In the hands of RobertKirkman, as in Walking Dead, no less. I’d pretty much resigned myself to it not happening, not least because I figured Game of Thrones was unstoppable. But it seems TBTB think this will be the ideal series to fill the gap left by GoT’s ending.
No casting announced yet. What say you all? I’d like John Barrowman as Eric, James Callis as Julian, Tricia Helfer as Llewella, and Kevin Connolly as Random. I don’t dare speculate about Corwin. Also, Mr. Rilch had a suggestion. “Does everyone have to be white? Maybe Benedict could be black? Or Caine and Gerard, if you overlook them having the same mother as Julian?”
Whatever happens, if Kirkman is in charge, I know it’ll be dark and gritty, like it’s supposed to be. Man o man, I can’t wait.
Interesting. And I agree - no need to be monotone about the family. Not with all the different mothers involved. In fact, they could change up the lineages a bit if it fits the casting better. As long as they don’t mess up the sibling rivalry aspects when they share the same mother.
I still have stuff in the trailer where I lived during undergraduate school. In search of Nine Princes in Amber, I walked over there, search and did not find it. Unable to find it in the house, I walked over again, and found it. I could shadow walk!
Unfortunately, I could not find a shadow trailer where I had a shoe box full of hundred dollar bills.
I adored the original series, when I read them in the early 80s (I was in high school). I then read the second series as each novel was published, and loved them, as well.
It’d probably been 15 or 20 years since I’d read them last, and, earlier this year, I bought the audiobook version of “Nine Princes in Amber” (which had some very good voice work by Alessandro Juliani). But…I have to admit, my 51-year-old self didn’t enjoy it nearly as much as my 17-year-old self had.
The thing that probably bothered me the most is that it’s rather sexist, with the few female characters (even the Princesses) being pretty two-dimensional, existing to either be manipulated or slept with (or both). I suspect that it wasn’t terribly noteworthy in 1970 (when it was written), or in 1982 (when I read it for the first time), but it’s definitely something that my older self noticed.
A lot of the book is Corwin’s internal monologue – especially in the early chapters, as he’s struggling through trying to learn who he is. ISTM that that’ll take a very deft touch to translate well to the screen.
NO. No Fillion. He’s too much of a lightweight goofball to play Corwin. He could do the wisecracking part, but not the very dangerous, hard-fighting side. Come to think of it, his comedic touch is too light for even the wisecracking part of Corwin. Needs to be someone with more bite.
Huh. I had assumed they were doing just the first five books but their doing all ten. I wasn’t a big fan of the second half but the Corwin books are among my favorite. Thanks for the heads-up!
A theme park. I thought it was more goofy.
My complaint is, no film. It would be difficult to do, and you couldn’t get “Then the fit hit the Shan” in there.
