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Nothing is ever going to top the adaptation of Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe that one crazy theater production in South Carolina put out with its nightmare-skeleton-tree take on Aslan.
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I don't understand why film production people always want to try and do the entire Chronicles of Narnia; the 'main characters' (as in the people you can try to Daniel Radcliffe) are only in four of the seven books and like everyone has always said trying to adapt 'The Last Battle' is pointless. 'Dawn Treader' doesn't feature the full family cast so really you've got two credible films that you can sell. Just do those two and put a post credits thing that explains that Narnia is a big world with many other stories and then, if the money and cultural impact somehow appears, you can do other films (but you probably shouldn't since most of the books are bad).
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Jul 3, 2023 20:53
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A TV series makes more sense as than you can do each season as it's own sort of different thing, you know as the books did looking at a different aspect and story of Narnia with each. You know exactly like The Wire!
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Jul 3, 2023 20:59
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I'd also bet money none of them have read the books they just know it is a franchise with name recognition
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NorgLyle posted:I don't understand why film production people always want to try and do the entire Chronicles of Narnia; the 'main characters' (as in the people you can try to Daniel Radcliffe) are only in four of the seven books and like everyone has always said trying to adapt 'The Last Battle' is pointless. 'Dawn Treader' doesn't feature the full family cast so really you've got two credible films that you can sell. Just do those two and put a post credits thing that explains that Narnia is a big world with many other stories and then, if the money and cultural impact somehow appears, you can do other films (but you probably shouldn't since most of the books are bad). I think some of them are doable -- A Horse and His Boy and The Magician's Newphew wouldn't take much tweaking to become great films tbh. I've always thought the former would work really well as an animated adventure series in the vein of something like Avatar, but the economics aren't there so it'll never happen. The Last Battle is laughably impossible to adapt, for more reasons than just fantasy Muslims declaring Jihad on Narnia, but the bit with the dryad being chopped down has stuck with me.
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Jul 3, 2023 21:41
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They should really just start with The Magician's Nephew since it is a prequel about the origins of Narnia and would let them test the waters (and also keep them from doing ANOTHER adaptation of the first book.)
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A lot of those proposed Mattel movies sound dire. Kaufman-esque Barney, gently caress off. On the other hand knocking out cheap PG-13 horror programmers based on gimmicky toys like the Magic Eight Ball seems likely to turn to a profit. I expect we'll see a bunch of those and the more expensive prospects like Hot Wheels go unmade.muscles like this! posted:They should really just start with The Magician's Nephew since it is a prequel about the origins of Narnia and would let them test the waters (and also keep them from doing ANOTHER adaptation of the first book.) Only if they get Swinton back as Jadis/The White Witch. High Warlord Zog fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Jul 4, 2023 |
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Jul 4, 2023 00:00
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The Magician's Nephew also has some really cool imagery like the wood between worlds and the dead world where the White Witch is the only living being.
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Jul 4, 2023 00:05
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muscles like this! posted:The Magician's Nephew also has some really cool imagery like the wood between worlds and the dead world where the White Witch is the only living being. Yeah, it gets a bit boring when it leans into the creation myth and "actually being a prequel" stuff in the second half, but the first half of the book is chock full of amazing concepts. I can think of at least two different properties that have nicked the wood between worlds concept outright, and they should, it's great.
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Jul 4, 2023 00:15
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High Warlord Zog posted:A lot of those proposed Mattel movies sound dire. Kaufman-esque Barney, gently caress off. On the other hand knocking out cheap PG-13 horror programmers based on gimmicky toys like the Magic Eight Ball seems likely to turn to a profit. I expect we'll see a bunch of those and the more expensive prospects like Hot Wheels go unmade. It's hard to get really mad about the slate they've proposed because a "Magic 8 Ball Horror Comedy" piques my interest so strongly.
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Jul 4, 2023 00:23
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Also Narnia is hella Christian and if you want to adapt that side of it (and honestly you kind of need to for a proper adaptation) you have to have people that at the very least won't immediately turn it into Evangelical propaganda
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Jul 4, 2023 00:27
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Kevin Sorbo as Aslan. He wears the costume from The Wizard Of Oz.
