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Fantasy Authors Are Not Playing: Creators Increasingly Call Out “Unfaithful” Adaptations (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

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[–] theComposer@beehaw.org 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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[–] misk@piefed.social 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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