[Mrs. Cadvan]

If they made a movie of the book at all then it should be in animation.
And then Alison can make the producers let US decide what everyone looks like.
=Argument over.

Animation my arse! Human actors are better at portraying human emotions than pixels or coloured ink. :p

[Aras]

Madagasgar is in a whole differant league from The Pellinor Series.

1. Madagasgar was never a book.
2. Madagasgar is a comedy, The books of Pellinor are fantasy.
3. Madagasgar is a childs movie, The books of Pellinor are 14+
4. Just because Madagasgar was a hit, doesn't mean a movie of a completely differant genre will be.

[Kristin]

Also I personally think Emma Watson (Hermione in Harry Potter) is PERFECT for Maerad.

No, she's a pretty girl, but I think she is too young and common looking. And when I say common looking, I don't mean she's ugly! Look above at the pretty comment. I also know that Maerad is only 16/17, but I think if you cast someone that young - the acting would not be very good and she would seem a little childish.

I think i prefer Elaine Cassidy on the Maerad.......dont take offence.......I was just saying what I thought(not in a nasty way though!!!)

No offence taken. :)

[Siobhan]

Madagasgar was animated and it got tons of publicity.

Yea but Madagascar was a children's movie - theres a HUGE difference, if The Pellinor books were made into an animated movie, who do you think would want to go see it? 18 yr olds? 25 yr olds? 30 yr olds? no way! They would think it was a children's movie and then children would want to see it when it would probably be rated M. There is no way any creditable producer or director would want anything to do with a movie that has no target audience because they are all confused.

[whitesilkbreeze]

Animation my arse! Human actors are better at portraying human emotions than pixels or coloured ink. :p

I'd like to disagree with that point. A bad actor can't portray emotions well and bad animation can't portray emtoions well. Good actors and good animations can do a decent job, though. If you've ever seen the work of Japanese anime master Hayao Miyazaki, it's surprisingly moving in places. (I recommend Laputa or Nausicaa.)

Although I will generally agree that a good actor beats animation, I'd just like to point out human actors are not always better. :p

Hugh Grant's wrinkles are beginning to show up more than before. In my eyes, he seems just a wee bit too old to look as young as Maerad in his sleep.

[Mrs. Cadvan]

Yeah, fair enough :) . That was too general a statement...I'm sure talented artists could beat wooden actors like Ben Affleck and Keira Knightley hands down in terms of portraying emotions.

[Bridie]

like i said weve already disscussed this whole animation thing on its own thread. however interesting it would be to have the books as anime (i love the grapics they are very pretty :P) it should be real actors and actresses or just no movie at all. the movie could end up being craply directed, scripted shot and acted and wed all feel let down plus some crappy american director would probs take over and skip loads of it.

[owleye]

i hate it when they skip bits it gets on my nerves especialy in the last harry potter movie

[Ellaktum]

I know, in the book he gets the firebolt at christmas, so I was sat there like.... um.... was that the end....... are you sure the projector thing didn't break.... that sucks......

[owleye]

i no it missed a lot of good bits