Sci Fi Wire reports that Anne McCaffrey's "Dragonriders of Pern" series will be turned into a movie by Copperheart Entertainment, a company which has not made a feature film to date. (And, when I say "a movie," I really mean "the first of what I think everyone assumes will be a long series of obscenely profitable movies.")

McCaffrey's Pern almost turned into a live-action TV show in 2001, but production shut down amid differing reports of the problems, and nothing ever emerged. I hope Copperheart has better luck this time.