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2010 Highlight: Barry Eisler On Taking Books to Film
February 24, 2011 | 
Author Having my first book, Rain Fall, made into a movie last year by Sony Pictures Japan was a great experience. Fascinating and fun. I visited the set, which was very cool; I met Gary Oldman and Akira Emoto, two actors I like a lot; and I attended the premiere, which was a blast. If you want to know more, here’s my writeup of the premiere in Tokyo; photos of set and the premiere; and a short video of the premiere (if you can stand my mangled Japanese).
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Mark Ryan, Modern Day Renaissance Man
From Special Forces to singing in musicals, acting to master swordsman to fight director, Mark Ryan is a man of many talents. He is most known as the voice of Bumblebee and Jetfire in the Transformers movies and as Nasir in Robin of Sherwood. He coached Kiera Knightley, Richard Gere, Clive Owen and Ben Cross in swordsmanship for the movies they starred in.
The Pilgrim, a graphic novel by Mark Ryan and Mike Grell
Now, surely drawing from various life experiences, he has written an intense graphic novel. Teaming up with illustrator Mike Grell, Ryan wrote The Pilgrim.The Pilgrim is based on the fact that Churchill used a group of psychics during WWII to fool the Nazis into believing the psychics were reading their minds and from there shows how this influenced future uses of psychics in warfare even as recent as using psychics to try and locate Osama Bin Laden. It s not only action and war though, there are many depths including a soldier who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder who ends up with an entity attached to him and how he learns to live with it.
Check out this intriguing and informative interview of Mark Ryan with COS Productions Ed English and Novels Alive and Between Your Sheets, Dayna Linton.
