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Warner Bros Options Dragonriders Of Pern Series
After Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit have finished their theatrical run, Warner Brothers will still need a tent pole fantasy epic series and they may have just found it. According to deadline, the studio has just optioned the Dragonriders Of Pern book series from the estate of author Anne McCaffery. 22 novels in all, the series started in 1967/1968 with Dragonflight, the first of the original trilogy along with Dragonquest and The White Dragon.
Dragonflight focuses on an elite group of warriors who take to the skies on the backs of giant, fire-breathing dragons with telepathic powers. They try to save the exotic planet of Pern from a terrifying airborne menace — a rain of deadly spores that comes with the orbit of the Red Star.
With 22 novels to adapt, if this series is as successful as Rowling's or Tolkien's stories, Warner Bros will be doing all right for quite some time.
