Author: Sandy Schaefer / Source: ScreenRant
Disney has released the first trailer for its Artemis Fowl movie adaptation. The film is (of course) based on the fantasy adventure book series of the same name, which was created by Eoin Colfer in 2001 and currently encompasses eight novels in total (published over the span of eleven years).
A big screen version of the Artemis Fowl franchise have been in development pretty much ever since the original book was published; though, it wasn’t until Disney and The Weinstein Company got involved in 2013 – before Disney parted ways with TWC in the wake of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault scandal last year – that things really started to pick up on the project.Written for the screen by playwright Conor McPherson, Artemis Fowl is based on the first novel in Colfer’s series and tells the story of Mr. Artemis Fowl (newcomer Ferdia Shaw) – a 12-year old genius and the descendant of a long line of “criminal masterminds”, as the film’s synopsis describes them. The movie follows Artemis as he matches wits with a hidden race of fairies that may or may not be connected to his father’s disappearance; in turn, bringing him face to face with Holly Short (Lara McDonnell), an elf and the first female captain of LEPrecon – the recon…
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