2009 Readers' Festival
Frank Beddor
Frank will be speaking from 10:00-11:00 am in the Juniper Room
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Frank Beddor is a man of many talents. He holds two world championships in free-style skiing, was the producer of Something about Mary and Wicked, is the head of Automatic Pictures, as well as a stuntman, an actor and now an author. The idea for his trilogy, The Looking Glass Wars, presented itself while in London for the U.K. premiere of There’s Something About Mary when Beddor visited the British Museum.
“It was a fateful trip,” he attests. “I came upon this exhibit of ancient cards – playing cards, Tarot cards, illuminated cards, cards Napoleon had hired artists to create illustrating his victories. There was also an incomplete deck that intrigued me. The images reminded me of Alice in Wonderland, but they were more mysterious and twisted, much more gothic. After that, I couldn’t stop thinking about those cards. Through a series of events, I met an antiquities dealer who owned the remaining cards from that deck. And the story he told me – as he revealed one card at a time, each with this incredible imagery – is the basis for The Looking Glass Wars trilogy.”
Beddor spent three years pondering the details of Alyss’ world before he wrote one word of the trilogy; he is currently working on the third book of The Looking Glass Wars as well as a screenplay for a full-length feature film. He has also expanded upon The Looking Glass Wars back story in Hatter M, a graphic novel series, and Princess Alyss of Wonderland, an illustrated scrapbook of the lost princess.
For more information visit www.lookingglasswars.com.
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