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- Cameoa familiar face shows up
- Setupplanted now, pays off later
- Behind the scenesproduction trivia
- ChangeGold instead of the Aculos
In the book, Artemis kidnaps Holly for a ransom of one ton of 24-carat gold. In the movie, he wants the Aculos, an artifact made up for the screen, to save his kidnapped father.
source ↗ - ChangeMom is left out
In the book, Artemis's mother has lost her mind to grief over her husband's disappearance, and Artemis trades half the gold for her cure. The movie leaves Angeline Fowl out of the story.
source ↗ - ChangeRoot changes gender
In the book, Commander Julius Root is a gruff, red-faced elf. In the movie, Judi Dench takes the part, and Root becomes an 802-year-old female commander.
source ↗ - ChangeThe sleeping-pill trick
In the book, Artemis beats the time-stop with sleeping pills: he and his allies sleep through the end of the spell, and the LEP has to leave without the gold. The movie swaps that ending for rescuing his father with the Aculos.
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- ChangeRussian Mafia, not Opal
In the book, Artemis Fowl I is held by the Russian Mafia near Murmansk after the family ship sinks. In the movie, the father is held by a hooded captor who turns out to be Opal Koboi.
source ↗ - ChangeCudgeon's alliance
Here, Briar Cudgeon teams up with Opal Koboi in a goblin rebellion to seize Haven. The movie pulls that alliance into the first story: the screen Cudgeon is already working for Koboi during the siege of the manor.
source ↗ - ChangeA rescue with scars
In the book, Holly heals Artemis's father but can't restore his lost leg, and leaves him at a hospital in Helsinki. In the movie, he comes back to Fowl Manor in one piece, brought by the Aculos's magic.
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- Behind the scenesA message on the spine
The hardcover spine carries a code. Decoded, it's a plea from Artemis to readers: spread the word that he must find Mulch Diggums. In the reprint, the code is written in Gnommish.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe first book's slogan
European covers carry the coded phrase "Think fairy, think again," the slogan of the original Artemis Fowl.
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- Behind the scenesA note from Foaly
At the bottom of the book is a secret message from Foaly in the Gnommish alphabet. The key to read it is in The Artemis Fowl Files.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe cover talks too
On the US cover, the tube carries a faint "Opal wants revenge." The Gnommish symbols around the molecules read "DNA never lies."
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- Behind the scenesIt showed up early
The book was set for September 7, 2006, in the UK and Ireland but reached stores early. It came out in the US on September 12.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe code key
At the end of the book is a fairy code that decodes the hidden messages printed at the bottom of pages throughout the series.
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- Behind the scenesThe longest one
At 432 pages in its first hardcover edition, it's the longest book in the series.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesFrom ninth to second
The week it came out in the US, the series jumped from ninth to second on the New York Times children's bestseller list. A limited paperback edition includes the short story "LEPrecon" from The Artemis Fowl Files.
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- Behind the scenesNext-to-last, by design
Before release, Eoin Colfer hinted that this would be the next-to-last book in the series.
source ↗ - ReferenceIt opens on a real glacier
The story opens on Vatnajökull, a real glacier in Iceland, where Artemis unveils his invention against global warming.
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- Behind the scenesIt was meant to be a trilogy
Colfer planned just three books, but the series kept going because the ideas kept coming. He said eight was the right place to end.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesAn Irish award
The book won the 2012 Irish Book Award in the Irish Children's Book, Senior category.
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- ReferenceFive years later
The twins trilogy is set five years after the original series, with Myles and Beckett, Artemis's younger brothers, at its center.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesTwo very different twins
Disney pitches Myles as the scientist and Beckett as "the force of nature." The book came out on November 5, 2019, seven years after Artemis's last one.
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- Behind the scenesOut the year of the movie
It came out on October 20, 2020, four months after the Artemis Fowl movie premiered on Disney+.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe nanny is an AI
The twins are watched by NANNI, an artificial intelligence based on Holly's and Artemis's brainwaves.
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- Behind the scenesThe trilogy's finale
The third twins book came out in 2021 and closes the trilogy, a year after Deny All Charges.
source ↗ - ReferenceHalf elf, half pixie
The fairy who minds the twins, Lazuli Heitz, is a "pixel": half elf, half pixie.
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