Yes – first printing (15,000) is sold out, as per Talk/Miramax Books. They’ve gone back to press with a second printing.
1000 of that initial 15,000 was sold via the online Stash alone, so thanks, all, for clearing the shelves.
Granted, 15,000 ain’t exactly Clancy-type numbers, but remember: the book just streeted on the 13th (although we were allowed to sell it early at the Stash, natch). Essentially, Talk/Miramax Books had to go back to press with the second printing on the first day of release.
“Fake book” that, Entertainment Weekly book critic jerk-stain.
“I turned in the script and this executive went ‘What (the hell) is this? It reads like a comic book! I didn’t approve this!’ I always took that as a real compliment,” Smith says now of the 1996 incident, which he also blames on an executive-level shuffle.
“I said, ‘You think it really reads like a comic book? Because that’s what I was going for.’ But back then it was a pejorative.”
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Smith — who has written Daredevil and Spider-Man comics in recent years — recently turned down the chance to write and direct a film version of The Green Hornet.
Smith says he bowed out of helming the production when he realized that “it wouldn’t belong to me because they’re not my characters … and you’re at the behest of the studios. You don’t have to make exactly what they want, but they’re looking for the most palatable movie possible … So you’re essentially making a product where people go and sit there and eat popcorn and don’t think about it.
The article features quite the list of films on the way with comic influences at its tail end. Check ‘er out at the Canoe site.
