Pern Coming to Big Screen
Thursday, May 25th, 2006
The big fantasy news today is that the big-screen adaptation of Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern is finally coming to the big screen.
Copperheart Entertainment has optioned the 19-book series which began with Dragonflight in 1968. In the books, humans ride dragons by telepathically bonding with them.
“I decided that ‘Pern’ had to be done right, and I wouldn’t let it go to someone unless I was certain that they were committed to excellence,” McCaffrey said.
Personally, I missed the whole Pern phenomenon. I read the first book, which seemed to be about feeding dragons little bits of crunchy charcoal so they could blow up falling worms that would destroy the world if they ever landed, and found myself wondering — how would they know? If the worms never fall, how did they know what effect they would have, and if the worms did make it down, they’d just destroy the world and that would be that. Granted, I was twelve years old, and very dumb, so I’m sure I missed something. The moral of the story is, at least the Sci-Fi Channel didn’t get its grubby mitts on it, for which we can all be thankful.
(via Cinescape, Dark Horizons, etc.)