The first trailer of Artemis Fowl could make you believe in fairies

A 12-year-old criminal brain mingles with the world of fairies in the first trailer of the film adaptation of Disney's sci-fi / fantasy novel Artemis Fowl. And we are not talking about Tinker Bell. These are badass fairies with neutrino handguns, able to stop time. All this gives spectacular results and have Kenneth Branagh (Thor) at the helm is auspicious for the success of the film.

There are eight books in the Artemis Fowl series of Irish author Eoin Colfer, detailing the vast exploits of the titular character. The first novel received generally positive reviews and some comparisons with J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, though Colfer's books have never experienced the same stratospheric commercial success. Disney is betting that there is an equally strong appetite for the Artemis Fowl series on big screen.

Colfer describes his novels as "Die hard with fairies. "

The comparison naturally irritates Colfer, who describes his novels as more like "Die hard with fairies. "It's a pretty accurate description." Artemis is the anti-Harry Potter. </ P> <p> He's a thief and a kidnapper, among other mischief, and he's largely insensitive to remorse.C & # 39; is part of its charm.

In the first book, Artemis, aged 12, lives mostly unattended in the bird house. His father (Artemis Fowl I) has disappeared and his mother has gone mad with grief. He relies on his faithful protector, Butler, for the company. They fall on a portal leading to the fairy world and Artemis decides to kidnap a fairy and hold her for ransom in order to finance her search for her father. The fairies take revenge and Artemis must oppose his mind to their magical powers. It's a fiction, so he succeeds naturally, and his mother is cured of his madness.

Artemis saves his father from the Russian mafia in the second book and eventually forms an alliance with the fairies that he fought at the start to help them defeat an army of goblins. There has been some confusion as to whether Branagh's film adaptation incorporates the events of the first two books or just the first, but in July last year, Colfer said in an interview that only the events of the first book were included.

Branagh described the film in Nerdist as a story of origin, comparing Artemis' arc of character to that of Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece in 1972, The Godfather. "Please, do not take that too literally," warns Branagh. The form of the scenario is similar, inasmuch as Artemis, like Michael, is originally only partially aware of the extent of his father's work because he kept his distance from the daily details. "I warn you, my boy," murmurs a disturbing voice in the caravan. "You are not prepared for the truth behind what you are looking for." And like Michael, Artemis must ultimately decide whether he wants to embrace this world or not.

In this case, it is a magical world of a force, trolls, dwarves and goblins belonging to the police of the Lower Elements Police (LEP), all located under the "real" human world. Branagh is an excellent choice for directing the film version of Artemis Fowl, given how easily he navigated in the difficult medium between magic and science in the first Thor movie for Marvel. Bonus: Lady Judi Dench plays a controlled root of LEP (the character is male in novels) with her usual severe aplomb.

Artemis Fowl in theaters August 9, 2019.