JAMES FEATURED IN VOYAGE AUSTIN MAGAZINE
JAMES WAS FEATURED in the April edition of Voyage Austin magazine, where he talks about Talanov and his latest feature film projects. The entire article, with photos, can be viewed HERE.
DRAGON HEAD INCLUDED IN TALANOV FILM PROJECT
"James Houston Turner has created a world that is so rich and unique that I was immediately drawn to Talanov," says b3 Media Group producer, Bret Saxon. "Talanov is an amazing character, and the impossible choices that drove him in Greco's Game have been taken to a new level in Dragon Head. I absolutely love Turner's storytelling and the colorful cast of characters that fill the Talanov world. We are excited for audiences to see the soon-to-be-filmed Greco's Game, and look forward to producing Dragon Head soon afterwards." Read the entire press release HERE.
DAVID MARCONI TO DIRECT GRECO’S GAME
Blockbuster screenwriter, David Marconi (Enemy of the State, Live Free or Die Hard, The Foreigner), will write and direct Wonderfilm's screen adaptation of James Houston Turner's novel, Greco's Game. As reported in Variety, "Marconi will be sharing writing duties with William J. MacDonald. Jeff Bowler and Bret Saxon will produce for Wonderfilm, with Turner and Ross C. Hartley executive producing. Wonderfilm is fully financing the picture." Last year, Wonderfilm acquired the film and television rights to Turner's bestselling Aleksandr Talanov series of action thrillers about a former KGB agent who became a spy for America. "Over the course of the [...]
Greco’s Game Optioned For Film After Bidding War
Wonderfilm Media and TideRock Media have acquired the film and television rights to James Houston Turner's bestselling Aleksandr Talanov series of action thrillers about a former KGB agent who became a spy for America. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Jan. 22, 2018 - Set in Los Angeles against the backdrop of human trafficking and a famous chess game used as an assassination plot, Greco's Game finds Talanov experiencing the murder of his wife, and what starts out as a vendetta to kill the assassin becomes a journey of redemption with the help of two young women being held captive by human traffickers. Other books in the series [...]
James Houston Turner In Final Negotiations With Hollywood
RUSSIANS, THEY'RE THE BAD GUYS, RIGHT? "Not all of them," says bestselling author, James Houston Turner, whose fact-to-fiction hero, Aleksandr Talanov, has attracted the interest of a major Hollywood finance and production company. "We are still in negotiations," says Turner from his home in Austin, Texas, "but we're getting close." "Hollywood loves discovering hidden treasure," says one of the producers, "and the Talanov series is such a treasure. It has a drumbeat all its own. I'm excited to have discovered this series." The first novel being considered is Greco's Game, which is set entirely in Los Angeles against the backdrops [...]