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Yeah, the Silver Chair is my fave Narnia book too but Dawntreader does not lend itself to adaptation easily so it always seems to tank the franchise before they get to it.

Aren't they doing the Silver Chair? And they did it for the BBC version.

The BBC did it, but they had a lot of protection from commercial pressures and at the time the BBC was pretty much of a we've started so we'll finish it mindset (the original books not the three tacked on ones). As for the movie, I believe it when I see it. They've been talking about doing Silver Chair for years.

I thought they announced recently that they were going to start Silver Chair? I don't know. My favorite is Magician's Nephew, which has never been done. Honestly, though, I really just want more fantasy movies. I'll even watch crappy ones. I want fantasy on my screen.

Mine, too! I love the talking horses so very much.

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philippos42 - 2017-06-25 07:00 (UTC) - Expand

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tabaqui - 2017-06-25 15:30 (UTC) - Expand

I NEVER want to see any version of the Last Battle.

I want to see it from Susan's point of view. You know, where she is called to the morgue to identify a bunch of bodies, and passes through the ER filled with severely injured people all feverishly talking about lions, donkeys, and chimps, then a random priest calls her a slut.

I'm late but I want you to know I lolled heartily at this. Through the tears, that is.

Does anyone know who the illustrator was for this? Because I had an old illustrated book from my mother which had the almost exact same style and I wonder if it's the same artist.

according to the cover it's Jno (Ino?) R. Neill

the font is hard to read and my copy is quite aged.

Jno is an old (and...kinda weird) abbreviation for 'John'.

Thank you! ... I think that's a different guy then, but the style is very similar. Must have been the roughly same time.

John R Neill, who illustrated most of Baum's Oz books.

Thank you!

All of them except for Wizard, the spin-off Wogglebug book, and the Queer Visitors from Oz comics. He also illustrated all of Ruth Plumbly Thompson's books, then took over writing duties himself.

His books are considered some of the weakest, and weirdest.

Edited 2017-06-24 23:36 (UTC)

His illustrations are quite pretty, though.

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ozaline - 2017-06-25 00:02 (UTC) - Expand

wow if there is any book series that didn't age well, it's the Oz books. they are painfully racist and sexist. I know I re-read Glinda about a year ago but I don't remember what about it, story-wise, makes it a potential good movie.

Hmm, I can't deny there was some racism... Particularly the Tottenhots featured in Patchwork Girl of Oz, and the Woggle Bug Bug book. Some of Baum's other books have Mulsim-coded Villains. (And yes I'm familiar with the "Indian Editorials."

But generally Baum was quite progressive for his time, and he was a member of a suffragette organization, and his mother in law was an influential suffragette. He was quite the trailblazer for his time.

Oh I love Glinda of Oz. Though to be honest, my favorite Oz books (apart from the original which is the ultimate fave) were always Tik-tok and Lost Princess of Oz. I just loved all the little random one-book characters like Cayke, and the Rose Princess and Private Files <3

Honestly though I think I'd rather have a (children's) TV series than a film series,in part b/c the 1339 MGM version will always be compared to film versions and also cause that way it would be easier to cover more ground.

(And I'd prefer children rather than adult, because just once, I'd like to see an Oz adaptation/subversion that didn't have to be grimdark and "edgy." I applaud Emerald City for its attempt at a more diverse Oz, but seriously did we have to have the sex and drugs and rock'n'roll with it as well?)

I blame Game of Thrones tbh.

Personally I'd just like to see an actually GOOD movie adaptation of Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, and Emerald City of Oz.

OZMA OF OZ. That and Handy Mandy were my favorites.

I wish they could get adapted as cartoons, though.

Well there is a Russian cartoon that does a pretty good job of Marvelous Land of Oz with some elements of Volkov's Magic Land, and then there's the Japanese Anime series which covers Wizard, and Land pretty faithfully (though it includes Dorothy), then it covers Ozma and Emerald City but changes a lot.

Then there's the low budget "Dorthy Meets Ozma of Oz" direct to video movie, which is an abridgement of Ozma of Oz.

Oh and there's the upcoming "Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz," cartoon that doesn't adapt any one book but includes a lot of characters from Baum's works.

I'd like to see a good adaption of all of them, starting with Wizard of Oz.

That would be best, yes. Wizard has had it's fair share but if someone will stick through and do all of them, awesome.

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