Dresden Files TV Article

More updates are on their way today, but we’ll start by pointing folks to the April 2006 issue of Sci Fi Magazine… Round about page 69 we’ve got this picture (to the right) and a one-page interview with Mr. Dresden himself, Paul Blackthorne. Well worth checking out. Here are a few highlights:

… It’s a quality Blackthorne shares with the character he embodies in his latest role. Harry Dresden may be a practicing wizard — indeed, the only one in the Chicago yellow pages — but he still drives a junk car and struggles to pay the rent.
   “He’s a regular guy just trying ot have a peaceful life,” says Blackthorne. “But he’s a wizard, so he’s got to deal with certain issues on a day-to-day basis.” … “But I get the feeling he would just as soon put up his feet and watch a good movie. … He’s not trying to save the world each day. He just has to.”

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Blackthorne’s clearly enjoying his first step into the fantastic. “It took me a while to get my head around the idea of slinging spells across the room. But at the end of the day it was a lot of fun.” This despite the fact that he also describes it as “the heaviest working schedule I’ve enjoyed. I think there are 110 scenes, and I’m not in four of them. But given the atmosphere that was created on set, it was never anything but enjoyable, and I was very glad to be on set the whole time.”

Grab an issue of the magazine to see the rest!

13 thoughts on “Dresden Files TV Article”

  1. wow, paul blackthorne looks hot! and the girls don’t look too bad either ;o)
    i really hope it won’t take too long until we can see the whole thing over here in germany. i’m so curious about how it turns out, but from the looks of it i’m gonna like it.
    hugs and puppies,
    jib

  2. meh,
    i’m hoping it’ll be good, i’m not wild about Blackthorne as Dresden not what i had pictured in my mind, if there’s a Dresden series as a result of this that’s seperate from the books, that could be awsome tho’ i hope that will come about instead of movies based on books that i’ve already read(and really really loved! *esp deadbeat!!!*)

  5. I’m really psyched for the series. It’s another Scifi show to keep my eye glued to the TV for another hour.

  7. I really want to hear what Harry & Murphy sound like, for me that will make the show for me.
    Can’t wait to see this in the UK
    Darin (Zol.)

  8. I’m looking forward to the Dresden Files series, and hope it will not let me down, so often good books don’t translate well to the screen. I had hoped they’d get Jeff Goldblum for Harry, he’s the one I always picture when In read the books but I imagine Jeff comes with a supernatural price tag.

  11. Tammy: Tv.com says Sep. 1, though I’m not sure if there is an earlier pilot going to occur.
    And yeah I thought he’d have more hair too. I always pictured it as an unruly mess of hair that he wore a fedora (cover of Dead Beat) to contain rather than look fashionable.
    I’m concerned the better interactions of the books like Bob being a centuries old teenage pervert, the end of Proven Guilty (if you haven’t got that far it’s funny as all heck) and the fae Harry dupes weekly with pizza will be lost to special effects or poor production.
    I tend to have faith in writers and little to no faith in Hollywood. Either way, it will keep Jim Butcher in thick steaks and dark ales for quite some time, so more power to him 🙂

  12. Only problem with the fedora is that the only place Harry has ever worn one is on the book covers (I can’t for the life of me figure out why except to save the artist from imagining Harry’s face).
    In the books, Harry’s just not the kind of guy who wears hats (with the possible exception of baseball hats).

  13. Only problem with the fedora is that the only place Harry has ever worn one is on the book covers (I can’t for the life of me figure out why except to save the artist from imagining Harry’s face).
    In the books, Harry’s just not the kind of guy who wears hats (with the possible exception of baseball hats).

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