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Adaptations Coming Up

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  1. Jordan

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    What new movies of books are you looking forward to? Which ones are you definitely not planning on seeing?

    I'll start. I'm excited about City of Ember coming this October. I'm planning on missing Journey to the Center of the Earth, it looks way too changed. *mutters something about Walden claiming to make good representations of books*

    Posted 1 year ago #
  2. Pip

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    I read a book a long time ago in a series about a girl named Mandie; somebody's making a movie about that. It might be OK, I didn't like the book.
    Ooh, I am SO gonna see Redwall and The Hobbit, if I haveta drive there meself (squealing of car tires and a few crashes)! Not seeing Capsian was bad enough!

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    Posted 1 year ago #
  3. Jordan

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    Oh, I forgot about Redwall! Although that's not for three more years, so I think I can be forgiven.

    Posted 1 year ago #
  4. Alyosha

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    jordan - 1 day ago  » I'm planning on missing Journey to the Center of the Earth, it looks way too changed. *mutters something about Walden claiming to make good representations of books*

    THAT I would agree with. Walden Media has been disappointing lately...why don't they just change the title and drop all pretence of it being an adaption, when it isn't?

    I'm looking forward to City of Ember, Alice in Wonderland, The Hobbit (if they EVER get all the legal rubbish sorted out...it's been off and on so many times now that I've lost track) and of course Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Oh, and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell--really interested in seeing how they adapt that one.

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    Posted 1 year ago #
  5. Jordan

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    Actually, I read a review of Journey yesterday, and it seems to be less altered than I had originally thought. It's still not anything I'm looking forward to, but it sounds a little more worth it now.

    Posted 1 year ago #
  6. C Triebold

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    Anybody know if the book Tunnels is being made in to a movie here? or just in England?

    I'm reading the book know... creepy. It would make a good movie.

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    Posted 1 year ago #
  7. Pip

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    I'm so fed up with end times movies! A year or two ago, I'd heard tell of some aethiest who'd watched an end times movie and the special effects and the acting were so poor, they just strengthened his indignation against us.
    Because of Winn~Dixie is a very good adaption; I'm watching two adaptions tonight: Love Comes Softly and George and the Dragon. Here's hopin'...

    "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." ~C.S. Lewis
    Posted 1 year ago #
  8. Sarah

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    Redwall the movie comes out 2010? Or is it 2011...?

    Posted 9 months ago #
  9. Jordan

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    LoL, looking back on my comments about Journey... I actually caught it on DVD and rather enjoyed it.

    Posted 9 months ago #
  10. narnia365

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    I loved the movie Journey to the Center of the Earth! It's not even the plot of the book, which is nice, so you don't really have to think about the book's plot compared to the movie's plot. I recommend all of Walden Media's films.

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    Posted 9 months ago #
  11. C Triebold

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    I thought the 3D was amazing! I've never actually read the book though.

    "Curiosity is a good thing, like onion soup. But too much onion soup makes your breath smell terrible. And too much curiosity can make your whole body smell terrible, if it causes you to be dead." - Simon Bloom: The Gravity Keeper
    Posted 9 months ago #
  12. narnia365

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    I also really recommend the book, but a warning: it is not the same as the movie. I mean, of course it isn't, but the book is still really different from the movie.

    "We have to travel to another dimension to rescue his father."
    "That is so Narnia! Can I come?"
    -Beyond the Reflections Edge, by Bryan Davis
    Posted 9 months ago #
  13. C Triebold

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    Yeah, I doubt they're reading the book inside the book. That would be kind of weird. And the book isn't modern day is it?

    Sarah said:
    Redwall the movie comes out 2010? Or is it 2011...?

    It looks like it's coming out July 2011. Hopefully it will be worth the wait.

    "Curiosity is a good thing, like onion soup. But too much onion soup makes your breath smell terrible. And too much curiosity can make your whole body smell terrible, if it causes you to be dead." - Simon Bloom: The Gravity Keeper
    Posted 9 months ago #
  14. billy

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    the hobbit is comeing out in december of 2011 but they are makeing it into two moives and the next one comes out in 2012.

    i ccan't wait for it.

    Posted 9 months ago #
  15. narnia365

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    I have some adaptions that I am really excited about:
    1.) The Screwtape Letters (2010)
    2.) The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (December of 2011)
    3.) I don't know if this counts, but it's a sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth (the movie). Here is the plot:

    The sequel will be based on Richard Outten’s script “Mysterious Travels: The Lost Map of Treasure Island,” in which Prof. Trevor Anderson (Brendan Fraser) and his nephew (Josh Hutcherson) embark on a journey to a mysterious island that was the subject of three classic novels (Jules Verne’s “Mysterious Island,” Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island” and Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels”).

    So, yep, those are some I'm looking forward to...

    "We have to travel to another dimension to rescue his father."
    "That is so Narnia! Can I come?"
    -Beyond the Reflections Edge, by Bryan Davis
    Posted 9 months ago #

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