Alex Proyas Directing 'The Tripods' Trilogy Next?
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By John GholsonWriter/director Stuart Hazeldine chatted up Digital Spy about what may end up being director Alex Proyas' (Knowing) next project -- a three-film adaptation of "The Tripods", a series of British young adult novels. Hazeldine confirms that he and Proyas have finished the screenplay for the first film in the trilogy, The White Mountain, but it's the prospect of adapting the second and third parts that get him really excited.
"They only filmed the first book for the BBC, so I was kind of bummed out that they didn't do books two and three, so this time it would be nice to go back and do that as well," Hazeldine says. The BBC broadcast "The Tripods" as a television series in 1984, faithfully adapting the first and second books, but never getting around to a third season, which would've wrapped up the story. My guess here is that Hazeldine either didn't watch the second season or has completely forgotten about it. My own memory of "The Tripods" is hazy as well, my exposure to them being limited to a comic strip version of the books serialized in the pages of Boys' Life magazine.
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