From 'House of the Dragon' to 'God of War' to 'The Witcher,' shows are getting smacked by creators for seeming to stray from source material. And there are reasons it's happening now.
From ‘House of the Dragon’ to ‘God of War’ to ‘The Witcher,’ shows are getting smacked by creators for seeming to stray from source material. And there are reasons it’s happening now.
Not sure what’s unfaithful about House of the Dragon. Are fans complaining? Honest question. GRRM is complaining he’s not listened to but given that the man hasn’t finished his books yet I think it’s best he’s undisturbed until then.
God of War didn’t come out so it can’t be judged as unfaithful, it just looks bad.
Witcher could be the best adaptation around and Sapkowski would still find a reason to be butthurt like he was butthurt about Witcher 3 continuing story from his books even though it’s better than anything he wrote since The Lady of the Lake.
Hollywood Reporter co-opted Rings of Power into this article too but unless Tolkien was reanimated it looks like a shoehorned argument. It’s like author wanted to dunk on things they don’t like and ran out of steam very quickly.
Let’s be honest, old Georgie boy isn’t going to finish. It’s been 15 years since the last one came out. Even if it did, with that big a gap in all likelihood it would be trash.
Even if it did come out, it’s only book 6. He had at least 7 planned. From my understanding most of 5 wasn’t originally planned, but he wrote himself into a corner that took an entire book to resolve.
Yup. And he’s not going to finish it because the ending he came up with we saw in the TV series. GRRM now gets to pretend his ending is better without ever showing it, blaming things on how it was adapted.
The only genuine criticism in the article is against The Wheel of Time although I’d gladly hear Brian Sanderson ideas on how to adapt 14-long book series into a TV series that’s going to be watched by anyone other than die hard fans. Being a great writer doesn’t mean you’re a great TV producer.
I don’t think Wheel of Time would be that hard to adapt if you just made it animated (to
avoid insane photorealistic CGI budgets) and aggressively streamlined the middle books (which are a slog anyways).
It would have to be insanely long if it were to adapt the entire thing even with those cuts so then you have a problem that at season 10 you don’t get any new viewers because nobody can jump in without 9 books worth of context.
The only way to adapt it is as a Latin American telenovela. You get low budget and captivated audience of older women who’ll watch it out of habit. Rand al’Thor wouldn’t be a dorky redhead but a hot Latino lover and that’s not the only advantage here.
Not sure what’s unfaithful about House of the Dragon. Are fans complaining? Honest question. GRRM is complaining he’s not listened to but given that the man hasn’t finished his books yet I think it’s best he’s undisturbed until then.
God of War didn’t come out so it can’t be judged as unfaithful, it just looks bad.
Witcher could be the best adaptation around and Sapkowski would still find a reason to be butthurt like he was butthurt about Witcher 3 continuing story from his books even though it’s better than anything he wrote since The Lady of the Lake.
Hollywood Reporter co-opted Rings of Power into this article too but unless Tolkien was reanimated it looks like a shoehorned argument. It’s like author wanted to dunk on things they don’t like and ran out of steam very quickly.
Apparently the guy who is bitching about GOW hasn’t been involved with GOW in about 20 years and always bitches about GOW changes.
Let’s be honest, old Georgie boy isn’t going to finish. It’s been 15 years since the last one came out. Even if it did, with that big a gap in all likelihood it would be trash.
Even if it did come out, it’s only book 6. He had at least 7 planned. From my understanding most of 5 wasn’t originally planned, but he wrote himself into a corner that took an entire book to resolve.
Yup. And he’s not going to finish it because the ending he came up with we saw in the TV series. GRRM now gets to pretend his ending is better without ever showing it, blaming things on how it was adapted.
The only genuine criticism in the article is against The Wheel of Time although I’d gladly hear Brian Sanderson ideas on how to adapt 14-long book series into a TV series that’s going to be watched by anyone other than die hard fans. Being a great writer doesn’t mean you’re a great TV producer.
I don’t think Wheel of Time would be that hard to adapt if you just made it animated (to avoid insane photorealistic CGI budgets) and aggressively streamlined the middle books (which are a slog anyways).
It would have to be insanely long if it were to adapt the entire thing even with those cuts so then you have a problem that at season 10 you don’t get any new viewers because nobody can jump in without 9 books worth of context.
The only way to adapt it is as a Latin American telenovela. You get low budget and captivated audience of older women who’ll watch it out of habit. Rand al’Thor wouldn’t be a dorky redhead but a hot Latino lover and that’s not the only advantage here.
The main problem with the GoT TV series is less the actual ending than that they didn’t put in the necessary work to get there from where they were.