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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:
> I really hope I don't see hobbits speaking with Texan drawl or 
> Californian slang (I also wonder if the rejection of American 
> accents in up and coming fantasy blockbusters is starting to get 
> Americans down a bit... we'll just have to film an American fantasy 
> classic next.  Any suggestions?)   

Apparently it's already been done, but not for theatrical release.  I 
just bought my kids the videotape of "Spykids" (okay, I enjoyed it 
too <g>) and at the beginning there's a pretty interesting-looking 
trailer for a miniseries-version of "A Wrinkle in Time" which is 
apparently going to air on ABC's Wonderful World of Disney sometime 
during the coming season.  The only quibbles I've got about it based 
just on the fast-moving trailer are:

1) The father is shown at the beginning, and the producers  
apparently also decided to show the events leading up to 
his "imprisonment" instead of this being a mysterious back-story 
which is slowly revealed as the story progresses and the kids come 
closer to finding their father.

2) Meg is not depicted with glasses, her little brother is.  Wrong, 
wrong, wrong.  If we can have a popular male hero (Harry) who wears 
glasses, why not a heroine in glasses?  (Barb pushes her glasses up 
her nose in a snit.)

I hope nothing else too drastic was done to alter the story.  It 
otherwise looks pretty promising, and the special effects now exist 
to do justice to some of the otherworldly sequences.  And it's firmly 
AMERICAN.  Now if only someone will film "The Diamond in the Window" 
and "The Swing in the Summerhouse" by Jane Langton...

--Barb