Hey!! Look who's scrolled down to check the welcome text. I'll give a short welcome to you guys, and a couple of 'thank you' s for whatever button you clicked to have ended up here in this little blog of mine. It's nothing professional, but it surely is special! Not for you maybe, but just for your information I've wasted precious time just to make the blog appear decent and pretty in my opinion - not to mention all of the posts you see here! So don't judge before you actually look into things!
I've added a couple of pages just to organize all the things I have in this blog so that you guys have a better time of searching things up rather than having every post of different topics all jumbled up in one single home page.
Yeah, I think I'm done with my welcome text. Without further ado, welcome to my little blog of thoughts.
*You really didn't need to finish everything to start reading stuff here, but I appreciate it if you have. :)
What? That's right, you're not dreaming, Warner Bros has officially purchased the film rights to Kiera Cass' The Selection, and I'll leave the official article speak for itself:
Warner Bros has won film rights to Kiera Cass’ global bestseller The Selection, the first of a five-novel series, and has set Black List scribe Katie Lovejoy to adapt it. DiNovi Pictures’ Denise DiNovi and Alison Greenspan are producing with Pouya Shahbazian. Lovejoy’s script The Arsonist Love Story made the 2010 Black List.
The book has sold 3.5 million copies worldwide, and two other volumes have been published. HarperTeen just made a two-book deal to continue the series, which is published in 32 languages. Described as The Hunger Games without the bloodshed, it follows 35 underprivileged girls who are chosen to compete to live in a life of luxury. The protagonist, America Singer, is sweet on a young man from her district, but when she’s exposed to the opulence of a royal life, she’s conflicted, even though a rebel uprising threatens the pampered.
As for Lovejoy, she recently developed a pilot for NBC, with Universal Television, Eva Longoria, and John Glenn producing. She previously wrote pilots for NBC, Bravo, and ABC and worked on the staff of the NBC series Dracula. She is repped by CAA and Myman Greenspan. Cass is repped by Red Tree Literary and New Leaf Literary & Media. Andy Fischel and Julia Spiro are overseeing for Warner Bros.
The Selection Movie is finally happening! And I do hope that this one won't get cancelled like the last one. Yeah, the last one was a failed TV series pilot. Wait, make that two failed pilots. I think it's still available on Hulu or something, not sure, but you could try checking it out on YouTube too, I think. Although disappointed, I was pretty glad that the TV series didn't happen, because it was: HORRIBLE.
Who would make Maxon sound like a rapist?! The Maxon in the pilot was everything the Maxon we know (and love) wasn't.
Then the second pilot, with a different actress playing as America this time, didn't even have red hair. Like, what? The red hair was America. So no ginger, no America.
Oh and, let me give you the failed pilot (clips of it, anyway):
There's also a leaked Selection script online, but it's too inappropriate to put up here, so, if you think you're mature enough to handle it, go ahead and search it up (?)
And that's that. Can't wait for the movie to finally come out!
Been checking out the trailers, and A LOT of them seemed really interesting! Hmm, 2015 seems to be an exciting year... :) Here's a list of movies that I'm looking forward to, and their trailers too!
Cinderella (March 13, 2015 - USA)
Disney's doing a lot of fairytale movie remakes recently...
Into The Woods (December 25, 2014 - USA)
Oh! A fairytale medley on Christmas!"Be careful what you wish for."
Tomorrowland (May 22, 2015 - USA)
This one's a little far away, but that teaser's just making me can't wait!
Insurgent (March 20, 2015)
Wow. Well, this one seems to be exciting. Let's just hope that this time it's gonna be better than the book. :)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (May 1, 2015 - USA)
Avengers, reassemble! Hmm, some of them even seem to be fighting against their own. Well, that looks... fun?
Minions (July 10, 2015)
The movie we've all been waiting for! The Minions are finally out for their very own movie!
Here we have it! The movies I'm really excited for, and I'm sure you'll be too after you watch these awesome trailers!
Hi!!! It's been quite a while since the last post. And... I've come back with a new book 'talk'! I've finished Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen. This book was first published in 2001, so a lot of you may have read this before. But to those who haven't, I'll post the synopsis right below - then I'll add my review/thoughts on there too.
Flipped is a romance told in two voices. The first time Juli Baker saw Bryce Loski, she flipped. The first time Bryce saw Juli, he ran. That’s pretty much the pattern for these two neighbors until the eighth grade, when, just as Juli is realizing Bryce isn’t as wonderful as she thought, Bryce is starting to see that Juli is pretty amazing. How these two teens manage to see beyond the surface of things and come together makes for a comic and poignant romance.
