literary movie-ness

[e_clare]

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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Comments

[mirror-dancer.livejournal.com]

moooovies...pretty shiny mooooovies....

[llogan.livejournal.com]

see you say that and then i have to bring up the fact that they are makind dude wheres my car two-- still lost.


emilys dreams---> *squish*

[e-clare.livejournal.com]

poo. you're mean. :p

[llogan.livejournal.com]

ok, so thats not true-- but you get the idea

[magentand.livejournal.com]

Oh man I cannot wait for the Narnia movie! I want to read the books right now...can they count as a final? Sigh.

[e-clare.livejournal.com]

Of course they can count as a final! CS Lewis taught at Oxford -- therefore, Narnia = intellectual. :)

Hi -- I'm the worst influence ever. I need to shut up and do my own finals.