[Kallor]

well, it seems we are heading towards a serialization rather than a film...SE wishes all the story be told...now, having said that, it makes it easier as i don't have to worry about the 'big screen'...effects needn't be so expensive that even with a substantial budget i would still have to pick and choose in order to pull it off. anyways, we are still a distance away from doing this...

[fortyseven]

Stargate Atlantis has some awesome special effects for a tv show.

[RaZjInSaR]

stargate is the best!!!!!!!!! fear not kallor we still have faith in you leet skillz

[cauthon]

I'm still ambiguous toward this. I could be awesome, and it could wreck everything. After having seen a movie, the characters are fixed in your mind as their screen appearance, which you may not like. Addidiotnally, every book has got to be adapted to fit a movie. The fact that tMBotF is in some sense a RPG might help not to have too much cut out or altered. Also, the special effects required might **** it up even more. I'm not saying it will go wrong, just that it might. Still, it is a good thing that SE refuses to hand over rights.

[Hume]

Dolorous Menhir said:

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plus, there are no strong female characters in the Chain of Dogs story...in fact the only woman I can think of in that is Duiker's nameless marine (and Nether, I suppose). that's got to be a point against it commercially. plus it would be pretty damn depressing to watch Coltaine cross a desert for two hours fighting battle after battle and then get horribly betrayed and shot dead at the end. it's the worst happy ending ever.
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Just remember Dolorous that the merged Malaz 2nd army had a ratio of 53:47 (47 being women)roughly I think. That being said in the 7th and the Wickan tribes of the Burned tears, crow clan etc, im sure its likely that there is a similar ratio. I remember in one of Eriksons interview that he said he wanted to make it as egalitarian as possible. While their are no females in the high command structure im sure that if this did move to the screen they would comensate by showing the odd screens of females in charge of squads etc.. Or make one of the Nobles a Female as well, that not so bad noble or something.


BTW the Point on Stargate is good too I think, because some episodes in stargate arent really very much sci-fi but have more of a fantasy flavour to them.

@ ChrisP
You know your avatar always reminds of that floating metal ball in 'Event Horizan' that shifts the ship into that dimension of pure evil.
You've been intentially going for this 'evil' theme havent you ?

oh and Thanks for the Uptade !

[Tsundoku]

A TV version can tell the "full" story, without having to dumb it down by condensing it. It's also a more "personal" medium, in the sense that you can show a story from a single characters' perspective, without losing the scale like you would in a big wide-screen SFX-extravaganza epic.

I'd say go light on the FX as well. Good characterisation and writing sh*ts all over yet another big-explody-spell-colours-everywhere-yaaaaaaa type thing. Cheaper too. Build characters slowly but solidly, and people will become engrossed/feel connected, and that's the way to hook viewers. Look at "Lost", for example.

Why doesn't someone send a copy of the series to Joss Whedon?

Cheers,

La Sombra, media baron

[blewin]

but series based fantasy on TV is not done as well as a movie in terms of realistic costume, atmosphere, computer made stuff that give fantasy just more than a made-up world. I think to make a good screen representation of a fantasy story, the producers need to apply all the computer based techniques employed in fantasy movies.

For the viewers, these are the details they look for to support the story. No matter how good a story is told, especially in fantasy, you cannot achieve the believable and emotional impact without a realistic setting (fantasy setting to be achieved through all those computer tricks). So I reserve my doubt on how good they can make SE's books out of a TV series.

[Sir Thursday]

I'm sure they can find a nice desert somewhere to shoot it in...and it's not like the costumes would be too hard. Anyway, there isn't that much magic in the Chain of Dogs - I guess they would need munitions effects and possibly something with the river running red...but really, none of the characters hurl fireballs or anything like that. Mind you, they would need something Lord of the Rings style to do the battles.

I look forward to this whenever it happens.

Vox

[cauthon]

LotR style without the green ghosts, please.

[Mane of Chaos]

I'd love to see the Chain of Dogs filmed, though I do agree that the movie/series should not deviate from the storyline in the book and that there shouldn't be any character changes, similar to those that Peter Jackson made in The Lord of the Rings movies.

[Dolorous Menhir]

Haha, can you imagine some producer changing the ending so that Coltaine lives, because test audiences didn't like the original version?

[Mane of Chaos]

I sure can, but I sincerely hope that no such thing will happen!

[cauthon]

Well, has anybody got any idea on how the books are selling? What's the number of copies sold to this day?

[Kallor]

bonehunters sits at #4 on the globe and mail's bestseller list...

lmao...thanks, whomever thought to detract from my rep score..now i'm more badass than satan himself...

[Dark Mac]

Seriously? That's awesome! Best news I've had all day! Of course, it's only 12:13 AM, but still...

[RaZjInSaR]

well i have not missed much...people objecting people saying its the best good times in this thread...good times.....