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tommyrot - May 25, 2006 5:34:22 am PDT #1820 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

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.

[link]

Dana - May 25, 2006 5:47:24 am PDT #1821 of 10001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

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?

Polter-Cow - May 25, 2006 6:46:06 am PDT #1822 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

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.

tommyrot - May 25, 2006 6:49:14 am PDT #1823 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

"Did you hear? The dragons look like us now."

Polter-Cow - May 25, 2006 6:55:04 am PDT #1824 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

AND THEY HAVE A PLAN.

Kalshane - May 25, 2006 7:02:04 am PDT #1825 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

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.

§ ita § - May 25, 2006 7:05:21 am PDT #1826 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm doing the same, Kalshane. Well, okay, not with a girlfriend. But going with trepidation tomorrow.

Lee - May 25, 2006 7:59:44 am PDT #1827 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I was going to try and talk SA into going tomorrow night or Saturday matinee.

Kalshane - May 25, 2006 11:39:25 am PDT #1828 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

I'm going to a matinee tomorrow. Took the day off of work to have a 4-day weekend and then realized "Hey, X3 comes out that day." So tomorrow is X3 followed by buying stuff for my LARP. I get to teach the girlfriend how to make padded swords which is one of those "My God, we're both giant dorks" moments.

Peter David (writer of comics and whatnot) got to see an advanced screening and enjoyed it. [link] (His review is spoiler-free for all but the most pure, I can't vouch for the reader comments after, though, as I intentionally didn't read them just in case.) He also advises waiting until after the end credits.

Jessica - May 25, 2006 11:39:37 am PDT #1829 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

One more reason to see X3.

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