Drizzt at the movies?
by morgan on Oct.30, 2009, under R. A. Salvatore
Bob, do envision Drizzt making it into a live-action film? Do you have favorite scenes that you’d especially love to see on the big screen? When envisioning scenes for your Drizzt adventures, do you consciously build scenes with cinematic scope or does that come naturally given the genre?
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November 1st, 2009 on 9:35 am
I think it will happen - there’s been a lot of interest, certainly.
A few years ago, I was all for it, pushing hte publisher to get it done. I really wanted to have that moment in the theatre when the previews for such a movie popped up on the screen…
Still do, except…
A couple of years ago, I met Guy Gavriel Kay at a convention at Harvard University. Brilliant writer, brilliant man. He had, of course, worked on some of the later Tolkien works with Christopher Tolkien, and at that time, we were still in the glow of the Peter Jackson movies.
He asked me what I thought about those movies. I loved the first and liked the other two, and thought Jackson did about a good a job as could be done with the series.
Then Guy looked at me and asked, “But how do you feel knowing that from this point forward, no one will ever again come to Tolkien through his books?”
It was like he had just hit me in the face with a baseball bat; I’d never quite looked at it from that angle before. Since Tolkien’s books were such a critical part of my own life, love of fantasy and my career, that question was particularly powerful.
So with tempered voice, I reply that I’d love to see Drizzt adn Entreri fighting on the ledge from “The Legacy.”
Bob
May 13th, 2010 on 5:50 pm
i would love to see the books made into movies, but i know that it could never be. there are too many books to make into a movie series and even if they were able to merge 3 books into 1 movie, it might take away a little of the epicness of the books. to think that if the movie comes out, not many would read the books and if so, they may not read salvatores other books. I would LOVE to see some epic battle sequences and be touched by the warm and sorrowful moments on screen, but think about this, will the actors be good enough to pull off such emotion? of this i’m not sure, but i do know, that drizzt deserves to be imortalized in cinema, chances are, it will never be.
June 13th, 2010 on 6:19 pm
The best book ever, i’m looking forward to read the Pirate king and the Ghost king
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