Bernard Cornwell

5 Pages
←
1
2
3
4
→
Last »

You cannot start a new topic
You cannot reply to this topic

Bernard Cornwell

#21 Malaclypse

Banned User

Group: Banned Users
Posts: 1,350
Joined: 24-August 16

Posted 26 October 2013 - 02:38 AM

Of course you do. I'm from Winnipeg - silly ass name I'll grant you but we're some tough sonsabitches what come from Winnipeg. It's like a town named Sue ;p

#22 QuickTidal

Frog

Group: Team Quick Ben
Posts: 21,339
Joined: 05-November 05
Location:Nowhere Specific
Interests:Nothing, just sitting. Quietly.

Posted 26 October 2013 - 02:58 AM

Malaclypse, on 26 October 2013 - 02:38 AM, said:

Of course you do. I'm from Winnipeg - silly ass name I'll grant you but we're some tough sonsabitches what come from Winnipeg. It's like a town named Sue ;p

The way I hear it, they call it Winterpeg, cause you all didn't like the sun.

But then again, Ontario calls in the army for snow...so...quite a range there.

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

“Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone.” ~Ursula Vernon

#23 champ

Omnipotent Overseer of the Universe

Group: Team Quick Ben
Posts: 2,506
Joined: 21-October 09
Location:Newcastle, UK

Posted 10 July 2014 - 08:52 AM

http://www.bbc.co.uk...he-last-kingdom

Ultimate nerdgasm reading that this morning...

Quote

A Carnival Films and BBC America co-production for BBC Two, The Last Kingdom is an adaptation of Bernard Cornwell’s best-selling series of books by BAFTA nominated and RTS award-winning writer Stephen Butchard. BBC Two, BBC America and Carnival Films, the Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning producers, today announced that production would begin in the autumn on The Last Kingdom, a new historical 8x60' drama series.

Tehol said:

'Yet my heart breaks for a naked hen.'

#24 QuickTidal

Frog

Group: Team Quick Ben
Posts: 21,339
Joined: 05-November 05
Location:Nowhere Specific
Interests:Nothing, just sitting. Quietly.

Posted 10 July 2014 - 10:13 AM

champ, on 10 July 2014 - 08:52 AM, said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk...he-last-kingdom

Ultimate nerdgasm reading that this morning...

Quote

YESSSSSS!!!!!

Oh gods. That's going to be great!

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

“Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone.” ~Ursula Vernon

#25 champ

Omnipotent Overseer of the Universe

Group: Team Quick Ben
Posts: 2,506
Joined: 21-October 09
Location:Newcastle, UK

Posted 10 July 2014 - 10:26 AM

QuickTidal, on 10 July 2014 - 10:13 AM, said:

champ, on 10 July 2014 - 08:52 AM, said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk...he-last-kingdom

Ultimate nerdgasm reading that this morning...

Quote

A Carnival Films and BBC America co-production for BBC Two, The Last Kingdom is an adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's best-selling series of books by BAFTA nominated and RTS award-winning writer Stephen Butchard. BBC Two, BBC America and Carnival Films, the Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning producers, today announced that production would begin in the autumn on The Last Kingdom, a new historical 8x60' drama series.

YESSSSSS!!!!!

Oh gods. That's going to be great!

As long as he is calling people earsling then I will be happy!

Tehol said:

'Yet my heart breaks for a naked hen.'

#26 QuickTidal

Frog

Group: Team Quick Ben
Posts: 21,339
Joined: 05-November 05
Location:Nowhere Specific
Interests:Nothing, just sitting. Quietly.

Posted 10 July 2014 - 01:20 PM

champ, on 10 July 2014 - 10:26 AM, said:

As long as he is calling people earsling then I will be happy!

Such a thing is inexorable, really.

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

“Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone.” ~Ursula Vernon

#27 Messremb

Honorary Symp of High House Mafia

Group: High House Mafia
Posts: 673
Joined: 26-July 02
Location:Essex
High Artificer of Team Quick Ben

Posted 11 July 2014 - 12:40 AM

Hell yeah. Could be considered inevitable after Merlin etc

Any guesses as to casting?

