For their birthday their grandmother comes to visit and gives them the book she always use to read to them from The Land of Stories and Alex learns there is something strange about the book. Their mother is working a lot of extra shifts so they barely ever get to see her. Their father passed away, suddenly, and they miss him a great deal.

They learned them from their father who owned a bookstore and was a wonderful influence in their lives as well as at their grandmother. Not the remakes or Disney-fied versions, but the actual originals with all their gruesome details and sad endings.

Both of them though are quite knowledgeable about fairy tales. Connor on the other hand has a hard time staying awake for his classes but while he sleeps through classes he tends to make it up with his social life, something Alex is lacking. She’s essentially class pet and especially a star in her English class. The Land of Stories follows Alex and Connor. At first I was surprised since the last book I’d read staring a set of twins going on an adventure had left me highly disappointed. Until of course, I found it at an Aladdin and decided, why not, let’s see what all the fuss had been about. Even though it seemed like it would’ve been a book I would’ve enjoyed. He seemed like an already successful actor/musical performer and to suddenly be an acclaimed published author made me jealous. To be fairly honest I was a little bitter. I wasn’t particularly interested when it came out. So I remember when this book came out I felt like I was being buried in press and signing info for when he was on his book tour. In 2021, in an Entertainment Weekly interview, Colfer confirmed that the film had been cancelled as well as that he was searching for another home for the series.One of my friends from college is a huge fan of Chris Colfer. Later on, the pandemic had began which further delayed production of the movie. ĭisney later bought the rights to 20th Century Fox along with all its subsidiaries which put the movie on hold for quite a while. In 2017, Chris Colfer announced that there would be a film adaptation of the first book in his The Land of Stories series in production at 20th Century Fox.

In the past, more specifically 2015, Colfer had hinted that he wanted unknown actors for the parts of Alex and Conner Bailey, however a cast was never formed in 2017 or in later years. The Wishing Spell is a cancelled live-action adaption of The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell formerly in production at 20th Century Fox and 21 Laps Entertainment.Ĭhris Colfer was set to not only write the script adapting the first book in The New York Times bestselling series, The Land of Stories, but he was also set to make his directorial debut with the project.

The wishing spell book