Alla: I was holding my breath there for a while, since Henson had optioned The Dark is Rising sequence and Denise DiNovi was starting development on it, but the whole thing fell through. I'm wondering how Henson's coming along with Five Children and It...
PM: Yes, they've been done, just not well... I'd actually have added Gormenghast to that list. Whoever made the BBC version completely missed what makes the books fun: the fact that Gormenghast was all Maxfield Parrishy-bright and pretty was a big sign they had no clue.
I'd love to see Discworld done by Cosgrove-Hall's stop-motion group or maybe Aardman, rather than the drawn animation. Death would be a hoot, ala Nick Park.
YW, definitely, but only if DD's conditions were met: i.e., she does the screenplay and produces. And in that situation, I'd actually prefer a tv series to a series of feature films.
Hmmm.. what about Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain? Or Garth Nix's Sabriel series? OOoo... Robin McKinley's Damar books! Or George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire?
PM: Yes, they've been done, just not well... I'd actually have added Gormenghast to that list. Whoever made the BBC version completely missed what makes the books fun: the fact that Gormenghast was all Maxfield Parrishy-bright and pretty was a big sign they had no clue.
I'd love to see Discworld done by Cosgrove-Hall's stop-motion group or maybe Aardman, rather than the drawn animation. Death would be a hoot, ala Nick Park.
YW, definitely, but only if DD's conditions were met: i.e., she does the screenplay and produces. And in that situation, I'd actually prefer a tv series to a series of feature films.
Hmmm.. what about Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain? Or Garth Nix's Sabriel series? OOoo... Robin McKinley's Damar books! Or George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire?
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