Writer Turns down Movie Deal
10 June 2002
Writer Turns down Movie Deal
The minute a film is made, a book dwindles away and becomes nothing. I want it to be a book that people can make the movie in their heads.'
Screenwriter William Nicholson, author of the Wind Singer children's trilogy, announcing at the Hay-on Wye Book Festival that he's turned down a $1 million offer for film rights in his books.