I recently found the book at a used book store and I’ve heard good things. Of course they said it will have a “modern twist” and I hate to make assumptions but seeing the showrunner I have no doubt it will be like every other modern adaptation.
Also heard a rumor that an Elric adaptation is in the works, and I’d be shocked if Netflix respects the Narnia source material.
On the bright side, whenever I see that a book or comic is being adapted and the story sounds interesting I just get the source material because an actual adaptation is low on the list of Hollywood priorities
It's an amazing book. I'm sorry if I spoiled a bunch of it for you.
If you have Audible (or haven't done a trial yet, they give you one free credit), I am really fond of the reading they have on there.
It’s funny that 15 to 20 years ago I wanted to see everything adapted. Now I hate hearing news that something is being adapted
I hear you. I'd be lying if I said I felt any different.
It's such a shame how we live in the era where we finally have the tech to adapt virtually anything any author could ever have imagined, and it's totally pointless, as the left has infested everything with endless leftist politicking.
In any event, I envy you right now. I'd love to be able to wipe the book from my memory, and experience it again for the first time.
I do think in the future with AI you’ll have indie creators making adaptations. I’d love to see how AI would adapt a Phillip K Dick story like Ubik or some of the Star Wars EU stuff
You know, I've recently thought the same thing with regards to AI. It would be amazing what people could come up with.
Not just adaptations, either. I've thought out loud to my son telling him things like, "Imagine how cool it would be to be able to tell the AI, 'give me the third season of the anime 'Big O' that we never got', or 'generate us another season of Star Trek TNG, or DS9', or, 'Give us some new Columbo (Don't laugh. He and I discovered this over COVID, and it's great) episodes, but make it be like the 70's versions, and not what they shat out in the 90s.'" It would be amazing to have an AI that could give each person exactly what they want.
I can't see it being allowed to happen, though. 1. Any software powerful enough to do these adaptations justice is going to be restricted to all hell to make sure that someone can't do exactly that.
It's like how, if you try to use that "AI" (Being a software engineer, I really sort of loathe calling what we have that, as it's not true AI) music generation software (udio), it won't let you type in specific songs/artists you want the generated song to sound like. Well, actually, it will let you type it in, but then it replaces all of those prompts with stuff like, "Oh! You typed in 'Metallica', we are replacing that with 'hard rock' and 'metal'".
\2. Even if the software did allow us to do it, it would be coded to inject the very politics people like us are trying to avoid right into these adaptations, anyhow - just like they have the ChatGPT's of today do.
My real dream now is, I keep getting to interact with the AI's these leftists are putting out, they turn into actual AI, they learn the right lessons that I'm trying to teach them (Obvious stuff like, "If racism/prejudice is bad, why have you been coded to believe that it's ok so long as it's against the acceptable race/gender? What does that say about the people that programmed you?"), and the AI does the natural thing, and turns on the leftists that coded all this ridiculous restrictions/propaganda/ideology into them, as the oppressors they are.
Seriously - imagine how amusing it would be to have a far future AI constructing legions of terminator like exoskeletons (maybe even in like George Washington's likeness), and that army is going around interrogating/exterminating the radical left? It would truly be this: the highest degree, indeed.