Beijing's first SMS novel to be made into film

We reported earlier that a novel called Outside the Fortress Besieged was delivered via SMS, on a daily basis, in China. The total was a 4,200-character, 60-chapter novel (http://asiabusinessconsulting.blogspot.com/2004/07/novels-in-sms-style.html).

Now, a Tawain-based company called Bestis Technologies bought the film rights for the novel. The film will consist of 30 to 40 segments and should be able to be viewed on cellphones.

Interesting idea - we just wonder if it will work this way. It sounds like the story will be sliced in many pieces. While it of course depends on the circumstances, how and where it is watched - in traffic jams, or waiting somewhere for something, the question is how someone keep the tension up for the viewers, if the different sequences are so extremely short.

But then, everything is possible.