Artemis Fowl (Devon Murray/Seamus)

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This is 99% off topic but I'll post it here and beg the Mods' indulgence. 
Any further discussion might be better addressed to the OT-Chatter list.

At 20:18 10/03/03 , Steve wrote:

>His unofficial website (devonmurray.com) said he is up for the role of
>"Artemis Fowl" which is an interesting book. You can read a few pages
>of the book at the Amazon.com website. ("Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer)

Small slightly on-topic bit: if Seamus goes the way of Wood in PoA and GoF 
(unless JKR has ordered Kloves and Co to keep him in for future 
development), I certainly don't blame him and his representatives for 
taking Devon out of the HP movies and finding him other acting jobs. I 
can't imagine many high-profile jobs for teenage Irish actors, so if 
Artemis Fowl is on the boil, he should go for it.

Just for the record, I think that Devon would make a "bloody brilliant" 
Artemis Fowl.

I read the books (there are two of them to date) and although I wasn't all 
that impressed (they are very much "kids' books", or rather "boys' books", 
IMO; I didn't need to buy them as I managed to read each cover-to-cover 
standing around in the bookshop), they'd probably make wonderful kids' 
films. I'm not trying to say that adults would be bored (there are a few 
interesting characters), but it's all just a little simplistic and 
gadget-based. However, I'm not sure how prepared parents are for kids to be 
admiring a teenage criminal mastermind! :-)

There's one character who goes around saying "my middle is Trouble" and 
means it. It literally *is* his middle name, and he lives up to it. :-)

Incidentally, it's a bit of a misnomer to call the books Artemis Fowl, as 
the character who plays a more active role in the plot (and gets more page 
time in the books) is his nemesis from the Fairy Police, Captain Holly 
Short. If they get an appropriately attractive young woman to play her, 
that would get the kids' dads in to watch, if not perhaps their mothers. :-)