i've been waiting since the success of the LotR movies. i'm surprised it has taken this long (of course, when 'Legend of the Seeker' was the first fantasy i saw on TV afterwards i was a bit discouraged... that show was... eeek...). Kingkiller chronicles has a weird movie, tv series, game option out there right now, WoT is a possibility, i think Mistborn would be a fantastic series to adapt (you'll need a good effects budget tho), and the Shannara Chronicles has a couple of good things going for it (the teen romance BS dripped from everything tho). there are plenty of other quality fantasy stories that should be doable with modern effects (i'd love to see a live action Dragonlance series, and a bunch of Weiss and Hickman stories would make excellent films/series). I keep thinking this should be the golden age of fantasy and sci-fi in the tv and movie business, but everyone wants to make money on superhero stuff.
True--though there is also a pretty good history of bad adaptations.
Some of the books I LOVED when I was 9-10 (Dark is Rising series, Chronicles of Prydain) got adapted into films not all that well. I was a kid when I saw them and even I knew they were off.
Hopefully, the fact that Game has been pretty good and Lord of the Rings was fabulous (the Hobbit, not so much) will encourage better adaptations.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Oscar Wilde.
Hopefully, the fact that Game has been pretty good and Lord of the Rings was fabulous (the Hobbit, not so much) will encourage better adaptations.
i liked the first Hobbit movie, the second one was godawful and i don't even remember the third anymore... i was really let down because i read they were supposed to bridge the gap between the Hobbit and the fellowship, showing Aragorn and Gandalf hunting Smeagol and all of that kind of stuff, but instead they cut that for some Dwarf Elf romance... ugh. oh well, i'll keep my fingers crossed and hope some of these turn out well.
SlyWren, tzalaran LOTR movies were amazing, the Hobbit trilogy... well the less said the better. I for one keep hoping from a Silmarillion series on HBO or Starz. There is no way to do it all in a movie or even a series of movies unless you cut it down to very specific pieces like they did with the Children of Hurin book that came out a couple of years ago. Sigh it will probably never happen but a man can dream.
Darkstar will be the next Vulture King.
Craster has 19 daughters and there are 19 castles on the Wall, coincidence I think not!
the second one was godawful and i don't even remember the third anymore... i was really let down because i read they were supposed to bridge the gap between the Hobbit and the fellowship, showing Aragorn and Gandalf hunting Smeagol and all of that kind of stuff, but instead they cut that for some Dwarf Elf romance... ugh. oh well, i'll keep my fingers crossed and hope some of these turn out well.
HA! Agreed. I think the key is: don't let the director do whatever he wants. LOTR was so successful that they gave him carte blanche to do as he pleased. Very foolish. Keep the directors on at least a moderate leash, and things should go better.
I for one keep hoping from a Silmarillion series on HBO or Starz. There is no way to do it all in a movie or even a series of movies unless you cut it down to very specific pieces like they did with the Children of Hurin book that came out a couple of years ago. Sigh it will probably never happen but a man can dream.
It's a hard one to adapt because it's more myth than story--the personal details, the psychology--all of that is limited.
But the stories are amazing. I had it read to me when I was only 5 and I still remembered the stories. Seems like a skilled writer might be able to work it.
I always thought Dragon riders of Pern would be good tv.
Yup.
I still keep holding out hope someone will figure out how to do The Dark is Rising properly. Or The Chronicles of Prydain. So I can relive my childhood. But so far, most of those adaptations have been less than stellar.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Oscar Wilde.
Wait--RLJ was part of the fake moon landing? Or the Kennedy Assassination?
Hmmm. . . can one be heretics from an unestablished orthodoxy?
Sounds like a question for medieval scholars.
The moon landings that we were shown were faked and Oswald was, at minimum, not the lone gunmen.
Yes--and then the government bought off the Mythbusters!
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Oscar Wilde.
Post by Direwolf Blitzer on Jun 7, 2016 3:20:53 GMT
For all her insanity, she does have a few points. Jaime hasn't exactly been public about his sister-fucking, and with good reason. It's very made-for-TV to have him boldly declare his love like that.
And also Sam is boring TV, though I like him in the books. (Mostly because he is in the vicinity of interesting people and things).
For all her insanity, she does have a few points. Jaime hasn't exactly been public about his sister-fucking, and with good reason. It's very made-for-TV to have him boldly declare his love like that.
And also Sam is boring TV, though I like him in the books. (Mostly because he is in the vicinity of interesting people and things).
Agreed on both points.
Darkstar will be the next Vulture King.
Craster has 19 daughters and there are 19 castles on the Wall, coincidence I think not!