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The Giant Under The Snow

bnt · 2015-04-11 08:24:54

Many of you may not have heard of the book, but it was a huge favourite of mine in my early teens. It's set in a small English town, where three school friends find themselves fighting an ancient warlord and his minions (the "leather men") with the help of a local white witch. It's very atmospheric, contrasting ancient…

11-04-2015 8:24am

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Many of you may not have heard of the book, but it was a huge favourite of mine in my early teens. It's set in a small English town, where three school friends find themselves fighting an ancient warlord and his minions (the "leather men") with the help of a local white witch. It's very atmospheric, contrasting ancient legends and cultures with the urban world of modern teenagers. (Well, 1968 teenagers.)

I've long wondered why no-one's made it in to a film, but it's finally happening. Filming stars in October 2015, with a planned release date of Christmas 2016. The director is Michael Caton-Jones (This Boy's Life, Rob Roy, The Jackal). (There's an official website, with not much there yet.)

I'm no longer in the target audience, of course, and I can see it appealing to a Harry Potter fan demographic. What makes the book so much more than generic "young adult" fantasy is its sense of a deep Viking vs Anglo-Saxon legendary landscape, and I hope the film-makers don't water that down. Unlike the Harry Potter plot, where almost everything hinged on Harry and his relationship with Voldemort, The Giant Under The Snow invokes a Lovecraftian sense of dread at immense ancient forces that really don't care about you, and which you will never really understand. :eek:

You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray

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