Writing Dream Teams? Or Just Plain Ridiculous?

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I tend to spend most of January in a fantasy world, for obvious reasons. One: In that temporal space, I am Queen and Chief of the Secret Police; and Two: I haven’t experienced real-life daylight for over a month.

For the purposes of blogging, this has resulted in predictions for famous writers, and predictions for myself. But today,  I’d like to turn to the subject of writing teams and ghost writers, following the stranger-than-fiction news last week that Roddy Doyle is to write Roy Keane’s biography. Yes, the chronicler of the familiarly ridiculous is about to get ridiculously familiar with the infamous footballer. Assuming he doesn’t get kicked to death in the process.

Here are a few suggestions of my own for creative projects that might keep a smile on my face, even in the depths of the annual slap across the face that is the Irish January (small wonder we’re an accepting sort of people).

1. Unlikely Biographical Partnerships

Justin Bieber: My Whole Life by Ozzy Osbourne

The Real Stephen Hawking by Perez Hilton

The Life and Times of Ian Paisley by Gerry Adams

2. Unlikely Writing Teams

J.K. Rowling and E.L. James

Russell Brand and Jeremy Paxman

John Banville and Pat Ingoldsby

Dan Brown and Lee Child

Caitlin Moran and Jeremy Clarkson

3. Unlikely (But Delicious) Film Collaborations

Stephen Spielberg directing the cast of Glee in the on-screen version of Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung

Vivienne Westwood designing the costumes for the next One Direction movie

Lynda La Plante writing the screenplay for the sequel to 50 Shades of Grey

 

And so over to you. Who would be your biography dream team? Who would flibber your funny bone and itchify your interest in the world of literary or film collaboration in 2014?