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Adaptation Do's and Don'ts
BrainFireBob:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on May 17, 2022, 11:05:36 AM ---Tom Cruise wishes he was 5 foot nine. He should try out for Toot.
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Anyone other than Gerard Butler wouldn't be appropriate for Toot. But he needs to get back in shape.
There's going to be some questionable casting choices. Christina Hendricks as Charity would be possible, but there's not a highly similar young woman running around. Makes the Fae in general, with their hyper good looks, difficult. And Mab/Titania? Actress needs to be towering.
From a story perspective, don't mess with the order- and they will. Need Bab-5 levels of control to adapt this particular story correctly. Other than that, this should be a relatively easy adaption compared to something like Wheel of Time or Sword of Truth- they just need to not pull a Dark is Rising or Shannara screwup with the episodes to "pull in viewers."
Snark Knight:
In terms of taking lessons from some other adaptations ...
I think the fan base generally understands a TV adaptation has to be streamlined. That's OK, it's going to happen. But if you're going to add significant arcs of new non-book material, it had better 1) clearly do something for the narrative or characterization that the cut stuff didn't work at 2) be done well. An example of done well would be The Expanse bringing in Avasarala from the start - that introduced one of the fan-favourite characters earlier than in the books, but had her doing things around the book events that largely made sense for what her job would have entailed even if unseen on page. An example of doing additions poorly would be whatever the hell the suicidal warder arc in wheel of time was going for - that bogged down a lot of run time for some exposition that wasn't terribly urgent and could have been covered in a short dialog.
Most especially don't edit fan-favourite protagonists to make them much less likeable so they don't overshadow the producers' favourite characters, or to add unearned "gritty" (again, wheel of time).
vincentric:
Watch Wheel of Time after reading books. Realize that the only ways to do worse would be to start changing character names to make them more "modern".
Conspiracy Theorist:
Agree with Avasarala on the Expanse, initially appalled, but it really worked.
Clearly there are some things the writers realise didn’t quite work when originally committed to the page and have a second chance at adaption to do better. Hopefully that would occur here.
The supernatural females are easy, a CGI filter over the actress to give them an otherworldliness. That will also show when Molly gains the Mantle. Mab changes height along with her aspect so a degree of CGI will apply in any event.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on May 17, 2022, 06:04:47 PM ---Agree with Avasarala on the Expanse, initially appalled, but it really worked.
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Especially that they used adding an earlier story for her to introduce the OPA's interest in stealth materials right from the very beginning. A nod to the readers who understood the significance, and a clever twist on all the viewers who didn't and thought it was a red herring for the season 1 plot instead of a Chekov's Gun for four seasons later.
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