Rowling-hot, so that a film company will buy an entire universe, my chances of getting a film deal are Not Good. The feeling among moviemakers is that if Company A makes a movie based upon the Alanna books, and Company B makes a movie based on the Kel books, Company B will be profiting from all the work Company A did, for free! (Gasp! Say it’s not so!) The bottom line is that unless I get J.K. Readers of the Kel series will encounter characters from the Alanna and Daine books readers of THE WILL OF THE EMPRESS will encounter characters from The Circle of Magic. My film agent tells me that the largest barrier to my getting a film deal is one of the things my fans like best: the fact that, for 14 of my Tortall books, and 10 of my Circle books, there is a good chance the reader will encounter friends from the earlier books. Pierce, who says she gets asked this all the time, had the following to say over on her LiveJournal about her characters’ lack of screen time: So why, in this era of wildly-successful YA and fantasy book adaptations, do Pierce’s books remain un-filmed? ![]() ![]() Tamora Pierce has written dozens of incredibly-beloved medieval fantasy books about young women doing amazing things.
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