(April Fools Post)

[alexandraerin]

Update: Okay, this was confusing enough people when it was still April 1st, but since people are still stumbling across this post for the first time, I'm just going to say that not a word below is true. It's fiction, like much of what I write. This was my April Fool's post for the year.



I was planning on keeping this under wraps, but... Tales of MU has been optioned by the Sci-Fi Channel!!!!!!1111!! They were originally talking about a made for TV movie or miniseries, but with Battlestar Galactica off the air they're looking for another ongoing series to fill out their schedule... basically, there's no limit to how far this could go. It's all very cool.

While the studio insists they need a free hand to develop the story in a going-forward fashion unhampered by undue restraints like continuity, we have what is known as a "gentleman's agreement" about my vision, which producer Robert Lieberman has promised to respect in the morning. I was a little bit unsure about his first choice of casting for the re-envisioned Puddy role, but I'm sure Sebastian Roché is a fine actor. I haven't seen any scripts yet, but I assume I'm going to be seeing them sometime tomorrow as I've been told they expect to run a statement from me endorsing the whole first season in Friday's Variety.

Ian fans will be happy to learn that they're planning an increased focus on the Mackenzie-Ian dynamic, with Mackenzie's lesbian leanings treated as more of a "thematic element", I think was the phrase that was used. I've been reassured that the lesbian elements will feature all the more prominently in the on-air advertising campaigns, so I suppose at least they'll be represented.

And people who enjoy the action sequences will also be in for a treat, as the creative re-imagining of the concept will involve Mackenzie and her sidekicks fighting a different monster each week, with the defeated ones having a choice: come to MU and join the fun at Harlowe, or be sent to the Nteenth Dimension, a hellish (though they seem shy about using the word "hell") world ruled over by Mackenzie's father, Lord Pytch (who is actually sort of a composite character, apparently) and his demonic (they don't like that word, either) Downsiders.

I haven't heard confirmation on this next part, but the buzz is that H.R. Giger's going to be creating Mackenzie's "ultimate form", whatever that is.

The show... which has been shuffled between the working titles Magisterius University Nights, Professor Magisterium's School For Gifted Monsters, and The Legend of Magisteria... is slated to air next fall on the newly-rebranded Syfy Channel.

Comments

[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

AUGH damn you. :)

[andy9306.livejournal.com]

I remembered the date by the end of the second line. Which is odd, I usually don't know which month it is, much less day of the month.

But ya... I'd watch it.

Dammit.

[denict.livejournal.com]

I actually believed this, until I read the comments. *feels stupid* I even linked it to a chat I'm in with 4 other readers... Two of us got really excited. Until I figured out we'd been pranked. Then we wept.

lol

[zeel-01.livejournal.com]

i was like WTF? the idea of MU as a TV show would be cool but it can't be < the only way to do it would be to make it a TOTAL porn overkill sort of thing

this was to easy, if it had been done on tribe or void dogs id have fallen for it but it would never work for MU

[hel]

lol.

[saivanima.livejournal.com]

Who *wouldn't* want this to not be an April Fool's??? I saw the BIG NEWS and realized it was a horrible day if such news were to be true. Couldn't even begin to get my hopes up, but should you announce on a different day the same thing, you would have my utmost congratulations. It would be amazing to see how well our imaginations compare to a live-action version.
Much love, AE!
Saivanima

[cassiend.livejournal.com]

My first thought was Scifi would mess it up. My second thought was censors would mess it up. I was starting too feel bad for Lexy then I realised the date.

[carsonfiles.livejournal.com]

i wondered earlier today what the 4/1 prank would be. . .but forgot the date somewhen between then and now. I did figure it out before I read any comments, but you got me.

[blue-x.livejournal.com]

I figured it out sometime in the second paragraph, mostly when I stopped to think because I had no idea who Sebastian Roché was. Much as I enjoy a good prank, I'm glad I figured it out when I did, since otherwise I think I would have been horrified and disappointed. "Lexi's selling out! How can she let them do this to her work!?"

And, for the record - I would have been horrified and disappointed by the fact that your post makes it clear the series and characters would be butchered, not by the concept of MU becoming a TV show. Though I have to admit, I would probably be less excited about it on TV, only because a true-to-the-story Tales of MU series would probably have to air on one of those channels I can't afford...

[braidedmane.livejournal.com]

Thank gods SOMEONE did something for April Fools! It's 8:33 and this is the first anything I've seen. My mom called me and left a message to call her...I was sure it was going to be some joke.

