Dear Mr. Cornwell,
I’m a huge fan of several of your book series, but I’m especially crazy about the Saxon Chronicles. I happened across this series of books while on vacation at the beach, and I devoured 3-4 of them over the course of the week. Needless to say, I was engrossed. Although there’s nothing like reading the books, I love seeing good books adapted to film (when its done right). With the success of several recent epic movies and TV series, I’m suprised Hollywood isn’t beating down your door. Especially when screenwriters can’t seem to develop any of their own original ideas and consequently have to bastardize old classics (Outlander- in which Grendel is an alien and Jim Caviezel is a spaceman Beowulf; also, the recent travesty that was the Starz TV series, Camelot). I know you don’t write for film, but I’d love to see Uhtred in a shield wall on the big screen. Derfel, too!
David Yancey