Stardust by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess

[meganbmoore]

Stardust is a ballad about the realm of Faerie, in prose and illustrated form.  In it, a young man named Tristan Thorn swears to bring a fallen star to the girl he loves.  Tristan lives in the town of Wall, which exists on the border between Faerie and our world, and the people of Wall guard the hole in the wall that can be used to cross between

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[fairest1]

Neil has written in his blog that most of the trailers are quite misleading and focus on different parts of the movie than he thought the movie focused on. I have hope!

. . . of it not being as bad an adaptation as LXG.

[meganbmoore]

LXG i can live with as the "screw it up" part was making it a period scifi action piece. Stardust, however, looks like it'll be a post-modern "intelligent" fractured fairy tale, which(aside from the intelligent part) is the opposite of what it should be. LXG had a certain "so bad its good" charm to it, but Stardust has the potential to "smart" itself to unwatchability.

Besides, Catwoman tops LXG in the "bad adaptation" category.

[fairest1]

I felt that LXG had more severe screwups with regard to characterization. Especially what they did to Mina.

And I've never seen Catwoman.

But remember -- Neil is actually involved with the making of Stardust! There is creative input! It might actually not suck!

[meganbmoore]

well, part of the reason LXG had no creative inpuut is that as far as moore is concerned, the format he published his work in is the only format they should be in. (which makes sense, and most of his works would be impossible to faithfully translate)

But yes, they screwed up on Mina.

Catwoman have have seen about half of in bits. It was painful.

[fairest1]

But still . . . except for Peta Wilson (who, from everything I saw, was doing her best with the script she was given -- she even dyed her hair!), and a few people involved in wardrobe and set design, no one even tried.