I personally never understood the la-la land mentality that seems to go like
OK, we have the rights to this book but it is obvious that we know way better than the author how this should be done. So we will completely change the substance of the characters and the tone of book and make something completely different. For some reason they don't feel that that they need the fans to watch/buy the movie/TV show etc or that these fans are not going to jump on the internet and trash the production to everyone they can. I get that when changing the story format from print to live action that changes have to be made, but in my view there is never a reason to change the tone of the story or the substance of the characters. The recent productions of Terry Practchett's books and Game Of Thrones is proof of how wrong this attitude can be. Michael On 17 April 2012 14:21, Dan Rutter <[email protected]>wrote: > @John, > > Watch the Spartacus series. Lots of adult themes with that show. > > Regarding the Legend of the Seeker show, Sam Raimi and Terry Goodkind came > to an agreement (more from Terry, I believe) to create the TV series with > very basic affiliations to the books. > Terry felt that he has created the books to the degree that they have, and > did not want the show to ruin the integrity of the books, the same way > Harry Potter is different from the novels to the movies. > > I sincerely hope that something does come through from Ray's works. More > like the GoT series, and true to the stories we have read. > > > Dan > > > > > Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:28:04 +0200 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: Midkemia on tv > > > > On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:24:40 -0400 (EDT), John Buttimer > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > i think I am just getting immune to the violence and sex lol. Its > > > so commonplace I guess I don't even notice it you know? > > > > You probably aren't looking with an "should I let my child look at > > this?" eye. > > > > -- > > Jean-Marc > > >