Also, TQB obsession with BC?

"see that stranger's arm crushing the life from him - do you understand? Not an eternal prison for Messremb"

#28 Tiste Simeon

Faith, Heavy Metal & Bacon

Group: Malaz Regular
Posts: 12,102
Joined: 08-October 04
Location:T'North

Posted 11 July 2014 - 05:32 AM

Definitely excited about this!

A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.

#29 champ

Omnipotent Overseer of the Universe

Group: Team Quick Ben
Posts: 2,506
Joined: 21-October 09
Location:Newcastle, UK

Posted 11 July 2014 - 08:59 AM

Messremb, on 11 July 2014 - 12:40 AM, said:

Any guesses as to casting?

Haven't spotted any casting news yet and I have been searching for any tidbit!

Messremb, on 11 July 2014 - 12:40 AM, said:

Also, TQB obsession with BC?

TQB just appreciate quality!

Tehol said:

'Yet my heart breaks for a naked hen.'

#30 QuickTidal

Frog

Group: Team Quick Ben
Posts: 21,339
Joined: 05-November 05
Location:Nowhere Specific
Interests:Nothing, just sitting. Quietly.

Posted 11 July 2014 - 09:25 AM

champ, on 11 July 2014 - 08:59 AM, said:

Messremb, on 11 July 2014 - 12:40 AM, said:

Any guesses as to casting?

Haven't spotted any casting news yet and I have been searching for any tidbit!

Messremb, on 11 July 2014 - 12:40 AM, said:

Also, TQB obsession with BC?

TQB just appreciate quality!

This^^

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

“Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone.” ~Ursula Vernon

#31 Serenity

Saki!!!!!

Group: Malaz Regular
Posts: 1,710
Joined: 23-June 09
Location:London, UK

Posted 11 July 2014 - 09:48 AM

Awesome news!

I'm really enjoying Vikings at the moment - this should be even better.

#32 Goaswerfraiejen

Captain

Group: Malaz Regular
Posts: 192
Joined: 31-October 07

Posted 18 July 2014 - 06:12 PM

champ, on 10 July 2014 - 08:52 AM, said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk...he-last-kingdom

Ultimate nerdgasm reading that this morning...

Quote

omgomgomg!!!111

#33 champ

Omnipotent Overseer of the Universe

Group: Team Quick Ben
Posts: 2,506
Joined: 21-October 09
Location:Newcastle, UK

Posted 02 October 2014 - 02:03 PM

Next Uhtred book out 23rd October 2014...

http://www.amazon.co...k/dp/0007504160

Quote

In the battle for power, there can be only one ruler.England is fractured, torn apart more by internal fighting than the threat of Viking invasion. The ruler of Mercia is dying, leaving no legitimate heir. His wife is a formidable fighter and great leader, but no woman has ever ruled over an English kingdom. And she is without her strongest warrior and champion, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. So the scene is set for an explosive battle between elders and warriors for an empty throne.

The vacant throne leaves a dangerous opportunity for the rival West Saxons to seize Mercia. But Edward of Wessex is distracted by the succession of his own throne, with two heirs claiming the right to be West Saxon king. And while the kingdoms are in disarray, the Vikings, this time coming from the west, will go on the rampage once more.

The very future of England hangs in the balance. A hero is needed, a hero who can destroy the threat to Mercia, a hero who will ultimately decide the fate of a nation…

Tehol said:

'Yet my heart breaks for a naked hen.'

#34 QuickTidal

Frog

Group: Team Quick Ben
Posts: 21,339
Joined: 05-November 05
Location:Nowhere Specific
Interests:Nothing, just sitting. Quietly.

Posted 02 October 2014 - 02:35 PM

Yeah man, that one is on my calendar. Can't wait. We must be headed towards the finale book by this point I'd think?

