On his blog, Neil Gaiman not only provides a link to the above image from the upcoming movie adaptation of Stardust, but also points out that he’ll be answering fan questions about the movie on the official Stardust website:
Meanwhile, over at http://www.stardustmovie.com/ the first signs of life have been seen. If you head over there you’ll see a photo of me on set, and a form to fill in if you have any Stardust questions. For now, I’ll be the one answering the questions.
(Next week will be the first “test screening”, where we find out what an audience thinks of the film, what it likes and what it doesn’t. I’ve never been involved in one of those before. Fingers crossed.)
November 27th, 2006 at 8:25 am
I think the goat is overacting
November 27th, 2006 at 11:41 am
I need patience.
November 27th, 2006 at 11:42 am
“I think the goat is overacting”
:p
November 27th, 2006 at 11:45 am
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=61596
December 1st, 2006 at 11:27 am
That tree has a bad profile.
August 10th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
Hey man,
Loved the Sandman and Neverwhere.
I’ve also read Stardust twice and think it’s an excellent book-very beautiful, very funny, and very sad.
I saw the movie and was less impressed mainly due to missing elements like much of the REAL significance, both symbolicly as a force of Light and as an ingenius literary device ["The Lion and the Unicorn"], of the unicorn (which the director missed entirely-he’s basically called your poetic fairy-tale beast corny: “a gilded Elvis painting of the genre” or somesuch dreck, and apologized for its inclusion in the film [USA TODAY]-sorry Neil but I know this wasn’t your choice); and issues I have with
the creative but far less subtlely
brilliant (in my opinion, anyway)liberties
the screenplay has taken with the ending-as well as the gilded “immortality” of Tristan which did not take place in the novel. I guess the poignancy of love and love lost in the face of old age and death is lost on Hollywood once again.
I’m just 30 but I got it…and I love what you did with the book (much better original ending for the witches in it as well;
there I actually felt sorry for them as ancient, loveless creatures who had squandered so much of life’s beauty).
In contrast, I hope the lovely Yvaine(Danes was made for the role) continues to shine brightly from the Stormhold’s tallest,
(initially darker)tower. Overall, a superior fantasy film and screenplay…
adapted from a genuine work of Art.
Anyway, so sorry for the digression but my question is twofold…
What is the significance of the Snowdrop in the book vs. the movie (I’m sorry but I forgot its original powers in the book and think it may have even had something to do with Ditchwater Sal’s release of Tristan’s
mother initially) and most importantly, in the movie, who exactly has the Snowdrop between the time that Tristran gives it to old Ditchwater Sal and when he picks it up next to the Wall (if Sal never lost it, then
weren’t it’s protective qualities working for its bearer?). Just curious…
Thanks and keep writing.:-)
July 10th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
6 girls like me but i only like 1. What should I do?