Dance Of The Goblins is a book that was independently published, ostensibly with 2000 copies going out into bookstores around the UK.
Now, Jaq D Hawkins (or Denise Channing; Hawkins is her pen name for whatever reason) is working on a movie adaptation.
Of a book that's had 2000 copies printed.
This has been something of an injoke with my classmates since before Christmas (and something the second year students were already in on) after we had to watch some footage of an episode of Dragon's Den, where Channing utterly failed to secure a £175,000 investment towards the film's budget.
YouTube - Dance of the Goblins pitch on Dragons Den
After we all agreed that her pitch was pretty sucky, a few of us did some poking around online, looking at its IMDB entry and so on. Then just today, we saw this:
YouTube - Goblin Marketing Trailer v1
It looks like home video. We were amused and horrified. Apparently the trailer was produced on a tight budget, not using the help of their incredible prosthetic teams, none of their more experienced staff who would've demanded adequate payment, no appearance from this actor whom she's apparently paying a million quid.
What I invite you EoFFers to do is just take a look (hence the links) and see what you think about this. Personally I think this is a ridiculous pipe dream and, if it shows up at the Duke's theatre near my college (they screen indie films) we're all gonna go watch it, if only for the laughs.
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BONUS BOX!
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Though you'll need an IMDB account to read this, one particular fanboy puts us FF fanchildren to shame. You will be very reluctant to say bad words about the FF fandom after reading some of this martyn-b-drake's remarks.
