Oddly enough, Sophia Copolla is doing a period piece next: Marie Antionette. Click to see the trailer.

Here’s a movie I simply cannot wait to see (see various trailers here). I already have high expectations for it. I read all of the books as a child. In fact, these were the first books I ever read twice. Once I used one of them to teach a younger kid more about reading. He was a bit of a slow learner. I detected that it wasn’t that he was truly not so smart. He just wasn’t motivated. I sat him down with “A Horse and His Boy” and he read it to me aloud. Eventually, he couldn’t wait to get to our lessons. The next year he was making B’s in English class. That is the power of these stories. They just sweep you up in their mythology. They don’t speak down to you. But they also don’t require a huge investment like the Lord of the Ring series does (at least in my opinion).

So last year when I went off to Paris to write a book, I took a boxed set of the Chronicles with me. I read them all again with relish. Sometimes I’d be so invested that I would finish one in a day. They are that good. I just hope they do the series justice.

Click here to see a making of teaser.