Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller is to adapt the John Christopher novel The Lotus Caves for the SyFy channel in America. I read the children's book when I was a boy and loved it, though other Christopher books like The Guardians and his more famous Tripods trilogy are [arguably] superior. I'm guessing it's a TV movie, as there ain't a whole mess o' plot in The Lotus Caves - certainly not enough for a series without major augmentation. Curiously, Walden Media had already announced plans to release a film adaptation, written by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal and directed by Rpin Suwannath. Guess Syfy has trumped that, or the rights have changed hands.
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Hmm ... The Lotus Caves, eh?
Always struck me as a bit of "ho-hum" story. I enjoyed reading it but, as you say, his other stuff was much better.
Considering how wonderfully surreal Pushing Daisies was, this seems a bit pedestrian.
Still, it could be great.
Only read this recently, and while I enjoyed it I didn't this it was one of his best. For me that particular accolade has to go to Empty World, a beautifully chilling story about a plague that wipes out all adults.
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