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Stardust – Film

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I post this trailer, because it’s on YouTube and thus fits nicely in the post, but really – you want to see the one at the official Stardust movie site – it’s much lovelier! And if that’s not quite enough for you, then there’s an alternative trailer at Yahoo. So perfectly amazing looking – airships!
But what can you say about Stardust? It’s from the book by Mr Neil Gaiman (and what a delightful teller of tales he is) where a young man leaves the small Victorian village he resides in, to find a recently fallen shooting star as a token of his love for the village beauty. Of course, it doesn’t go as simple as he may have imagined it would.

I’ve got the book less than 4ft from where I’m sitting and I’m going to have to read it now – I mean, the trailer has airship pirates in it! Perfectly wonderful – between this and The Golden Compass, it seems that 2007 is the year for Steampunk airship films. I’m not about to complain. August cannot come soon enough for this! Thanks to the Steampunk Forum members, the people of The Clockworkers Journal, and Sci-Freaks for pointing it out – you’d have thought I’d have noticed by now!

This entry was posted on Saturday, March 31st, 2007 at 12:03 pm by Tinkergirl and is filed under Books, Film Reviews.

Johnny Hazard

The graphic novel is amazing. In fact, I am not sure who among my friends is currently reading it but it has been rotating around amongst them for about 8 years now. My particular copy has traveled the globe twice and yet it is the only book I've ever loaned out that always finds it way back to me.

Fantastical to say the least, dark in dark's more gruesome forms and erotic enough to make a ladybug blush a deeper hue.

I will withhold my opinions of the movie until after I've seen it but from the trailer and giving Hollywood a wide creative license (which one really needs to do anyway) I suspect it will hold up well.

Mothshade

I read the graphic novel when it was first released and recommend it most highly. I also recall no airships from that volume. For another graphic novel that made a poor transition to the cinema, delve into The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Cheers!

daSciFreak

Thanks to you too; Your website is SUPERB XD

Alphonse

Stardusts definetly one of my favorite Gaiman books but, is there a graphic novel too? Is it somewhat like Sandman?

Gakki

When I told my friend about this movie about a month ao he just about slapped me and said it would never happen. Jokes on him.

ILLYA

the best part of all this is that both books are bloody awsome!!!

chesh

Yeah, I don't really recall airship piracy from the graphic novel (which did, in fact, come before the novel novel, which I have yet to read), though it has been many years since I read it. Even with the airship being more prominent in this, it is still primarily a magic-driven fantasy. Which isn't to say that it's not good (because it is), but that it's probably not as steampunk as one might hope.

KevinQ

I, too, was triggered into reading the book from watching the trailer. The first chapter was a little slow, but on the second night of reading I stayed up until 2am to finish it.

About the air pirates: When I decided to read the book, I told my fiancee, who had read the book years ago, that anything with air pirates couldn't be all bad. She thought for a moment, and then said, "You know, I don't really remember air pirates. It's been a while since I read it, so I might have forgotten about them."

Well, let's just say, it looks like the movie has enhanced and modified Robert De Niro's character from the book. The character is in the book, but not like he's played on screen. Not that that's bad, but something to keep in mind.

But enjoy! It was a fun book. And then you can watch the trailer again, and match up scenes from the trailer with scenes from the book. Most of the trailers scenes are recognizable, especially if you take into account the types of changes Hollywood often makes to source material.

Sorry for the long comment.

K