Author Tony DiTerlizzi says
that the upcoming film based on his and Holly Black’s bestselling Spiderwick Chronicles series might be much scarier than the books.
As a boy, author/illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi was told he “had a weird imagination.” At a recent preview of the movie based on The Spiderwick Chronicles, the best-selling series DiTerlizzi wrote with Holly Black, he said, “This exceeds my boyhood imagination by miles.” The five-book series about a family’s battle with trolls, ogres and goblins has sold 4 million copies.
The movie, which stars Freddie Highmore and opens Feb. 15, may be scarier than the books. “When you read about an ogre, somehowit seems less scary than seeing it up on the big screen,” DiTerlizzi says. But Black says, “You never know what’s going to scare kids.” One 6-year-old reader “thought the scariest thing was the part about the parents’ divorce.”
The film features the acting talents of Seth Rogen (voice of Hogsqueal), Mary-Louise Parker (Helen Grace), David Strathairn (Arthur Spiderwick), Martin Short (Thimbletack/Bogart) and Nick Nolte (voice of Mulgrath).
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