Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Gets Green Light

[Khephra]

Earthsea Gets Green Light

SCI FI Channel announced that it has given a green light to the original miniseries Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea, which is set to begin production in New Zealand this spring. Adapted from Le Guin's popular book series, the four-hour Earthsea miniseries is written by Gavin Scott (The Mists of Avalon), with Robert Halmi Sr. (Dreamkeeper, Merlin), Lawrence Bender (Kill Bill) and Kevin Brown (Roswell) executive producing. Earthsea is slated to debut on SCI FI in December.

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-01/08/11.00.sfc

[Coventina]

1. Eep. I'm both pleased and scared.

Could be great, could be terrible.

[Khephra]

3. I was pleasantly surprised by the second Dune mini

So here's hoping it will be good.

[Coventina]

6. Have you seen anything on the upcoming "Punisher" movie?

I saw a trailer for it.
Do you think it'll be good or bad? One can't really tell from a trailer.

[Exultant Democracy]

10. Yeah I'm crossing my fingers

But the last few SiFi big Mini-series haven't been half bad.

[Foehammer]

2. This is more like it....Great Book (nt)

[bmbmd]

4. Ged, I loved those books!

My twelve year old is reading them now. (by magelight, mostly) Read the article, but no mention of casting. Sparrowhawk was Harry Potter when Harry was just a gleam in Ms. Rowlands' eye.....

[hobbes159]

7. One of my favorite series, both as a kid and adult

Lost track of how many times I've read it.... and I've given the series as gifts to several kids, who have all loved it...

[Foehammer]

8. yep your right

[slappypan]

5. ethnicity

The main characters in the Earthsea books are described as dark-skinned. I hope they do not wimp out and cast white actors.

[supernova]

9. Hope it's better than Mists of Avalon

Exciting masterpiece of a book, deadly dull miniseries. Pedantic, even.