Would "Myst" make a good movie?

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The Myst games are quite slow paced, as their point is puzzle solving and exploration, but they are also have an intriguing and elaborate storyline behind it, with well developed cultures, plus the most beautifully realised landscapes ever.

Would it make a good movie? Would you watch a movie or mini-series based in the Myst worlds? I assume the plot would necessarily have to involve a certain amount of a single character wandering around in a steampunk environment, which may not be scintillating entertainment, so assuming they beefed parts of it up with some good adventure and character development, do you think it would work?

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I think it would be great. The concept of the linking books hasn’t been done to my knowledge. If they do it, it must be David Lynch.

3

My first thought was “Too bad Jim Henson isn’t around to do it…”

4

Because we don’t want to be able to figure out what’s going on?

5

The Myst books would make good movies, especially if you take the visualzations from the game(s) for the scenes. I think Exile and Riven from the game series would be good movies too, if you fleshed out the backstory by showing what led up to the events in Myst. Show what Sirus and Achenar did on the various worlds.

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I have just been listening to the book on tape of the Prequel, and I have to say that unless you were dazled by the visuals and the landscapes, it would not have much mass-market appeal.

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Not the way I’ve played it. I mean, if you really want to follow someone with no sense of direction around as they try over and over again to find their way back to where they thought they wanted to go, just attach a camcorder to the roof of my car and give me directions to somewhere out of state on a highway that I’ve never been on before.

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I like the surreal aspects of the Myst family and Lynch is the king of surrealism in my book.

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If I were in charge of the movie, I would keep David Lynch far away with a hundred foot pole.

I’ve not seen any filmmaker use steampunk in quite the way that Myst would need, but stylistically Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s City of Lost Children was probably getting close, or maybe the movie of Lemony Snicket.