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

“Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone.” ~Ursula Vernon

#35 champ

Omnipotent Overseer of the Universe

Group: Team Quick Ben
Posts: 2,506
Joined: 21-October 09
Location:Newcastle, UK

Posted 02 October 2014 - 03:00 PM

Cannot believe I nearly forgot about it!

I read an interview ages ago and he said it will be 7-8 books long (considering this is the 8th - that isn't going to happen) but then I just found this interview...

From http://sharonkaypenman.com/blog/?p=437

Quote

Q. Did you start out with a road map, knowing from the first how Uhtred's story would end?
A. Oh, I wish! I don't even know how the chapter I'm writing now will end! In fact it's a complete rewrite. I finished chapter three of the new Uhtred story last week and realized that he said, 'You see? Nothing happened.' And he was right, nothing had happened, so I hit the magic delete button and have started again. The only glimpse of a road map is the Battle of Brunanburg which took place in 937AD and is really the end of Uhtred's story because it's that battle that establishes England as a country (and the series is about the making of England). So I have a destination, but the map in between is murky ('here be dragons'). And Uhtred will be so old by 937 that I'll have to make some awkward decisions before then. It was E.L. Doctorow who said that writing a novel was rather like driving on an unknown country road at night, the way ahead illuminated only by very feeble headlights, and that's true for me. I envy writers who can plan a whole book (or series) then write to the plan. I stagger from one crisis to the next!

And...

Quote

Q. I could think of many more questions, but you have things to do, places to go, and most importantly, books to write. So I will conclude by asking the question we all want to know.
Can you tell us how many more books remain before you end the Saxon series? Is this negotiable? [...]
A. Again, I wish I knew! At least about Uhtred. Certainly another four or five? Maybe more? I just don’t know! [...]

This post has been edited by champ: 02 October 2014 - 03:15 PM

Tehol said:

'Yet my heart breaks for a naked hen.'

#36 acesn8s

Soletaken

Group: Malaz Regular
Posts: 2,122
Joined: 09-October 07
Location:Northampton, PA USA
Interests:Reading, video games, role playing games, Fountain Pens, journals...

Posted 02 October 2014 - 03:19 PM

We have to wait until Jan 6th here in the States. :rant:

Stupid publishing erslings!

“The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark.”
― Steven Brust, The Phoenix Guards

#37 QuickTidal

Frog

Group: Team Quick Ben
Posts: 21,339
Joined: 05-November 05
Location:Nowhere Specific
Interests:Nothing, just sitting. Quietly.

Posted 02 October 2014 - 03:38 PM

acesn8s, on 02 October 2014 - 03:19 PM, said:

We have to wait until Jan 6th here in the States. :rant:

Stupid publishing erslings!

You could order it from Canada from amazon.ca?

We get it on the same date as the Brits.

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

“Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone.” ~Ursula Vernon

#38 Tiste Simeon

Faith, Heavy Metal & Bacon

Group: Malaz Regular
Posts: 12,102
Joined: 08-October 04
Location:T'North

Posted 03 October 2014 - 07:15 PM

Wut. I haven't even read Pagan Lord yet!

A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.

#39 Gabriele

High Fist

Group: Malaz Regular
Posts: 335
Joined: 01-June 08
Location:Germany
Interests:History, Archaeology, Photogrpahy, Writing, Opera, Traveling, Riding, Languages

Posted 04 October 2014 - 10:59 AM

Damn, now I need to write my own novel about Brunanburh faster. If he gets there before me, I'll never sell that sucker. :rant:

This post has been edited by Gabriele: 04 October 2014 - 10:59 AM

#40 QuickTidal

Frog

Group: Team Quick Ben
Posts: 21,339
Joined: 05-November 05
Location:Nowhere Specific
Interests:Nothing, just sitting. Quietly.

Posted 23 October 2014 - 06:42 PM

I don't know if anyone posted this anywhere but:

Uhtred it seems may have been cast for the TV show

http://deadline.com/...-series-829970/

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

“Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone.” ~Ursula Vernon