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edit: oh, and for you ursila K Leguin fans, they are doing earthsea as a minisearies apperently
/gasp! I wonder how well they'll do. I loved those books.
Yeah. Me too! I saw the commercial on Sci-fi last night, and had to rewind and watch it again. I was that surprised, and it actually took me a minute for my brain to register what I'd just seen.
Absolutely great set of books. I'm also a bit concerned about how they'll pull it off though. Alot of the "feel" of the books were done via the wonderfully descriptive writing. It's very hard to capture that on screen. I'm especially worried about how they'll handle the deal with Ged's shadow "hunting" him. It was just the right amount of creepy in the book, and essentially drives the whole plot of the first book. Get that wrong, and the whole thing will end up feeling wrong.
On a similar note. Anyone else notice that they're doing a film version of "A Wrinkle in Time"? I always had the same soft spot in my heart for that series as well. Just not your traditional "high fantasy" style, and also hard to pull off IMO.