be adapted to that market. We have now a broad appeal, predominantly female 13-35 already established from the book. We hope to broaden that appeal to include a strong male appeal as well, so we will want as much of an "edge" to the material as the intended market will support. Violence and Sex can be handled a lot of different ways cinematically, so I'm not too concerned at this point. Again, in the hands of the right filmmaker, it can all work in a number of ways creatively.
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