Variety reports that Sony will be adapting the 14-novel series in a deal with Red Eagle Entertainment and Radar Pictures, while Rafe Judkins, who has credits on Agents of SHIELD, Chuck, and Hemlock Grove, will write and produce.
So, a studio with a horrible track record for genre adaptations, has hired a guy with a horrible CV on genre shows to run this. I'd feel better about Egwene being in charge of, well, anything.
Chuck was never successful because it was a dimwitted show with crap production values, coasting entirely on in-jokes and winking at the audience, whose funding seemed to come largely from product-placement they tried to lampshade. Agents of SHIELD's defenders keep making the excuse about it being shackled by its ties to the Marvel Cinematic Universe...but the show's creative peak was the Hydra story which came entirely from those movies. The one decent season coasted on the fallout from that event before devolving into a soap-opera. I tried to watch the new season because of an interesting movie character making an appearance, only for them to deploy one of the new "diversity" versions of the real Marvel characters, which was really silly. I haven't got around to watching Hemlock Grove, but I have yet to hear anything good about it.
It's such a part of my life and has been for 22 years now that seeing any depictions of it are beyond frightening. I wonder if animated would be better than live action. Time will tell which way they go and which network it gets to, if any.
I can't WAIT to see actors much less physically attractive or possessed of the presence and impression of the characters in the books and my head, shrilly arguing and infodumping in British accents. Whee.
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