I’m really, reely looking forward to 2010.
This will be the year that I’ll be seeing a lot of my fave books on the silver screen. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan is one of these.
It tells of a twelve year old boy who suddenly finds out he’s the son of Poseidon, the greek god of the oceans. This is a tale that’s just chock full of magic, mystery and just the right sense of humour.
I really do hope that the film adaptation will be good. I hope they don’t botch it up (that would give me dark eye circles) like they did Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (although the producers did turn the saga around by changing directors and re-writing the script so that the subsequent installments turned out to be more than ok).
That’s one of the things that I’m apprehensive about when a film is made about a book or a series that I’ve learned to love. The success of film adaptations could best be described as hits and misses- with more misses than hits. Take Eragon for instance. The film version was sooo bad that they had to scrap out a planned sequel.
So. I really do hope that the producers deliver. Among the books-into-movie movies I’m literally bouncing to watch are Prince of Persia and the Sands of time (stars Jake Gyllenhaal, I’m betting she’s gonna love his abs on this one) and Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games the movie (produced by Lionsgate Productions, makers of the Saw series. Definitely promises to be good! 
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