How did I not know about this movie? I’m trying to reach into my memory, which is often like digging a hole and hitting clay, and I vaguely remember reading that it was going to be made, but I had no idea it was so near. In fact, I had completely forgotten it was being made until The Struggling Writer mentioned it.

It’s released on August 10th! That’s just around the corner. This is all Harry Potter’s fault. All of his fanboys have been filling my head with their useless theories and annoying anticipation. Stardust must have been lost in all that book-to-movie adaptation gossip traffic.

When I heard this was being made, I figured it would be fairly low budget, but it looks like it’s going to be a real movie. It has Robert De Niro and Claire Danes and Michelle Pfeiffer and Peter O’Toole and Ricky Gervais and Ian McKellen in it. Those are real actors, and it has a real trailer too:

I’m a huge Neil Gaiman fan, but I haven’t actually gotten to read Stardust yet. I was planning to finally pick up The Philosopher’s Stone next, but screw Harry Potter. I have Stardust on my shelf already, so as soon as I finish my current book, I’ll read it.