SYWTBAW Movie

[nita13579]

Wow... a Young wizards movie. It sounds so great. It's something I have had in mind ever since I read the first book. I would love to play Nita, and I was surprised at how much I look like her from the Digest Cover of A Wizard Abroad and The wizards Dilemma. All but the hair. Her hair on the covers looks red, like Dairine's. Also, I have glasses... I might get contacts.

Kit13579: I sure hope so!!

Also, Diane said not to go to crazy because she doesn't even know when it's going to happen. But hey, were only human, we have dreams.

[kit13579]

well i really wanted to play the part as Kit in the movies, but i would have to lose some weight *frowns and sobs*. idk though. my friend and i LOVE the YW series and she says i act JUST like Kit. the only thing is, im not spanish . also, im not sure my parents would be too happy to drive me all the way to LA and most likely not get the part. its kind've heartbreaking, 'cause when i would watch the movie, all i'd ever think about was how i didnt get Kit's part. also, since diane said she wants unknowns to play Nita and Kit's part, would it be an open audition?

[96bookworms]

Well...then exactly how far along are things in the scheme of things? Is there a plan, or is it still only a possibility?

[Lee Enfield-Burke]

Well, from what I can remember back then, DD was in conversations in a possibility to make the movie; but nothing really went beyond that. However, things like this are normally kept behind closed doors till thngs are finalized...

As far as I know from DD, nothing has changed. There is a script, and DD is still talking to the people who're interested in going forward with the project, but there have been no new developments.

[permafry_42]

i would absolutely love to be a guy who frowns (or if i could get away with it stick my tongue out) at Joanne while walking by Nita and Joanne during the school scene. also i really hope this movie doesn't go down the path of Twilight.

[Gibby Gibson]

I personally feel i would be great as kit because, well i've never been very comphy around people, although i can act cheerful occasinally. Also, err why hasn't anyone posted anything for so long? Has the movie come out or something? And why does everything say that the last entries were like in semptember 2 years ago?

Well, from what I can remember back then, DD was in conversations in a possibility to make the movie; but nothing really went beyond that. However, things like this are normally kept behind closed doors till things are finalized, and I don't want something coming out that cannot keep with it's promise.

I do personally want to see a movie come out at some point, but there are many factors to consider about it. One is that is NOW a good time for one to come out when the Harry Potter movies have come in full swing and are about to come to an end? People are still comparing Young Wizards to Harry Potter when there aren't any comparisons between the two (beyond some of the more obvious things that anyone here can put two-and-two together).

The second thing is the story. I know that DD said in one of the chats in past days that she wanted to write the script for it, and I agree with that. You can't just take the book So You Want to Be a Wizard and get a movie from that; no matter how much I would love that. There are things that will have to be changed for compensate for the different story medium.

While I haven't hear anything about the movie in a long time, I'm still hopeful that there are talks going around about it.

Gibby Gibson

[jonny9292]

I think i would be great as Kit

I personally feel i would be great as kit because, well i've never been very comphy around people, although i can act cheerful occasinally. Also, err why hasn't anyone posted anything for so long? Has the movie come out or something? And why does everything say that the last entries were like in semptember 2 years ago?

[wolf_wizard]

Ohh, OK, but I was wondering (i'm not just trying to increase my post #, I'm actually curious) how she's going to dodge it. I mean, is she going to just get them transported there somehow?

[Kathy Li]

Well, it's not like the Empire State Building or the Chrysler Building wouldn't make decent substitutes. But DD has pretty much said she's just going to dodge the issue, when I've asked her in chat.

[wolf_wizard]

I know to use another building, but which other building?

What do you mean by placing the story afterwards? afterwards what?

[vashmata]

I have thought up the two most obvious ways of solving that.
1:use another building
2lace the story afterwards.

Edit:

2: place the story around, let's say, 2001.

[wolf_wizard]

Hmmm, I don't know what she could do about the World trade centers... they may pose a problem- maybe in the next chat we can aske her... I saw I Am Legend, and I thought it was good, though I didn't evn know there was a book, otherwise I would have read it.

[Dragon Writer]

That's why, with my idea, they'd say, loud and clear, at the begginning of the movie, that it was loosely based on the book. This way, the connection is made for them...If it's a good enough book, it doesn't need too much added publicity anyways, and it stops us from scorning the movie! Hadn't considered the World Trade Center...they are featured in the first book, arne't they? Maybe another building?

[Kathy Li]

Well, that's pretty much what happened to Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising, but the movie crashed and burned at the box office, iirc. And the problem is if the title changes, the book doesn't get the publicity, because nobody makes the connection. To this day, I can still say Richard Matheson's Bid Time Return and nobody knows I'm talking about Somewhere in Time.

Which is probably why they haven't changed the title on I Am Legend; and they didn't on I, Robot (now there's a movie that had nothing to do with the book it was based on).

The thing is that if the book is strong enough and has enough integrity on its own, a bad movie adaptation is merely going to make people scorn the bad movie, not the book. It's one of those triusms: the book is always better than the movie.

Admittedly, we'd all prefer it if the movie adaptation was terrific, too. But the nature of an adaptation is that things have to be cut and moved and changed. Just looking at the snippets of YW screenplay that DD's posted on her blog bear testament to that. In addition to moving from verbal to visual with YW, there's also the matter of updating it for a period of 20 years. Not to mention the thorny thorny problem of what do we do about the World Trade Center towers?

What, to me, marks a successful adaptation from an unsuccessful one isn't faithfulness to word and deed. It's faithfulness to spirit. Does the story hit the same emotions, the same thoughts? Is it in the same character as the source material? Events, settings, characters, dialogue--it can all be marvelously malleable, if the spirit remains the same.

And if you don't get what made the original work so appealing, then you don't have a hope in hell of making a decent adaptation.

[Dragon Writer]

It's my oppinion that if you're going to completely change the book, then you shouldn't name it after the book...Just say that it's loosely based on the book.
The book gets publicity, the movie gets more people to come and see it, the movie industry doesn't have to pay as much money, and the author doesn't have to tear his/her hair out at what they're doing with the movie. (Just at their bills)