Comments | xanth_: "A Spell for Chameleon" Movie in 2006

rodillon in xanth_

"A Spell for Chameleon" Movie in 2006

Apr 11, 2005 17:47

The movie "A Spell for Chameleon" is getting ready to be made and directed by Tim McCanlies. It's funny how they don't show how Piers Anthony was related to "Total Recall" with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/rodillon/831170.html

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Timing is Everything rodillon April 12 2005, 04:52:13 UTC

That's funny about the previous post about someone asking about the movie right after I mentioned it.

I had already posted it at 5:43 pm on my personal Journal.

zodiaccat April 12 2005, 16:27:28 UTC

Well, he only did the novelization of Total Recall. (Also, it wasn't all that good...)

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Yes. It did hurt to say that.

A "Total Recall" rodillon April 12 2005, 18:54:48 UTC

Yep. On a side note, that Dragon Theme surfaced again.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/rodillon/834850.html

Plus, I had that neat occurrence where someone born on 3-22, which is when my dad died (the year that "A Spell for Chameleon" came out in 1977) and the time mentioned in "National Treasure" made her first ever Journal Entry.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/rodillon/832720.html

babsieboo June 20 2005, 18:00:49 UTC

That's so awesome! I was wondering when they would start making Xanth movies, since they're doing the Narnia books. My mom will be very excited to hear about the Spell For Chameleon movie!

Xanth Books rodillon June 20 2005, 18:19:15 UTC

Yeah, I'd be interested in seeing that. Plus, CGI has gotten to a point where you can make magical stuff more believable on screen.

antheerr June 21 2005, 11:34:07 UTC

oh god no - I think a movie would be awful - they're never as good as the books.

Good Point rodillon June 21 2005, 17:13:22 UTC

YOu made good point. I remember being in a conversation with someone who was really bothered by the remake of "Battlestar Galactica" because they didn't follow the original series or the books ( ... )

Re: Good Point antheerr June 21 2005, 17:24:13 UTC

It's just that very often film makers want the book to fit their idea\s rather than what the writer did. Lord of the Rings was a very good film series, but even so, it missed out huge sections, changed some scenes, and warped some of the characters. Plus we didn't even get the last but one chapter - the scouring of the shire ( ... )

babsieboo August 12 2005, 02:28:07 UTC

"Plus we didn't even get the last but one chapter - the scouring of the shire."

Yeah, I'd read the books years ago, but I remember that, and then when I saw the movies I thought maybe I'd imagined it, or maybe it was in The Hobbit and not any of the LOTR books. I thought they would have put that in there if it had been in the LOTR books.. But, I guess not.

Yeah, I do agree with you that Hollywood might not get the humor of Xanth because most of it is just a play on the words, and that would be hard to convey on the big screen.

Pun in the Sun rodillon August 12 2005, 18:39:41 UTC

Yep, a lot of people don't get Piers Anthony's sense of humor and all those puns.

A man walks into a bar and sees this baby that's playing the piano brilliantly. He walks over to the sullen bartender and says, "That's amazing! Where did you find him?"

The bartender says glumly, "I found a Genie's Lamp and made a wish."

The man says, "That's terrific!"

The bartender says, "Yeah, but I didn't wish for a 10-inch pianist."