literary movie-ness

We all know that fantasy books-into-movies are big right now.

But, oh my lord, it's getting bigger: Walden Media (who owns the Narnia rights) just picked up the rights to The Dark is Rising books.

And His Dark Materials is struggling through development (writer-director Chris Weitz -- About A Boy -- stepped down in January, after revising Tom Stoppard's screenplay), with the first movie projected for Christmas 2006 / early 2007.

On the one hand, this is fantastic. I love it -- seeing HDM come to life on stage was incredible, and I can only imagine how incredible it would be on screen. The Dark is Rising, though -- that would be even more amazing. The books (well, three of them -- Over Sea, Under Stone and Greenwitch never did it for me) are so wonderful and dark and steeped in Arthurian myth and Welshness and all that...plus Will Stanton was absolutely on the list of My First Literary Crushes. *sigh*

Movies amaze me. That is all.
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One can find fantastic things cruising friends-of-friends pages...like "Obi-Wan Kenobi: Jedi Sex Symbol" (from MSN):

"The 'Star Wars' prequels plunge into several aspects of character development, among them the deeply vital information that Obi-Wan Kenobi was, in his youth, fully hot."

A-men.

ETA: In other news, my accomplishment for the day was making it onto metaquotes. This is simultaneously exciting (first time I've been metaquoted) and sad (see previous parenthetical; also, I do have things that need to get done). Clearly, I haven't been able to snap out of my "weekend mode" yet. Bah.
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