Post by GoldenFleece on Apr 20, 2014 19:54:53 GMT -4
It seems that the go to movies for the ladies, are the 50 Shades, Twilight, make four movies in a row about fan fic young adult angst, not realizing the the books the most successful movies are good books, like Hunger Games and Harry Potter. We are now into third tier, and the holes are beginning to show.
Not going to bother to look it up, but wasn't there just a stinker of a first movie (His Something Something) based on the same "Hey, a lot of girls bought this book, we'll make Hunger Games money from this."
Do you mean His Dark Materials? The first book in that was actually published before the first Harry Potter novel. Of all the noteworthy YA franchises of the past 15-20 years, I would say its author was the best at crafting prose, but IMO the third book in the trilogy veered into screed territory. They tried it as the next big YA movie thing, but, with the books being an atheist Paradise Lost for kids, the movie was rather watered down, with everyone involved trying to say it was a fantasy universe and it was about challenging authority in a general sense and not Christianity necessarily, blah blah pleaseseeourmovie cakes. The movie did fine internationally but in America, not so much, and another YA movie franchise died on the vine. I would recommend the books, though, if you like YA fantasy, just to compare and contrast.
With Divergent, you can kind of tell the author grew up reading Harry Potter and is just doing her own spin on it with a few other things thrown in, but AFAIK I don't think it was an actual fanfic first. It's not as popular as Hunger Games has become but it's probably the next biggest thing that's come around in a while.
