WARNING: This article contains spoilers for Roku Channel’sThe Spiderwick Chronicles.
Its been over two decades since Tony DiTerlizzi andHolly Blackfirst introduced fantasy readers toThe Spiderwick Chronicles.
For starters, the Grace children are all teenagers in the show.
Lyon Daniels as Jared Grace in ‘The Spiderwick Chronicles’.Courtesy of the Roku Channel
And so I was wholeheartedly like, Yes, let’s dive into this.
Let’s age up our characters.
Let’s make their issues just slightly more sophisticated.'"
‘The Spiderwick Chronicles’.Courtesy of the Roku Channel
Still, Coleite maintains that the Grace family hasn’t changed just because they’ve gotten a little older.
By aging it up, you’re free to actually talk about the issues.
And who are they talking to?
Thimbletack and Jared Grace in ‘The Spiderwick Chronicles’.The Roku Channel
And if they weren’t equally as intriguing, both would fail, he explains.
“Here’s the book, and then you open it up and the pages are all gone.
And where are they?
And how do you get them back?
[That] seemed like a great driving quest.
… We have so many more for other seasons to come.”
He continues, I didn’t want to wait till season five to reach Mulgarath.
I was like, Really sorry!
I want to see to it he’s in the first season, because he is so iconic.
I would love to have gone into the world of the dwarves.
I would love to gone into the realm of the elves.
Season 2 can focus on the realm of the dwarves.
The Spiderwick Chroniclesis now available to stream on The Roku Channel.
