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Anyone else on here a fan of Deltora Quest? I've been a fan of the series for years, and even now I love going back and reading the books. So six years ago Emily Rodda, author of the series, announced that she had sold the movie rights for the Deltora Quest books. Sadly, there's been no word on it since, and thus no indication whether or not we might actually be getting some movies or not. But the subject does make me wonder: what would a Deltora Quest film series be like? There has been an anime adaptation of the series, but-in my personal opinion-the films would want to stay as far away from that as possible. I actually wouldn't be opposed to these films being animated, but that doesn't seem to be the way most book adaptations are going these days. Now, the Deltora Quest books I believe technically fall under juvenile fiction-they're not the lengthiest works. As such, I figure that there are one of two routes that could be taken with them: Make shorter films-more like 90 minutes or so than the 3 hour format of Harry Potter or the Tolkien novels.Combine the plotlines of multiple novels into fewer films. The only problem with this is that you throw off the narrative a bit or risk not giving various events the weight that they deserve. Of course, it would help to mitigate the fact that there are fifteen books to adapt, sixteen if they decided to adapt Tales of Deltora as a separate film.Now, the question of films naturally leads one to wonder: who would you cast? I've only had a few ideas so far, with some in spoilers due to plot elements if you haven't read the books but are interested in the series: King Endon-not sure which actor would be ideal for the role, but I figure you could get a couple roles out of this guy Lief-again not sure of the actor; somebody young since at the start of the series he's sixteen years old. Jasmine-basically a similar situation to Lief. Barda-Manu Bennet: he's definitely got the stature for it, and would be nice for him to be in a good fantasy adaptation after the travesty of The Shannara Chronicles.Steven/Nevets-Chris Hemsworth: mainly because he's the only actor I can think of who's pretty built and also has blonde hair-plus he could do the motion capture for Nevets.Joyeu-Maggie Smith; I love the idea of a dragon with a cultured British accent.Honora-Tilda Swinton; the Emerald dragon's personality calls back her performance as the White Witch.Thoughts? Feelings? Wondering what the heck Deltora Quest is? Comment below.
