(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

[ego-sideways.livejournal.com]

. . . Happy April 1st, Lexy.

[banshee384.livejournal.com]

OK, the idea with an April Fool's prank is to make it something /just/ believable enough that people think /just maybe/ you're serious... and then you spring the "Haha! April Fools!" on them. This is not a good example of that.

[citystate.livejournal.com]

now, if you'd gone with Tribe, SHN or even Void Dogs - I may have overlooked the date ^^

at least this year there isn't a Rickroll

[alexandraerin.livejournal.com]

I already did the whole "seriously fucking with people" thing with my friends in the wee hours of last night... at this point I just want to provoke some chuckling. :P

(Though I suspect the joke will be on me in a year when I get a "Whatever happened to the Syfy show?" email.)

[melech-ha-olam.livejournal.com]

Dammit! You had me going until the part about the monster of the week and the Nteenth dimension. Then I thought, "Wait a second... what day is it?"

[ekstrapiksels.livejournal.com]

You had me until "Mackenzie's lesbian leanings treated as more of a "thematic element"".

[stormcaller3801.livejournal.com]

Will you settle for a wry smirk? I've been handing those out all morning.

[hobbesthetiger.livejournal.com]

Hee hee.

[dantetier.livejournal.com]

the whole Sebastian Roché as Puddy thing made me lose it. lol.

[senshikittie.livejournal.com]

It's sad I was all excited for you and everything, ready to post my congratulations on the blog and then I realized the date. Very tricksy... :D

[leastlikely.livejournal.com]

Not believable - it's SyFy now.

[alexandraerin.livejournal.com]

Nuh uh, the rebranding isn't complete until July... see the last line of the post. :P

The hell...

[tim-dodge.livejournal.com]

Damnit! You got me. It did get me thinking about Tales of MU in other media. Did you ever want MU to be illustrated? I just read through Phil Foglio's "xXxenophile" and I'll be honest that I would read the hell out of a Foglio imaging of your story. If I could read the hell out of it more than I do. Which I'm not sure I could.

[doctoreon.livejournal.com]

I thought that was the most believably, personally.

[ekstrapiksels.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but the unrealistic part would be AE just letting that happen.

[doctoreon.livejournal.com]

That's a good point.

Ayep....

[damanrando.livejournal.com]

Bout halfway through I thought of the date....

Amusing concept, and I agree with the earlier poster, at least it wasn't another rickroll..... which was funny last year.

Happy Apr. 1st Lexy

[calzstarheart.livejournal.com]

As soon as you said Sci-Fi channel I was all "April Fools!"
because seriously it would be more believable (to me at least) if you said that Cinemax wanted MU for a new late night softcore series

[chahuahuas.livejournal.com]

I'm such a bad sport... I officially HATE april fools pranks from the webcomics and otherwise trusted people of the interwebs. woot.com played an April fools prank, which was incredibly dissappointing, because I thought I was actually awake late enough to buy the cheap merchandise for once. I was excited =(

Wow! Amazing!

[the0antagonist.livejournal.com]

Holy crap that's awesome.


In Celebration i've hooked the paypal up for the first time to the tune of One Thousand Dollars!

Enjoy AE!

[kitsunehime-aki.livejournal.com]

I came over here wondering what your April Fool's joke would be this year, and you did not disappoint. Congratulations, madam!

[fourthnorth.livejournal.com]

haha, had me there for a minute. Happy April Fools;-)

[battle-dragon.livejournal.com]

...Man, I got all excited for a moment and then went "...Wait. DAMMIT AE."

*goes to sulk in corner as was actually thinking this to be an awesome thing*

[leastlikely.livejournal.com]

oh. poop sandwiches.

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

Congratulations.... but yes, I do know what the date is, and I'm aware that you're in a time-zone such that for you, it probably isn't midday yet. April Fool's Day has been over for a while now, for most of us. Enjoy.