Why hasn't Anne McCaffery's Pern series been made into movies yet?

Cafe Society
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So, a series about special people psychically bonded to their giant flying lizards?

How are you going to convince today’s kids it isn’t an Eragon ripoff?

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[QUOTE=Lightray]

Occasionally, the girl protagonist is instead a sensitive young man protagonist. And there seems to be lot of “unwilling young virgin girl drawn into sex almost-but-not-quite against her will, who finds it leads to True Love.” (as with Pern’s rape-by-proxy-via-dragon-sex situation)

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And of course McCaffrey liked it so much with Lessa in Dragonflight that she did it all over again with Menolly in The White Dragon, although in the latter case Menolly had just been waiting for Sebell to get off his arse and give her one.

The first two-thirds of Dragonflight was excellent, on the whole. But dragging in time travel was a huge cop-out and caused more problems than it solved.

Anne seems to have a bit of a thing for this whole brilliant but unrecognised girl protagonist shtick, doesn’t she?

@Mr Dibble: Kinda like how Pratchett now has people telling him that Equal Rites seems derivative of Harry Potter, no?

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Because God loves both humanity in general and Anne in particular, and thus in Her Mercy has chosen not to allow the books yet to be perverted?

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[QUOTE=Voyager]
And also, despite Bladrunner, Dick’s work is usually set in Northern California.

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Weren’t Valis and Radio Free Albemuth set in Southern California, though?

-FrL-

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[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor]
Because they suck, & they make no sense.
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Even if we stipulate that your opinion of the books is correct, on what planet would suckiness and lack of sense prevent them from being made into movies?

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[QUOTE=Steve MB]
Even if we stipulate that your opinion of the books is correct, on what planet would suckiness and lack of sense prevent them from being made into movies?
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Any planet without a Sci-Fi channel?

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Frylock writes:

> Weren’t Valis and Radio Free Albemuth set in Southern California, though?

And Dick lived in Southern California the last few years of his life.

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[QUOTE=Dr. Rieux]
Oh, yeah?
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Say what you want about the movie (believe me, I won’t disagree), but the CGI for the dragons was absolutely top notch.