The next Harry Potter of literary motion picture adaptations? Disney claim one of Britain's biggest teen fiction franchises!Walt Disney Pictures have today announced the production of a movie based on the Artemis Fowl novels for release in the near future. Adapted from Eoin Colfer's best-selling teen fiction literary franchise, the new motion picture will depict the events of both the series' début entry Artemis Fowl and its sequel Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, with details on just how the narrative will encompass both storylines set to be revealed later in the production process.
In the eyes of this writer, the prospect of bringing a cult saga such as Artemis to the big screen can only be a positive omen for a film industry that so frequently neglects to recognise acclaimed British franchises such as this. While Colfer's works hardly break the mould in terms of the progress of English Literature, they nevertheless have rightly proven popular with their target teen demographic, more than justifying a cinematic adaptation under the helm of Disney.
What could prove to be more risky, though, is that aforementioned connection being struck between the plots of two novels in one film. Whereas seemingly the vast majority of literary motion picture adaptations these days give the impression that in the case of adapting a single novel, two films are better than one, it can be argued that we haven't truly seen one of these adaptations tackle multiple instalment since the mediocre rendition of A Series of Unfortunate Events provided by Paramount in 2004, and with good reason. Perhaps this approach will work in Disney's favour, given that it has in television drama terms for Game of Thrones, but I can't help but feel that it's something of an ominous endeavour to make this early on in the game.
Artemis Fowl will hack into cinemas worldwide in 2015.
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