There’s still activity over in the US and the outcome might be better than a movie. That’s funny! But if Relatively Mediocre are out of it, is there any chance that the movie might still happen?īarry and I certainly haven’t given up yet. I started to call them “Relatively Mediocre” after they let us down. From what I can see they were building international alliances for their film and TV programming output, but they just didn’t have enough good product to feed these distribution channels. I never heard anything from them after that, but they obviously lost confidence in the project when it was just the sort of thing that might have saved their business. From what I heard the screenplay had been approved and all the pieces were in place and ready for preproduction to start – the special effects company (a really cool London-based one), artistic director, and so on, even down to the costumiers and the design of a new Tunnels logo – but then Relativity simply let their option lapse. Well, after five long years it finally seemed to be coming together in leaps and bounds, with a full presentation on the budget being made to Relativity early last year so they could give the sign-off. Rowling with all that momentum behind you and loads of influence, the writer tends to be treated as a second or third class citizen and kept in the dark.īut you thought the movie was really going to happen? People were running around and working on it in the US, but I was always the last to be told anything. I’m afraid I let myself dream that it was going to happen because first Vincenzo was appointed as the director which I thought was brilliant and I really liked his energy and approach when we spoke, then Mikael Håfström came on board instead – a heavyweight, but I never knew why there was a changeover and that’s been a big problem for me throughout the whole process – it wasn’t as if I had any meaningful contact at all with the producers or Relativity at any stage in the game.
Brian’s attitude has always been not to believe it could be real until it’s signed and sealed and some money’s exchanged hands.
Yes, if I said it’s been frustrating that would be an understatement. We’ve seen some promising announcements over the years, but then there were long stretches when there was no news at all.
I’m just grateful that anyone is still interested in what I’m doing! I certainly never take it for granted.Ĭan I jump straight in and ask you about the Tunnels movie? I know a lot of readers are keen to know what’s going on with it after Relativity Media went bankrupt. Hi Roderick, it’s great that you wanted to do an interview before the release of your new book, which we learned recently is to be called Summerhouse Land. This is an interview I did with Sirius Holmes of late last year. If you click on the photo below it will take you to the website to see the original.
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