![]() ![]() ![]() “But as I became really attached to it, I just kept thinking a movie would not do it justice.” “At the time, I’d just come out of a hit movie, and I thought maybe this would make a great movie,” Beddor says of how the books began. ![]() “The story this guy told me was the jumping off spot for my story,” says Beddor, who used that inspiration as to create not just the Looking Glass Trilogy – the last of which is published this month – but an ongoing graphic novel series called Hatter M, too.īeddor will talk about the books and all their offshoot projects – including two movies he’s now developing – when he appears at the Orange County Children’s Book Festival at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa at 11:15 a.m. “And it had this art that reminded me of the work of Lewis Carroll and ‘Alice In Wonderland.'”Ī tip led him to an antiquities dealer, a fellow named Buffington, who pulled out an old box that contained more of that dark and enticing deck, and told him, as he turned the cards, the story of the real Wonderland depicted on each one. “At the end of the exhibit was an incomplete deck of cards,” Beddor says of that moment. He’d produced the hit comedy, “There’s Something About Mary,” and was in London for the British premiere, when one day he found himself wandering through an exhibit of ancient playing cards at the British Museum, or so the story goes. The story of how Frank Beddor came to write the Looking Glass Wars trilogy begins like a movie – only appropriate, given that before the books Beddor had mostly worked in Hollywood. ![]()
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