Entries tagged with book: wizard's hall

heckofabecca responded to this post:

OH MY GOD I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO REMEMBER THE NAME OF WIZARD'S HALL FOR YEARSSSSSSS

I replied:

Glad to help! I haven’t read it since I was a kid, but it’s always stuck with me—maybe because it was such an influence on what I decided to write.

heckofabecca responded:

Dude the whole quilt of people and their names was SO DARK!!!!

I replied:

yesss

lotesse responded:

wizards hall is so good. did you ever read the pit dragon trilogy? I loved those

I replied:

I didn't!

toomerrymaiden said:

I loved the incarnations of immortality, it's a shame

I replied:

Yeah. :\

I mean, they always had their Anthony issues, but there was a lot that was really interesting and engaging about them (especially On a Pale Horse and With a Tangled Skein IMO). But he’s … blech.

gemmamelon said:

I, too, want Emelan, and was, just the other day, vaguely imagining Mara Wilson as Rosethorn, because I think she’d be able to be appropriately spiky while having a warm relationship with child actors that would also show through, on screen.

In this age of remakes and adaptations (though pretty much all ages are ages of remakes and adaptations tbh), I sometimes imagine adaptations of my childhood/adolescent faves. Off the top of my head and in no particular order:

Jane Yolen’s Wizard’s Hall (super formative, could make a pretty cool, sometimes creepy, film)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond (just … great, probably fits a mini-series better)
Sweet Valley Twins (maybe this already exists? it would be terrible, but I inhaled them as a kid)
Agatha Christie in general (definitely exists, though the quality is variable … I really disliked the version I saw of Cards on the Table)
She-Ra (exists, is great)
The Belgariad and the Elenium (I would prefer the latter, with Liberties taken to deal with some of the Eddingsisms, but the former might be more cinematic. I once had an AU where as a fairly minor background detail, the Elenium was made in place of GOT, but with the same cast, like Lena Headey as Sephrenia, etc …)
LOTR, esp Gondor (of course there are the movies, but a) their treatment of Gondor is terrible on a lot of fronts, and b) I think LOTR is better suited to TV anyway, and in my dreams, really high-quality animation)
Wheel of Time (in the works, I’m lowkey terrified)
Daughter of the Empire (no idea how this would be done)
Incarnations of Immortality (I don’t really want money going to Piers Anthony, so no, even though it’s conceptually one of my fave takes on Death)
Pern (??? I would mostly watch this for Lessa. Probably super expensive to make as a series, which it would have to be)
Valdemar (I DON’T EVEN KNOW)
Tamora Pierce (I love Emelan best, but Tortall would be cool, too!)
So You Want to Be a Wizard (it seems like it would be very cinematic in some ways and not at all in others, so I’m not sure, but if someone could make it work, awesome)

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