From YA Novel to TV Screens: Surreal Drama ‘TRICKSTER’ Debuts This Fall

It’s your BNP resident lover of all things folklore and fairytale, here with my excitement over a new trailer. *wink* I’m not too familiar with CBC Television yet I do know that their Anne With an E (now available on Netflix) is a more recent offering on the beloved Anne of Green Gables books. I love to see book adaptations on the big(ger) screen as they can bring new life into their base material and introduce new audiences to new worlds. Personally, I love a good television or web series versus a film adaptation, especially for books geared to young adults. I always felt less could be sacrificed for the narrative’s sake, which is what happens so often in two hour-long marathons at the theatre (It worked better for Shadowhunters, don’t @ me!). From Page to The Big(ger) Screen Eden Robinson is the author of Son of a Trickster. (CBC) I stumbled upon the trailer for TRICKSTER which I’m told is based on the best-selling novel Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson. Seen as a “darkly humorous coming-of-age story” told from the perspective of Jared, a teenager who drinks and smokes too much, sells weed cookies to get by and has a tumultuous relationship with his mother. It delves into a supernatural drama that we’re being told is “Unlike anything you’ve ever seen before” with one Indigenous teen at the heart of it all. Written with her cousins in mind, this internationally acclaimed Haisla and Heiltsuk novelist and short story writer actually crea…