Artemis Fowl

[Rosmerta]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., catherine at c... wrote:> 

It may do beter as a film - this seems to be the main purpose behind 
> the novel. 

I think it *is* the main purpose of the book--the news story I read 
in the [ny] Times a couple of weeks ago gave some unimaginably large 
dollar figure for the book-movie deal, which was done simultaneously. 
So rather than wasting those precious months waiting to see if a book 
has "legs", then negotiating a deal, then making a movie, now they've 
started to work on the movie just as the book is hitting the shelves. 
Which, as a reader, makes you kind of hope the book flops, which is 
in turn a bad feeling to have about any book. 

~Rosmerta
who is so anal about art-first-then-movie that she made her then-3-yr-
old watch the Cocteau version of Beauty and the Beast before the 
Disney one.