The picture is of Ruth the only white dragon ever shelled on Pern. The first book is all about the Dragon Riders and how theLords of Pern disdain their usefulness because thread has not fallen in over 250 years. There is only one Queen dragon left and she has laid a clutch with one golden Queen egg. Their story is of how Lessa is found on search and impressed by Ramoth at the hatching. I love these books, the author, Anne McCaffery, has written of a group of people migrating away from Earth to get back to their roots technologically speaking and they do that with a vengence.
Oh how I wish I had about 200million dollars to persuade either Lucas Films or Pixar to produce the first book into a film, I think either one of these studios could do justice to the dragons. And if the public passion for dragons has passed, this film would bring it back and the phenomenon would be bigger than Harry Potter.
Do you have a favorite book that you wish you could see produced into a film without being ruined by the general hackery of Hollywood? Please share.
PS: I would love to see Wynona Ryder as Lessa....or maybe Moreta. Tough decision.
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I use to dream of hollywood taking my book choice and doing something with it, then they did. Something by Stephen King. Left alot to be desired had Molly Ringwald as Fanny what the hell were they thinking?
Yeah, Molly Ringwald's face was twice the size of Gary Sinese (sp?) just looked funny in close ups. And she was still doing her Pretty in Pink schtik during this Super Flu.
Dean Koontz has had one book butchered three times. The one about the intelligent dog, and the governments monster. I'm sure he cringes each time it is shown on TV.
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