[QUOTE=Just Some Guy]
Mainly because they were the first two stupid cartoons from the eighties I could think of. 
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:eek:
Fool of a Took! Thundercats was NOT stupid!! Begone, ere I summon Silver **Tyger Girl ** to smite thee!
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer]
:eek:
Fool of a Took! Thundercats was NOT stupid!! Begone, ere I summon Silver **Tyger Girl ** to smite thee!
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Snarf snarf.
Oh look, Tigra just did Something Stupid (just as well or we wouldn’t have a plot for this week).
Thundercats, ho!
[QUOTE=SCSimmons]
I always thought it would make a good TV series. I’m sure they could squeeze about twenty seasons of one-hour episodes out of it …
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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.
[QUOTE=Baldwin]
I’ve never read the books; they’re bestsellers, but an awful lot of people seem to think they comprise a big shit pizza.
ETA: I’m using “big shit pizza” as a literary metaphor.
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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
[QUOTE=Bosstone]
Right now fantasy epics are in, too, what with LOTR, Harry Potter, and Chronicles of Narnia all enjoying decent box office take.
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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.
[QUOTE=Merijeek]
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
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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.
[QUOTE=Cervaise]
Most of the other similar genre-type efforts…
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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.
[QUOTE=Just Some Guy]
If I had a nickle for every time a studio “acquired” the rights to something followed by the fans ran around screaming “They’re making a ______ movie!” and then the film never gets out of the talking about it stage I’d be able to fund my own Thundercats vs. Go-Bots movie. There’s about a 1% chance that this ever goes anywhere but I can see the reaction already albeit not in this thread…
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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?
[QUOTE=John DiFool]
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).
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Zelazny’s Amber Chronicles are similarly optioned and shelved.