"I would love to see a really good Queen's Thief adaptation, but I do not think the one currently in development for Disney has a snowball's chance in hell of satisfying me."
I haven't been following the details. How bad is it turning out to be?
"sequels to Ken Sullivan's Anne of Green Gables"
Agreed. :)
"Till We Have Faces also wouldn't work!"
I haven't reread it in a long time, but mainly-thought stories are hard to adapt. The only one I've seen done well - which utterly breaks the rule that you can't stick closely to the original book and make a good movie - is Brideshead Revisited.
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1) The Lymond Chronicles.
"I would love to see a really good Queen's Thief adaptation, but I do not think the one currently in development for Disney has a snowball's chance in hell of satisfying me."
I haven't been following the details. How bad is it turning out to be?
"sequels to Ken Sullivan's Anne of Green Gables"
Agreed. :)
"Till We Have Faces also wouldn't work!"
I haven't reread it in a long time, but mainly-thought stories are hard to adapt. The only one I've seen done well - which utterly breaks the rule that you can't stick closely to the original book and make a good movie - is Brideshead Revisited.