Le Guin's beautiful and epic tales in the Earthsea trilogy have long been calling out for a screenplay adaptation. And at last it looks as though we'll finally have one! Be still my shivering kneecaps, there we go... smoochy. So, eagerly anticipated, yet a long wait will ensue after these initial words... bum. 2009 is when we'll get our greedy mitts all over this creamy bundle of loveliness, and thats a fair wait for something that's bound to be lush in visuals and tale alike.
Goro Miyazaki pens the screenplay under Ursula K. Le Guin's watchful scrutiny (and no doubt with a hell of a lot of input from the auther too), although we're not without allies in our dismay at questionable details regarding release:
"However, although Disney has a US distribution deal with Ghibli, Stateside audiences won't be able to see Earthsea until 2009, when the copyright on the Sci-Fi Channel's Earthsea TV series (the subject of much criticism by Le Guin) runs out."
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