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Found this at a listing of recent script sales:
http://www.scriptsales.com/DDScriptSales.htm

Title: A Spell for Chameleon
Log Line: Bink, a young man without magical powers lives on the planet Xanth, where everyone has some sort of powers. Bink will be exiled unless he can manifest his own magical skills.
Writer: Tim McCanlies
Agent: Endeavor and mngr. Lindsay Williams of The Gotham Group
Buyer: Warner Bros. Pictures
Price: n/a
Genre: Fantasy/Science-Fiction
Logged: 12/3/04
More: To be adapted from Piers Anthony’s classic book. David Benioff and Radiant Productions' Wolfgang Petersen and Diana Rathbun will produce. Samuel Dickerman will executive produce. Rights to book acquired in May 2004.


Oh dear, oh dear. The idea of everyone having some kind of magical power...the social ramifications of someone NOT having magic in a world where magic is as natural as a nose...IT'S ALL BEEN DONE BEFORE! And worse, it's coming out in a movie!!

Has anyone read this book? Is it anything like The Unmagicked?

*hears flushing sounds*
*watches little pieces of WIP swirl into the plumbing*
*outlines new novel*

Date: 2004-12-08 08:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greenlight711.livejournal.com
Um, read a trilogy in the early 90s from Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman called The Dark Sword Trilogy that had to do with exactly this. A society that all had magic and the protag didn't. He disguised it by doing slight of hand. Can't remember the rest of the story though.

Date: 2004-12-08 09:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] raecarson.livejournal.com
Wow. I sure am one for coming up with original ideas, eh? I guess I should read more. *sigh*

Date: 2004-12-09 12:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aaron-mag.livejournal.com
Dude...I remember that story. Don't worry Rae. That one sucked. It was so boring!!! Agree Heather? I read the first one and dropped it. Ugh...

And he had the dark sword as well...

And they had 'catalysts' that granted life to magic people. Totally different than yours...

Date: 2004-12-09 12:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greenlight711.livejournal.com
Yes, it WAS boring! No worries, be happy, Rae! I lurve Unmagicked. Phooey on Weis and Hickman and that totally unoriginal guy who stole your story and sold it to Warner Bros. :S

Date: 2004-12-09 01:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] raecarson.livejournal.com
Dude(s)! You guys are the bestest. *hugs friends*

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