![]() ![]() ![]() Directors came and went as quickly as ideas for how to handle the adaptation. And they had no idea what to do with the book. Miramax Films got the rights to the book in 2000, back when the Bob and Harvey Weinstein-operated distributor was owned by Disney. ![]() While the details about the Fox-Disney merger delaying the film's release and the coronavirus pandemic's influence on pushing it straight to a streaming service are certainly interesting from an industry perspective, genre fans should more keenly pay attention to the much earlier days of the adaptive process. Speaking to EW, author Eoin Colfer documented the long history of his fairy- and dwarf-filled fantasy heist YA hit as it went from bestseller to the big screen. Not every fantasy book adaptation will please fans like miracle franchises like The Lord of the Rings, but one series that was going way in the other direction in its early days of development was Artemis Fowl - even if it was still going to involve some elements of The Lord of the Rings. ![]()
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