I get to play ‘let’s pretend’ and they pay me money for it. “The stuff that your mom and pop said, ‘Why are you reading that?’ That’s the stuff that you can go out and produce now you own a studio.”īut tastes are unpredictable the rise of fantasy could have been the rise of anything else.
When the children raised reading JRR Tolkien (and the wave of fantasy authors that followed) came of age, Feist says, they had a desire to see these stories on the big and small screen, and set about putting that desire into action. “When Lord of the Rings came out in paperback in America it was our generation’s Harry Potter.” “When I was a kid, fantasy didn’t exist in anything except literature,” says Feist.
But it’s harder to discern why audiences were ready to hear these kinds of stories. It’s easy to point to causes after the fact – say the success of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, or the popularity of Harry Potter.
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