Stardust Preview
Anyone who knows me at all will know that I’m a big Neil Gaiman fan. So here I am bigging up Neil’s latest cinematic adventure: Stardust.
Set in Victorian England, Stardust is the story of Tristan Thorn (Cox). In love with the beautiful but disdainful Victoria Forrester (Miller), he promises to bring her a falling star that they see one evening, in return for a kiss. But the star has fallen in the Land of Faerie, and when Tristan goes through the hole in the Wall that divides our world from theirs, he enters a world of exhilarating adventure that takes him far from the fields that we know….
Stardust the novel (and, sorry, I am aware that it started out as a comic, but I bought the novel first, though the comic is on order, honest!) is that wonderful thing, a book to treasure and read again and again. It’s a slim volume of wonders, funny and sweet and dark and scary and magical, a proper fairy story for grown-ups. I lend my copy to people all the time, and they look at it suspiciously. ‘Fantasy’, they sniff, probably because they’ve been forced to read something by Robert Jordan. And then they read it. And they go ‘oh’. And then jump up and down with excitement and start recommending it to their friends and buying other books by Neil. So hurrah. Cos that’s all good. And I get my copy back, ever so slightly more battered, and read it again, and lend it to someone else, and sigh, and wish I could write like that.
Anyway, it was my turn to jump up and down with glee when I found out that Stardust was going to be a film. With Matthew Vaughn directing and Jane Goldman writing and Neil and Charles Vess visiting the set and reporting back. With Robert DeNiro and Claire Danes as Yvaine and Michelle Pfeiffer as the Lilim and a tonne of British character actors and comedians appearing in supporting roles. There’s been some sniffing about the casting of Ms Miller, but frankly Victoria Forrester is the catalyst for the story, she’s not in it very much, and the rest of the cast more than make up for it.
You can read more about Stardust on the inestimable and seemingly inexhaustible Mr Gaiman’s website, www,neilgaiman.com, or at Adam Buxton’s blog, http://adam-buxton.co.uk/ad/2006/09/ - Adam plays a ghost, one of the seven dead sons of the Lord of Stormhold, and his brothers are played by David Walliams, Mark Heap and Julian Rhind-Tutt as well as Vaughan regular Jason Flemyng, Mark Strong and the legendary Rupert Everett. Want to know more? Read the book.
Stardust is released in 2007. (In a very small voice) Yay.
Set in Victorian England, Stardust is the story of Tristan Thorn (Cox). In love with the beautiful but disdainful Victoria Forrester (Miller), he promises to bring her a falling star that they see one evening, in return for a kiss. But the star has fallen in the Land of Faerie, and when Tristan goes through the hole in the Wall that divides our world from theirs, he enters a world of exhilarating adventure that takes him far from the fields that we know….
Stardust the novel (and, sorry, I am aware that it started out as a comic, but I bought the novel first, though the comic is on order, honest!) is that wonderful thing, a book to treasure and read again and again. It’s a slim volume of wonders, funny and sweet and dark and scary and magical, a proper fairy story for grown-ups. I lend my copy to people all the time, and they look at it suspiciously. ‘Fantasy’, they sniff, probably because they’ve been forced to read something by Robert Jordan. And then they read it. And they go ‘oh’. And then jump up and down with excitement and start recommending it to their friends and buying other books by Neil. So hurrah. Cos that’s all good. And I get my copy back, ever so slightly more battered, and read it again, and lend it to someone else, and sigh, and wish I could write like that.
Anyway, it was my turn to jump up and down with glee when I found out that Stardust was going to be a film. With Matthew Vaughn directing and Jane Goldman writing and Neil and Charles Vess visiting the set and reporting back. With Robert DeNiro and Claire Danes as Yvaine and Michelle Pfeiffer as the Lilim and a tonne of British character actors and comedians appearing in supporting roles. There’s been some sniffing about the casting of Ms Miller, but frankly Victoria Forrester is the catalyst for the story, she’s not in it very much, and the rest of the cast more than make up for it.
You can read more about Stardust on the inestimable and seemingly inexhaustible Mr Gaiman’s website, www,neilgaiman.com, or at Adam Buxton’s blog, http://adam-buxton.co.uk/ad/2006/09/ - Adam plays a ghost, one of the seven dead sons of the Lord of Stormhold, and his brothers are played by David Walliams, Mark Heap and Julian Rhind-Tutt as well as Vaughan regular Jason Flemyng, Mark Strong and the legendary Rupert Everett. Want to know more? Read the book.
Stardust is released in 2007. (In a very small voice) Yay.
Related Link: Stardust Review
Written by Michelle Thomas
Wednesday, 12 September 2007
