Talk:Colin Bateman

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Wild About Harry film

I'm pretty sure there was a 'wild about harry' film too, had a very limited release? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.229.156.40 (talk) 13:23, 24 July 2006

Yes. http://www.colinbateman.com/harry.html --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 12:56, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There was a Wild About Harry film it had an Irishman who was in In Bruges in it. Also there was Jimmy Nesbitt. VinDibs (talk) 19:19, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

VinDibs (talk) 07:15, 17 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Contradiction

This article states that Colin Bateman's novel, Murphy's Law, is based on the TV programme. The Murphy's Law article states that the TV programme is based on the novel. They cannot both be true. 71.200.140.161 (talk) 20:43, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

From Colin Bateman: His book Murphy's Law was adapted from the BBC television series Murphy's Law (2001–2007), featuring James Nesbitt.

From Murphy's Law (novel): The novel was written when Bateman realised that the amount of material he had written for the TV series of the same name, exceeded what would make it into the series.

Where is it you found a contradiction? Cheers, Nik thestoned 09:01, 17 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Stuff that is known but not in the article

Just a few things I think would add to the article but each time I add them they get taken out by someone who doesn't know what Wiki is for.

Currently working on a 'Starkey' tv series.
Wrote a script for a film version of 'Mohammad Maguire' but film is in limbo
He got back his first name for Fire and Brimstone. No longer known simply as 'Bateman'
The DEAD PASS is the 10th Dan Starkey though it is wrongly attributed as the 9th almost universally, and indeed has been quoted as such by the author himself.
Empire State was being made as a film until they found out that the Empire State Building has copyright and they needed permission to film there. And when the subject of the film's violence was aired it halted the progress indefinitely
Stated that it is highly unlikely 'Scup' would return for a third series
Doctor of Letters (DLitt) for services to literature. from University of Ulster.
He applied for a creative writing post at the University but wasn't given an interview because he 'didn't have a degree'
On July 13, 2013 he successfully funded a Kickstarter for his book of short stories, "Dublin Express"
In 2014 he produced a successful Kickstarter campaign to republish 'Titanic 2020' one of his favourite

e children's books which had gone out of print.

Earlier this year (2014) Colin's son Matthew went missing. There was concern as he had been suffering from mental health issues. He was found in safe and well six days later. The campaign to find him became national on the uptake of the Belfast Telegraph, a paper for which Bateman had previously worked.

I would do a total overhaul of the page, but I don't know how to do links for reference material

VinDibs (talk) 12:02, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]