Anita Blake movie?

[mhalachai]

So, apparently at the Wolf Howl last night, LKH told the audience that everything's signed and on the go to make a movie out of Guilty Pleasures.

I, um... Not quite sure what to think of that. Okay.

Comments

[cissasghost.livejournal.com]

. . I think I sort of don't want to see it. Guilty Pleasures was not my favorite of the books, and . . I sorta can't picture how you're going to translate it to the screen without it coming out really, really corny. What makes the books not so corny - well, most of the time - is Anita's internal dialogue, her dry sense of humor and her continuous angst, the fact that she KNOWS her life is vaguely ridiculous. I'm really not sure how much of that could possibly be conveyed through even very skilled acting, especially considering that in some of the moments where the readers are privy to her thoughts, the character would NOT want to be giving those thoughts away on her face, and in fact, doing so would probably get her killed. So . . yeah. Really not sure on this.

-Sonya

[houses7177.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. THe charm, to me, of the books, is seeing the world through Anita's eyes. That will be very difficult without internal narration and that style of filmaking, while appropriate for Ferris Buller's Day Off may not work so well here.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

. What makes the books not so corny - well, most of the time - is Anita's internal dialogue, her dry sense of humor and her continuous angst, the fact that she KNOWS her life is vaguely ridiculous

I know... but it's been done before, the making of a 1st person POV book into a good movie. Examples escape me, but I'm sure it can work.

[watcher457.livejournal.com]

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