And the award for most unlikely announcement is

[andrewducker]

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon will write Snow and the Seven, a martial-arts retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, for Walt Disney Pictures, Variety reported. Yuen Wo Ping, the choreographer of groundbreaking action films The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, will direct the live-action movie.

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[heron61.livejournal.com]

Definitely quite odd, but he's likely the best person to write that particular bit of oddness.

[thefirethorn.livejournal.com]

Hey Drew, did you e-mail me? I have two emails in my box labled "Pirate Stuff."

[andrewducker]

Indeed. I panicked this afternoon on realising I _still_ had your pirate stuff...

When are you in?

(or reply to the emails...)

[thefirethorn.livejournal.com]

hehe, you have obviously mistaken me for one of your European friends.

I'm one of your American friends. I live in Oklahoma. But you MAY COME BY ANY TIME YOU WANT!!! Seriously, if you're in the states, drop by.

[andrewducker]

Aieeee!

Ok, so it's someone else on my friends list with a similar name....

**goes hunting**