Swashbuckling, etc.

Guy Ritchie has been hired to direct a new film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. No word on whether or not it will be as smirkingly tongue-in-cheek as Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes movies, but since they're describing it as a "stylized" version of the novel, I'm assuming so.

Also, I continue to love the White's Books editions with all my heart. That cover is so beautiful it's almost (but not quite) enough to make me want to re-read Treasure Island, even though there are virtually no female characters in it.