Hopes may rise on the Grasmere

[venta]

Things to be excited about: a radio adaptation of Neverwhere next year. According to Neil Gaiman's blog post, it's got a really interesting cast list.

I'm probably most pleased with the idea of Anthony Head as Mr Croup, but deeply curious about Johnny Vegas as Lord Ratspeaker. Also notable: Christopher Lee as the Earl, Natalie Dormer as Door and Benedict Cumberbatch as the Angel Islington.

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[rapperaddict.livejournal.com]

Low budget was the reason all British sci-fi and fantasy had to concentrate on characters and dialogue. Anything to take attention away from the 'special' effects.

I'm usually able to seperate out Tv, book and radio but, in this case, I think i saw the TV series before reading the book. Usually with stuff like this I'll have read the book first so maybe that's why I'm so set on the characters in Neverwhere.

I always love the Floating Market scenes since a couple of reenactment groups I know were involved and, while it's always fun to play 'spot the reenactor', it's even more fun to go, 'good grief, where they ever that young?!'

[venta.livejournal.com]

I believe a few members of the role-playing society I (subsequently) belonged to in Oxford were in there too, but I never managed to spot them.

I think (unusually!) the TV series actually is the original, and the book is a subsequent novelisation.

[rapperaddict.livejournal.com]

Now I think about it I do vaguely remember Neil Gaiman saying somewhere that he'd been disappointed with the TV series so he ended up completely over-describing everything in the book in an effort to put across how he'd actually wanted it to look.

Damn it, was intending to tidy the room tonight. Suspect I'll be watching Neverwhere again now.