Spacekiwi wrote:rdt wrote:And each book would be stretched out into three films. Jackson makes bloat.
So?
It would mean more Honorverse movies, and it would mean that lots of stuff wouldn't be cut out. A movie script is apparently about 120 pages, so how much more could he do with 240 or 360 pages to work with, instead of 120. it gives him more room and scope. And It would probably gain an oscar or too as well.......
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Sorry, no matter how much you like the material it is not oscar-bait.
I don't agree that Peter Jackson bloats stuff. He does good character arcs andthematic pacing.
Despite what some are saying, OBS is actually quite good source material for a movie adaptation if you tweak it a little. It is well paced and builds to a climactic ending and comes with a resonable sized cast of characters with (by now) established characters and backstories to draw on.
The newer novels (anything after the Theisman coup) just have too much going on and too many characters for a film to be made of them (even if the previos books had already been done, establishing the characters) without 90% being cut.
Those in the middle would probably make good films, but not as the first: the setting needs to be introduced first with a simple plot before we tackle cultural conflicts and more complicated plots.