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dierna
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# Posted: 25 May 2006 14:12
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Anne McCaffrey's best-selling and long-running SF book series The Dragonriders of Pern will be adapted for the big screen by Canadian production company Copperheart Entertainment, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Copperheart, which was behind the 2005 Oscar-winning animated short Ryan, has optioned the 19-book series, which began with Dragonflight in 1968. The books are best known for having humans ride dragons with which they telepathically bond. With Dragonflight, McCaffrey became the first woman ever to win a Hugo Award for fiction, and she is one of the 2006 inductees into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
Copperheart, run by Steve Hoban, also has produced the Imax 3-D movie Cyberworld.
Pern nearly came to TV in a 2001 series for The WB from Battlestar Galactica creator Ronald D. Moore, but the network pulled the plug on the pilot after Moore refused to make changes to the Pern mythos that he thought would harm its integrity.
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=36303
Dierna note:.. They're gonna make movies out of all 19 books?! 
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demonvamp
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# Posted: 25 May 2006 15:21
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Sheesh, I hope not, there are only about six worthy of it.
QD.
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babel
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# Posted: 26 May 2006 11:16
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It's not often I disagree with yuo, QD, but I love the Pern books and think there are many that would adapt well.
I want to see F'Nor and Canth!
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demonvamp
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# Posted: 26 May 2006 15:02
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<!--QuoteBegin--babel+May 26 2006,11:16--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (babel @ May 26 2006,11:16)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->It's not often I disagree with yuo, QD, but I love the Pern books and think there are many that would adapt well. <br><br>I want to see F'Nor and Canth!<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--><br>Babel, I own every single one, she's one of my favourite authors, but the later ones are just milking it and nothing much happens.<br><br>The core books *as I call em* Dragon flight, through the harper novels and into white dragon, plus dragonsdawn, renegades and all the weyrs. these are the ones I consider film material. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.outpost10f.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smi.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo--> <br><br>QD.<br><br>Oh, and it's not F'Nor. It's F'woaaarh <!--emo&:P--><img src="http://www.outpost10f.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/ton.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':P'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.outpost10f.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/haw.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->
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