Botched source material that deserves the Dune treatment

Never would Netflix disregard quality source material and decide they know better what the fans want from a franchise. \*Stares pointedly at The Witcher\*

There are three books, they are all good. It was a nonsense adaptation of the third book with a couple elements from the second book and some made up backstory to try to tie it together.

Ahh, it's a hard set of stories to adapt given each book jumps to vastly different locations (worlds) and each time you have a new "sleeve" for the main character. It doesn't matter in book form because we're still reading the main character, but for tv... honestly I don't think it's really viable, people who liked the first one are just gonna wtf out of the second because it's so completely different.

They look a little dated but I thoroughly enjoyed them.

There's no other way. And it lends itself so perfectly to the format. Each episode starts in present day with the subject being interviewed and then what follows is their recollection. It literally prints money. I dont get how it hasn't happened yet.

Get it produced by Ken Burns and narrated by the guy who does the American experience on PBS. Peter Coyote I think is his name. Make it fake, but a serious fake.

Would have loved that. At least the HP show is a chance to improve on some weaker aspects of the films, but I’m pretty indifferent to that story world at this point. Don’t even know who I’d cast for Ged.

Makes sense. Seems like it could be done in 3 hours. Still tight, but maybe doable.

Yep, he's written the first season of his Dark Tower show. It's proving to be a long, slow process getting the whole thing started (in part due to hammering out rights issues), but he swears it's still moving forward and his first priority.

Dark Tower took like 15% of the general concept of the book and just did whatever the f***.

That seems a bit early 😬

once Invincible is over, they're going to have to do *something*

There *was* technically, or at least Todd McFarlane’s been saying that it has for years. For a while he was saying that he wanted to write/direct/finance it himself (despite not having done any of those things on a movie before) and a while back it was said that it was set up at Blumhouse with Jamie Foxx (who’s too old for the role, personally) as Spawn and Jeremy Renner as Twitch. 4 years ago it was retitled as *King Spawn* and the script was being written by a few of the writers from *Captain America: Brave New World*. But since then? Crickets. Todd’s just insanely protective of the IP and hates having to negotiate with anyone from Hollywood. Which is fair, but it would be better if he were a consultant on a new film and worked with a horror visionary like Mike Flanagan or Scott Derrickson to bring new life to Spawn.

As if to prove my point, I was not even aware of this 🤣

Been meaning to check it out in full, have seen some clips here and there. Wondering that if a new live-action film never gets off the ground that Spawn could get its own animated DCAU-esque shared universe instead consisting of a main Spawn series and other spin-offs as well

It's pretty good, though the added songs are a bit goofy. I do miss Beorn in that version though. But I much prefer the escape from the elves in the animated version to what Jackson did. My guess is I'm just old and crotchety, and the CGI chase scene stuff doesn't work for me. In fact, the first time I went to see the first film I fell asleep twice, both times during chase sequences. But I'm sure lots of other folks found them thrilling.

i would agree if the one piece live action wasn’t so good

Seriously? You're arguing that nothing is changed/lost by having Chani turn against Paul and (seemingly) walk away by the end of the events of the 1st book? It *should* change tons of things, like the very existence of Leto II and Ghanima. Not to mention potentially Paul's relationship with Irulan, who gets set aside for Chani's sake. It also goes hand-in-hand with turning Stilgar into a complete simp. (and many other poor changes, most of them relating to the final showdown on Arrakis) Dune 2 was an absolute disaster, from an adaptation point of view. A good adaptation can change events or add/remove characters, but it should keep the message of the original and the character motivations intact. Dune 2 does the opposite, 90% of things that happen ostensibly happened in the book, but for completely different (and often nonsensical) reasons. And it's so completely baffling, given how good the 1st movie was.

I don' t think it' s more about a specific character, but the whole way the adaptation approaches this. The second movie almost glorifies war, but also is distinctly against it... but it still somewhat glorifies, even just because, to depict war in a way that a blockbuster audience would be able to understand, they had to film it in a grandiose way. If you read the books, the books have such massive contempt for even entertaining the concept of w ar, even less for a sacred one, that it is depicted in a massively different and much less flattering way. It' s only about the characters, but the presentation... if you read the books, you will immedetealy get why they' re such different products. The Lynch version, even without his final cut that obviusly makes it hard to fully judge, is actually closer to a more faithful adaptation of the books, despite being a "worse" product.