{"id":773,"date":"2010-11-29T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=773"},"modified":"2010-11-29T21:33:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T01:33:32","slug":"pan-and-worldshaker-future-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":"Pan and Worldshaker &#8230; future movies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I also found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collider.com\/2010\/11\/22\/ben-hibon-pan-worldshaker\/\">this article<\/a> to be interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows \u2013 Part 1 this weekend, then you most likely marveled at the gorgeous animated sequence where Hermoine tells the tale of \u201cThe Deathly Hallows\u201d. &#8230; Variety is now reporting that the director of that sequence, Ben Hibon, is attached to direct the fantasy action thriller Pan.  Based on a script by Ben Magid and originally set up as a directing vehicle for Guillermo del Toro, \u201cThe film puts a dark spin on J.M. Barrie\u2019s Peter Pan with Captain Hook as a haunted former police detective in pursuit of a childlike kidnapper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hibon, along with his producing partners Renee Tab and Tarik Heitmann, have also optioned Richard Harland\u2019s steampunk novel, Worldshaker.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That Harry Potter animation was the best part of the otherwise disappointing film.  (The nude kissing was the worst part; entirely inappropriate for a Potter film; it&#8217;s awful how they&#8217;ve been trying to sexualize these stories, shame on you filmmakers!  Shame shame shame!)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <em>Pan<\/em> sounds very interesting, I look forward to it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Worldshaker<\/em> sounds even more interesting.  I now really want to read that book.  Then again, Hollywood tends to mess up steampunk-type books, like <em>City of Ember<\/em> and <em>The Golden Compass<\/em>.  Something stylistically they just can&#8217;t get right about it&#8230; though they might actually get <em>Hugo Cabret<\/em> right, considering its director, who usually knows how to make a good movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I also found this article to be interesting: If you saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows \u2013 Part 1 this weekend, then you most likely marveled at the gorgeous animated sequence where Hermoine tells the tale of \u201cThe Deathly Hallows\u201d. &#8230; Variety is now reporting that the director of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[99],"tags":[326,324,325],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-ct","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}