I'm a little worried for her suddenly being involved in multiple projects at once, I hope things are OK... (I worry for any workaholic getting into the game again)... as for Moomins, it'll depend on the choice of what to adapt. I feel as if most Moomins adaptations tackle the same few stories over and over, with little variance beyond medium. That's a large part of my disinterest in adaptations... and why I don't really bother to get excited by a new one. Nobody seems to have a new angle on the work or Tove's perspective, and few even tackle what I love about a written scene, miss details or emphasis I liked in the text. I feel Tove's work has a kind of melancholy to it completely absent in most adaptations. It all just becomes twee...

I think to make a unique depiction you'd have to care about Tove, why she wrote each story, what she was going through, the people in her life, her relationship to Moomins itself as a property that took over past all her other artistic works and ruined her solitude. I favor the novels because they weren't forced like the comic strips. But it may be too much to ask for everyone interpreting her work to read the sanctioned biography. To understand what Moomin, Snufkin, Little My, Too-ticky, represent. At this moment, I don't know what motivates rsug to want to tackle Moomins. Did she read the books? Does she have investment in Tove's life, art, history? I could imagine it possible, but I don't want to assume.

My dream would be a depiction following some of the novels which don't get any adaptation at all, but it's unlikely. Wouldn't I love an rsug directed Moominpapa at Sea or Moominvalley In November? There are so many scenes in those I would love to see given a full respectful visual treatment, suchas Moomin's poisoning of the bugs, flirting with the seahorses, or connecting with the Groke at last, Moominmama disappearing into her paintings.... Toft's story could be given a lovely treatment. Snufkin's desperate searching for a letter from Moomin. But are those stories even so valuable to the average person, without the established context of the world? The point of them is depicting things breaking apart or being strange and unfamiliar to what we-- and the characters-- know or expect (on-the-nose, that's Snufkin's experience finding Moomin gone without notice in November...and Moomin on the Lighthouse's island...). The point was Tove not knowing how to return to Moominvalley after her mother's death, among other things. I like how rsug tackles loss, as someone who lost my (very close) father at a young age I am pickyyyyy about how it's handled; she DOES care about representing unflattering, messy emotions associated to family, pain, but. Who is to say that is what anyone would ever FUND to see depicted from MOOMINS? Just because that's what I obsess over with it, what impacted me most, doesn't mean anyone else will ever care about that, or a production would ever see such depiction as profitable or worthwhile.

The short of it is: I'll wait for details.