despite what i have posted i am actually excited (i think)! any content is good content and i do think kotlc has potential to make a good movie

now that i have said this, here are my other thoughts. ben affleck take notes

1. poc sophie and vackers. this would be narratively rewarding for all three - sophie feeling like she doesn’t belong with her human family, the vackers (particularly biana) subverting associations between whiteness and wealth/beauty

2. no brown-skinned gnomes pls and thank you

3. keep the setting in 2012 or even a bit earlier. yes it’s never actually confirmed that this is when the story takes place and the year doesn’t really matter for the plot but i think it would be funny for sophie to have avril lavigne and evanescence on her ipod and wear earbuds with cords

4. you can’t realistically fit all of book 1 into a 2hr movie. if it comes down to it, i’d make most of the cuts from the first half - the splotching match, midterms, base quest, other little worldbuilding things that are nice but don’t add a ton to the plot. the limbium scene as well is a bit useless without a confirmed sequel

5. please i am begging u keep the romance among the kids to a minimum. i’ll be ok with a koralie subplot and even an alina/alden/della love triangle but the kids are 12-14 at this point in the series. there’s no need to go beyond “oh sophie has a crush on fitz and keefe, isn’t that endearing.” no need for the level of romance that’s present in flashback and later books

6. make the movie’s a-lister mr. forkle so the audience will be like “haha look at [actor] making a cameo in this cute kids’ movie” and then it turns out he’s the undercover leader of a rebel organization, one of the most important characters in the series, and also two people pretending to be one

Her heart stopped in her chest as her eyes widened. He’d changed. His hair was longer, more unruly, curly gently around his ears. And that trademark smirk was missing, his ice blue eyes holding hers with dread and shame and guilt as she whispered, “Keefe?”