Robin McKinley

[Updated on: Sat, 05 February 2011 20:32]

Thanks, Anna! - That looks absolutely wonderful, and I hadn't even heard of it before. I seldom laugh at trailers, but I sat snickering through most of this one. And what a wonderful group of actors they've assembled for it!

And some Terry Pratchett news, courtesy of Discworld Monthly:

http://www.discworldmonthly.co.uk/dwm0166.php#S_2

About the next Discworld novel, "Snuff":

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Snuff According to the writer of the best selling crime novel ever to have been published in the city of Ankh-Morpork, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse. And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe, but many, many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder. He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, occasionally snookered and occasionally out of his mind, but not out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a finding, there must be a chase and there must be a punishment. They say that in the end all sins are forgiven. But not quite all...

And the upcoming adaptation of Unseen Academicals:

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The Mob Film Company have officially announced that they will start filming their fourth Discworld adaptation later this year. This time around football get the mini-series treatment in their adaptation of Unseen Academicals. We look forward to seeing how they cast Vimes, Carrot, Mrs Nutt and Glenda. Especially with the recent sad news of the death of Pete Postlethwaite, who Melvyn Grant based his drawings of Vimes on in Where's My Cow?

I'm really curious about the casting.

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Two Eva Ibbotson-movies seem to be on the way:

http://www.deadline.com/2011/02/paul-king-to-direct-%e2%80%9 8island-of-the-aunts%e2%80%99/

One - Island of the Aunts - has just found a director, while the other - The Great Ghost Rescue - is almost finished. This is great news, think I, for, if done well, these could be really fun.

And, for comic book movie enthusiasts - a new trailer for Thor:

http://www.movieline.com/2011/02/humor-action-kat-dennings-n ow-this-is-a-thor-trailer.php#more

I confess I'm somewhat curious (DVD-curious rather than cinema-curious) about it because I wonder what a superhero movie directed by Kenneth Branagh will look like; and, also, JMS (otherwise J Michael Straczynski, of Babylon 5 fame) supposedly has an extended cameo in it. Though I must confess - since I'm busy confessing I may as well do a complete job of it - that this (unlike previous trailers of the movie) made me think: "Cool"; and that I believe is the response that superhero-movie-trailers are supposed to evoke.

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Thanks Anna! I too am curious about the second Star Trek-movie, I liked the first one well enough, though Kirk annoyed me somewhat for a good deal of the movie, and my sympathies were all with Spock.

Patricia C Wrede on the third Frontier Magic-book:

http://pcwrede.com/blog/miscellaneous-updating/

A trailer for Tintin:

http://www.deadline.com/2011/05/hot-trailer-steven-spielberg s-tintin/

And I believe this is the last of the Hunger Games-casting:

http://www.deadline.com/2011/05/woody-harrelson-joins-hunger -games/

http://www.movieline.com/2011/05/race-to-witch-mountain-orph an-teens-round-out-hunger-games-tributes-casting.php

(Hopefully I haven't mentioned either of those before, but I must confess to being a bit confused on the issue - so I hope you'll all excuse me if I have - thankfully this is a very charitable forum, so I'm counting on that. )

And finally, this might be of interest to any Sarah Michelle Gellar and/or Ioan Gruffudd fans - a pilot, Ringer, with both of them has been picked up to series:

http://www.deadline.com/2011/05/surprise-sarah-michelle-gell ars-the-ringer-to-get-picked-up-by-cw/

ETA - PS - Why, I quite forgot! Martin Freeman has taken a three-month break from The Hobbit to film some Sherlock:

http://www.mckellen.com/cinema/hobbit-movie/110510.htm

[Updated on: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:34]