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\"\"<\/a>There once was a time when C.S. Lewis (the inventor of Narnia), J.R.R. Tolkien (the inventor of Hobbits), and Charles Williams \u2014 known collectively as \u201cthe Inklings<\/a>\u201d \u2014 wrote stories about fictitious people who had fantastic adventures. Now other<\/i> people are writing stories in which it is the Inklings themselves<\/i> who have the fantastic adventures.<\/span><\/p>\n

Three years ago, Image Comics released Heaven\u2019s War<\/a><\/i>, in which the Inklings confront Aleister Crowley shortly before World War II.<\/p>\n

And now, the Hollywood Reporter<\/i>, via Reuters<\/a>, reports:<\/p>\n

Warner Bros. Pictures has pre-emptively picked up the rights to \u201cHere, There Be Dragons<\/a>,\u201d an upcoming children\u2019s novel by James A. Owen.<\/p>\n

The book brings together three strangers \u2014 John, Jack and Charles \u2014 in London during World War I, where they become entrusted with the Imaginarium Geographica, an atlas of all the lands that have ever existed in myth and legend, fable and fairy tale. They end up traveling to the Archipelago of Dreams, fighting the dark forces that threaten two worlds. It is later revealed that the three are future fantasy authors J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams, who met in real life at Oxford and enjoyed a competitive friendship.<\/p>\n

The book is being launched next week by Simon & Schuster with a massive hardcover printing of 100,000 copies and is one of the company\u2019s big pushes for the year. The plan is to release six more books, one each October.<\/p>\n

It will be produced for the studio by \u201cHarry Potter<\/a>\u201d producer David Heyman, and David Goyer, the creative force behind the \u201cBlade\u201d movies. . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I cannot help but wonder what the estates of Lewis and Tolkien, which have been so vocal about the recent films based on their works, might have to say about all this. Apparently this series will depict the Inklings traipsing through all sorts of public-domain myths and legends \u2014 the stories that inspired their own feats of imagination \u2014 but will we get any glimpses of the Inklings\u2019 own fantasy worlds? Or will those be out of bounds \u2014 kind of like how Backbeat<\/a><\/i> (1994) depicted the young Beatles playing covers of songs by other<\/i> artists, instead of their own compositions?<\/p>\n

And I cannot help but wonder how the actor playing Jack will compare to Joss Ackland and Anthony Hopkins, who played the older Lewis in the 1985 and 1993 versions of Shadowlands<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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