1:05 pm - 10/01/2012
Sony Pictures and David Gordon Green have tentative plans to bring Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic book series to the big screen in a feature film version of Little House on the Prairie, Deadline reports.
The nine-book story first began in 1932 with the publication of "Little House in the Big Woods", recalling Wilder's own recollections of growing up with her family in a log cabin in 1871. The second book was titled "Little House on the Prairie" and its title became associated with the overall series.
The property is also well-known for its adaptation into a long-running television series, first aired between 1974 and 1984.
Green, who most recently directed The Sitter, would direct with a script by Abi Morgan (Shame, The Iron Lady).
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"Little House on the Prairie" to be adapted into a movie
Sony Pictures and David Gordon Green have tentative plans to bring Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic book series to the big screen in a feature film version of Little House on the Prairie, Deadline reports.
The nine-book story first began in 1932 with the publication of "Little House in the Big Woods", recalling Wilder's own recollections of growing up with her family in a log cabin in 1871. The second book was titled "Little House on the Prairie" and its title became associated with the overall series.
The property is also well-known for its adaptation into a long-running television series, first aired between 1974 and 1984.
Green, who most recently directed The Sitter, would direct with a script by Abi Morgan (Shame, The Iron Lady).
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I'm still curious as to why the real life Ingalls children - Charles and Caroline's son, Laura and Almanzo's son, and Rose and her husband's son - all died. The women seemed healthy, and it only affected the sons.
I even read a biography on Laura, and it was so interesting.
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Big Woods & Plum Creek are my favorites
I read and re-read these books so many times as a kid, and I was so addicted to the TV show...I would hate to see someone make a film and botch it completely.
I'm not really on board with a movie. I don't feel like anyone's ever really going to get it right. Laura is such a specific character. It would be impossible to make any Little House movie work without the right Laura.
I wish hollywood would stop remaking everything. Leave it be.
I loved these books as a child.
Hope they cast a really hot Almanzo.
i can see why prairie is the one that gets done though, it's pretty self contained, they go to the prairie and then they leave. i'd love one that took place in de smet when they're teenagers but it won't happen.
Edited at 2012-10-01 05:24 pm (UTC)
Fucking trash from hell, all of it. The first two movies and Avonlea were bordering on sacriledge but it worked. Then Kevin Sullivan decided he was writing fanfic and made two more.
BTW the third one is so so so so so so so so so so so bad, but I'll still watch it for Anne and Gilbert's inappropriate-for-the-time making out all over the place. Especially before they were married. SCANDALOUS. But they would.
That said, I actually liked the first two miniseries, even if Anne Of Avonlea hacked up the stories of the original AoA, Anne of The Island, and Anne of Windy Poplars and spliced them together. I'm probably biased because I watched them before I read the books. I'm nhft for the later ones that completely diverge from the books and go into some weird alternate universe, though.
Kevin Sullivan and his need to keep milking the cash cow that is LM Montgomery's work needs to stop. That said I did like Road to Avonlea better than the books it based on. I recently marathoned it, and Gus/Felicity still makes me squee like a 12-year-old. I'm nhft book canon in which Gus didn't exist and implied that Felicity would end up with Peter's bland ass (I'm so glad the show eventually kicked him to the curb).
A few years back they made a TV movie that was true to the first book.
District South Dakota tribute Laura Ingalls.