Earthsea on SciFi Channel

Sounds like SciFi's Earthsea adaptation is right up there with their Riverworld hack job ...

I've tried very hard to keep from saying anything at all about this production, being well aware that movies must differ in many ways from the books they're based on, and feeling that I really had no business talking about it, since I was not included in planning it and was given no part in discussions or decisions.

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I wonder if the people who made the film of The Lord of the Rings had ended it with Frodo putting on the Ring and ruling happily ever after, and then claimed that that was what Tolkien "intended..." would people think they'd been "very, very honest to the books"?

-Ursula K. Le Guin, 13 November 2004

That's the author(ess) talking about the director's claim that they've "been very, very honest to the books". You can read the whole thing here, scrolling down a bit.

I haven't seen the adaptation myself (yet) - no cable.

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