We’ve been approached by a number of high-profile Hollywood producers and asked to do TV shows. We may do that.Mojang CEO Carl Manneh • Discussing the potential for a Minecraft television adaptation, during an interview with the Financial Times. Minecraft has seen explosive growth since achieving 1.0 status late last year, adding 5 million new users just last month, and bringing the total number of client downloads to approximately 25 million. Elaborating on the television proposals, Manneh told the Times, “We have so much to focus on with just the game development and growing the business. But if the right idea comes along and the right people that we’d want to work with, we’d say why not?” source (via • follow)
Directed by the director of Twilight, Maybe? God, even worse! ABC has committed itself to creating not a contemporary version of the classic Shakespeare tragedy, but one set in the time of Shakespeare. And they want Catherine Hardwicke, the director of “Twilight” to shoot it. Good God. Why would anyone do this to the world? Plus, have they even considered how hard it’s going to be to work around the major plot point of the play, you know, that the lead characters offed themselves at the very end? source
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