Artemis Fowl Books to be made into Movies

[Bouncy Castle]

London Evening Standard.

Disney will attempt to recreate the movie success of Harry Potter after today announcing it is to make a film featuring Artemis Fowl.

The first two books about the 12-year-old millionaire criminal mastermind will be adapted by Walt Disney Studios and The Weinstein Company.

Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein said he was introduced to Irish author Eoin Colfer’s novels by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal, who will both be executive producers.

The screenplay is being written by Michael Goldenberg, the screenwriter of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Weinstein will be rekindling his relationship with Disney — it once owned his Miramax Films, which he left in 2005. He said: “This is special because my children absolutely love this book.”

There are eight Artemis Fowl novels.

Not sure I'm happy about it being Disney. I love these books and I'd hate them to be made all sugary and crap.

 

[Quatermass]

Yeah, here's hoping that they do it right.

 

[The Mad Collector]

Well if anyone can screw them up Disney can.

 

[michelanCello]

Not sure I'm happy about it being Disney. I love these books and I'd hate them to be made all sugary and crap.

My thought exactly.

I'm quite anxious about the casting too...

 

[pip]

Author wants Irish actors seemingly. He really wants Saoirse Ronan in it according to all the Irish press.

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Who she?

 

[pip]

A young Irish actress . She was in the lovely bones and the host plus a few others

 

[michelanCello]

Hmmmmmmm...

 

[Catch-up]

Always meant to read those books and never got around to it.

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Oh, they're great, Suzanne. If you get the chance you should give them a go.

And the kids might like them as well!! Not sure how old yours are, but they're written for children.

 

[michelanCello]

I must admit that I haven't read the last one yet, it went a bit downhill around book 5, still think it's a brilliant series though.

 

[The Mad Collector]

Only got as far as book 4 so far, very good but as Mici has warned me off the rest I may stop there especially after what Colfer did to H2G2 which turned me off his writing totally

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I have that one Mad but it's unread so far, so you reckon it's not much good then. :

 

[michelanCello]

Only got as far as book 4 so far, very good but as Mici has warned me off the rest I may stop there especially after what Colfer did to H2G2 which turned me off his writing totally

I didn't want to warn you off, I just told you my opinion

 

[Dotsie]

My opinion also, book 5 is manageable but the next 3 are instantly forgettable. Page by page even.

 

[michelanCello]

My opinion also, book 5 is manageable but the next 3 are instantly forgettable. Page by page even.

My thoughts exactly (except the last one, which I haven't read yet), book 5 was all right till the end, I didn't much like that...

 

[The Mad Collector]

OK agreement from two people whose opinions I trust. I'm stopping at book four

 

[=Tamar]

I stopped at book one. I really dislike the entire concept, and I feel that promoting it in film is reprehensible. Film is a form of brainwashing - dark room, light on a screen flashing at a hypnotic rate, images going directly to the subconscious... it's been bad news for decades but this series is not an improvement. At least when it's only in books people have to actually do the work of reading, and the forebrain has a chance to get involved.

 

[Dotsie]

Are you worried that people will be brainwashed into believing in fairies?

 

[chuckie]

I already believe in fairies