The new animation company Underneath the Umbrella plans to adapt Walter Wangerin’s Book of the Dun Cow, once heralded as equal to Lord of the Rings.
But I’ve spent most of my life wondering what Wangerin’s cataclysmically dark, weirdly funny book would look like as a movie. Now, there’s a slim chance that we could finally find out. Better yet, there’s a chance that the news might prompt a few more people to read one of my all-time favorite fantasy books.