Comment Tuesdays!
1 Comment » | Filed in: Comment Tuesdays! by Claire on 9 Mar, 10
The beginnings of something great…and fun, too! Each Tuesday I’ll post a really great thought-provoking question regarding a fiction to film. Your job? Post a COMMENT answering with your thoughts!
Fun, right?
Question #1: Each “villain” we have met in the Harry Potter series have, for the most part, been nothing as how they are originally characterized (ie: Sirius Black, Severus Snape, Draco Malfoy). What do you think, aside for adding dramatic twists to the stories, was J.K. Rowling’s reason for this?
Good luck and happy commenting! 
2 new FTF’s: How To Train Your Dragon & The Girl With the Red Riding Hood
No Comments » | Filed in: Fiction to Film by Claire on 8 Mar, 10
A new fiction to film is set for a March 26th release in 3D theater’s and IMAX. How to Train Your Dragon is a new film from Dreamworks, and ComingSoon.net gives you a first look! Take a look at the trailer over at FictionCast!
Set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, and based on the book by Cressida Cowell, the action-comedy tells the story of Hiccup (Jay Baruchel), a Viking teenager who doesn’t exactly fit in with his tribe’s longstanding tradition of heroic dragon slayers. Hiccup’s world is turned upside down when he encounters a dragon that challenges he and his fellow Vikings to see the world from an entirely different point of view. [Source]
In addition, there is more information regarding the adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood.
Amanda Seyfried confirmed Sunday on the Oscars’ red carpet that she will next star in Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke’s The Girl With the Red Riding Hood at Warner Bros. Pictures.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way is behind the Gothic reimagining of “Little Red Riding Hood.” The most-known version of the story was published in the 19th century by the Brothers Grimm. Earlier oral versions of the tale are far darker. [Source]
Some interesting film developments so far! Keep your eyes peeled for sure!
JK Rowling: Voted Ideal Role Model
No Comments » | Filed in: FTF Authors by Claire on 7 Mar, 10
Thanks to Meg, a research study has been conducted by The Co-operative Financial Services. They found that J.K. Rowling is the most inspirational entrepreneurial female role-model for young women in the UK.
The Harry Potter author came out top of the survey, ahead of other respected names such as Stella McCartney and TV’s Dragon’s Den star, and successful business-woman, Deborah Meaden.
The research – inspired by International Women’s Day on 8 March – also revealed that 75% believe it is more difficult for women to get ahead in business while more than 80% felt they needed to work harder than men to get ahead.
However, more than 90% felt that positive female role-models will help to pave the way for more young women to reach their full potential.
Thanks again Meg! And we certainly agree with their findings!!
FTF: Never Let Me Go
No Comments » | Filed in: Fiction to Film by Claire on 7 Mar, 10
Thanks to a tip from Rachel, a film called Never Let Me Go starring Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan (coincidentally, co-stars in 2005’s Pride and Prejudice) is hitting theater’s later this year.
As a child, Kathy-now thirty-one years old-lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory.
And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed-even comforted-by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood-and about their lives now.
A tale of deceptive simplicity, Never Let Me Go slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonance-and takes its place among Kazuo Ishiguro’s finest work. [Source]
I had seen this film mentioned on various Keria fan sites but never knew it was based on a novel! Thanks Rachel!
Our new look
1 Comment » | Filed in: Site by Claire on 6 Mar, 10
Thank you to the many talents of Juliet and Nicky at In the Designs for creating this look for Fiction to Film. I know, I know, the site tends to change its look frequently, but I can assure you that this look will be standard for quite a while. So again, thank you so much to ITD for being so helpful!
