'Pern' booked for big-screen flight
Anne McCaffrey's best-selling and long-running sci-fi/fantasy series The Dragonriders of Pern is getting the big-screen treatment via Canadian production company Copperheart Entertainment. Copperheart, which was behind the 2005 Oscar-winning animated short Ryan, has optioned the 19-book series, which began with the Dragonflight in 1968. The books are best known for having humans ride dragons with which they telepathically bond. With Dragonflight, McCaffrey became the first woman ever to win a Hugo for fiction, and she is one of the 2006 inductees into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
- 5/25/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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