[Xerox]

Hi all, if you want to you can also leave a comment on why you choose your answer

[Esa1996]

I don't see it as possible though if someone does indeed do it I will watch it. Too many people and places. As individual series / movies the books might work, but I don't think people wouldn't put up with the characters and places changing each season. This is one of my main complaints in the books too but in a book it is IMO more acceptable than on TV.

[worry]

No, because you won't find investors in a GOT-sized project that requires a vastly non-white cast.

[Xerox]

but are you saying that it is a peace of coal that needs just a lot of pressure to become a diamond?

[Gorefest]

No. Technically it can be done, sure, but you won't get the financial backing.

[Coltaine -]

Hm, unsure.

But Steven himself thinks that it may be possible.

http://forum.malazan...steven-erikson/

In this podcast he mentions the possibility. Adapting the story, maybe not GOT-like ten episodes per season. Can't remember everything.

For the problem with the changing cast and location every season. I have an idea. But probably too expensive to be viable.

Year One: Gardens of the Moon
Year Two: Deadhouse Gates + Memories of Ice (Use cast from GotM completely)
Year Three: House of Chains + Midnight Tides (Use surviving cast of DG for HoC)
Year Four: The Bonehunters + Reaper's Gale (Use previous cast)
Year Five: Toll the Hounds + Dust of Dreams (Crokus & crew for TtH and cast from RG for DoD)
Year Six: The Crippled God

For Cams books I'm not sure how to fit some of them in. Maybe RotCG would be necessary to give the storyline of the Malazan Empire an ending for television.

May be the best way to keep large parts of the cast employed and give the audience the same locations (mostly) every year.

[Esa1996]

- Coltaine -, on 20 June 2016 - 08:21 PM, said:

Hm, unsure.

But Steven himself thinks that it may be possible.

http://forum.malazan...steven-erikson/

In this podcast he mentions the possibility. Adapting the story, maybe not GOT-like ten episodes per season. Can't remember everything.

For the problem with the changing cast and location every season. I have an idea. But probably too expensive to be viable.

Year One: Gardens of the Moon
Year Two: Deadhouse Gates + Memories of Ice (Use cast from GotM completely)
Year Three: House of Chains + Midnight Tides (Use surviving cast of DG for HoC)
Year Four: The Bonehunters + Reaper's Gale (Use previous cast)
Year Five: Toll the Hounds + Dust of Dreams (Crokus & crew for TtH and cast from RG for DoD)
Year Six: The Crippled God

For Cams books I'm not sure how to fit some of them in. Maybe RotCG would be necessary to give the storyline of the Malazan Empire an ending for television.

May be the best way to keep large parts of the cast employed and give the audience the same locations (mostly) every year.

That would make for some really confusing TV I think but I like it nonetheless Perhaps have the location and POVs change every episode instead of every season?

[Xerox]

Esa1996, on 20 June 2016 - 09:21 PM, said:

- Coltaine -, on 20 June 2016 - 08:21 PM, said:

Hm, unsure.

But Steven himself thinks that it may be possible.

http://forum.malazan...steven-erikson/

In this podcast he mentions the possibility. Adapting the story, maybe not GOT-like ten episodes per season. Can't remember everything.

For the problem with the changing cast and location every season. I have an idea. But probably too expensive to be viable.

Year One: Gardens of the Moon
Year Two: Deadhouse Gates + Memories of Ice (Use cast from GotM completely)
Year Three: House of Chains + Midnight Tides (Use surviving cast of DG for HoC)
Year Four: The Bonehunters + Reaper's Gale (Use previous cast)
Year Five: Toll the Hounds + Dust of Dreams (Crokus & crew for TtH and cast from RG for DoD)
Year Six: The Crippled God

For Cams books I'm not sure how to fit some of them in. Maybe RotCG would be necessary to give the storyline of the Malazan Empire an ending for television.

May be the best way to keep large parts of the cast employed and give the audience the same locations (mostly) every year.

That would make for some really confusing TV I think but I like it nonetheless Perhaps have the location and POVs change every episode instead of every season?

I think then you do not start to identify that strong with the characters, i agree its propably to complex.

[Coltaine -]

Xerox, on 20 June 2016 - 11:09 PM, said:

Esa1996, on 20 June 2016 - 09:21 PM, said:

- Coltaine -, on 20 June 2016 - 08:21 PM, said:

Hm, unsure.

But Steven himself thinks that it may be possible.

http://forum.malazan...steven-erikson/

In this podcast he mentions the possibility. Adapting the story, maybe not GOT-like ten episodes per season. Can't remember everything.

For the problem with the changing cast and location every season. I have an idea. But probably too expensive to be viable.

Year One: Gardens of the Moon
Year Two: Deadhouse Gates + Memories of Ice (Use cast from GotM completely)
Year Three: House of Chains + Midnight Tides (Use surviving cast of DG for HoC)
Year Four: The Bonehunters + Reaper's Gale (Use previous cast)
Year Five: Toll the Hounds + Dust of Dreams (Crokus & crew for TtH and cast from RG for DoD)
Year Six: The Crippled God

For Cams books I'm not sure how to fit some of them in. Maybe RotCG would be necessary to give the storyline of the Malazan Empire an ending for television.

May be the best way to keep large parts of the cast employed and give the audience the same locations (mostly) every year.

That would make for some really confusing TV I think but I like it nonetheless Perhaps have the location and POVs change every episode instead of every season?

I think then you do not start to identify that strong with the characters, i agree its propably to complex.

Maybe Steve and Cam will surprise us

[Abyss]

GoT pretty much proves it could be done.That doesn't necessarily mean it should...

[Xerox]

But GoT is different i think

[Gorefest]

I think in a recent interview Erikson said that he wasn't thinking about a TV show, but about episodic feature-length films. So about 30 films in total, with 3 films per year out in the theatres. I admire how he thinks big and in novel ways. I have a niggling concern though that he may have gone megalomanic and slightly loopy.

This post has been edited by Gorefest: 21 June 2016 - 09:13 PM

[Abyss]

GotM started out, in part, as a screenplay, and there are times, some of the big action scenes, that are written in a very cinematic sort of way.

[Binder of Demons]

Wasn't there also a treatment being done for a movie of DEADHOUSE GATES at one point, involving a member of this forum as well (Kallor I think??). I can't remember exactly how far along they got, but it had progressed some bit at least, and was going to focus mostly on the Chain of Dogs


It's a real pity we'll never see it all on screen as the Malazan series has some of the most amazing set piece scenes I've ever read.

[polishgenius]

It was Patch, I think that was his username.
If I recall correctly, SE eventually put the kibosh on that because he wanted to go all or nothing, didn't want to adapt the series in parts. Which is a shame, because while there's nothing in Malazan that couldn't be adapted in individual terms these days, the practicalities would mean that doing it as one whole project just isn't plausible. GoT isn't a useful comparison, because the scale of Malazan is much bigger even if you don't take into account the fact that it's a military fantasy and GoT isn't. The budget would be astronomical.




Honestly, its best bet is that a big movie studio decides that it's a great way to get in on the expanded-universe craze and funds it as a movie series. But for the kind of money it'd need, SE would have to give up a lot of control. Not sure he'd be up for that.

[Kanese S's]

It would be awesome. But the financial backing would be difficult to get.