Popcorn in the Pages - Episode 8: Stardust

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Stardust by Neil Gaiman

1:29 - Previews

Book Name and release date. Sales info and awards.

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Illustrated Version illustrated by Charles Vess

HP Illustrated Editions by JK Rowling, illustrated by Jim Kay

Alex Awards

Movie name and release date. Box office and awards.

Stardust on Prime

GLAAD Media Awards

7:26 - The Cutting Room

Pivotal Book scenes and how they translated to the screen

Turning the goats and chariot into the inn

The killings of the brothers

The ending that isn’t

The climax that IS

 

Changes from Book to Movie

Story timeline

The Power of Stormhold stone

Witch hair

Yvain’s leg

TrisTRAN

Yvain’s hatred of Tristran

Tristran’s “heritage” reveal

Yvain’s attempt to cross the wall

 

Left out of the adaptation

Charmed, the small hairy man

Unicorn fight with the lion

Nursery rhymes

Another Missing Sister

Una’s freedom

 

Added to the movie

Gay pirates!

Alberic → Shakespeare

Tristran’s haircut

Climax scene in the Witches’ home

 

Casting and alternates

TrisTRAN: Charlie Cox → Ben Barnes, Orlando Bloom, Daniel Radcliffe, Shia LaBeouf, Toby Maguire, Hayden Christianson

Yvain: Claire Daines → Sarah Michelle Gellar, Hayden Panetierre, Reese Witherspoon, Brittany Snow

Lamia: Michelle Pfieffer → Tilda Swinton, Nicole Kidman, Emma Thompson

Captain Shakespeare: Robert Deniro →  Burt Reynolds, Al Pacino

Narrator: Ian McKlellan → Patrick Stewart

 

Problematic elements

Neil Gaiman’s sexual assault charges

The Graveyard Book movie on hold

Good Omens series on hold

Lack of racial diversity as well

Women as property

Women’s inability to lead

35:50 - Award Season

Worst and best parts of the adaptation.

Gay pirates

A feeling of “rushing”

The romance

The pirates - HA

Worst and best actors.

Primus

Victoria

Michelle Pfeiffer

Charlie Cox

Worst and best book characters.

Tristan

The Unicorn

Yvain

48:00 - Book/Flick Energy

Book scored on a 5 star scale.

Book on Goodreads

Series scored on a 10 point scale.

Movie on Rotten Tomatoes

Movie on IMDB

51:31 - A Leftover Popcorn Kernel

Where would you travel with a Babylon Candle?

How would you want to die if your ghost was captured at the moment of death?

54:53 - End Credits

I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

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