SPOILERS!!!
Flipped is not at all like what you expect from a romance book. To me, this shouldn't even be categorized as a romance novel, because this book is more about knowing people beneath the surface of looks. Juli Baker 'fell in love' (as in love as you can get at the age of seven) with Bryce Loski the first time she laid eyes on his "dazzling blue" eyes. Bryce was often described as a handsome boy by adults, and mostly by Juli. So we can assume that Juli fell for Bryce's looks instead of him (really, how could she even know him? His personality? They've never even had one full conversation for crying out loud!). And on the other hand, Bryce despised Juli (well, 'despised' may have been too strong of a word, but whatever). When Juli got all clingy and in love with Bryce, he was just there trying to shake her off, since he never really tried to get to know her (how can he get to know her when he's already busy avoiding her the whole time?). SO, both of them barely knew each other, and already they have strong feelings for each other (one positive, the other pretty negative).
But then here came some problems they faced that changed them. Completely. Their feelings for each other Flipped, get it? (>_<) Here, Juli found out that Bryce isn't really as perfect as she always thought he was, all she ever thought about and knew about was his surface, which could never define a person completely. And there, Bryce is starting to think that there's something more to the 'scary' Juli Baker. Then, they decide to try to get to know each other.
And... here's where the big part comes...
THE END.
I know! It ends right there!
As much as I want to know more about what happened to both of them, I know that there's no other perfect way to end this book. So, great job Draanen, but could you give us a heads up if there's a sequel? Which I highly doubt. -__-
Okay then, here we go for now! Stay tuned for another book talk I'll be posting soon!
And FYI,
Flipped is already adapted into a movie, if you haven't yet known, so... go check that out! Here's a still of the movie!
Hey guys! SO, I was strolling the bookstore one day, and 'Beastly' caught my eye. Okay, you guys might've already heard of it, or read it before - because it was published a few years ago. But still, I decided to take some time to write down what I thought about it.
This was one of the best books I've read. Not only was it well written; the message the story conveyed was beautiful. Although you may think this was just another Beauty and the Beast story, which it sort of is; the way it was set in a modern world showed how we really judge a book by its cover.
This particular part was interesting to me: where Adrian (the Beast) said he used to blame the environment he grew up in for his mistakes and horrible character. Some people get commented on their bad behaviors and they just throw all the blame on their surroundings, their family, their parents. But really, the choice is up to us. Lindy (the 'Beauty') grew up also with a screwed up father, no mom - slightly similar to Adrian's family background (except the wealth and fame) - but she grew up being a woman that cared about people in the inside. Well, she loved Adrian in the end. (is that a spoiler?)
But yeah, my point is: it's hard not to judge people by their looks (I'll admit that), but before we assume their character by their outer appearance, why not get to know them first?
*Guys, I know this is totally not my best written book talk, it's kinda confusing, I'm sorry. But with all the thoughts jumbled up, this is what I came up with. Well, the last sentence is kinda like my main point. So if you didn't get the first part, I hope the last point covers it up.
Another news! Guys, if you don't like reading, or if you loved the book as much as I did and wanna watch a movie based on it - go check this out:
Well obviously, it's starring Vanessa Hudgens as Lindy, and Alex Pettyfer as Adrian. It's not the best, and doesn't really do the book justice, but go check it out just for some fun.
Here's a list of characters from the Fallen series with the actors/actresses portraying them:
Addison Timlin (as Lucinda Price)
Jeremy Irvine (as Daniel Grigori)
Harrison Gilbertson (as Cameron Briel)
Lola Kirke (as Pennyweather 'Penn' Van Syckle-Lockwood)
Daisy Head (as Arriane Alter)
Hermione Corfield (as Gabrielle 'Gabbe' Givens)
Sianoa Smit-McPhee (as Mary Margaret 'Molly' Zane)
Malachi Kirby (as Roland Sparks)
Chris Ashby (as Todd Hammond)
Here we have it, the cast for the Fallen Movie! What do you think about it? Leave your thoughts on the comments below! Or tweet mentioning @musicnquotes123 with a #fallenmovie!
So if you guys haven't checked out my last posts about a series written by Lauren Kate, go check it out now in the home section or the books section, wherever you like! But here's another book-slash-movie news for Lauren Kate's Fallen series - you guessed that right - it's coming to the big screen in 2015! If you're as excited as I am, go check out the books now or just wait on for the movie to come out soon!
Here's a little sneak peek on how the movie's probably going to look like:
Wait on for another post on other juicy details about the Fallen movie!
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