Archive for the ‘Book to Film’ Category
Inkheart – Movie
New Line
Fantasy
ISBN: B001NPD9JA
Synopsis
While reading a book aloud to his wife, Mo finds that he has an interesting talent: the ability to read elements straight out of a story and into real life. The catch is that things from the real world disappear into the story. That fatal night, Mo read his wife into the story, and read the antagonists out of it. Now realizing that he can exploit Mo’s abilities for his own gain, Capricorn will stop at nothing to capture Mo and his daughter Meggie in order to make this power his own. …
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The Tale of Despereaux – Film
Universal
Fantasy
ISBN: B0018ATR2S
Synopsis
In a happy and magical kingdom, the royal monarchy and the people are in love with soup. On one fateful day, the special soup day of the year, a rat who loves the light named Roscuro comes in on a ship to enjoy the holiday. Unfortunately, he falls into the Queen’s soup, causing her to die, which creates a chain reaction that leads to the banishment of rats into the darkness and the banishment of soup and anything soup-like from the kingdom, including bowls and spoons. Soon the kingdom falls into disarray, as the magic of the soup creates happiness for the people and affects the weather. It’s now cloudy all the time, but never rains. Crops die throughout the land, and the people suffer. …
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City of Ember – Film
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, 2008
Fantasy
ISBN: B001LPWGBO
Synopsis
Twelve-year-old Lina Mayfield and her friend Doon Harrow are about to graduate from school and get their lifelong jobs. Everything seems normal until Doon throws the job he’s plucked from the bag onto the floor, and in a heated rage complains about the dilapidating state of the city of Ember, their home. Soon, though, it becomes apparent that Ember is a city different than any other city known on earth. The Builders have made a self-sufficient city underground as an experiment in order to save humanity in case the world above becomes completely destroyed. …
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The Golden Compass – Film
New Line Cinema, 2007
Fantasy
ASIN: B00005JPNY
Synopsis
In a parallel earth, all people have their own personal daemon a physical manifestation of their soul in animal form. Trouble seems to be brewing in this world, and there’s talk about this invisible material called Dust. Thinking this as the link to original sin, the scientists of experimental theology are trying to find a way to rid people of it, even going as far as separating them from their daemons, essentially ripping them from their souls. …
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Eragon – Film
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, 2006
Fantasy
ASIN: B000NA28I4
Synopsis
The tales of the Dragon Riders is a story of myth long gone now that the Riders have been decimated for nearly a century, and Galbatorix has been ruling the Empire and oppressing the people. However, the most unexpected turn takes place when a mysterious glowing rock is discovered by Eragon, a fifteen-year-old teen who lives on a poor farm in the north of the Empire. Soon, the rock hatches into a dragon making him a Rider, and Eragon finds himself in a world of magic and evil, the only free Rider alive and the new hope for the oppressed peoples of the Empire. …
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Earthsea – Film
Lion’s Gate
Fantasy
ASIN: B00077BPA0
Synopsis
The world of Earth Sea is out of balance, and now a young wizard must save it from the Nameless Ones. First, however, he must learn how to be a wizard and how to grow up. A result of his pride and anger, he uses a dangerous spell to bring a member of the dead back to life. However, what he gets instead is a Nameless One that he releases into the world. He must find and fight the evil creature while at the same time journeying to the distant isles of Earthsea in order to restore balance to their world. …
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