Posts tagged with anne-of-green-gables

Jan 19 2023

Super cool (also free)

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As of yesterday, the original manuscript for Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables is now publicly available online. The physical manuscript continues to be housed in a climate-controlled archive at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, but fans of the novel...

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Dec 7 2017

It just looks so juvenile.

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LitHub recently posted J. Courtney Sullivan's lovely tribute to Anne of Green Gables: "Anne of Green Gables: Patron Saint of Girls Who Ask Too Many Questions". I'm not too sure about the "saint" part (one of the character's charms is how far she is from saintly), but...

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May 11 2017

Anne of Green Gables, Christopher Nolan-style

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It seems The New Yorker is not a fan of the recent Canadian adaptation of Anne of Green Gables, which they describe as being utterly (and inaccurately) grim. The author loses me in her final paragraph, which...

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Aug 23 2016

No waiting!

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THR has an update on the (possibly ill-advised) Anne of Green Gables remake. Apparently, Netflix has picked up the rights to the eight-hour-long miniseries, which hopefully means we'll be able to nitpick the entire thing all at once, rather than watching it over a matter of weeks on our local PBS affiliate...

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Jan 12 2016

This seems... risky.

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Canada's CBC just announced that Emmy-winning producer and writer Moira Walley-Beckett (best known for Breaking Bad) is working on a new TV adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic children's novel Anne of Green Gables...

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Sep 17 2013

Anne of Green Gables goes big-screen and musical

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And speaking of movie adaptations, Variety informs me that they'll be making a movie out of the long-running Anne of Green Gables musical. I had no idea this even existed...

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