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NPR has a piece on the upcoming The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising, a film adaptation of the series by Susan Cooper which has me twitchy in all the wrong ways.  Yes, the film itself looks nice, but will it bear any resemblance to my beloved series?  I doubt it.  And this article did nothing to make me fear it less.  Take this quote from Cooper:

"You do have to do violence to a book to make it into a screenplay —
the two mediums are so different," Cooper says. "But the alteration is
so enormous in this case. It is just different."

That's exactly what I am afraid of!  Was the violence done to this series surgical and limited, or was it like a bomb going off.  We will just have to wait and see.

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Harumph. I don't think violence is necessary to turn a book into a screenplay. Sally Potter's "Orlando" was wildly different than Virginia Woolf's book, but it was a loving tribute, not a demolition.

Posted by: Alkelda the Gleeful | October 6, 2007 1:26 AM

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