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Wow, they're making movies out of John Bellairs books!
I got into these growing up. I found a third-hand copy of The Secret of the Underground Room in a largely abandoned building, on the floor, when I was a kid. I devoured it and started going through Bellairs' other stuff. Most of it followed the same basic scheme, both in plot and in title formation: The X of the Y Z. The Curse of the Blue Figurine. The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull. He had two different series, but both involved a bookish young boy and some older guy with some academic bent (scientific or literary, I think) helping him out.
Anyway, he's famous in part because Edward Gorey did pretty much all the artwork for his books, and it really added to their immersiveness:
Anyway, that's all a very long introduction for the fact that there's a trailer (posted months ago without my notice, somehow) for a mainstream adaption, which comes out in a couple months:
My memory (which could be way off by now) is that the books were much less overtly and over-the-top supernatural as they appear to be in this trailer. Still excited, though.
I got into these growing up. I found a third-hand copy of The Secret of the Underground Room in a largely abandoned building, on the floor, when I was a kid. I devoured it and started going through Bellairs' other stuff. Most of it followed the same basic scheme, both in plot and in title formation: The X of the Y Z. The Curse of the Blue Figurine. The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull. He had two different series, but both involved a bookish young boy and some older guy with some academic bent (scientific or literary, I think) helping him out.
Anyway, he's famous in part because Edward Gorey did pretty much all the artwork for his books, and it really added to their immersiveness:
Anyway, that's all a very long introduction for the fact that there's a trailer (posted months ago without my notice, somehow) for a mainstream adaption, which comes out in a couple months:
My memory (which could be way off by now) is that the books were much less overtly and over-the-top supernatural as they appear to be in this trailer. Still excited, though.
