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Moore Adapts LOST THINGS

By: Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor
Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Source: Variety

Director John Moore (THE OMEN-2006 remake) has been tapped to direct THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS. The dark fantasy story is based off author John Connolly's novel of the same name and it was published last year.

Story Premise: It centers on a 12-year-old English boy whose mother died and father remarried. When a portal to another world opens, the boy enters a land of beasts and monsters, where he must undertake a quest to earn his way back out.

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Comments/Responses

ElvisGump • Jul 11, 2007, 06:26am •

I hated this story the first time I read it - when it was called "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe"...

sigmapisean • Jul 11, 2007, 06:36am •

Except the two are similar in the sense that every Sci-fi movie is exactly the same... bad argument. Book of Lost things is a much darker and narrower point of view (fewer characters, not grand scale), not religious in its basis, and has an entirely different tone and them altogether. If done right could be a good movie, the book is a little intense so I'm sure they'll dumb it down and cut back on the more terrifying nature.

madmanic999 • Jul 11, 2007, 07:58am •

To #1 point, their sure are a lot of movies coming out about kids, and the magical worlds they visit.....
How come I didn't have a magic world to visit when I was a kid.... stupid troubled kids and their fantsy realms...
all I had was a Chucky Cheeses.

CappyMorgan • Jul 11, 2007, 08:50am •

Why adapt this book when Stephen King has one that would be superior.

Whiskeymovie • Jul 11, 2007, 09:18am •

Well, I hope John Moore canmake another movie as good as "Behind Enemy Lines". This sounds OK, if they go dark like Pans Labyrinth style or something. I am getting a little sick of kids stories that are, well, kids stories. Go more LOTR style.

Captmathman • Jul 11, 2007, 09:30am •

madmanic99, maybe he gets lost on the "stage" after the animatronic band finishes its set at Chuck E. Cheese, and the Rat torments him...

monkeyfoot • Jul 11, 2007, 10:33am •

Yeah, madmanic! When I was a kid I used to wish and pray I'd go to sleep and wake up the next morning in a magical fantasy realm and dammit it never happened! Why do these kids get all the fun! I need some 'shrooms!

captm0rgan77 • Jul 11, 2007, 11:09am •

I'd have to agree with ALL of you.
Why hasn't Hollywood tapped King's 'The Dark Tower' series. I mean s%!t it's a no-brainer. I thought that they would have grabbed it up on the heels of LOTR's success. WTF!!!

I am also sick of the kid-has-a-troubled-life-seeking-friendship-finds-magical-land-and-gets-courage storyline.

And lastly... does anybody know what happened to the adaptation of 'Alice in Wonderland' McGee's version. I thought I read a while back that Hollywood was putting that together???

CappyMorgan • Jul 11, 2007, 04:39pm •

Now that I think about it...the guy doesn't have that good of a track record working with kids. The Omen remake was hilariously bad and the kid wasn't even creepy (the bad haircut doesn't count.) I remember hearing Moore brag about the movie and just how scarey the kid was in the film. It was scarey allright...but, not in the way intended (However, for some reason, the pic of him holding the kid is a bit creepy to me.)

originaldave77 • Jul 11, 2007, 08:19pm •

Whats up with all these Captains posting here?

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