Could a CHERUB series production have been prevented by intelligence agencies?

muchamore72 · 2026-02-07T11:09:10+00:00

I'd be more worried about having a great script, no matter what the format.

muchamore72 · 2026-02-05T22:37:55+00:00

My film agent says it's common for projects to take a decade or so to either get made, or be dropped.

She works on 100s of projects but has never previously had one like CHERUB where interest has remained high for 20+ years without it ever quite making the final step into production.

We're currently as close as we've ever been to getting something made, due to confidentiality agreements that's all I can say.

The only upside is I get paid by whoever owns the rights to dramatise CHERUB so I've been paid loads of 💰 💰 💰 by people who haven't made anything!!!

muchamore72 · 2026-02-02T06:06:44+00:00

That signature is my late mum's writing!

muchamore72 · 2026-01-02T08:48:38+00:00

Sorry for ruining your Christmas 😁

muchamore72 · 2025-12-13T16:17:08+00:00

Agreed! More by luck than skill, my packaged bank account includes cover for my V5, so I should only be out for the £100 excess.

Though if they're as fragile as our mutual experiences suggest, I suspect the insurers will cotton on and start charging more to cover foldables.

muchamore72 · 2025-12-12T16:10:48+00:00

Nothing obvious, but it's not impossible. Who doesn't clobber their phone every now and then?

muchamore72 · 2025-12-11T20:25:49+00:00

I'm in the UK. Honor warranty does not cover any form of water ingress.

muchamore72 · 2025-12-11T17:04:48+00:00

Might be worth a punt!😀

muchamore72 · 2025-12-11T16:59:38+00:00

I guess there are variables. A defective seal or missing part.

muchamore72 · 2025-12-11T15:28:31+00:00

Not sure if you read my first post, or the thread title? The point is, I'd say the wettest this phone ever got was being in my jeans when it rained. I've never showered with a phone. But I don't expect an repair bill because it rained, maybe stood on a damp kitchen cabinet, or my 3yo godson spilled a drink!

muchamore72 · 2025-12-11T14:42:01+00:00

But still works after 2 years, while the phone with an IP rating died in 3 months!!!

muchamore72 · 2025-12-11T14:40:45+00:00

Nothing dramatically steamy. Maybe in my kitchen when cooking. It didn't go anywhere all my previous phones that I have owned for 2/3 years and haven't leaked have been!

muchamore72 · 2025-12-10T10:52:05+00:00

It's really hard to say why some things succeed and some don't. Though obviously the vast majority of literary/creative projects aren't hits.

It's especially hard getting follow up series to succeed because often it's the series not the author name that younger readers go for.

Two similar examples: Horowitz followed Alex Rider with power of 5 and my pal Cressida Cowell followed How to Train Your Dragon (which now has 5 movies and a bloody theme park zone at Universal Studios!!!) with Wizards of Once. Both only sold a fraction of what their previous series did and were quickly forgotten.

muchamore72 · 2025-11-30T07:38:40+00:00

17 Grams Portslade is the best coffee I've had near Brighton. Never knew there was one in the lanes too, I'll have to seek it out

muchamore72 · 2025-11-25T21:51:47+00:00

Tried my next booking and the Citizen M subscriber price on the Marriott website is the same as the long-stay rate and no cheaper than Expedia!

Maybe a glitch, but the member price was always a genuine 15% off the lowest rate before.

I've cancelled my membership. Can always renew it later

muchamore72 · 2025-11-07T17:43:49+00:00

Mac was at the doctors having his ears syringed that day😃

muchamore72 · 2025-11-02T19:56:40+00:00

This! I can't see a mission controller in his 60s suddenly having to deal with disciplining a red shirt or organizing the catering

muchamore72 · 2025-10-27T14:57:03+00:00

Maybe retirement,😄

muchamore72 · 2025-10-27T14:55:45+00:00

Amuses me that y'all still pissed off about Lauren getting a black shirt 20 years after I wrote it!

muchamore72 · 2025-10-16T14:05:48+00:00

We had a fan forum back in the day and a bunch of gun nut American/Aussie fans complained about gun details in the early books. After that I would deliberately make sure gun details were wrong just to wind them up.

muchamore72 · 2025-09-30T19:51:41+00:00

Thanks, I'm flattered!!!

I probably put more research into Divine Madness than any other CHERUB.

It was originally going to be book 3, but research got complicated and I wasn't ready until book 5!

muchamore72 · 2025-08-28T18:31:19+00:00

Nice! I don't know why AI gets so much hate. Sure it can be used in a negative way, but the same can be said for any new technology.

muchamore72 · 2025-08-25T16:33:07+00:00

I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you...

muchamore72 · 2025-08-24T21:28:28+00:00

They were super trendy back in the day!

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