*heh heh*

[dianeduane]

A moment from a screenplay:

EXT. SCHOOL -- AFTERNOON

The door into the playground cracks softly open. Kit peers out, 
looks around. Then he slips out, followed by Nita.

From around the corner of the building, Joanne and her crowd emerge. 
Nita and Kit pause, look at each other. Then, together, they head 
toward Joanne and her gang. 

A "High Noon" moment: the two factions move toward each other, Nita 
and Kit grim and determined, Joanne and her bunch furious and bent on 
revenge. As they close -- 

A REALLY BIG BANG of displaced air -- and, out on the playground, a 
LEAR JET (with its engines idling) APPEARS out of nothing and DROPS 
a couple of feet to the ground. Everyone stops right where they are, 
staring. 

                      KIT
              (astonished, impressed)
        What. The.

Joanne's gang, also astounded, do what everyone else in the area does: 
they run over to look at the jet. Joanne, angry, goes after her posse.

                      JOANNE
              (to Nita)
         Later. Believe me.

Nita and Kit glance at each other, then at the still-flickering Fred 
as he REAPPEARS between them. 

                      KIT
         Fred! Nice going.

                      FRED
               (sounds sick)
         I saw them, so I exerted myself a little. 
         Can we go now?

                      NITA
         Yeah.

They head off around the corner of the building. Kit glances back 
at the playground, full of the vast assortment of Fred's emissions.

                      KIT
         What're they gonna do with all that stuff?

                      NITA
               (shrugs)
         Ebay?

They hurry O.S.

(snrk)

Comments

[terrylj.livejournal.com]

Screenplay? *hyperventilates*

[tortoises.livejournal.com]

*drools*

I want to be an actor now. Just so I could audition for this. Snerk.

I'm pumped. The ASOIAF announcement made me happy. This one on top of it makes me feel floaty. \o/

[kurobahikaru.livejournal.com]

Please, dear sweet Jesus and all the Powers That Be, let us have Peter Jackson as the director. PLEASE.

[paxluvfelicitas.livejournal.com]

Homg. Homg. Homg. Homg.

If this gets made, I will be so incredibly happy I will dance. And sing. And go see it, many many times, even though I will be that sad, sad college kid going to a movie intended for preteens. But I will not care. Because it is Young Wizards.

YES!

I can't wait to see the perytons...

[wolf-moonshadow.livejournal.com]

Now that is wonderful news! You've made my day. I can't wait to see it.

[terredancer.livejournal.com]

Oooh! This would be wonderful. I've been wondering about this for years, but... oooh. And my love for Nita still knows no bounds...

[the-lone-jen.livejournal.com]

...I think I just wet my pants. or something. Any chance we could have a fun little casting poll of who we think should play who (even though they never listen to the fans)?

[auriond.livejournal.com]

God. A childhood dream come true. Another movie I'll likely watch three times in the cinema, and get the DVD as soon as it's released in the US.

Please, please Diane, cast unknowns for Kit and Nita! Though I think you already know that...

[herewiss13.livejournal.com]

That is utterly gorgeous. Looks like I'll have to break out the initial trilogy again now and revisit old friends.

I'm actually a little scared: perfect screenplay aside, it'd be so easy to do this wrong..._really_ wrong.

OMG! I just realized that we'd get to hear Nita read the Oath.

...speaking of things that could go really wrong... ;-)

I'll be knocking on wood for you...continuously!

[redlily.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Ooh ooh ooh!! Powers willing, when this makes it to the big screen, all us blog-readers need to coordinate and go see it in big, scary, rowan-wand-wielding groups. *dorky grin*

[talon.livejournal.com]

I waver between 'finally' and 'awesome'.

Finawesome.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

HOLY MOLY, DD. *crosses fingers and toes* Hope negotiations et al go well!

[dreagoddess.livejournal.com]

Screenplay! Wow, you just cheered me up. :D I know a movie can't fully capture the greatness of your world and characters, but it'll sure be fun to watch!

[lemony-purple.livejournal.com]

You know, I didn't even realize that "Ebay" was new until I read the comments.

You can take that as being very sad on my part, or just say it's because it fits in so incredibly perfectly with everything else.

OMG OMG

[serenityfallen.livejournal.com]

<333333

After a rather damned day at work-- you have just insured my slumber like a baby for the next week and a half.

[muppetk.livejournal.com]

So *this* is what happens when you put aside a manuscript for 15 years before writing the next draft... A nifty little update! :)

Have fun with the screenplay, and I'll keep my fingers crossed for the movie!

[http://users.livejournal.com/inkista_/]

Stop tormenting us like this! :) Man, it's nice to know that not only will it truly be SYWTBAW?, it will also have all sorts of good juicy new bits in it for those of us who have the book memorized from reading our copies dog-eared.

Now, do DOOR INTO FIRE...! >-)

[winterdarkmoon.livejournal.com]

RS here. Oh wow!! This is COOL. *jumps excitedly* Now, where to find those auditions..... lol.

Oh, and I LOVE the ebay thing! :)

[childthursday.livejournal.com]

Now this, this I want to see...I noticed the differences between my nineties hardback and the paperback set I had ('You don't even have a color television!'). I'm so glad it looks like the story will be a contemporary one, instead of set in the eighties. They did that to rent and it just didn't work...

[keristor.livejournal.com]

That was /so/ not work-safe, I just burbled and attracted looks from my cow-orkers. None of whom have ever read the YW series...

[ateji.livejournal.com]

*squees and starts harassing coworkers to read the books* XD

[amberite.livejournal.com]

It gave me pure pleasure to read this.

My older brother read me that scene a very long time ago. I distinctly remember laughing so hard I nearly busted a rib. The new punchline makes my day.