Well, it's better than cutting.

No, it's just as bad.

Nearly every movie that came from a book sucked.

We can only hope that this is not the case for Barti.

It says, "young wizard." Who do they think he is, Harry Potter? No! He's better than that.

I guessing that it will be a piece of crap, just like pretty much every other Book into Movie conversion attempts I've seen. They Mangled Eragon, they Destroyed the Harry Potters, they Explodifacated Narnia, they Eliminated Stormbreaker, they absolutely smashed the Series of Unfortunate Events series into the ground, and I'll stop there because the list would go on too long and I've already run out of words to describe how badly these adaptions have gone.

As much as I want the Movie to be good, I know not to get my hopes up.

I thought Narnia was rather true to the book.

I know. He's a magician, not a wizard. Wizards have their own magic.

But magicians know better than to do things on their own.

And they're more awesome.

Acctually, I thought Narnia was faithuful as well, as faithful as faithful gets in book-movie conversions.

I'm kinda dreading the film... I'm SO worried that they'll slaughter it like they did w/ Eragon and many others.

i think that they will do a good job. the third , fourth Harry potters were good. the fifth has potential. Narnia sucks in the book, so what does the movie promise. Eragon, well that was an ok book also but still the directer blew. Barti has just as much or more potential than all the books combinded. dont you worry, they know that if they do a good job they can make a LOT of money. the have another harry potter type money maker on there hands. its not as popular becuase its not known, get a few people to know it and wham. his dark materials, well uh i read that book and was like "ok?" i am never touching this again, see its in the plots. harry potter had a lot of moments in the earlier books that had to be cut out. Bartimaeus shouldn't be as hard.

Wait you're saying Narnia is worse than Eragon?

1. Narnia beats Eragon by 1 to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000. It's like, Lewis fights Paolini. Lewis has a rapid fire Chaingun, Air Support, Kevlar body armour, a shotgun, 2 backup Desert Eagle handguns, and is trained in hand to hand combat. Poalini has a small pocket knife. When the fight begins, Paolinin stabs himself in the eye, and Lewis blows the crap out of him with his Chaingun, hits him with a shotgun blast as he falls to the ground. Then he buries his dead body with a few thousand tons of bombs using his Air Support option. And I don't even like Narnia very much.

2. The only way BT film would work is if Stroud was the director. Period.

1. Agree for the most part.

2. No way. Stroud should be a producer or help a bit with the continuty with the script. But he just doesn't have film experience. So let's bring in Peter Jackson!

Okay, Peter Jackson could do a good job, but Stroud needs to be right there beside him, making sure it stays as true as possible.

Of course.

But he's not a director....and films need to change things sometimes to make it work. Not everything, or it'd be stupid, but probably a few things.

What ever happened to the Artemis Fowl movie idea?

From Wikipedia:

Artemis Fowl is an upcoming film, based on the best selling series of the same name.

[edit] Main Overview

In a 2002 BBC interview, the author Eoin Colfer named Lawrence Guterman as the director. This has now been proven to be true, he has just recently been titled for director and more information will come as reported. Colfer said that he was "especially glad that they are going to be looking for an Irish Artemis."[1].

In a very recent 2007 AFC interview, Colfer stated the following:

I have been working intermittently on the screenplay for the past year with Jim Sheridan the Irish director. We have kept the heart of books one and two but I also wanted to do something cinematic and spectacular so we added a big exciting ending. No new characters but plenty of new one liners. I really love the story and we hope to go into production this Summer. No cast yet.

[edit] Actors

Confirmed actors:

None confirmed as of May 21, 2007.

http://www.artemis-fowl.com/

Claims to be posting some new information between the 1st and the 3rd of July.

Are you a member there?

Hmmm... Interesting.

No, I'm not.

Using my Non-Existent psychic powers, I shall forsee the quality of the upcoming Artemis Fowl movie...

It shall be...

Crap. Probably. I dunno, if Colfer's working pretty closely with the Director, it might mean it'll be better than most.

Anyways, has Stroud mentioned his movie anywhere? 'Cause it'd be good to hear what his opinion on it is, how much he'll be involved, etc, etc.

I agree with you about Colfer's movie, and Stroud mentioned it in the Answered questions. Poke around there some.

It has been confirmed.

I wonder when it will actually come out? I would definately see it in theatres.

Multiple times.

Possibly.