:eek:
Fool of a Took! Thundercats was NOT stupid!! Begone, ere I summon Silver **Tyger Girl ** to smite thee!
Snarf snarf.
Oh look, Tigra just did Something Stupid (just as well or we wouldn’t have a plot for this week).
Thundercats, ho!
Never work. Seasons 3-36 would be a succession of one-hour episodes consisting of long ruminations on the characters’ choice of traveling cloak and angsty bitchiness.
To use “shit pizza” as a metaphor for Wheel of Time you need to put a whole hell of a lot of superficial details into your description.
Come back with at least four full paragraphs on your “shit pizza” and resubmit, please.
-Joe
Golden Compass withered and died, and that had a marketable profile. Most of the other similar genre-type efforts (e.g. Pathfinder, which is straight nonmagical history but was sold as fantasy) have simply tanked. One more high-profile failure and Hollywood will flinch back from chasing the trend.
Remember, when Gladiator came out, the “sword-and-sandal” movie was “back.” Then Troy and Kingdom of Heaven underperformed, and that was that.
The phenomenon is as old as the industry: Hollywood never quite grasps that the winning formula is “entertaining movie,” not “movie resembling previous successes.” So they may take a crack at Wheel of Time as a last gasp in a fading niche, but they’re already on to the “post-modern superhero movie” as we speak.
I see what you’re getting at, but I don’t know enough about the series for that kind of embellishment. I gather it’s some kind of sword-and-sorcery fantasy?
I seem to recall my brother really enjoyed the first few books, then kept reading out of stubborness, then gave up.
Some that seem to be relatively successful and are helping perpetuate the Fantasy film genre are:
Chronicles of Narnia
Bridge to Terabithia
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Nanny McPhee
Series of Unfortunate Events (sort of successful, but no sequel on the horizon)
The Water Horse
But less successful were:
Peter Pan
Golden Compass
The Seeker (The Dark Is Rising)
So there’s still some life in the book adaptation yet.
The Elric movie is also at a standstill as well; either that or nobody’s talking (I occasionally hang out at Michael’s Weekly Miscellany, checking for news).
My brother was on a panel about Worldcon about The Wheel of Time (with Brandon Sanderson, who’s writing the last book), and he said no one mentioned the movie deal at all. I guess the news just came out?
Zelazny’s Amber Chronicles are similarly optioned and shelved.