The second trailer for the film adaption of Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart is now online. Inkheart is currently set to be released on January 9, 2009 (USA), though it was originally intended to have been released earlier this year. The film was pushed back because they feared that their TV ads wouldn’t be seen with the […]
Scott Westerfeld said that, as of July 6, he has written 56,717 words of his upcoming book Leviathan. He says that there are about 20,000 to go. The book, to be part one of a trilogy, is set in an alternate world, around 1914-1915. It’s a sort of fantasy/sci-fi type book featuring “living airships,” of […]
Season 8 of Smallville will begin on September 18, 2008. The first episode, Odyssey, will continue not long after the dramatic ending in season 7’s final epsidode, Arctic. Following the destruction of the Fortress, Clark and Lex are missing in the Arctic, Clark without powers again for some reason, and the Justice League goes to […]
The first book in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series is on it’s way to becoming a movie. Film rights were recently bought by Universal, and the film will be made in partnership with Red Eagle Entertainment. Universal Pictures has acquired film rights to the late Robert Jordan’s bestselling “The Wheel of Time” novel series […]
The final release date for T. A. Barron‘s latest book has been announced (in the author’s email newsletter). Merlin’s Dragon, the first in a new trilogy set between The Lost Years of Merlin and The Great Tree of Avalon. The book will be released on September 18, 2008. An excerpt from the book jacket: Long […]
Cyan Worlds Inc has announced on the forums for Myst Online that they will be bringing the original Myst to the iPhone and iPod Touch. This is a small project that probably a very few of you know about. We are porting Myst to the iPhone. Ok, before some of you start groaning, this is […]
Before we get started here, let me introduce myself. I’m Matt Harzewski (a.k.a. “redwall_hp”). I’m a web designer and developer, card-carrying fantasy fanatic, and the founder and editor of Fantasy Folder. I got into fantasy when I read the first Harry Potter book several years ago, and have been reading fantasy novels ever since. You […]
Fans of the Lord of the Rings films by New Line Cinema (which was recently acquired by Warner Brothers) were disappointed when they learned that Peter Jackson, the director of the prior three films, would not be directing The Hobbit. You may already know that the movie’s director will be Guillermo del Toro, but according […]
Warner Brothers has just announced that the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie has been delayed. Instead of being released November 21st this year, it has been moved to July 17, 2009. Warner Brothers states that their reasons for the change “are twofold: we know the summer season is an ideal window for […]
As of today, Fantasy Folder is in progress. Reviews are being written, news is being collected, the site is being designed, etc. Much work is going on to build what will hopefully become the leading site on fantasy literature and movies. We’ll see you in a few months, once we’ve got some content in our […]
