From FOX: Lucifer
The trailer looks interesting, but it also seems a bit predictable.
Also predictable (from Snopes):
From the AFA petition:
:rolleyes:
From what little I remember, the Bible doesn’t say all that much about Lucifer and that most of the characteristics we associated with him come from the “Inferno” section of Dante’s poem “Divine Comedy”. Anyway, I’ll watch it when it’s available online/Netflix since I don’t have a TV.
It is based on one of the best written and most intelligent comic book series ever. Mike Carey did a fab job with Lucifer, as did Neil Gaiman before him.
I would have thought Lucifer would be portrayed as the aging Australian media mogul, Lupert Mordoch.
Uniqueorn:
Yes - comic books that were explicitly marked as for Mature Readers only.
South Park has been portraying Satan as a sympathetic character for years, but that’s on cable. To put a show on basic network prime time TV where the devil is the protagonist is a little much.
Have to agree. That series made me a Mike Carey ( perhaps better known to non-comic readers as the author of the Felix Castor novels ) fan. However a successful adaptation is likely to be tricky and FOX may not be the place for it.
Well, he has his soft spots and isn’t exactly 100% evil per se, but he very much is an anti-hero and really does come off as an arrogant ( usually with reason ), incredibly manipulative asshole. Yet another reason it could be a tough sell.
Why?
Anybody remember Brimstone? John Glover played a reasonably-likable Devil.
Only 13 or so episodes, though.
There was also the underrated God, the Devil, and Bob, with a perfect voice cast for God (James Garner) and the Devil (Alan Cumming).
IMHO, Lucifer was only portrayed as being sympathetic because he (nearly) always won in the end. He was not shown as a good or bad guy. I think the issue is more about American audiences finding it difficult to deal with moral ambiguity and relativism.
Yeah, but he only got second billing.
Dante and Milton’s Paradise Lost are the two biggies from which most of everything that everyone “knows” about Satan come from. Those were, in turn, based on Jewish Mysticism, which turned into Christian Mysticism. Most of it, I believe, tracks back to ancient Jews who either misunderstood archaic text or by trying to create explanations for references to pantheism in some of the older poems in the Tanakh that were antithetical to monotheism but could no longer be redacted properly so had become canonical. Via this process angels and demons were created, which then necessitated the creation of back stories for those creatures.
The New Testament referenced some of these legends (indicating a lack of divine knowledge), and consequently Christians needed to familiarize themselves with Jewish Mysticism. That, in turn, lead to their appropriating and expanding the mythology for themselves. But since being formalized in Dante and Milton’s works, I don’t think there’s been much more work on those lines (ignoring Mormonism).
Well, at least until the Fairness in Hell Act of 2275.
Well, at least it looks interesting, which is increasingly rare. Although I am so tired of pretty-girl-yet-tough-as-nails-cop being paired with nontraditional problem-solver formulas. Five’ll get you ten that the female lead is largely irrelevant except in her relationship with 'Ol Scrotch.