Thanks, dcp. Chronologically Angels and Demons comes first, but that should be easy enough to get around.
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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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 the 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.
after Moore refused to make changes to the Pern mythos that he thought would harm its integrity.
Um. Okay.
has optioned the 19-book series
Good lord. It went to 19?
after Moore refused to make changes to the Pern mythos that he thought would harm its integrity.
Well, they wanted to replace the dragons with nubile twentysomethings who just happened to breathe fire.
"Did you hear? The dragons look like us now."
AND THEY HAVE A PLAN.
So I'm surprisingly excited about taking the girlfriend to see X3 tomorrow, even though I'm still concerned it's going to suck.
I'm hoping we get a poster shot of Cyclops, Jean, Beast and Angel at some point as a little fannish nod at some point during the film since it's the first movie they're all in.
I'm doing the same, Kalshane. Well, okay, not with a girlfriend. But going with trepidation tomorrow.
I was going to try and talk SA into going tomorrow night or Saturday matinee.