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well why not posted:It's hard to get really mad about the slate they've proposed because a "Magic 8 Ball Horror Comedy" piques my interest so strongly. Here's 15 million dollars and a toy, try to make the next M3GAN, is the kind of cynical branded content I can get behind to be honest
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Someone should adapt the Space Trilogy instead, or at least the first one. Still Christian but at least there are some giant space otters on Mars.
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Chairman Capone posted:Someone should adapt the Space Trilogy instead, or at least the first one. Still Christian but at least there are some giant space otters on Mars. They wouldn't be space otters, then. They'd be Mars otters. Think these things through.
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Feldegast42 posted:Also Narnia is hella Christian and if you want to adapt that side of it (and honestly you kind of need to for a proper adaptation) you have to have people that at the very least won't immediately turn it into Evangelical propaganda Ideally I would love to see Ridley Scott do this. But Greta Gerwich has made movies critical of Christianity too so this can also be interesting.
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muscles like this! posted:They should really just start with The Magician's Nephew since it is a prequel about the origins of Narnia and would let them test the waters (and also keep them from doing ANOTHER adaptation of the first book.) they should do magician's nephew if only because im curious how greta gerwig would do the jadis's weird, hosed up dead world and the "deplorable word" QuoProQuid fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Jul 4, 2023 |
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well why not posted:Kevin Sorbo as Aslan. He wears the costume from The Wizard Of Oz.
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Prowler posted:Sweet, can't open the lovely site to see the embedded pictures without logging in and had to instead read the article. "that's not chocolate  "
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Jul 4, 2023 15:20
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There was a TV adaptation of Candyland a few years ago. It was a reality cooking show on the Food Network starring Kristin Chenoweth as the Candy Fairy.
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Jul 4, 2023 17:01
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Kristin Chenoweth’s head is so small sometimes I think she’s a birdhouse.
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Jul 4, 2023 19:39
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There was already a good adaptation of Narnia up to the Silver Chair. 
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Jul 5, 2023 00:18
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Disney+'s Crater was released May 12th and has now been removed from Disney+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWIeQmRNZEY
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Tars Tarkas posted:Disney+'s Crater was released May 12th and has now been removed from Disney+ The viewership for that particular movie must have significantly collapsed
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Jul 5, 2023 06:25
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It definitely leaves a hole in the lineup.
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never heard of this in my life
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It looks like a by-the-numbers Disney tween movie? Not particularly good, but also I don’t see anything in the trailer to pull the whole movie
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whydirt posted:It looks like a by-the-numbers Disney tween movie? I was gonna say. Did I miss that someone in the cast or production pulled a Spacey?
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Jul 5, 2023 12:24
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Warner Brothers pulling Batgirl and a Zemeckis movie for tax write-off purposes means it’s now open season on anything that “underperforms” by the nebulous standards of streaming.
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Jul 5, 2023 14:07
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Yeah WBD memory holed a bunch of things and now everybody is doing it.
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Jul 5, 2023 14:13
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Well that doesn't bode well. Knowing Hollywood finances every-time they shelve a film as a tax write off they're adding in the costs from at least half a dozen other movies.
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It's not for tax write offs, you can only do that if you never aired the product. It's to cut licensing fees to the production companies and residuals to cast and crew, particularly the writers and actors during the strike.
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Jul 5, 2023 14:29
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Streaming continues its decline. Buy physical media.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Streaming continues its decline. Buy physical media. Yuppp. Unfortunately, there's a growing number of things that have no physical release of any sort. That leaves only one option 
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Jose Oquendo posted:Yuppp. Unfortunately, there's a growing number of things that have no physical release of any sort. That leaves only one option Barbarian never got a physical release. What the gently caress!!!!
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Jul 5, 2023 15:58
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Okay which Nepo baby do we have to green light to get criterion printing on overtime
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Jose Oquendo posted:Yuppp. Unfortunately, there's a growing number of things that have no physical release of any sort. That leaves only one option Agreed, but the reason I say to buy it is because if there's strong physical media sales this actually encourages these dummies to release stuff on it. I know, I know. Me telling a handful of people on a dead old forum isn't going to make any difference. But I'm pretty evangelical about it IRL, and unlike in the last 5 years I'm actually getting some traction now. Encouraging!
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Alan Smithee posted:We need a bargain bin streaming service Isn’t this basically what Tubi is?
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