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Feb. 2nd, 2020 10:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkat1. Uhm...Wow...this is a very very long list of sci-fi/fantasy novel adaptations into films and television series.
Take-aways?
Why are they redoing things that have already been adapted? Wouldn't it make more sense to adapt a book that hasn't been instead? I mean it's not like there aren't plenty to choose from? And why these particular books?
Examples? Death on the Nile, Harley Quinn, Supergirl, Suicide Squad, Turn of the Screw, Chronicles of Narnia (granted it hadn't been done very well the first round and they are doing a television series this time around, which makes more sense, most likely inspired by His Dark Materials.), Dune (why we need yet another adaptation I do not know. This round Timothy Chalmthee (the guy in Little Women, LadyBird, and Call Me By My Name) plays Paul Atredies, with Oscar Isaccs as Duke Leto, and Zendaya as Chani.), The Stand (which has cast Alexander Skarsgaard as Randall Flagg -- ooooh. I like him. Very much), James Marsden as Stud Redman, Greg Kinnear as Glen Bateman, Whoopi Goldberg as the Prophet, among others.
But there are some interesting things in there such as Smoke and Bone, Parable of the Sower, Station Eleven, Artremis Fowl, Wicked, Children of Blood and Bone, adaptation of a Kitty Pryde X-men series, Cat Valente's Space Opera, Ringworld, Chronicles of Amber, etc. Go look at that list -- it goes on forever. How many will make it to the screen? Eh. No clue. There's no way any of us could see them all. My god there's a lot of content out there. More than anyone can possibly read in one life time, even if it were humanly possible to read ten books a day.
Oh, on another site, I noticed both David Copperfield and Emma were coming to theaters this year in new adaptations. Bill Nighy is in Emma, and well Dev Patel is David Copperfield, which is far more interesting casting in my opinion.
2. Mother: The Chiefs won the Superbowl! (Proceeds to tell me by how much.)
ME: You do realize that I was rooting against them right?
Mother: Why? Where's your home town pride? I thought you were rooting against the Broncos and the Patriots.
Me: And the Chiefs.
Mother: But..but...they haven't won in years.
Me: So. I've disliked them since law school.
Mother: This is major, you should be happy.
Me: Yeah, well...
Mother: I thought I'd call and tell you. I texted your brother.
Me: Which makes more sense, he might actually care.
Take-aways?
Why are they redoing things that have already been adapted? Wouldn't it make more sense to adapt a book that hasn't been instead? I mean it's not like there aren't plenty to choose from? And why these particular books?
Examples? Death on the Nile, Harley Quinn, Supergirl, Suicide Squad, Turn of the Screw, Chronicles of Narnia (granted it hadn't been done very well the first round and they are doing a television series this time around, which makes more sense, most likely inspired by His Dark Materials.), Dune (why we need yet another adaptation I do not know. This round Timothy Chalmthee (the guy in Little Women, LadyBird, and Call Me By My Name) plays Paul Atredies, with Oscar Isaccs as Duke Leto, and Zendaya as Chani.), The Stand (which has cast Alexander Skarsgaard as Randall Flagg -- ooooh. I like him. Very much), James Marsden as Stud Redman, Greg Kinnear as Glen Bateman, Whoopi Goldberg as the Prophet, among others.
But there are some interesting things in there such as Smoke and Bone, Parable of the Sower, Station Eleven, Artremis Fowl, Wicked, Children of Blood and Bone, adaptation of a Kitty Pryde X-men series, Cat Valente's Space Opera, Ringworld, Chronicles of Amber, etc. Go look at that list -- it goes on forever. How many will make it to the screen? Eh. No clue. There's no way any of us could see them all. My god there's a lot of content out there. More than anyone can possibly read in one life time, even if it were humanly possible to read ten books a day.
Oh, on another site, I noticed both David Copperfield and Emma were coming to theaters this year in new adaptations. Bill Nighy is in Emma, and well Dev Patel is David Copperfield, which is far more interesting casting in my opinion.
2. Mother: The Chiefs won the Superbowl! (Proceeds to tell me by how much.)
ME: You do realize that I was rooting against them right?
Mother: Why? Where's your home town pride? I thought you were rooting against the Broncos and the Patriots.
Me: And the Chiefs.
Mother: But..but...they haven't won in years.
Me: So. I've disliked them since law school.
Mother: This is major, you should be happy.
Me: Yeah, well...
Mother: I thought I'd call and tell you. I texted your brother.
Me: Which makes more sense, he might actually care.
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Date: 2020-02-03 05:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-02-03 05:41 pm (UTC)Assuming it ever gets made -- it's been in development since Wrinkle in Time was released, if not before. Most of that stuff probably won't make it to the screen.