Guess somebody had a rush of oxygen to the brain: “Guy Gavriel Kay’s Fionavar Tapestry series, which has sold over a million copies worldwide since being published in the 1980s, has been optioned for television by Temple Street, the Canadian production company behind the hit show Orphan Black. Kay’s fantasy trilogy, comprised of The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire and The Darkest Road, follows the journey of five men and women who are thrust into war after being lured to Fionavar — the first of all worlds — under false pretences.” This is back in December of 2017, so I don’t know if they’ve gone ahead on production yet.
Fionavar, for those unfamiliar, is very high fantasy: it is, in fact, the work that you’d expect from a beginning writer who cut his teeth on editing the Silmarillion, was rather young*, and was supremely confident that sheer talent could burn through any of the rough patches. And, indeed, Guy Gavriel Kay was correct in that rather arrogant assessment of his abilities. The Fionavar Tapestry has its flaws, but they’re the kind that just end up making one envious. I look forward to this series.
Unless they muck it up. They had better not muck it up.
Moe Lane
*Twenty-six is, these days, approaching ‘rather young’ for me. At least it’s not ‘very young’ yet. Yet.