Post by Dante on Jan 16, 2010 11:53:04 GMT -5
Lemony Snicket tells lies to children
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He brings good news for his young fans. Handler is already turning his mind to a new series of dark adventures. Though the 13th and final title in the Baudelaire sequence came down to what passes for a happy ending — two deaths and a voyage into the unknown — it was an open-ended conclusion, expressed by its final illustration of a question mark.
Handler concedes that the forthcoming books will “approach that question mark from a different angle”. He goes on: “It is mostly an entirely new story. But if you are a close reader of the series you will see some overlap. There will be something for people who are hungry for that sort of thing.”
The first of the new series will published next year or in 2012, and he is toying with a title and plot line. He is hopeful that there could be a second film too, a sequel to Paramount’s 2003 blockbuster, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. That starred Jim Carrey and took $209 million at the box office — a mix that seemed to guarantee a sequel until stange studio politics intervened.
Handler remains hopeful, both of the follow-up and of Carrey’s presence as Olaf. “That’s what they tell me,” he says.It has taken ten years to convert Handler from a struggling author of adult fiction into a world figure. His first grown-up novel, The Basic Eight, was a well-reviewed tale of young people and impressed his editor enough for her to ask whether he had considered writing for younger readers.
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CBBC Newsround interview
Question: "Olivia, from Barnston, she wants to know if the characters from A Series of Unfortunate Events will come again in this next series?"
Answer: "Some of them do and some of them don't. Of course, some of the characters in A Series of Unfortunate Events die over the course of A Series of Unfortunate Events, and those characters I'm afraid are dead for good."
Newcastle event
Edinburgh event
Scotsman interview
"It does have some overlap with the series, but it's not a continuation... There's nothing much more that I can say about it; it's still kind of foetal. I'm writing it this year."
Lemony Snicket web chat
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On the new series: "...so yes, [Lemony Snicket] has a distant connection to [the Baudelaire case], and he has a connection as well to the new series that he's working on."
"It's depressing, it's upsetting, and it's not likely to be of any use to anyone at all."
"I told someone the title once, that Mr. Snicket had told me, and that person fainted dead away. That story is almost entirely true."
Was Olaf evil even back in school? "Well, I think in school everyone learns to be a certain level of evil. He was encouraged, I think, Count Olaf, in his evil, which often happens in some of the poorer schools... I don't mean poor economically, I mean, you know, poorly-run, poorly-designed."
Is there going to be another film? "That's what I'm told, yes... I'm told that they're working on another film."
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Independent video interview
Q: "So will there ever be another book about Violet, Klaus, and Sunny?"
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A: "No, A Series of Unfortunate Events has concluded; Mr. Snicket is at work on some more books now, that have some overlap with A Series of Unfortunate Events but not starring the Baudelaire orphans. Their story is, I think, told fairly completely in thirteen volumes."
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He brings good news for his young fans. Handler is already turning his mind to a new series of dark adventures. Though the 13th and final title in the Baudelaire sequence came down to what passes for a happy ending — two deaths and a voyage into the unknown — it was an open-ended conclusion, expressed by its final illustration of a question mark.
Handler concedes that the forthcoming books will “approach that question mark from a different angle”. He goes on: “It is mostly an entirely new story. But if you are a close reader of the series you will see some overlap. There will be something for people who are hungry for that sort of thing.”
The first of the new series will published next year or in 2012, and he is toying with a title and plot line. He is hopeful that there could be a second film too, a sequel to Paramount’s 2003 blockbuster, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. That starred Jim Carrey and took $209 million at the box office — a mix that seemed to guarantee a sequel until stange studio politics intervened.
Handler remains hopeful, both of the follow-up and of Carrey’s presence as Olaf. “That’s what they tell me,” he says.It has taken ten years to convert Handler from a struggling author of adult fiction into a world figure. His first grown-up novel, The Basic Eight, was a well-reviewed tale of young people and impressed his editor enough for her to ask whether he had considered writing for younger readers.
---
CBBC Newsround interview
Question: "Olivia, from Barnston, she wants to know if the characters from A Series of Unfortunate Events will come again in this next series?"
Answer: "Some of them do and some of them don't. Of course, some of the characters in A Series of Unfortunate Events die over the course of A Series of Unfortunate Events, and those characters I'm afraid are dead for good."
Newcastle event
Edinburgh event
Scotsman interview
"It does have some overlap with the series, but it's not a continuation... There's nothing much more that I can say about it; it's still kind of foetal. I'm writing it this year."
Lemony Snicket web chat
---
On the new series: "...so yes, [Lemony Snicket] has a distant connection to [the Baudelaire case], and he has a connection as well to the new series that he's working on."
"It's depressing, it's upsetting, and it's not likely to be of any use to anyone at all."
"I told someone the title once, that Mr. Snicket had told me, and that person fainted dead away. That story is almost entirely true."
Was Olaf evil even back in school? "Well, I think in school everyone learns to be a certain level of evil. He was encouraged, I think, Count Olaf, in his evil, which often happens in some of the poorer schools... I don't mean poor economically, I mean, you know, poorly-run, poorly-designed."
Is there going to be another film? "That's what I'm told, yes... I'm told that they're working on another film."
---
Independent video interview
Q: "So will there ever be another book about Violet, Klaus, and Sunny?"
...
A: "No, A Series of Unfortunate Events has concluded; Mr. Snicket is at work on some more books now, that have some overlap with A Series of Unfortunate Events but not starring the Baudelaire orphans. Their story is, I think, told fairly completely in thirteen volumes."
