Pen to Film

Lately I have seen some movies and series getting released with very similar yet unaffiliated plots to books that I’ve read. The one that isn’t really that close but just reminded me of the book is Dreamworks ad for their new movie “Yeti”, a young girl finds herself befriending a magical yeti and running/hiding from scientists that want it. Besides the characters being of similar looks, I mean big white yeti with small dark haired girl and the same basic plot I think the movie will otherwise deviate from the graphic novel Abigail and the Snowman. I don’t think Dreamworks was trying to copy though since it is a not very big book and there has been a recent bump in Sasquatch and yeti movies lately. Next a bit more obvious Disney’s new cartoon “Go Away Unicorn” about a young brown haired girl who finds herself in charge of a real unicorn. The only difference I can see between this and the very popular Phoebe and her Unicorn is that in the Disney cartoon the Unicorn is a guy and fat. I mea...

Just some general news. The Ranger’s Apprentice movie fell through, but I can wait for someone who wants to get it right. False Prince is between contracts, but I hope it gets resolved soon and there has been no news on A Night Divided good or bad. I have not yet gone to see Where’d You Go Bernadette but it looks promising and Artemis Fowl has been pushed back from it’s release August 2019 to May 2020. I will take that as a sign of hope that they are at least changing the script to be more like the story. On Disney’s new D+ streaming two new movies/series have been announced Stargirl by Spinelli and Flora and Ulysses by DiCamillo. Also Netflix has bought the rights to Narnia, and there has been rumors of three of the original LWW actors have been working on a special project so fingers crossed for a Horse and his Boy movie/series. I have better hopes for Netflix’s series over Disney+ because over all I have been happier with their takes on some of my favorite books, like The Little Pri...