What a Difference a Day Makes: Eoin Colfer on learning Disney bought film rights during yard duty
What a Difference a Day Makes: Eoin Colfer tells Helen O’Callaghan when he found out that bidding was about to start for the movie rights to Artemis Fowl — and how what happened that day has impacted his life right to the present
Eoin Colfer: "It took weeks for it to seem real. I was in a daze, very giddy that my life could be taking this unexpected turn."
The 24 hours that changed my life — changed my entire family’s lives — and is still having an effect, is when bidding started for the movie rights to Artemis Fowl in September 2000.
I was a primary teacher on yard duty at Scoil Mhuire in Wexford town. Yard duty came around every two months — it meant lunchtime on the yard, 10 minutes to eat your own lunch.
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