http://foxypope.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] foxypope.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] zelda_queen 2011-06-13 03:07 am (UTC)

Hey, Eragon got a movie and isn't likely to be getting another one. I also don't think I am Number Four did very well, either (another horrible spawn of the recent YA paranormal romance trend, only written by a team of ghost writers headed by James Frey--look him up, he's a bit of a doozy). It's very likely a City of Bones movie won't get any sequels, either.

I'm expecting the movie to more or less go under the radar. It doesn't have the rabid fan following like Twilight has in order to sustain sufficient enough box office numbers for future installments, especially when you're dealing with a series that is going to need a BIG budget for special effects and such things.

And without the rabid fan following, the only way for it to have big market appeal is if they changed enough about it to actually make it interesting and exciting for the audience; as it is, it's a little generic and cliche to stand out that well from others in its genre. It's pretty much the disfigured love child of Twilight and Harry Potter and I think general audiences are going to see that.

This is of course me being optimistic. There is always the right-place-right-time factor, and it could be an effective replacement for the Twilight crowd after Breaking Dawn is finished. Which... is going to take another few years to get by considering they're making it into two parts! *facepalm* Fucking morons... as if the series needed any more dragging out than it already had...

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