Is It Weird That This Kinda Bums Me Out?
From today's Publisher's Marketplace Deal Report:
What do you think?
-=siobhan=-
Television rights: Ian Falconer's OLIVIA series, to Nickelodeon in association with Chorion.I liked that sassy Olivia only existed in book form. Oh well.
What do you think?
-=siobhan=-
posted by siobhan vivian at 1:53 PM
7 Comments:
We carried our television out to the curb in South Minneapolis almost 20 years ago and never looked back. We raised three boys without it. You are not weird to feel bummed out. Put it on the curb -- with a sign -- NOT for sale...
Bummed! I wish "they" would keep their mitts off the good books. I'm a fourth grade teacher and it is tough to find great books that appeal to a broad audience that the kids haven't already SEEN. ICK!
We haven't had a TV for about 10 years now. No regrets.
OK - I didn't mean that I couldn't find good books. Of course I can. I just get irritated that more and more really good children's books are being made into mediocre movies and television shows. Enough ranting now.
i hear you relyn. for me, part of the magic that is Olivia is the starkness, the sass, the implied personality.
god. she's going to have a voice now! *shudders*
I think to know for sure if it ruins it I'd have to see it but by seeing it, it could possibly be ruined forever! i feel like it had a chance of being better if it was made like 20 years ago by PBS. Edward Gorey's books were used in some tv stuff I know and that looked pretty cool.
I think her voice is going to be what makes or breaks it.
Actually, I was (surprisingly) not bummed when I saw this. I think it'll make a really nice TV show. If done well, obviously. And there's already sooo much merchandise out there for the books that it's not like she'll suddenly be commercialized when before she wasn't.
Now, the Where the Wild Things Are movie, THAT I'm worried about...
Olivia is so sweet. I hope they don't mess it up.
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