Incarceron (Comes after Harry Potter)

[Lord_Stewie]

Hey,

Whoever thought that after Harry Potter is done the genre is done, apparently its not.

Fox to adapt Incarceron Franchise after Harry Potter.

Here is more:

Fox 2000 has won a bidding war with at least two other studios for the rights to make a big screen adaptation of British author Catherine Fisher’s novel Incarceron. The book, which was released in the UK in 2007, reached stateside just a few weeks back, and is already on New York Times Bestsellers List. A sequel, Sapphique, was released in the UK in 2008, and is due in the U.S. in January 2011. As you might expect, Fox hopes to turn the young-adult dystopian fantasy into a franchise, ala Harry Potter. No directors or writers are yet attached, but the studio is looking.

[Show spoiler]The book tells the story of a seventeen-year-old boy named Finn, a descendant of the original prisoners, tries to escape an elaborate futuristic prison world. In the outer world, Claudia, daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, is trapped in her own form of prison a futuristic world constructed beautifully to look like a past era, the 17th century, but run by compute

Synopsis: Spoilers

[Show spoiler]Incarceron is a prison so vast that it contains not only cells, but also metal forests, dilapidated cities, and vast wilderness. Finn, a seventeen-year-old prisoner, has no memory of his childhood and is sure that he came from Outside Incarceron. Very few prisoners believe that there is an Outside, however, which makes escape seems impossible. And then Finn finds a crystal key that allows him to communicate with a girl named Claudia. She claims to live Outside—she is the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, and doomed to an arranged marriage. Finn is determined to escape the prison and Claudia believes she can help him. But they don’t realize that there is more to Incarceron than meets the eye, and escape will take their greatest courage and cost more than they know. Because Incarceron is alive.

[Show spoiler]Imagine a living prison so vast that it contains corridors and forests, cities and seas. Imagine a prisoner with no memory, who is sure he came from Outside, even though the prison has been sealed for centuries and only one man, half real, half legend, has ever escaped. Imagine a girl in a manor house in a society where time has been forbidden, where everyone is held in a seventeenth century world run by computers, doomed to an arranged marriage that appals her, tangled in an assassination plot she both dreads and desires. One inside, one outside. But both imprisoned. Imagine a war that has hollowed the moon, seven skullrings that contain souls, a flying ship and a wall at the world’s end. Imagine the unimaginable. Imagine Incarceron.

Kirkus Reviews called the 448-page book, “A far-future thriller combines riveting adventure and masterful world-building with profound undertones… Like the finest chocolate, a rich confection of darkness, subtlety and depth, bittersweet and absolutely satisfying.” You can read an excerpt from chapter one of the book on the publisher’s website. For those interested, you can purchase the book for around $10-11 on Amazon.

Teaser Trailer for the book.

Seems interesting.

Enjoy.

[Foggy]

Sounds really intreasting, but I don't think it will be a major hit, I think it sounds to strange to appeal to mainstream audiences. I do think, once Harry Potter's finished, the genre is gone.

[Idioteque...]

Harry Potter is just a classic thing of part culture. There will never be anything that compares to hype or success ever again.

Even though the movie was decent, the extraordinary cast (the adults), the cinematography and score all top notch. And the stories themselves are good even though the last couple of books fall a tad flat it's a series that has a personal connection with so many because of it's time of being around.

I've been into Harry Potter since I was 7 and I'm almost 20 now and the movies are not even done yet.

I think when I bought the 7th book I didn't put it down for 2 days straight. Only breaks I had were for food and bathroom. I don't think I'll ever come across anything that captivates me that much.

[Lord_Stewie]

Originally Posted by Foggy

Sounds really intreasting, but I don't think it will be a major hit, I think it sounds to strange to appeal to mainstream audiences. I do think, once Harry Potter's finished, the genre is gone.

I think it would depends on the franchise progresses. Not sure about the Sales the book generated but if the first movie turns out to be good or the Book established a base then it will probably be successful.