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Fantasy Authors Are Not Playing: Creators Increasingly Call Out “Unfaithful” Adaptations (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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[+] 7 points 6 months ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Even if it did come out, it's only book 6. He had at least 7 planned. From my understanding most of 5 wasn't originally planned, but he wrote himself into a corner that took an entire book to resolve.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    Yup. And he’s not going to finish it because the ending he came up with we saw in the TV series. GRRM now gets to pretend his ending is better without ever showing it, blaming things on how it was adapted.

    The only genuine criticism in the article is against The Wheel of Time although I’d gladly hear Brian Sanderson ideas on how to adapt 14-long book series into a TV series that’s going to be watched by anyone other than die hard fans. Being a great writer doesn’t mean you’re a great TV producer.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    I don't think Wheel of Time would be that hard to adapt if you just made it animated (to avoid insane photorealistic CGI budgets) and aggressively streamlined the middle books (which are a slog anyways).

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    It would have to be insanely long if it were to adapt the entire thing even with those cuts so then you have a problem that at season 10 you don’t get any new viewers because nobody can jump in without 9 books worth of context.

    The only way to adapt it is as a Latin American telenovela. You get low budget and captivated audience of older women who’ll watch it out of habit. Rand al’Thor wouldn’t be a dorky redhead but a hot Latino lover and that’s not the only advantage here.

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