fire & stars

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[donottrustsistergoldenhair]

They're making a new adaptation of inkheart??????

[donottrustsistergoldenhair]

according to an interview from last month, the BBC are curently revising the book. The plan is to turn it into a tv show.

[schleierkauz]

#according to tj ms funke isnt too thrilled about it? i mean she had horrible experiences with lioe every adaption of her book that i know of /via @peppermintfreak

hello hi that's me that was me :)

i feel like this interview is getting a liiiiittle bit overhyped currently... I mean, yes, Cornelia mentions the possibility of an Inkheart TV show and that, apparently, active steps are being taken to make it happen. ... But in the past years, that has happened a few times and it doesn't sound like we'll get anything soon, or maybe at all. What she says about it is:

"Right now, I have... The BBC is currently reserving the rights* for Inkheart, because they want to turn it into a TV show... Well! (shrug) It's going to look different than my version**. We can only hope that we'll find their version exciting as well."

Make of that what you will. It was really more of a short comment towards the end of the interview, definitely not the focus of it. She doesn't go into detail or sound overly enthusiastic about it, but who knows. Getting a TV show would certainly be something! Nitpicky translation notes under the cut.

*might not be the exact right translation - she says "optionieren", which (as far as I understand it) means getting the rights for something without promising to actually do anything with it

**literally, she says "different from my pictures/images", because the conversation leading up to this bit was about how people imagine different images in their heads while reading a book

[bleekay]

had a fucked up dream i had a book that turned out could never be read again the same as the first time because each reread the characters became incrementally more aware that the events of the book had happened before and they were “reliving” it and i reread enough times that they became self aware, figured out they were in a book, acknowledged me as the reader, and some lost their minds or had existential crises, became violent to other characters or themselves, some begged me to never stop reading or they ceased to exist and others begged me to end it all stop reading and keeping them trapped in the endless loop of torment, and the literal only way to get the book back to its first run was to hand it off to someone else to read for the first time and for some reason i physically couldn’t tell anyone about it so i’d have to just hope whoever i gave it to would only read it once and i could never open the book again to check if they were okay and back to normal because i was terrified of fucking them all up again :(

[bleekay]

i'm glad people are finding this fun as a concept and making references to stuff that this reminds them of but i really gotta express how bad of a nightmare this was for me. i had fallen in love with the original story and characters (though on waking i couldn't tell you the details), unintentionally warped their story beyond recognition, and found myself an unwitting god that could not provide mercy for some without doling torment to others. one of the characters started offing themselves every time i started another reread. stress dream doesn't even begin to cover it

[coreywithnoname]

'How would your OC react if they met you' is in fact what happened to Fenoglio.

[thegreygale]

I genuinely love how much of the Inkheart movie is just tired dads doing ill advised parkour. (No I will not elaborate)

[nocnitsa]

Alan Lee

[mielmelon]

inside your body is PITCH BLACK your cells do all of that in the DARK

[babelady]

self care is swallowing lit matches every 5 minutes so that ur cells can see whatever the fuck they’re doing in there

[i-live-in-dreams]

I hate the fact that Orpheus is so goddamn well written. I despise the respect it wakes in me, I DESPISE that character and YET, yet, I just feel so much respect for how well written he is.

I love the fact that he wakes such a rage inside me. As a writer I can’t do anything except love that, and wish that one day I’d be able to write someone who wakes as much emotions in someone as he does in me. And I do NOT want to love anything about Orpheus. And now I love that I hate him. Checkmate I lose.

I don’t know if this is thanks to Cornelia Funke or the translator: but the way he SPEAKS??? So IN CHARACTER he WOULD have that vocabulary and he WOULD say it in that exact way. I can truly believe that his voice is as wonderful as it’s described. And I hate that. Fuck that guy, may he lose his voice.

[manletbasta]

The boys are partying like it’s 1360.

What’s going on here? Well the Piper has been playing the same song for hours and Basta has had enough. Why is he riding a snail? I tried to make this look like those medieval paintings, which often had giant snails in them. I just couldn’t resist.

[themotleyfolk]

Meggie would be that type of person who'd insist her name's short for Megalodon, just to harmlessly mess with people

[skltart]

my boy

[hydrahowl]

me when im so sweet and beautiful

[toddsolondz]

me: oh man the weather is so nice lately

that one friend who was beat to death and came back wrong: do you guys remember when i got beat to death and then they brought me back wrong

me: yeah dude

that one friend who was beat to death and came back wrong: and no one avenged me

me: yeah we remember

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

mauled by stoats

[algds]

and stalled by moats. just my luck

[skltart]

was told that some of my pieces look like book covers and took it as a challenge :)

+ progress pics

[william-snekspeare]

awesome game of bite cardboard. you look like a staple remover

[nejackdaw]

Woke up and started thinking about Inkheart. Remembered how Meggie couldn't read the words to kill Capricorn, but Mo did, easily and firmly, when before he wasn't much for violence. Then how easily he slipped into the whole Bluejay thing, and how much of that was him and how much of it was Fenoglio?, how red stopped being his favorite color because it reminded him too much of blood. And then afterward he became sort of a recognized half Mo half Bluejay (TCoR) which he'd already been for a while. Love me a guy who is irrevocably changed by situations. Mortimer Folchart you will always be famous to me

[amoebasapph]

The one well-aged bit i don't think i can ever stop doing is "character name series surname".