Tomorrow when the war began

Prepare to geek out, TWTWB fans!

Yes, here's all the info you'll need on the Tomorrow, When The War Began films.

Here's the cast and crew page. I've got to say, Ellie does look rather pretty.

It's written by Stuart Beattie, who wrote Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (aka the good Pirates movie that made pirates awesome again before Bruckheimer screwed up the sequels)

According to the site they're going to make five movies from the seven books. Fair enough too, as a couple of the books were non-stop action showpieces that probably wouldn't be worth a movie each, but would make great start and ending sequences.

Stuart Beattie also wrote Collateral, which was a really good movie. It helped that Tom Cruise was the baddie.

Anyway, some info on the books:

The Tomorrow series, while best known in Australia, has also found success in other countries. In Sweden, the first title – Tomorrow, When the War Began – was selected as the world’s most likely book to inspire young people to read, prompting 100,000 free copies to be released for distribution among Swedish young people. The Third Day, the Frost, won the Buxtehude Bulle, a German award, regarded as one of the world’s most coveted prizes for young peoples’ books.


The books are not as well known in North America as they are in Europe, as only the first three books were available in paperback from US publisher Dell. However, in June 2006, major publisher Scholastic announced it had acquired the rights to both the original series and the later Ellie Chronicles. It has since reissued all seven titles from the original series as well as the first two books in the Ellie Chronicles series.

Marsden’s manager, Jill Grinberg, is now reselling the publishing rights in countries where the rights have reverted as well as attempting to sell them into new markets. She has stated that the rights have been sold in Japan to a publisher for a "six-figure deal".

Tomorrow, When The War Began and its subsequent sequels are one of the most popular and critically acclaimed series of novels aimed at young readers in Australian literature history. It has sold between 2 and 3 million copies in Australia alone and has been translated into five languages, one of them being Swedish, where the series has sold over 115,000 copies.

And here's a gallery of various book covers from around the world.
I've got to say, these were some awesome books to enjoy back in my teenage years. Ellie and her friends seemed real, and they seemed to behave like you thought you might if put in that situation.
 
I don't know how they're going to get away with not identifying the enemy. In the books they were Asian, from a more populous country to our North. The inference was that they were Indonesian, but that was not explicitly stated. They may make up a country, just to avoid offending anyone in particular.
 
So apparently the film is in post-production and due out in 2010. Let's hope it's freaking awesome.