{"id":43993,"date":"2014-07-30T12:08:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T18:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/30\/dragonriders-of-pern-coming-to-movie-theaters-at-last.html"},"modified":"2014-07-31T07:08:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T13:08:19","slug":"dragonriders-of-pern-coming-to-movie-theaters-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/30\/dragonriders-of-pern-coming-to-movie-theaters-at-last.html","title":{"rendered":""Dragonriders of Pern" coming to movie theaters at last?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hmmm. There's some great material there, even in just the core original trilogy (make the first two books into 3-4 movies, push the Dragonsinger \/ White Dragon bits into their own parallel YA movie series, and then start discussing whether to tackle the dolphins and the like). \u00a0While the buzz is that this is Warner's next franchise after Harry Potter<\/i> and The Hobbit,<\/i> I see it as more of a competitor (visually) with James Cameron's Avatar.<\/i><\/p>\n

Yeah, I can see this.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Warner Bros\u2019 New Franchise Play: \u2018Dragonriders of Pern\u2019 Book Series<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hmmm. There's some great material there, even in just the core original trilogy (make the first two books into 3-4 movies, push the Dragonsinger \/ White Dragon bits into their own parallel YA movie series, and then start discussing whether to tackle the dolphins and the like). \u00a0While the buzz is that this is Warner's … Continue reading “"Dragonriders of Pern" coming to movie theaters at last?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":155817,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2022\/01\/04\/my-movie-watching-year-in-review-2021-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":43993,"position":0},"title":"My Movie-Watching Year in Review (2021 Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 4-Jan-22 3:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not a lot of theater-going, but an MCU rewatch helped the numbers","rel":"","context":"In "Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)"","block_context":{"text":"Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/marvel-cinematic-universe"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/movie-theater-interior-1-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/movie-theater-interior-1-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/movie-theater-interior-1-scaled.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/movie-theater-interior-1-scaled.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/movie-theater-interior-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/movie-theater-interior-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":127899,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/08\/a-neatly-done-movie-mash-up.html","url_meta":{"origin":43993,"position":1},"title":"A neatly done movie mash-up","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 8-Sep-15 12:39am","format":false,"excerpt":"Even where I don't recognize some of the movies involved, it's still fascinating to see how characters from a variety of films of the 70s and beyond are edited to coexist here. 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