[Jonzey]

Lol, according to Oponn I shall be the star of the movie! Heheh... that picture is hilarious.

I think Chain of Dogs is the best part in all the books so far to be made into a movie

[Darkwatch]

Well Patch said it was being filmed in Australia. So the English and Canadians now have pay for plane tickets.

@Sha'ik
Bruce Campbell not manly? Have you seen "Army of Darkness"? Or the Evil Dead movies?

[Tiste Simeon]

*rubs face*
Thanks - I needed that!

[Jorram]

Wasn't it List who had the visions? Anyway, I've no possibility to reread the battles so my two cents shall have to be thrown away..

[Tenaka Khan]

[Fooler]

I'm definitely not understanding why it's a problem to have a dark ending. Screw the happy ending formula, be true to the books, it'll be a far more powerful movie.

[Tiger_sword]

Chain of dogs... Its such a powerful story, the way to covey some of the emotion is with great music.

I was thinking something along the lines of the LotR's music. It will bring a tear to your eye without even watching the film.

Plus i can see Geoffrey Rush as Dukier. He has that feeling of knowledge like he's seen it all before. Kinda like Dukier?

[Monoch Ochem]

Sad events maybe but possibly not sad endings. I mean, we always like to know that there's some hope....we NEED that when we empathise with a bad situation.

[Tiste Simeon]

Well, probably not, I dunno...
Actually yes, you're right. I would.
Now, how to upload photos...

[Mezla PigDog]

I can't believe everyone's up for this! As if it isn't hard enough being laughed at by my other half for sitting reading Deadhouse Gates and blubbing my eyes out when Coltaine dies, i'm now going to have to do the same in the freakin cinema! I've read the book twice now and still i can't believe it when Coltaine gets crucified. You'd think he'd have learnt the first time around. Now we're going to have to SEE it.

If the Gellor ridge battle is skipped out, Nil and Nether killing the mare and then being heartbroken has to be squeezed in somewhere else because it's really poignant with 2 kids having to kill something they love. AND Duiker HAS to read the bit of cloth with his nameless marine's name on it. Man, that gets me every time!

Anyway, good work Patch. I'm glad you lived through the assault on your character in the early days of this thread. It will be a great movie to watch. The only bad thing is that we'll never be able to read the book again without seeing it the way it's portrayed in the film. That's the worst thing about LOTR, my mental image of Gimli is going to look like Salla out of Indiana Jones forever.

One final comment: if Orlando Bloom's in it, i'll damn well crucify myself to end the misery of watching his acting!

[Tiste Simeon]

I'm quite big actually - 6 ft 2 and about 12 stone!
Also there is nothing sad with enjoying Monty Python, arguably the best comedy ever known to man, or indeed being apreciated in a foreign country for your cool accent!

[RodeoRanch]

All cleared up.
Words of Truth!
Yahoo!

Sorry about being skeptical, Patch, but one quickly learns to not take everything at face value on the big old Interweb!

Winnipeg, eh?

I'm only two provinces away! Go Alberta!

[Imperial Historian]

Hmmm, that sounds a very good idea, the chain of dogs is nearly everyones favourite storyline in the 2nd book, and persoanlly it's my favourite story line. the best bit about it though for making a movie is that it doesn't really intersect with many of the other storylines in the book, the fiddler, kalam, feslin, mappo and others storylines don't intersect at any point, wheras in the other books the many storylines intersect at various points, so something would be lost if that storyline was removed from the movie. It was one of the only storylines which on reading teh movie thread in the phoenix inn that i thought could be pulled off in a movie.

anyway the idea sounds very good i hope that you manage to pull it off, and attract more people to the malazan world.

[Hume]

Seaking of which, something serious for a change.

@ Patch, do you plan on using actors from different countries as people from certain groups in the Malaz world, such as Aussies being Quon Tali, Canadians being Falari, Napan. Brits Being Genabackan, Black Americans being Seven cities people. But yeh that sort of thing. TO fit in with accents.
Or is something like that down near the bottom of your list of worries with making the movie.