Inkheart
Inkheart the film stars Brendan Fraser (apparently the choice of Funke when she was writing the books) as Mortimer, a silvertongue who accidentally read the villains out of Inkheart, an old book, while reading his wife into it – a curse that accompanies the reading. Since then, he has kept searching for his wife by looking for copies of Inkheart, while looking after their daughter and being a repairer of old books. Meanwhile, Dustfinger (Paul Bettany) is also trying to locate a copy of Inkheart so he can be read back into the book – he is a firebreather who was read into the real world in the first reading. However, Capricorn (Andy Serkis), the henchman of the main villain in Inkheart, has developed a small criminal empire outside and doesn’t want to go back to the book, and is destroying all copies he can locate. He has found a stuttering silvertongue to help him, who brings people out but with errors (they still have print tattooed on their face to highlight this). His gang hijack Mortimer, as well as his daughter and his aunt, to make him read riches out of books. Of course, they escape and finally come upon the idea to locate the original author and his copy of the book …… clandestinecritic.co.uk
