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Book to Screen Test: Dune
Frank Herbert’s novel Dune is one of my all-time favourites, and when I found out that there was a (supposedly terrible) movie, I had to watch it. Dune is a highly complex book filled with politics and...
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Book to Screen Test: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
I don’t generally like movie adaptations of my favourite books. In fact, I usually avoid them. The Lovely Bones, The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Golden Compass; I’ve skipped them all. But the trailer for...
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Book To Screen: The Princess Bride
There are faithful movie adaptations, and then there are faithful movie adaptations. You know the ones, where complete sections of dialogue are slipped in verbatim? Sometimes they fail horribly but...
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Book to Screen Test: Blood and Chocolate
Or, that movie where sexy werewolves don’t translate to the silver screen. Many of you will already be familiar with Annette Curtis Klause’s werewolf novel Blood and Chocolate. What you may not know is...
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Transmedia and a Whole New World of Storytelling: The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries has been reviewed here on Paper Droids before — it’s a great webseries. But over the past 10 months, this adaptation of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has gone far beyond the...
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Book to Screen: Beautiful Creatures
Beautiful Creatures really filled a hole in my life that I didn’t even know was there. Retrospectively, this shouldn’t have been that surprising to me: I love Gone With The Wind, I love The Craft, and...
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Comic to Screen: The Evolution of Pepper Potts
Warning: Contains spoilers for certain plot points of Marvel’s upcoming Iron Man 3. “Is Pepper in danger or is Pepper the saviour?” — Kevin Feige, Producer, Iron Man 3 (x) Like any character who’s...
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Book to Screen: A Very Potter Adaptation
You’ve no doubt heard about Team Starkid, the creators of a number of wildly successful YouTube musicals, propelled along by the rise to celebrity of alumni and Glee star Darren Criss. And you probably...
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Book to Screen: City of Bones
Spoiler warning! For fans of Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series, its adaptation to a major motion picture has been a Very Big Deal. I can still fondly recall the frenzy when the movie started...
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Don’t Judge a Book by its Movie
First, it was Harry Potter. Then Twilight, and The Hunger Games. And now it’s Divergent, with movies like The Giver, The Fault in our Stars, and many more on the way. Once a slow-rising endeavor, now...
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Book to Screen: Carmilla is the Gay Buffy We All Needed
If you’ve been anywhere near Tumblr recently you’ve probably seen posts about this new web series called Carmilla. Based on the novella by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, which is a precursor to Bram Stoker’s...
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Book to Screen: The Hobbit, More Like *VOMITING SOUNDS*, AMIRITE?
This is me, age 12, proud as heck of my Arwen Halloween costume. I have a signed and framed copy of the Fellowship of the Ring script on my wall. I still have a chain with a “One Ring” on it that I...
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Book to Screen: The Avengers’ Scarlet Witch and The Vision
This article is full of spoilers for The Avengers: Age of Ultron so if you haven’t seen it, stop reading now! I’ll start by confessing that I went into this movie fearing the worst for Scarlet Witch....
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Book to Screen: Poetry on Penny Dreadful
We don’t often look at poetry here at Paper Droids, so I’m going to shake things up a bit. Penny Dreadful gained popularity in its second season, so its passionate fandom means that it’s definitely...
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Marvel’s Jessica Jones – Dark, Gritty, Relevant Entertainment…Hopefully
Jessica Jones. For the first time (since the very short run of DC’s Birds of Prey), I feel like we have a truly brilliant adaptation of a female centered comic book on the horizon. Every teaser and...
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The Women Of The Star Wars Expanded Universe (Or How I Learned To Stop...
For Star Wars week at Paper Droids, we’ve got an Expanded Universe superfan in to write about her favourite ladies who’ve become, sadly, non-canonical. Please enjoy this guest post by Kelly Sorbie. A...
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Penny Dreadful: The Most Exciting Literary Connections in Season 3
this needs a featured image too Entertainment Editor Elissa Smith and I are pumped for season 3 of Penny Dreadful, so in preparation we decided to do what fans do best: speculate on what surprises lay...
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Book to Screen: Fox’s Lucifer
Vertigo comics have been hot for TV adaptations lately, with varying levels of success; iZombie, despite barely resembling the comic, is funny and heartfelt. Constantine was lukewarm at best, and I...
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