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Should MBOTF be a film series or a tv series? totally hypothetical...
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Posted 12 April 2010 - 10:45 AM
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Posted 12 April 2010 - 10:48 AM
It's too big for even a trilogy. A mini-series would have to be done. Plus, I'm worried about transferring such a multi-storyline multi-character series onto the screen; it'd be hard to put everything in a comprehensible TV series without seeding confusion among people who never read it.
Maybe a full-blown series.
A side story film wouldn't hurt though - depicting something not covered in the books. Like maybe the fall of the human First Empire. Or the conquest of the Genabackis Free Cities up north. However, there'd still be tonnes of stuff that would need to be explained, and brief explanations of Wu wouldn't do it justice, could even turn out worse than no explanations at all.
Maybe a full-blown series.
A side story film wouldn't hurt though - depicting something not covered in the books. Like maybe the fall of the human First Empire. Or the conquest of the Genabackis Free Cities up north. However, there'd still be tonnes of stuff that would need to be explained, and brief explanations of Wu wouldn't do it justice, could even turn out worse than no explanations at all.
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Posted 12 April 2010 - 02:22 PM
You could center a tv series around Fidler (only books he isn't in, are 5 and 8) with mayor events like the chain of dogs, MT and TtH, NoK and RotCG transformed in movies
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Posted 12 April 2010 - 02:43 PM
It still wouldn't work in movie format. You'd need a trilogy to tell one book properly and that still begs the question of how do you show the internal conflict (or Kruppe's narator moments in TTH)? To much stuff will be left out.
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Posted 12 April 2010 - 03:38 PM
wasnt there an interview somewhere saying SE knew exactly how to bring the series cinema/tv but if he told a producer his plans they would have a heart attack lol... would love to know what hes thinking
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Posted 13 April 2010 - 12:55 AM
Genndy Tartakovsky IS Samurai Jack. And the actually good (so I hear) Star Wars Clone Wars.
As for a theme song for this theoretical show, I hope they go with the early '90s X-MEN cartoon theme only with a poem by Fisher being rapped over top. That shit would be mad wicked.
As for a theme song for this theoretical show, I hope they go with the early '90s X-MEN cartoon theme only with a poem by Fisher being rapped over top. That shit would be mad wicked.
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Posted 16 April 2010 - 06:48 PM
Quote
Wiki article: RotK TV Series']
Romance of the Three Kingdoms (simplified Chinese: 三国演义; pinyin: Sān Guó Yǎn Yì) is a 1994 historical drama TV series produced by CCTV. It is based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of the Four Great Classical Novels. It spanned a total of 84 episodes, with each episode being approximately 44 minutes long.
A production team of about 1000 people took four years to complete the massive project. More than 400,000 civilian participants were recruited, including divisions of the PLA. It is CCTV's most expensive TV series production up to date.
Most of the dialogues spoken by the characters were adapted directly from the novel. Extensive battle scenes were live acted, such as the Battle of Guandu, Battle of Red Cliffs and Battle of Xiaoting.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms (simplified Chinese: 三国演义; pinyin: Sān Guó Yǎn Yì) is a 1994 historical drama TV series produced by CCTV. It is based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of the Four Great Classical Novels. It spanned a total of 84 episodes, with each episode being approximately 44 minutes long.
A production team of about 1000 people took four years to complete the massive project. More than 400,000 civilian participants were recruited, including divisions of the PLA. It is CCTV's most expensive TV series production up to date.
Most of the dialogues spoken by the characters were adapted directly from the novel. Extensive battle scenes were live acted, such as the Battle of Guandu, Battle of Red Cliffs and Battle of Xiaoting.
^^something like that.
This post has been edited by D'rek: 16 April 2010 - 06:49 PM
worrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:
I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.
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Posted 18 April 2010 - 02:43 PM
Don't think MBOTF would work as either, even a long running TV series, unless a lot of creative license was taken to alter the pace of the plot, trim down the number of characters, etc.
Episodic productions also demand some kind of thematic and/or character-centric mini-story contained in each 42-minute show. Execs and financers will demand a rigid beginning/middle/end structure, and they will probably baulk at the complexity and intellectual philosophising. This would be too much like bashing a square peg into a round hole, with how Erikson plays around with narrative structures. Which is why he is so great.
Practically, i think it would work better as an animation, which has probably been suggested before. Animation has been more avant-garde in terms of messing around with structure and other filmic conventions.
Episodic productions also demand some kind of thematic and/or character-centric mini-story contained in each 42-minute show. Execs and financers will demand a rigid beginning/middle/end structure, and they will probably baulk at the complexity and intellectual philosophising. This would be too much like bashing a square peg into a round hole, with how Erikson plays around with narrative structures. Which is why he is so great.
Practically, i think it would work better as an animation, which has probably been suggested before. Animation has been more avant-garde in terms of messing around with structure and other filmic conventions.
This post has been edited by Chiggerflea: 18 April 2010 - 02:45 PM
