On 1 September 2006, it was announced on his official website that the horror short story "Hell Hath Enlarged Herself" was in development as a feature film by Cuba Productions and Lightworks Films, financed by the UK Film Council. However, Marshall Smith then decided to use the split to offer the possibility of publishing different genres of books under the two names – "modern day" novels as Michael Marshall, and horror/science fiction as Michael Marshall Smith. This change of name was originally due to the publishing of another book of the same name in 2001 by Martin J. The novel The Straw Men was the first to be written under the shortened name "Michael Marshall".
He now considers it unlikely a Spares film will ever be made. When the rights lapsed, DreamWorks did produce The Island, whose plot had strong similarities to Spares, though Smith did not consider it worthwhile to pursue legal action over the similarities. Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks purchased the film rights for Spares, but a film was never made. In 1996 his second novel, Spares, was released, a novel in which the lead character, Jack, goes on the run with clones who are used for spare body parts for rich people, when he realises they are people with feelings. The plot involves the lead character, Stark, having to find a missing man he believes to have been kidnapped, and travel through the strange zones of his city. His first novel, Only Forward, was published in 1994 and won the August Derleth Award for Best Novel in 1995, and then the Philip K. His first published story was "The Man Who Drew Cats", which won the British Fantasy Award in 1991 for "Best Short Story". Between 20, he also co-wrote material for two series of surreal comedy Dare To Believe. Under the pseudonym of Michael Rutger, he moved on to become a comedy writer and performer on the BBC Radio 4 series And Now in Colour, which has been described as a 'cult hit' and ran for two series.
He was educated at Chigwell School, where he was in Swallows House and dated fellow pupil and future senior Sky News editor Sally Arthy, and at King's College, Cambridge, where he studied Philosophy, Social and Political Science, and became involved with the Cambridge Footlights. When he was seven, the family moved again, this time to South Africa, and then to Australia before eventually returning home to England in 1973.
Born in Knutsford, Cheshire, Smith moved with his family at an early age to first Illinois and then Florida.
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