Fantasy novels being Made into movies for big and small screen

Originally posted by: Yeptar
I hope they make the Hobbit as good as the LOTR movies.

Originally posted by: Lord Phillock
actually Sam Raimi has debunked the rumor that he is directing, because he's working on the next Spider-Man.

Originally posted by: C3PX
Man! Terry Gilliam directing Dune, even imagining it is exciting. That would be no end to awsome. A real David Lynch version would be pretty cool too.

Northern Lights/Golden Compass is the first book in the His Dark Materials Trilogy, so at least one third of it will be made even if it is unsucessful. But I highly doubt it will be, with how popular the books have been, no doubt this thing will really take off. Childrens' fantasy is the type of thing that sells these days. But then again, you never know.

I was actually surprised with how well Narnia did, I wasn't expecting it to be as popular as it was. The things that make the books so great doesn't translate to the screen very well, and the Christian community took to it like mad. It was kind of annoying to pass church buildings and see them advertising it on their signs. I don't even think Lucas would have like it being pushed so much as an allegory, something he was not to fond of. He had an interesting idea in mind when he wrote it, and he added a good dose of his personal theology to it, which he did with most of his fiction. But people take it now as event for event allegory of the gospels, which it is not. People write books about it and give sermons on it, for Pete's sake, if it is what you are trying to make it be, then it is a bit redundant isn't it? Why should you have to wrap your Bible stories in fantay before you can throughly appreciate them. Eleminate the middle man, when you want a Bible story pick up your Bible. Narnia is much more than that. Anyone who has read much of Lewis' works will understand this. Lucas himself admited to not being the fondest of allegory, and said that people tend to take it to extremes and see things that were not intended by the author (too true!), this is most certainly the case with his books.

Originally posted by: C3PX
Man! Terry Gilliam directing Dune, even imagining it is exciting. That would be no end to awsome. A real David Lynch version would be pretty cool too.

Northern Lights/Golden Compass is the first book in the His Dark Materials Trilogy, so at least one third of it will be made even if it is unsucessful. But I highly doubt it will be, with how popular the books have been, no doubt this thing will really take off. Childrens' fantasy is the type of thing that sells these days. But then again, you never know.

I was actually surprised with how well Narnia did, I wasn't expecting it to be as popular as it was. The things that make the books so great doesn't translate to the screen very well, and the Christian community took to it like mad. It was kind of annoying to pass church buildings and see them advertising it on their signs. I don't even think Lucas would have like it being pushed so much as an allegory, something he was not to fond of. He had an interesting idea in mind when he wrote it, and he added a good dose of his personal theology to it, which he did with most of his fiction. But people take it now as event for event allegory of the gospels, which it is not. People write books about it and give sermons on it, for Pete's sake, if it is what you are trying to make it be, then it is a bit redundant isn't it? Why should you have to wrap your Bible stories in fantay before you can throughly appreciate them. Eleminate the middle man, when you want a Bible story pick up your Bible. Narnia is much more than that. Anyone who has read much of Lewis' works will understand this. Lucas himself admited to not being the fondest of allegory, and said that people tend to take it to extremes and see things that were not intended by the author (too true!), this is most certainly the case with his books.

Originally posted by: C3PX
WHOA!! Man, was I tired yesterday! Poor C. S. Lewis is probably rolling in his grave at my mistake. I am pretty surprised to see I did that, and twice too. Lewis is one of my absolute favorite writers, and old George can't write worth anything, there is nothing to be mixed up about the two. When I wrote that my brain was totally thinking Lewis the whole time, for some stupid reason the message got boggled on the way to my fingers. Sorry about that.

Originally posted by: C3PX
Man! Terry Gilliam directing Dune, even imagining it is exciting. That would be no end to awsome. A real David Lynch version would be pretty cool too.

Northern Lights/Golden Compass is the first book in the His Dark Materials Trilogy, so at least one third of it will be made even if it is unsucessful. But I highly doubt it will be, with how popular the books have been, no doubt this thing will really take off. Childrens' fantasy is the type of thing that sells these days. But then again, you never know.

I was actually surprised with how well Narnia did, I wasn't expecting it to be as popular as it was. The things that make the books so great doesn't translate to the screen very well, and the Christian community took to it like mad. It was kind of annoying to pass church buildings and see them advertising it on their signs. I don't even think Lewis would have like it being pushed so much as an allegory, something he was not to fond of. He had an interesting idea in mind when he wrote it, and he added a good dose of his personal theology to it, which he did with most of his fiction. But people take it now as event for event allegory of the gospels, which it is not. People write books about it and give sermons on it, for Pete's sake, if it is what you are trying to make it be, then it is a bit redundant isn't it? Why should you have to wrap your Bible stories in fantay before you can throughly appreciate them. Eleminate the middle man, when you want a Bible story pick up your Bible. Narnia is much more than that. Anyone who has read much of Lewis' works will understand this. Lewis himself admited to not being the fondest of allegory, and said that people tend to take it to extremes and see things that were not intended by the author (too true!), this is most certainly the case with his books.