Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 14:48:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Neil Ottenstein <nottenst at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re:  The Prestige
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

--- Michael Walsh <MJW at press.jhu.edu> wrote:

> Priest read an early draft of thescript and was
> pleased with it.   It's
> pretty difficult to film an entire nove land have
> the film run a
> reasonable length.

I just finished reading it this morning.  It was
excellent.  I read it a lot faster than I expected.
I'm not sure whether I prefer this or The Space
Machine (which was the first of his novels that I read
- way back when).

In terms of length, I think this novel might be easier
to turn into a film as there is a lot of introspection
and some events are seen from more than one point of
view.  So, that should reduce the sheer number of
scenes.  Based on Christopher Nolan's previous work I
can see how he could be drawn to this story.

> He did wonder how the film would begin.  Turns our
> the script opens
> with something entirely new, not in the novel, but
> according to Priest it works.

Sounds great.  I am looking forward to see how it will
be filmed.

Neil