Are Fairies the “Next Big Thing?”

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Although Vampires are currently riding the crest of the wave with True Blood and Twilight–and who isn’t a fan of the fang?–there are those that feel the next big thing belongs to the fae.    Hollywood is poised and ready to serve up a couple of fairy/faery related movies based on two very popular series of books.

Wings
This past July, it was announced that Miley Cyrus was set to star in Disney’s adaptation of Aprilynne Pike’s teenage faerie tale novel “Wings,” which centers around a 15-year-old named girl named Laurel (played by Miley).  For Laurel, life becomes very complicated when she discovers a bump on her back as she is starting public school for the first time.  It turns out that the bump grows into wings, and she is a human sized fairy.  Of course, she also has two love interests–David,  her best friend at school and a mysterious guy name Tamani that she meets in the woods.  This popular teen novel is the first of a series of 4 planned novels.

Wicked Lovely
In September, Variety reported that Universal had  “acquired screen rights to Wicked Lovely,’ the bestselling first book in a fantasy series written by Melissa  Marr  (which) will see its fourth installment published next year by Harper Collins.”  “Wicked” is an intriguing  story about Aislinn, a 17 year old girl who can see fairies but has been taught by her grandmother to pretend she that she doesn’t.   She has  been admonished never to do anything to attract the faeries’ attention–things are much safer that way.  But everything changes when she realizes that a faery king has taken human form in order to get her to marry him  and save the world from his vengeful mother.

“Wicked,” looks to be an edgier production than “Wings” because it is being adapted by Caroline Thompson who also did “Edward Scissorhands” and  “The Nighmare Before Christmas.” According to Christoper Campbell of MTV News, this could be the movie to “bring newfound respect to faeries as cinematic subject matter in their own right (instead of just their usual supporting roles in movies like “Willow”).”  Could be some exciting days ahead for fans of the fae!

59 Responses to Are Fairies the “Next Big Thing?”

  1. becky April 4, 2010 at 3:24 am #

    sorry again….
    but also thanks about telling us about the movie Hobbit im interested in everything and anything faery and im really excited!!!
    any recommendations for good books involving faeries are welcome!
    peace and love~~

  2. Chloe :) April 4, 2010 at 5:09 am #

    Just finished reading Wicked lovely and Ink exchange they are really good books and show the fae in an interesting way and I am excited to read fragile eternity :D also the movie is going to be awesome!

  3. eren April 29, 2010 at 6:49 pm #

    Have you heared of the book “I Was A Teenage Fairy” by Francesca Lia Block
    its a really good book I think Its One of the best books i’ve ever read. oh and i would love it if fairies were the next big thing i am totally obsessed with them and i could say that i was into them first.

  4. Melanie Spicegirl June 11, 2010 at 7:58 pm #

    I have read the entire Wicked Lovely Series AND Wings ..
    All fantastic stories…
    Awesome young Adult Fiction ..
    I do have to say I am NOT impressed about Miley in WINGS , but the Sounds of Wicked Lovely as a Movie is…welll…. wicked !! Woo Hoo ..
    Waitin…

  5. Yupp July 28, 2010 at 7:00 pm #

    I have tried for so long to find a fairy and its not working :( . I made a house went outside and tried to talk to fae ( i do it alot) and its not working. Can you help?

  6. Ibelieveinfairies October 10, 2010 at 4:35 am #

    Wow! This sounds really cool. I’m actually going to order Wings and Wicked Lovely :) .

  7. IBelieveInFairies November 3, 2010 at 8:33 am #

    Heyy again! I got the books yesterday! Yayy!!

  8. Sagirl1 January 4, 2011 at 7:05 pm #

    OMG! Edward Scissorhands? The best movie of all time?! Totally awesome!

  9. Aileen January 8, 2011 at 1:10 am #

    This is like maybe totally different from the above mentioned books but there’s a series with elves in it and its pretty kewl. It’s the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer, totally different from the Wicked lovely and wings, but its awesome lol sorry this is very random.
    By the way hello to everyone! i havent logged in here for a veeeeeeery long time. :D

    but yeah they’re kewl books you should read.

    oh and by the way uhm i read cindys comments about orbs and witches, and then someone response to the fact that they are human souls, well just saying that i’ve seen blue orbs, they’re beautiful, but i think they’re human souls rather than fae, in my family we’ve all apparently got some ehh ‘sixth sense’ as you’d call it and my mom has been seeing orbs like those since she was little and she’s certain they’re ghosts, atleast if they’re blue anyways, she’s never seen them in other colors and niether have i :)