Posted on 08/06/2007 12:13:31 PM PDT by fgoodwin
Dangerous Book For Boys to hit screen
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article2208843.ece
http://tinyurl.com/yql5wh
August 6, 2007
Times Online and agencies
The Dangerous Book For Boys is to be turned into a film.
Disney has snapped up the rights to the bestseller after a fierce bidding war.
The book by brothers Conn and Hal Iggulden is a how-to guide to old-fashioned pursuits such as skinning a rabbit and climbing trees.
It has sold nearly a million copies worldwide and has topped the New York Times best-seller list for the past three months.
Written in the style of a manual, the book is not an obvious choice for a big screen adaptation.
But the film version is likely to revolve around a father raising his sons "and balancing a natural instinct to shelter them from harm with their natural desire for adventure and even a bit of danger", according to industry magazine Variety.
It will be produced by Scott Rudin, whose credits include The Truman Show, Clueless and Oscar-winner The Queen.
The Dangerous Book For Boys was first published in the UK in May 2006 and became a surprise best-seller.
It offers instructions on how to make a catapult, build a treehouse and construct the best paper aeroplanes.
There are chapters on dinosaurs, pirates, coin tricks and conkers, plus stories of courage from historical figures included Scott of the Antarctic, Robert the Bruce and Lord Nelson.
The authors have described it as "a compendium of all the things we wanted to try and to know when we were very young - when everything was interesting and danger was fun".
Conn Iggulden, a former English teacher in a London comprehensive, is a successful historical fiction writer and this was his first non-fiction book. His younger brother, Hal, is a theatre director.
The book has already inspired several imitators include The Daring Book For Girls.
just like the Boy Scouts used to be...
Anything in it about blowing up model airplanes with bottle rockets?
A section on potato guns would convince me to buy it for myself.
Just wait ‘til Disney gets through with it.
They may want to hand this over to the group from South Park.
Predictions for this movie:
Dad wil be an overprotective moron
The boys will be arrogant, rebellious, and perfectly coiffed.
There will be at least one obnoxious, masulinized female character who will do everything bigger, better, and faster, and at the end of the movie, will sweep one boy off his feet by showing that she can also look like Kate Moss sans wonderbra.
Anyone else?
I think they’ll put an eye out.
The Arizona Republic had an article about this book a couple of weeks ago. Two days later, predictably, there was a letter to the editor from a 70’s relic feminazi whining that the book should have included girls. sheesh. You’d think even THEY would be tired of their “girls are ignored in school”, “girls are behind in math and science” mantra. I know I am.
The dad will be a blundering idiot who gets hit in the balls for comedic effect. Seems like every dad protrayed on TV nowadays is a blundering idiot that makes Al Bundy look smart, and the Funniest Video shows are pretty much a chance to show everyone how funny it is when men get their genitalia crushed.
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