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Anne McCaffery's "Dragonriders of Pern" headed to big screen!
This news rocks! I'm a big fan of the Pern saga.
From Scifiwire
Anne McCaffrey's best-selling and long-running SF book series The Dragonriders of Pern will be adapted for the big screen by Canadian production company Copperheart Entertainment, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Copperheart, which was behind the 2005 Oscar-winning animated short Ryan, has optioned the 19-book series, which began with Dragonflight in 1968. The books are best known for having humans ride dragons with which they telepathically bond. With Dragonflight, McCaffrey became the first woman ever to win a Hugo Award for fiction, and she is one of the 2006 inductees into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
Copperheart, run by Steve Hoban, also has produced the Imax 3-D movie Cyberworld.
Pern nearly came to TV in a 2001 series for The WB from Battlestar Galactica creator Ronald D. Moore, but the network pulled the plug on the pilot after Moore refused to make changes to the Pern mythos that he thought would harm its integrity.Our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, because our destiny lies above us. - Matthew Mcconaughey - Interstellar
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I'm always nervous about fantasy books being moved to the big screen. Lord of the Rings was exceptional, and as such was an exception to the rule.
Most book -> movie fantasy stories end up disappointing both the readers and the viewers who don't understand what's goin on.If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos...then you probably haven't completely understood the seriousness of the situation.
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