BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!

[serenity_winner]

Straight from Lynn's journal (otterdance):

This has been in the works for a while now, folks, and it's early days yet, but the first three Nightrunner books have been optioned for movies by C-Squared Pictures. The script for Luck is in the writing process at the moment. I'm not in charge of that, but the writer/director, Charlie Spickler, has been gracious

Comments

[allodole]

I'm keeping my thumbs up for an adaptation that actually does the books justice. I've seen too many terrible adaptations of my favourite books.

[akiko]

Yeah, me too. *glowers balefully at Peter Jackson* That said, I'll probably go see them if they get made.

[allodole]

I thought those movies were actually the only book-to-film-adaptations that were actually good in their own league, talking about Lord of the Rings. :o

Yeah, me too. If they are not too bad, depends on the casting.

[akiko]

Since this isn't a LOTR comm, I'll spare y'all my character assassination rant (it stars Gimli and Faramir, and Aragorn, Frodo, and Treebeard get brief cameos.) "Not if this thing were lying on the side of the road would I take it!" Dwarf tossing and dwarves as comic relief! "By Elbereth and Luthien the Fair, you will have neither the Ring nor me!"

*stops now* Legolas/Gimli was my first OTP, and Eowyn/Faramir was the second. When I was 12, I wanted to be Eowyn: she kicked ass and got the good brother.

We can play the casting game! Who should play Seregil & Alec? I vote Michael Gambon (Dumbledore) for Nysander.

[serenity_winner]

Eeeeeeeeeeh I still have a bad taste in my mouth from the HP movies when it comes to Gambon.

Also, I took a chance to wander around the production company's website... I don't think we're getting any Gambons. This is looking like it'll be a pretty low-budget production.

[akiko]

I liked that Dumbledore. He was sort of Gandalfy. (I wasn't fond of original recipe Dumbledore from the first 2 movies, though he sort of went with the 'goofy old wizard' façade.)

I hope low budget doesn't translate into low quality -_- They'll go with unknown/up and coming actors, then, for the leads, and lesser known or character actors for others (Micum, Nysander), probably.

[serenity_winner]

Eeeeeeeeeh it's looking like it's going to be on the low-quality end too. Which doesn't necessarily mean bad, but I think at this point it comes down to whether there's love and effort in it. Plenty of low-budget movies are fantastic, but you kind of have to know your limits on a project like that.

[akiko]

I've seen plenty of low budget movies and enjoyed them. By "low quality" I meant actors who can't act, BBC or early Trek special effects, terrible script, poor cinematography, bad pacing... that sort of thing, as opposed to, like, filmed on location in Romania or something.