I’d Still Own The Film Rights And Be Working On The Prequel
June 2, 2008
JK Rowling is going to write a prequel to the Harry Potter books, is says here.
How’s this going to work? I haven’t read them, but I thought Harry Potter starts out with an ordinary kid in a regular street who finds out he’s destined for bigger things thanks to his magical powers.
So is a prequel is going to be him as a very ordinary kid? It’s not like the prequels to Star Wars, where you had a whole history leading up. And those were shit.
Seriously JK, I liked your work in Jamiroquai, but I’m not sure about this.
I don’t know of any good prequels. There are only four sequels which were better than the first parts, and those are The New Testament, The Empire Strikes Back, The Godfather 2 and Huckleberry Finn. It’s called a Number 2 for a reason.
Maybe someone should write a biblical prequel.
The REALLY Old Testament
In the beginning there was darkness, but before THAT, God’s trying to get planning permission to build a garden in Eden.
1:27 And lo, on Monday, the Lord invented the telephone and spake thus:
1:28 “- well maybe not a whole orchard, but I’m standing firm on the snake. Population two, that’s right. No we’ve got the man, I can make the woman myself. With a rib. Look, trust me. Now can I build this thing or not? I’ve got seven days to create the whole universe.”
1:29 And with that he smite down the phone and said thus:
1:30 “Christ. It’s already fucking half past, I better get weaving. OK, let’s see ‘oysters under the sea’. Check. Right. ‘Let there be cookoos, a lark and a dove.’ Maybe I’ll should have started with aardvark. I never listen. I think it’s because I lacked a father figure.”
1:31 At that moment he swore to be the best father ever.
1:32 “I’m going to do a lot more resting when I’m a dad. Someone else can be omnipotent for a change. I’m going to do things right. When I’m a dad I’m not going to let anything bad happen to my kid. And since I control the universe and can prevent wars and end all human suffering and I’m going to totally make that happen, too.”
14 comments
I cannot fathom the red tape of Creation on a Monday Morning.
Then don’t try.
But I feel like it’s my duty.
This may be the first time I’ve laughed out loud at a blog post.
The Chronicles of Narnia prequels were pretty damn good (the books, that is; not movies… yet). And if the Lord of the Rings were prequels to the Silmarillion, they win.
Thanks VFB – my pleasure.
OK, now I’ve had a bit of chocolate my brain is moving, I can at last contemplate Creation. And maybe some of its red tape.
The Hobbit came out before The Lord of the Rings, and it was also written first of teh two. But The Silmarillion predates The Hobbit by more than 20 years. Both the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings were based on the mythology/history/legends put forth in The Silmarillion. Except for the Cats of Queen Berithil. They are never mentioned anywhere but LOTR, and then, only once.
Silmarillion was a prequel to Lord of the Rings. It’s a great prequel if you like your prequels in semi-biblical , unfinshed-story format. There are a full 14 other volumes of alternate storylines, unfinished tales, deeply buried dark secret tomes, and magic legends and myths that all happen before the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit.
Now, having glanced at your prequel, I can see several glaring errors in it, not the least of which is that God could prevent all that bad stuff in the last paragraph.
The Godfather Part 2: sequel but, mindbendingly, also a prequel seeing as how it features a young Vito Corleone when he first comes to America.
And all of that… in just a few minutes on his lunch hour. What a guy. God, that is. Not Cliff. I don’t know when he wrote the post.
Cool, I will get a couple B-1s as soon as I can. I just ordered another baritone acoustic ( this one has a 29 incvh scale, it should shake my fillings loose ) so I’ll have to pay for that first, but then you might expect a rough recording or two heading your way.
Yes it is Tom – thanks for the comment and welcome. I have the box set and it’s less wierd, because they re-edited it in chronological order.
Not me, Jonners, no. Obviously.
Lay it down Ed. I’d love to hear it.
You missed one out of your sequels list
Aliens was a lot better than Alien though that was a pretty good film
Alien 3 and 4 were watchable but weren’t that great though
Alien was better than Aliens;)
hey, congratulations mr cliff, you’re our winner this week – fancy judging next week ?
Thanks – Sure.
Leave a comment. Play nice. I will turn this blog around.