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Just finished watching "Ruby In The Smoke" , which I'd recorded. Makes me wish Philip Pullman's "Dark Materials" trilogy would hurry up and hit the big screen. (I understand that New Line are quoting December 2007 as a probable release date for the first instalment). Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman are on board, so hopefully it will live up to my high expectations.
BTW, I really enjoyed the adaptation of RITS.
Two other books should also be filmed:
Tim Powers-the Anubis Gates
Susan Copper-The Dark is Rising
Powers is my favourite author and The Anubis Gates rivals The Stress Of Her Regard, as my favourite book. That would make another great movie!
Mick, what can I say, you are a wise man! Yeah Anubis would make an amazing romp, god knows why it hasn't been optioned
I don't understand either. Peter Jackson has proved that it's possible to film a story that was previously thought of as impossible, so there's no excuse for not bringing these works to our screens.
Tim Powers also brings a cerebral edge to his fantasy and by intertwining the fiction with fact, the boundaries blur and he has you questioning the established view of reality. That's the sort of film I want to see!
btw have you checked out Homunculus
by James P. Blaylock? more of the same kind of stuff from Tim's friend and writing partner
"Does the night seem uncommonly full of dead men and severed heads to you?" Langdon St. Ives, Victorian scientist-of-leisure, grapples with the vivisectionist, animator-of-the-dead Narbondo. Homunculi, the late Joanna Southcote, and carp run amok in late-Victorian London.