Now a Major Motion Picture!

By Joe Meyers & Ryan Brown

A look at the process of turning novels into movies and TV shows. Interviews with authors about their experiences with filmmakers & also examples of their favorite & least favorite adaptations... more

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April 05, 2025 Nelson Aspen
We are joined by the deeply fascinating and immensely talented Nelson Aspen. Nelson has one of those resumes that could fill up an entire podcast on its own. As a television presenter of international scope he has spent three decades bringing the latest in entertainment and pop culture to millions of viewers worldwide. One would be hard pressed to find a celebrity he hasn’t interviewed or an entertainment story he hasn’t covered, but Nelson is also the accomplished author of nine books in both fiction and nonfiction. His latest novel, “Kindred Spirits – a Titanic Tale” is an historical fantasy that spans time between the night in 1912 when Titanic met her tragic fate and the hedonistic party scene of modern Manhattan. Titanic culture and lore is a subject that Nelson knows well, as he is also the co-host and creator of the acclaimed podcast: Titanic Talk.
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48min
December 06, 2024 John DiLeo
Film historian and critic John DiLeo joins the podcast to talk about his latest film-related book ‘Not Even Nominated: 40 Overlooked Costars of Oscar-Winning Performances.’
DiLeo examines some of the biggest Oscar snubs spanning the entire history of the Academy Awards from the late 1920s through the modern era.
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36min
June 25, 2024 Karen E. Olson
It was such a pleasure to welcome Karen Olson to ‘Now a Major Motion Picture!’ Karen has one of the most interesting and far ranging bodies of work in contemporary crime fiction. She has written very well received mystery series about a Connecticut journalist; a Las Vegas tattoo artist; and an off the grid computer hacker. The new novel ‘An Inconvenient Wife’ moves the story of Henry VIII and his ill fated wives to contemporary America, where the latest wife of Hank Tudor begins to wonder if she might become as Inconvenient as her predecessors. One reviewer put it well when she wrote “Imagine the Tudors set in the world of Succession by way of Jackie Collins.”
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32min
March 31, 2024 Deborah Crombie
Deborah Crombie has been one of America’s finest crime writers for more than 30 years. And she has pulled off the mean feat of creating and sustaining one of the best British mystery series despite her being a Texas native. The 19th
volume in her Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James series “A Killing of Innocents” has just appeared in paperback.
We had some audio issues with this episode - the perils of not being in a studio and with the interviewer in Connecticut and the guest in Texas - but Deborah had a lot of interesting things to say. Your patience will be rewarded.
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32min
November 07, 2023 Katherine Hall Page
It is such a pleasure to welcome Katherine Hall Page to the podcast I cohost with Ryan Brown. I’ve been readiimg Katherine’s warm and sophisticated mysteries since she launched the Faith Fairchild series in 1991. Over the years we have followed the Manhattan born caterer as she has adjusted to life as the wife of a Massachusetts minister and built a family and friend network that Katherine has followed through 26 novels. Along the way Katherine has won two Agatha Awards and in 2016 she received the lifetime achievement award of the Malice Domestic crime fiction conference.
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29min
October 01, 2023 Craig Johnson
It was great to catch up with Craig Johnson last month on the eve of a month-long book tour for his 19th novel “The Longmire Defense.” Long one of our favorite crime novelists, Johnson has also found success in Hollywood with the wonderful Netflix series, “Longmire,” inspired by his books. Like Michael Connelly and Lee Child, the novelist’s stories and their deeply textured Western settings have been well served by streaming service adaptation. In this interview, Johnson talks about his work as a consultant on the series and the way he has kept his best-selling novels separate from the TV version.
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23min
August 09, 2023 C.J. Box
With the second season of ‘Joe Pickett’ ending on Paramount+ recently, this is the perfect time for a chat with C.J. Box who created the Wyoming game warden character in 24 best-selling novels. Box talks with me and co-host Ryan Brown about his input on the series and how he managed to combine two separate genres - the western novel and the crime thriller - into one hugely popular series.
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27min
April 24, 2023 Louis Bayard
Louis Bayard has been a reader favorite for many years for both the variety and high quality of his novels.
Bayard’s mix of history and crime is the characteristic of some of his best work. He has also put real historical figures at the center of his stories and in the case of ‘Mr. Timothy’ he used Charles Dickens’ creation Tiny Tim as the inspiration for one of his own best novels.
The 2007 novel ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ takes us back to the life of Edgar Allen Poe when he was a cadet at West Point. In the story, Poe becomes the assistant to the detective investigating a gruesome crime at the Academy.
Bayard’s latest book ‘Jackie & Me’ shows us Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis through the eyes of John Kennedy’s closeted gay friend Lem Billings.
Unlike many of our previous guests who have talked about having their books optioned to death by Hollywood without any films ever being made, last year ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ was made into a major motion picture starring Cristian Bale, Gillian Anderson and Robert Duvall.
It’s a real pleasure for me and Ryan to welcome Louis to the podcast.
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28min
April 02, 2023 Paul Levine
Paul Levine launched his very successful crime fiction career more than 30 years ago with the publication of his first legal thriller ‘To Speak for the Dead.’ He was part of a wave o lawyers-turned-novelists that included Scott Turow, John Grisham and Lisa Scottoline. Paul has brought the Jake Lassiter series to a close with the recently published ‘Early Grave.’ His Solomon vs. Lord series, which has been optioned for television, recalls the classic Tracy and Hepburn film ‘Adam’s Rib’ with its mix of romantic comedy and legal wrangling. Paul is a perfect guest for this podcast mixing crime fiction and dramatization because he has also worked in television as a writer for ‘JAG’ and was co-creator of the Supreme Court series ‘First Monday.’
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26min
February 27, 2023 Matt Witten - ‘Killer Story’
Crime novelist Matt Witten has also written for a number of different television series including “House,” “Law and Order” and “Pretty Little Liars.”
Witten’s recently published novel “Killer Story” follows a reporter turned podcaster who is coping with the massive changes in modern journalism while trying to investigate the murder of an old friend whose shift to right-wing politics made her a YouTube star.
The novel explores the boom in true crime entertainment, the growing political divide between right and left, and new ethical questions resulting from the rise of advocacy journalism. Witten’s protagonist Petra Kovach bends the rules of traditional journalism to create her podcast and “Killer Story” will have readers questioning many of her choices.
With his experience in both television and mystery novels, Witten proved to be a perfect guest for “Now a Major Motion Picture!” In this episode the writer talks about the differences between novels and TV & movies, and where old-fashioned journalism might be heading in the age of 24/7 digital reporting.
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34min

FAQs about Now a Major Motion Picture!:

How many episodes does Now a Major Motion Picture! have?

The podcast currently has 28 episodes available.