[Dena]

lol. You guys are funny...always willing to give those directors a second chance.

I don't think Peter Jackson would be a good choice, as he is a horror film director originally, and it comes out a lot in LotR. I'm not sure he would be the best choice (although some things in the Pellinor series are ugly, the books are more young adult level than anything, and I'm not sure about him... xD)

I can't think of many other people I'd want to do that. Perhaps the person who is doing Chronicles of Narnia, can't remember who it is...but they have the right idea and the effects in that movie are spot-on.

IF it's made into a movie. And I sincerely hope it isn't. I get much more intellectual pleasure and stimulation out of a book than I do out of a movie.

[Ree123]

my brain is breaking from clever stufs choo choo ...

[Dena]

LoL. I'm not that smart. Seriously. I just think things through, and I'm an author, so maybe I see things the way Alison does, like.

[Kahri]

Mmmm, I get what you mean. The books are always going to be better than any movies that are made based on them, always. It's just the way of these things. But I really would like a movie to be made, if anything just to give me a different view and I just think just to see it with real people, it might make it more... real? I don't really know how to write what I'm trying to say but I hope you kind of understand lol!!

I bought my mum a Johnny Depp calendar for Christmas and I am just looking at the January photo of him. I never thought about him but in this photo (in whixch he looks very different to what I would usually picture him as) he looks very much how I pictured Cadvan to be... just thought I'd add that!!

[Annaren Girl]

hey dena nice to see someone on while i am !!! :D

[Dena]

Lol, I try xD

Kahri, I know what you're trying to say about movies. For some books, it is good to transfer them to another media, because the characters can be more fully explained on screen. I think, however, that if Alison's characters hit the big screen, they'd lose some of their appeal and some of the understanding of how things worked. I suppose it could be done, to a point, but it would take a long time and movies are only so long!

[Kahri]

Lol, I try xD

Kahri, I know what you're trying to say about movies. For some books, it is good to transfer them to another media, because the characters can be more fully explained on screen. I think, however, that if Alison's characters hit the big screen, they'd lose some of their appeal and some of the understanding of how things worked. I suppose it could be done, to a point, but it would take a long time and movies are only so long!

I understand. But it may also open Alison's creations to a new audience, those who preffer not to or can't read. I don't know, it has it's good and bad points...

[StarLily]

i find that films are not as enjoyable as the book because the book doesn't put boundaries on your imagination.

*nods* :D i second that :p

[Dena]

Well Kahri, if someone doesn't like to read, they miss the whole purpose for the movies as well. I don't see why we should "dumb it down" for people who won't read the books, but who will swoon over the actor who plays Cadvan. (i.e. 12-year-old fangirls...nothing against girls who are 12, but I'd say the reading level of these books is above that age for the most part)

You see what I mean? My question is whether we really want those kinds of people as fans of these characters. Nothing against them, mind you, they just don't appreciate the literature as much as they do the main actor's "hot sword" and how "incredibly handsome" he is...Very few people, I have gathered, came to love the Lord of the Rings books from watching the movies. They either loved the books on their own without the movies or they were movie fans and didn't read the books too much. Anyone who simply watches the movie(s) and doesn't read the books (and there would be lots of those) would be getting a very watered-down version of...well, everything.

It's a comparison in many ways of...oh, let's say Giordano's pizza from Chicago. (if you've never been there...trust me, that is the MOTHER of all pizzas. Sorry UKers, that's the best comparison I could come up with) Ok. So you have a Giordano's pizza from Chicago. But you eat the whole thing by yourself in your high-rise apartment one night. And then your friend from Montana comes and you say "Hey, you should have been here last night...I had Giordano's pizza!" Of course she has no idea what you're talking about...it's not something you can really describe. So you say "Well I don't have the money to get any more, but I'll give you a taste of what it's like." You then proceed to go to your freezer and take out a very cheap store-bought frozen pizza. You cook it in the oven for her and then take each piece and put it in a blender. Then you press "puree" and give her a babyfood version of the pizza.

The pizza shake would be NOTHING compared to the takeout you'd had the night before. You don't even have the proper ingredients to make the right kind of pizza. That's what I'm afraid might happen to the Pellinor series; it has happened in some ways to The Lord of the Rings and other books that have been made into movies.

I wouldn't want anyone who wouldn't have been interested in the books to get a taste of the babyfood version of Pellinor...because they might decide that they can be satisfied with that, when the books are so much richer and fuller in explanation, detail, description, and character development. In short, they wouldn't know what they're missing.

Sorry if that analogy is a little weird, it was the first thing I could think of xD

[Kahri]

Haha!! I can't say I've tasted Giordano's pizza as I live in Australia but I'll run with it :p .

No, I get what you mean and I full-heartedly agree. There's no way anyone can get the full exhilleration or...... just the feel of the book and every little detail that it holds within it's pages in a movie, there's just no way, it can never happen.

But I still think I would like to see it as a movie, I'm not really sure why, maybe just because it would make it seem as if it were more real? Maybe that's why, I'm not sure.

But, also, I think it might be best for the story to remain in book form so, as you said, the fan base can remain true and loyal and in full understanding of the characters, the plot and all the little, precious things that a movie simply cannot bring.