I'm to the point that I am vehemently against adaptations of any books I love. I'm one of those people that's a little too into Brandon Sanderson and my heart will sink if I ever read that something of his is being adapted.
I'm to the point that I am vehemently against adaptations of any books I love.
Well, good news then. This isn't an adaptation of any books. It's forced to be set in the 2nd age, which only has a very bare-bones chronology to it. So it's almost entirely from Amazon's own imagination. I'm sure that will make things better, right?
I'm one of those people that's a little too into Brandon Sanderson and my heart will sink if I ever read that something of his is being adapted.
Part of me hopes they just realise there's far, far too much material for that to ever work. Even just the Mistborn books have decades between the two trilogies and because of characters like Hoid there are still recurring faces throughout every single book before you even get onto the various other Worldhoppers that start showing up in the Stormlight Archives.
I've pretty much sworn off film adaptations now. I'm not going to touch a single one until I've perused the source material first. Not only because we keep getting shit adaptations made by people filled with nothing but contempt for the original works, their creators, and those who liked them, but because there seems to be this all-encompassing view in society that film (and animation to a lesser degree) is the ultimate form of storytelling. That no story is worth actually perusing until it gets a movie, show, or cartoon based on it, and that every book, comic, video game, and even cartoons must aspire to have a live-action adaptation.
Which is why I now seethe whenever I see anyone bring up one of those topics "Who should star in a movie based on X." Seriously, STOP DEMANDING MOVIE ADAPTATIONS!
I'm to the point that I am vehemently against adaptations of any books I love. I'm one of those people that's a little too into Brandon Sanderson and my heart will sink if I ever read that something of his is being adapted.
Yup. Even before we knew anything about this LotR shitshow, my first reaction was dread.
Aaron Spelling and Kindred: The Embraced.
shudder
Well, good news then. This isn't an adaptation of any books. It's forced to be set in the 2nd age, which only has a very bare-bones chronology to it. So it's almost entirely from Amazon's own imagination. I'm sure that will make things better, right?
Part of me hopes they just realise there's far, far too much material for that to ever work. Even just the Mistborn books have decades between the two trilogies and because of characters like Hoid there are still recurring faces throughout every single book before you even get onto the various other Worldhoppers that start showing up in the Stormlight Archives.
I've pretty much sworn off film adaptations now. I'm not going to touch a single one until I've perused the source material first. Not only because we keep getting shit adaptations made by people filled with nothing but contempt for the original works, their creators, and those who liked them, but because there seems to be this all-encompassing view in society that film (and animation to a lesser degree) is the ultimate form of storytelling. That no story is worth actually perusing until it gets a movie, show, or cartoon based on it, and that every book, comic, video game, and even cartoons must aspire to have a live-action adaptation.
Which is why I now seethe whenever I see anyone bring up one of those topics "Who should star in a movie based on X." Seriously, STOP DEMANDING MOVIE ADAPTATIONS!