dream cast: (not so) hypothetical ‘Tripods’ movie

I’d prefer a British cast, but I’m not at all familiar enough with British child actors to even begin to make any choices.

Without plucking everyone from the Harry Potter movies, that would be tough.

I never knew there was a tv series, but I read all the books and they totally FREAKED ME OUT. I just hope that if it do make a new series out of it, they are able to retain the sense of unease and fear that made the books so haunting.

I loved those books, but didn't know about the BBC series until today.

Boys' Life Magazine, the official Boy/Cub Scout magazine, serialized the books in comic form, one page per month, back in the early 80s. It was drawn by the person who draws Apartment 3G now (and I know who draws Apartment 3G because I read The Comics Curmudgeon.) I got as far as about midway through City of Gold and Lead before I quit Boy Scouts and stopped getting the magazine, but by then I had read all of the books (except for the prequel, which hadn't been written yet) anyway.

I didn't know about the prequel book until around the turn of the century, so I picked that up and re-read the other three. The whole series still makes for a good read as a grownup, as it turns out!

That series freaked me out as a child. I was completely terrified by the tripods and I also did not understand everything in it, but I wanted to watch it and was scared at the same time. I recently rediscovered it by chance on a quite popular internet site. It is a shame that the series never got a proper ending, but what was filmed, looks cheesy but good at the same time.

I can't help you out here, though.. I have no idea which child actors should replace the original ones. And, while the idea of remaking it sounds kind of cool, I somehow fear that the result might be a quite bland action movie for kids - ESPECIALLY if the cast was to be American. After all, there is no way you could disappoint the fans of a beloved child actor or actress.