February 16 2009
Joss Whedon to receive Bradbury Award from SFWA.
It's an "award for excellence in screenwriting, as presented by Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America" and will be presented at their Nebula Awards weekend in April.
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BreathesStory | February 16, 17:47 CET
Amen to that, and then some.
Chris inVirginia | February 16, 17:48 CET
@theonetruebix | February 16, 17:51 CET
Rusty626 | February 16, 18:38 CET
Pointy | February 16, 20:31 CET
nyrk | February 16, 20:54 CET
Tin Ear Tom | February 16, 22:25 CET
Again, an award long deserving to you!
Madhatter | February 16, 22:33 CET
"'Like everyone who picks up a pen, I was a rabid Bradbury fan and as greatly influenced by him as any other writer I read,' Whedon said. 'To receive the award named for him is an honor I'd not dreamed of. In my defense, it didn't exist back then. What did exist were the very lovely, very twisted and very human stories that warped my impressionable mind, and that I have tried, in whatever medium they will let me, to measure up to.'”
As a kid, I cut my reading teeth - if such things there can be - on Bradbury, Agatha Christie, Vonnegut and Heinlein - but the stories that really got under my skin were Bradbury's. Aside from "which book would you be?" which I think we've played on here before, Fahrenheit 451 affected me to such a degree that even now when I hear helicopters hovering over my neighborhood, I dread that every door in the neighborhood may open and help the Hound to catch and poison some poor book-reading bastard.
There's lots of Bradbury that's been re-created for the radio; for those interested, I found a link to an Old Time Radio podcast, where you can download an episode of X Minus One (which I love) featuring Bradbury's "Dwellers in Silence."
Enjoy, and congratulations, Jossir.
QuoterGal | February 17, 00:21 CET
Peter | February 17, 00:43 CET
Congratulations, Jossir! (Can I call you Jossir the Magnificent?)
ShadowQuest | February 17, 00:49 CET
Much more meaningful than something like an Emmy (although that would be nice too, I'm not holding my breath for the "mainstream" to get past it's genre bias any lifetime soon).
Shey | February 17, 02:24 CET
montresor | February 17, 10:20 CET
Simon | February 17, 10:31 CET
@theonetruebix | February 17, 10:37 CET
Simon | February 17, 10:46 CET
Oh gods yes.
The One True b!X: "So you don't want that Mel Gibson one to come back from oblivion?"
OMFG, I had no idea that this had even been a germ of a thought of a plan, much less that he'd optioned it. And as time wore on and plans "evolved," I'm glad this casting didn't happen, as well. It just would have been wrong.
Found this while I was looking around:
"Mel Gibson has owned the rights to do a new version of Fahrenheit 451 for 6 years. There have been 10 screenplays. Jesus Christ, shoot the book! It's a screenplay, look at the goddamned thing!" - Ray Bradbury, Barnes & Noble, 4/02
QuoterGal | February 17, 13:05 CET
Sunfire | February 17, 13:32 CET
korkster | February 17, 16:27 CET
And:
Whatever, only version of Fahrenheit 451 is Truffaut's 60's version... or was it 70's? Anyways... I couldn't finish it.
Ezra4205 | February 17, 21:47 CET