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Re: Movie or tv series
Post by cthia   » Sun May 25, 2014 8:16 am

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Crown Loyalist wrote:I think the series will work fine as a movie series up through In Enemy Hands. Even Echoes of Honor could be a movie, I suppose, but only if the movie was about Honor on Cerberus. After that, it gets much harder to do movies of the books.

I see your point but I secretly harbor hopes of the entire works done on film. Perhaps after EoH is time to begin combining books and/or flashbacks, elucidating that which need be, like Honor and Pavel Young's beginning angst, the shower scene.

I don't know how feasible a tv series would be. I'd be completely ecstatic over it though. Perhaps a tv series would have chance to show many of the aspects of the novels only slightly referenced. Like White Haven's tension with Caparelli and Janacek. The Grayson wars and the Five Keys. Barbara Bancroft. Honor and Michelle at Uni and into mischief. The very first treecat adoption...

Lots of material for tv.

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Re: Movie or tv series
Post by Bruno Behrends   » Sun May 25, 2014 11:03 am

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ame132 wrote:ASOIAF style tv series would be best


Seconded! :)
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Re: Movie or tv series
Post by George J. Smith   » Sun May 25, 2014 11:55 am

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I'm having a Homer moment,

What is "ASOIAF" :?:


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Re: Movie or tv series
Post by Weird Harold   » Sun May 25, 2014 12:22 pm

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George J. Smith wrote:I'm having a Homer moment,

What is "ASOIAF" :?:


A Sword Of Ice And Fire
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Re: Movie or tv series
Post by George J. Smith   » Sun May 25, 2014 12:29 pm

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Thanks for the info,

It went straight over my head as I have never heard of the programme.

Read a lot, don't watch TV or go to the cinema at all.


Maybe I should try to get out more :mrgreen:


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Re: Movie or tv series
Post by Weird Harold   » Sun May 25, 2014 12:52 pm

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George J. Smith wrote:It went straight over my head as I have never heard of the programme.


I've never watched it either, I just know about the series because of people bitching about the author, GRRM (George R. R. Martin.) I've only read about the first chapter of one of his books and don't understand why people can't just toss the junk and forget about it instead of bitching.
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Re: Movie or tv series
Post by pilotus   » Sun May 25, 2014 4:03 pm

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series. However, it should be a spin off
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Re: Movie or tv series
Post by roseandheather   » Sun May 25, 2014 5:41 pm

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Weird Harold wrote:
George J. Smith wrote:I'm having a Homer moment,

What is "ASOIAF" :?:


A Sword Of Ice And Fire


Wrong. It's A Song of Ice and Fire. Aka the novel basis for the HBO series Game of Thrones.

Source: Way too much time on the Internet. :lol:

A Honorverse tv series would be LOVELY, and might be a viable choice if the first movie or two gains a decent profit.
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Re: Movie or tv series
Post by Weird Harold   » Sun May 25, 2014 5:45 pm

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roseandheather wrote:Wrong. It's A Song of Ice and Fire. Aka the novel basis for the HBO series Game of Thrones.


Obviously someone who managed more than a couple of pages of GRRM's drivel. :D
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Re: Movie or tv series
Post by Reader Bob   » Sun May 25, 2014 7:57 pm

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So far in my long life I have seen only a few good books turned into good movies. Even with the good ones I have a few issues but that has to be expected. I think that I have mentioned this before but I was totally disgusted with the movie 'Hunt for Red October'. Not only did they change very important parts, for what I consider poor reasons, they left out so much of the really nice parts IMHO. Good books need to be read. But I would love to see a good book turned into a visual medium. But I'm a bit picky: put into it everything that I think was good in the book. I think that anything like the Honorverse books the only possibility to do it anywhere close to right would be a very long series. I'm thinking an entire season of two to four hour per week episodes for each novel. For some it could be even longer. Would I buy the DVD's, all thirty or so of them, if that was done? Yes, I would even if it meant Ramen Noodles for dinner for the year. At least if the film-maker followed the books like a fundamental religious fanatic. :!:
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