Though there already was a Graphic Novel released in 2007, the publishers revamped the comic with new text and new art in honor of an upcoming movie, whose release date is pushed around constantly.īy Eoin Colfer, Michael Moreci. So revamping the book into a graphic novel, which seems to be a continued trend, seems logical. And I’m realizing that today’s audience for the book wasn’t even born yet or a glimmer in their parents’ eyes. The material's there, the performers are great, and if the audience want it, we'll be coming back at them.'Ĭ's full interview with Branagh can be seen in the video above.I read Artemis Fowl and some of its sequels when it was first released in 2001. 'The difficulty with these things, particularly when you have the massive shadow of the gargantuan success that Potter is, is that they can be intimidating, so I think anything that follows is tricky, but we've given it our best shot. 'The rivalry, the adversarial quality, the friendship between Holly and and Artemis, the double-act that is Artemis and Butler is a delicious component, and I think you've got all the promise and potential for Juliette, the crankiness of the Commander Root character, plus all the incidents you refer to, so I think the material's there,' says Branagh. Much of the groundwork for potential sequels is laid out in this first Artemis Fowl movie and it seems Branagh already has ideas for what might come further down the line. 'So those were the two elements we tried to keep as close to the source as possible, of what Eoin had done, once we decided those things.' 'You keep the basic structure of a kid who, by the time he understands that magic is real, has created a siege from another world around Fowl Manor,' he explained. It's a siege movie and inside that, what fell to us to be inside all of that action would be the emotional backbone that you could get, would be if we could just take the minimum, just one basic incident from the second book, Artemis Fowl in the Arctic Incident, which is the kidnap of his father, and lace that into the first story, so that the emotional drive was there, that maybe allows our audience to connect to Artemis emotionally.' This sounds like a similar to the approach Branagh took for 2011's Thor. The first book has a relative simplicity, Eoin calls it ' Diehard' with fairies.

'Some of the twist and turns, and incidents are so out there.

Amazing imagination Eoin Colfer has,' Branagh said. 'Well, you know they're eight books, they get increasingly exotic.

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