But actually it was her calling to tell me that she had to put the family dog down (not unexpected, but still sad). Not so much with the joking :(

[bobmacpharson.livejournal.com]

I actually find myself interested in Mackenzie's "Final Form" regardless of whether it actually exists.

A while ago someone requested a "flash forward" of the Harlowe Crew after they grow up and become badass ('cause clearly that's what's supposed to happen. All characters have to grow up and become badass). Even if it were non-canon I still agree that'd be pretty cool.

nice one

[vox-vocis-causa.livejournal.com]

Although for this to make any sense at all at least some part of Tales of MU would have to be tame enough to ever put on TV.

omg

[animeniac2.livejournal.com]

you had me RIGHT up to the "monster of the week".....nice work AE, theough i think i preferred the rickroll....at least i saw that one coming a mile away. i would in all honesty love to see this series in other media, though it would probably be a bit weird translating out all of Mack's thought processes to live action...

Big News

[theironmuffin.livejournal.com]

Oh you BITCH.

You nearly gave me a heart attack. My mind was racing with thoughts of "this will ruin MU!" and "this can only end in tears, as an uncaring medium that *just doesn't get it* rips apart AE's vison!"...

I am also experiencing a bit of letdown, as another thought that I had upon hearing your "Big News" was that your funding problems would perhaps be resolved by this development.

You got me. You well and truly got me.

Bitch.

P.S. Even though I (apparently) made this LJ account quite some time ago, this is my first comment.

[zergonapal.livejournal.com]

Way too silly to be true, but it still got a laugh :D

[jupiterrhode.livejournal.com]

Good god, I hate April Fool's day.

I don't get it ...

[jcsd.livejournal.com]

Why are people getting upset with this? About half a sentence in, I thought "Hey, another April Fool page", grinned, and kept reading. I thought it was fairly well done, at least once I suspended my instant disbelief that TV would go for a story that has all sorts of sex as an integral (rather than gratuitous) part of the story. I thought it was pretty well done and fun to read.

Well, I guess it's back to the story ...

I need a new watch

[saint-vaelor.livejournal.com]

Second time I was instantly taken today...

Not so much that I'm gullible, I just suffer from an instinctual flagrant disregard for the blatantly obvious. At any rate, I was actually angered a bit by the end of the Big News and was going to tell you to hold your ground and demand creative control.

Even if I don't actually watch television, I couldn't bear the idea of MU going all Kindred: the Embarrassment, you know?

Anyhoo...

[renshan.livejournal.com]

My first thought was Yeah! AE is on her way to being rich instead of just famous. But hey an American made series would never do Amaranth any justice.

[hmoulding.livejournal.com]

Since I didn't read this until April 2nd, I didn't catch on immediately, but I was having a very hard time believing that even a re-branded SyFy channel would take on a story which features not just lesbianism, but BDSM as well. You can't cut those things out of this story, because without them there is not much story left. Well, unless the deal with Mack's brother and her grandmother and Embries and Callahan and Mer'Si and all the rest is moved to center stage instead of being relegated to side curtain bits between Mack getting a good dicking...

Plus, I wondered if the SyFy channel would pull out of the deal once they realized they'd have to hassle with Hasbro over IP issues.

[kosarin.livejournal.com]

Haaaaa... You definitely had me until Mackenzie's lesbian leanings being treated as a "thematic element..." But they'll be in the ads! I like how I skimmed past Sebastian Roche as Puddy and "gentlemen's agreement" but Mackenzie's sexuality being used as a hook for viewers? No way!

Also? I'm an idiot.

[lakart.livejournal.com]

<< My own fault for forgetting to check MU for 2 days. But once you got to the point about Macks father and ultimate forms...well the cat was basically ripping the bag open by itself.

[synviver.livejournal.com]

I am thoroughly speechless. Congratulations to you, and excessive amounts of kickass that H.R. Giger's rumoured to be interested. That's just beyond epic. :D

D:

[karadarkholm.livejournal.com]

I was all excited thinking, "sweet! Now i have a reason to watch TV again!" and wondering how they were going to work with the nudity and such, thinking late night skin-emax might have been a better point.

Then I saw SyFy. And I went... "Waaaaiiiiiit." and checked the date of the post. And then I was sad.

Well Played though. Well Played.

You know...

[dream-sieve.livejournal.com]

I would watch that show. I would go to hell for watching, but its a small price to pay, really.