Book?

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It's not based on a book, it's based on a short story by Sara Maitland called "True North", which can be found in various of her short story collections. It's in the collection "Angel Maker", for instance. It's a good story, but I'm struggling to see how they could make a good film out of it, since it's written very much in the fairy tale mode.

Sara Maitland wrote a collection of short stories and "Far North" was one of those stories - maybe 15 stories in the book. Frankly, the short story isn't very good - it is written in a fairly pretentious style and lacks narrative cohesion and character development. But I bought the book online for less than the postage cost - so I'm not really complaining. I don't think the paperback book sold very well because you can easily buy it used online for $1.00 or $2.00 - like I said, the postage costs more.

I love Sean Bean - but am wondering if this will be a good film or not? He is a terrific actor. I was hoping to see the short story simply used as a concept to base a screenplay on - I had hoped the screenwriter would create more narrative and character development for the film. There isn't enough to the short story to make a film out of.

Colleen

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Far North is based on a short story by Sara Maitland.

PDF of short story:

http://tinyurl.com/5poawc [rapidshare]