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Oh. Great. Because they did such an awesome job with Spiderman. Cannoli Send a noteboard - 20/04/2017 03:45:45 PM


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.
Cannoli
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Oh. Great. Because they did such an awesome job with Spiderman. - 20/04/2017 03:45:45 PM 657 Views
I remain cautiously optimistic. - 20/04/2017 04:46:46 PM 538 Views
huh - 20/04/2017 04:29:34 PM 572 Views
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I would probably feel that way about Thomas Covenant - 21/04/2017 12:40:23 AM 603 Views
Hating Wheel of Time as much as I do now, I hope they cancel it after seeing the pilot *NM* - 20/04/2017 05:15:10 PM 310 Views
*sniffs* *NM* - 20/04/2017 05:26:15 PM 302 Views
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yes *NM* - 20/04/2017 07:40:53 PM 264 Views
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Re: It will be interesting to see who they use. - 24/04/2017 03:31:50 PM 557 Views
This makes me nervous. *NM* - 20/04/2017 10:33:46 PM 345 Views
It really could go either way.... - 20/04/2017 10:43:51 PM 650 Views
You bring up some great points. - 24/04/2017 03:04:01 PM 612 Views
Let me restate what you guys are both saying: - 24/04/2017 03:25:56 PM 660 Views
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WoT + TV = Half-Assed *NM* - 24/04/2017 03:31:41 PM 330 Views
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It will be wonderful....if they do it right. - 24/04/2017 08:48:45 PM 591 Views

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