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Adaptation Do's and Don'ts

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Conspiracy Theorist:
Hindsight should be used to improve the narrative, doubtless there are things in the early books Jim is kicking himself about. Characters in later books can be referenced earlier

I would for example introduce Michael and Charity briefly in Storm Front, it’s clear from Grave Peril they had been knocking around for a bit, before Grave Peril and The Toad Demon/Harry’s destroyed door is a natural Hook for that with Michael turning him down because he is dealing with a  Human Sorceror and have Harry try to contact Michael in Fool Moon, only for Charity to tell him Michael is on the other side of the world (the Loupe Garou is supposed to be from an Saints Curse, so a Knight should be able to slay one or help provide insight.). Properly set up her hate for Harry in Grave Peril, and have the young Molly introduced early and her fascination with Harry begin.

You can do more with Rudy in Fool Moon knowing what he is going to do in Battle Ground. Set up his poor trigger discipline, and denial and hatred of Harry and Murphy even then, a brief scene at the end of Rudy taking notes on Murphy and Harry.

They can reference Butters earlier even if the character is not properly introduced until Dead Beat. He was in post throughout all the early stories. It would be appropriate for Murphy to try to get the Loupe Garou bodies to Butters and avoid Brioche because the former is more competent appropriate as that novel introduces the Alphas.

There are important people to the Dresden Files who are introduced late or underplayed as characters which can be rectified in adaption.

morriswalters:
I'll either like what they do or I won't, but I don't tell a plumber how to plumb.  The books span too much time and I am speculating that the novella form will be the basis of any show, if a show there is to be. Taking place in the Dresden Universe but not in the main story line.

JTass:

--- Quote from: g33k on May 16, 2022, 08:45:27 PM ---Don't introduce a heavy-hitter (like a naagloshii) in episode frigging #1, where it should rip Harry apart.

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The creature in episode 1 was referred to as a skin-walker, not specifically a naagloshi. There are several different kinds of skin-walkers in Native American lore.

Per Wikipedia:
"While perhaps the most common variety seen in horror fiction by non-Navajo people, the yee naaldlooshii is one of several varieties of skin-walkers in Navajo culture; specifically, they are a type of 'ánti'įhnii."

g33k:

--- Quote from: BrainFireBob on May 17, 2022, 02:57:18 PM --- Anyone other than Gerard Butler wouldn't be appropriate for Toot. But he needs to get back in shape.
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Sorry, but Toot is almost pure comic-relief until late in the series; anyone who can do a decent "straight man" & deliver comic lines with deadpan / confused delivery will do fine.  My own first pick would be (young) Jim Carrey, but I dunno if cgi-de-aging is worth it, or if Carrey the Elder is even still up to the physicality of the role.


--- Quote from: BrainFireBob on May 17, 2022, 02:57:18 PM --- ... Christina Hendricks as Charity would be possible, but there's not a highly similar young woman running around ...
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Katherine Heigl or Rebecca Romijn might be good; and the "familial looks" thing doesn't have to be too close, as a fair bit can be done in the Makeup dep't; looks can be changed a LOT via "makeover."

You know what I think the biggest challenge is going to be?  Molly.  You have to cast a pigtails-and-training-bra little girl, with the intention that they will become a sexy bombshell:  that strikes me as really VERY uncomfortably close to "grooming" (in the pedophilia sense).  I just... UGH!

Yuillegan:
I think most have made excellent points regarding changes.

Sadly, my expectations are not high given the studio it is with and their track record. I expect it will mostly be a fun murder-mystery/monster-of-the-week type of thing. Which in the early books...it sort of is. But it would take an exceptionally good team (particularly a good show runner) to do it real justice.

Dan Erikson knows how to do a great show, but he doesn't have much experience at this sort of thing. Taika Waititi has a good sense of humour, and has done plenty of fantasy stuff, but he also likes to mix in the mundanity to contrast it - but I don't think he would be available and is probably too expensive these days. Michael Hirst (of Vikings fame) also has great potential, knows how to do great personal drama mixed with enormous world-shaking events. There are probably others I can't think of right this second.

I personally am more inclined to an animated show like The Legend of Vox Machina or Castlevania. I think that would be the most effective way to get all the mythology and magic in the show as well as the story and drama (not to mention it solves the issue of actors ageing at different rates and other tricky things).

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