hooo.

[kaigou]

Kifed this link from Tiercel, who had it posted awhile back but I'd never followed it...damn, I should've. You want Narnia? You want Disney doing Narnia? Here's your response, babe.

Cripes, they're doing a live-action version of Charlotte's Web...with Julia Roberts as Charlotte? Yegawdz.

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I think the one actor that really, truly nailed it for me (and made the rest worthwhile) was Sam Gamgee. After that, it was Gandalf, who had both the rather scary element but at the same time, an immensely approachable air of conspiratorial absentmindedness, a flavor of characterization that stayed with me through the years (as I read LotR in fourth grade, and didn't reread until after the movies came out). Tolkein wasn't the best at characterization, so what he does have is very subtle, and it meant that characterizations had to be subtle, too, for it to strike true (for me). After those two, it'd be Pippin and Merry, though they had less to work with and were stuck in teh sidekick/comic relief.

As for my books, I dunno. I suppose if ever there were a possibility, I'd ask to write something entirely new, just for the screen, as a scriptwriter. Because at least then it'd be a) a story not seen before, so audiences aren't going, we know what happens next! and b) if it's screwed up, it doesn't impact the stories that already stand. That's my current idea of a compromise...err, assuming anyone ever did try to option a novel. Heh.