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Swallows and Amazons: the new Harry Potter?
Arthur Ransome's beloved books could be the next big children's film franchise, as BBC plans to ramp up the action and reality
It's being billed as a "white-knuckle-ride action adventure" that could capture the imagination of the Harry Potter generation. The BBC is to adapt Arthur Ransome's beloved children's tale Swallows and Amazons with the aim of launching a series of films.
Set in the Lake District, Ransome's 1930 tale centres on two sailing-mad groups of children who encounter each other one summer during the school holidays. They make camp on an island and enjoy fishing, exploring, swimming and the fruits of "piracy" including grog (ginger beer and lemonade).
Head of BBC Films, Christine Langan, said Ransome's book presented a world far from today's health and safety obsessed society.
"This story is from the pre-health and safety generation," she said. "Modern parenting is fraught and complicated – worrying about what»
- Harry Potter, Ben Child
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'The Tree of Life' star Jessica Chastain on her Cannes red carpet debut: 'I was shaking'
You may not have heard of Jessica Chastain, but she’s had all of Hollywood buzzing for a while now. Though she’s filmed several high-profile films over the last several years (including the adaptation of the popular novel The Help and the Helen Mirren thriller The Debt), none of them has been released yet…until now. Next week sees the opening of Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, where the Juilliard graduate stars alongside Brad Pitt and Sean Penn as a Texas mother of three dealing with various family struggles and tragedies. (The Help and The Debt, meanwhile,»
- Dave Karger
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