Once upon a time, five childhood friends found a magical doorway to Fairtaylia, an enchanted realm full of wizardry and wonder. 20 years later they are a bunch of self-absorbed adults who don’t believe in fairytales anymore …until a talking squirrel and a chainsaw-wielding fairy show up on their doorsteps.
In a fast-paced quest to save Fairtaylia from an unspeakable evil, the gang has to evade wicked witches, battle orcs, ogres, and break into Sleeping Beautie’s castle while suffering through fairy farts, skimpy outfits, and several musical numbers.
Good luck with happily ever after…
Themes and tone
Fantasy vs. reality. Staying young and growing old. Being stuck or growing up.
This is what “Back to Fairtaylia” is all about.
Imagine the kids from “Stranger Things”, but the Upside Down being more like Disneyland on Ecstasy. Or the Losers Club from “IT”, but the scary underbelly of Derry not being scary at all, but super-nice and with less clowns but more dragons to ride on. Or Peter Parker and his friends in “Spider Man: Far From Home” on a never-ending school trip to “R”-rated Narnia with no parental supervision.
Heaven on earth, right? Too good to be true. Which means it can’t last. Every school trip has to end, heaven turns to hell, we all have to grow up.
Or do we?
What if you did grow up but suddenly got the chance to go back to the paradise of your childhood, where life could be a Never-Ending Story? Would that be the best thing that could ever happen to you or would it be a recipe for disaster?
Would you take the chance to reawaken your inner child or would you corrupt an innocent world with your adult self?
“Back to Fairtaylia” is about how we rely on fantasy, make-believe and our geeky obsessions to get us through our daily lives, even as supposedly responsible, grown- up-adults – and the need to find a balance between being rigidly down-to-earth and staying always head-in-the-clouds.
That’s the journey our heroes will be sent on in our book – which also means they’ll have to confront some hard truths about themselves that they have ignored all their lives.
But mostly (let’s be honest) we just want to have fun with this. Because we’re all developmentally arrested and like this kinda stuff.
Which also means the tone will be funny, but never cynical, arch and self-consciously hipsterish (like the thematically adjacent “The Magicians”, for example), more like “Good Boys Grow up and Go F***ing Disney”, like “The Chronicles of Narnia” made by Trey Parker & Matt Stone, or a Seth Rogen movie performed by easily excitable musical theater nerds on a constant sugar high: sweary but sweet.
So, let’s f***ing do this. Let’s go “Back to Fairtaylia”…
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