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Dresden Files show
Mira:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on December 02, 2020, 07:02:37 PM ---Yeah, it premiered 13+ years ago, so I'm sure they could update some things for the better but keep the dark tone. I just don't know that something 3d would be necessary for Dresden, like Clone Wars or Rebels, and I don't like the cartoon animation of other shows like Resistance. (I'm not that familiar with modern anime, so my cartoon exposure is pretty limited to star wars these days)
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Yeah, they could do something along the lines of the Madalorian. I don't like the idea of doing the Dresden Files as a cartoon, it is more suited to live action in my opinion.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Yuillegan on December 02, 2020, 03:19:26 AM ---Which is why you have to look to successful cult anime series - ... Avatar (both the Last Airbender and Legend of Korra) etc.
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The Last Airbender is in my top two T.V. series of all time. The other is Babylon 5, and that has a heavy "first time I've ever seen something like that factor to it." I'm not sure which takes number 1.
--- Quote from: Yuillegan on December 02, 2020, 03:19:26 AM ---It's a hard balance - most books don't adapt easily to the screen.
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I know I've mentioned Magnum P.I. before, but the way that series was done would probably work really well for the Dresden Files. It's largely from Magnum's perspective and Tom Selleck narrates a lot of the show as Magnum. It's also kind of funny how many similarities Magnum and Dresden have. P.I.'s, always having money trouble, tall, live underground, boy scouts, troubled past, underestimated by enemies.
Yuillegan:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on December 02, 2020, 07:02:37 PM ---Yeah, it premiered 13+ years ago, so I'm sure they could update some things for the better but keep the dark tone. I just don't know that something 3d would be necessary for Dresden, like Clone Wars or Rebels, and I don't like the cartoon animation of other shows like Resistance. (I'm not that familiar with modern anime, so my cartoon exposure is pretty limited to star wars these days)
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No of course it wouldn't be necessary to have 3D. It might even be easier in 2D. You'd have to think more about what would work better for the show versus where the market is and how successful it would be. The animation for Clone Wars or Rebels doesn't gel for me, but that's my personal preference too.
--- Quote from: Mira on December 02, 2020, 07:08:55 PM ---Yeah, they could do something along the lines of the Madalorian. I don't like the idea of doing the Dresden Files as a cartoon, it is more suited to live action in my opinion.
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With a big enough budget, it might be amazing. The problems start when the budget isn't there and it gets worse the more they change just so it suits the whims of producers. I was a bit concerned when a reboot was discussed and I am just hoping it will work. Hard to even get multiple seasons now as well no matter how good you are.
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on December 02, 2020, 08:31:35 PM ---The Last Airbender is in my top two T.V. series of all time. The other is Babylon 5, and that has a heavy "first time I've ever seen something like that factor to it." I'm not sure which takes number 1.
I know I've mentioned Magnum P.I. before, but the way that series was done would probably work really well for the Dresden Files. It's largely from Magnum's perspective and Tom Selleck narrates a lot of the show as Magnum. It's also kind of funny how many similarities Magnum and Dresden have. P.I.'s, always having money trouble, tall, live underground, boy scouts, troubled past, underestimated by enemies.
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--- Quote from: Bad Alias on December 02, 2020, 08:31:35 PM ---The Last Airbender is in my top two T.V. series of all time. The other is Babylon 5, and that has a heavy "first time I've ever seen something like that factor to it." I'm not sure which takes number 1.
I know I've mentioned Magnum P.I. before, but the way that series was done would probably work really well for the Dresden Files. It's largely from Magnum's perspective and Tom Selleck narrates a lot of the show as Magnum. It's also kind of funny how many similarities Magnum and Dresden have. P.I.'s, always having money trouble, tall, live underground, boy scouts, troubled past, underestimated by enemies.
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Oh yeah, the Last Airbender is great. Jim has even said in his dreams he would like that team to do Dresden as an animated series. And he's also quite the fan of Babylon 5, so I can see that working. Two quite different yet fantastic shows. Magnum P.I. would definitely work for the earlier books but I think into the middle of the series it wouldn't quite work. But I agree, some elements like the narration would really suit and there are definitely some similarities between the two works.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Yuillegan on December 06, 2020, 02:31:53 AM ---The animation for Clone Wars or Rebels doesn't gel for me, but that's my personal preference too.
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I can't stand the Clone Wars animation. I'd be so disappointed if they made a DF cartoon that looked like Clone Wars. The animation in Rebels seemed to be a little more refined to me.
--- Quote from: Yuillegan on December 06, 2020, 02:31:53 AM ---Magnum P.I. would definitely work for the earlier books but I think into the middle of the series it wouldn't quite work. But I agree, some elements like the narration would really suit and there are definitely some similarities between the two works.
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I bring up Magnum, P.I. for a Dresden Files show more to show that a first person perspective can work in a T.V. show just as well as in a book. Quantum Leap, another one of my favorites, was pretty similar for those elements of largely done just from the main character's perspective with the main character doing a lot of narration. Both shows were produced by and either created or co-created by Donald P. Bellisario.
The reason Magnum and not Quantum Leap came to my mind were because of all the character similarities between Magnum and Harry. I think that both shows illustrate that first person perspective books can be adapted to T.V./movies without completely changing the structure of the story.
--- Quote from: Yuillegan on December 06, 2020, 02:31:53 AM ---And he's also quite the fan of Babylon 5, so I can see that working.
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I wasn't really thinking of how B5 could be applied to making the Dresden Files T.V. show, but I can see a similarity in it's story structure to the books. The case files are both episodic and serial in nature like the episodes of B5. What I mean by that, for those who haven't seen B5, almost is every episode of B5 was a self contained story, like each case file. You didn't need see all the other episodes for any particular episode to make sense as a story. But you did need to see almost every episode to know what was going on in the overarching story. Pretty much every episode advanced either the overall narrative or a major plot thread.
Kindler:
Personally, I liked the fight scenes in Fate:Zero the best of most recent anime. FMA:Brotherhood was good, and I think it's probably the closest thing to the scale of what we'd see in a Dresden Files adaptation (it's one of a few anime I've watched that handled small, personal stories with dramatic fight scenes and large, scaled-up battles in the same show). Though I haven't watched Naruto, and if they followed the manga, that's probably the last season or three.
Honestly, I think the Death Note style might be a bit off for Dresden. It's a little too realistic; I prefer it when they don't try to capture human anatomy as closely as DN did. I had some similar nits to pick with Castlevania.
Of recent adaptations, I actually thought Promised Neverland had the right approach to character modeling. Semi-realistic, but with just enough exaggerated features to avoid Uncanny Valley and difficulty with fluid motion. Maybe even something like Golden Kamuy would be appropriate; I don't recall any non-Japanese or Ainu character models from the manga, but it's got outstanding character design, in my opinion.
As long as it doesn't go full 2010-now Disney or Pixar, I think it could probably be made to work, regardless of what happens.
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