freeofgreed
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a period drama from Paul Attanasio and Wong Kar-wai
Whoa holy shit. Yes please.
a period drama from Paul Attanasio and Wong Kar-wai
Isn't there a Witcher TV series already in the works?
Netflix are doing the Witcher. That one's interesting since, on paper, you actually do to some degree have the kind of built-in audience that ASoIaF had prior to Game of Thrones airing. The Witcher series has been bought into and enjoyed by over ten million people... but not for the books. So how well the show is able to translate the audience of the games into its own audience, even while potentially being truer to the source material and having differences of its own, will be key in deciding what scale of hit it might be.
People calling for a Warhammer series are nuts. Mainstream audiences will never watch grimdark hyper violence in the millions.
Thrones snuck it's fantasy elements in after several seasons of political intrigue that would have fit in a period drama. By the time the fantasy elements took center stage people were already invested in the characters so they didn't care.
It's almost laughable to think people would watch seven foot tall hulking space marines fight bugs and demons en mass.
Some that focuses on people being people brings the audiences in. The wire, the supranos, breaking bad, etc. All these shows are focused on intricate, intense character interaction.
Dune would work if it were trimmed of a lot of Sci fi elements. Hell it might be great if adapted to low fantasy to ground it more.
American God's is looking pretty good.
Everyone suggesting Berserk isn't suggesting the real anime/novel that can be turned into a Game of Thrones style series: Legend of Galactic heroes. Multiple perspectives, space opera spanning years.
Star Trek audience would eat that right up.
S1 of that show was better than this past Game of Thrones season, but I don't think it has the same wide appeal. Great job though by the producers on American Gods.
Dune, and do it right this time.
Would love to watch a The First Law (Joe Abercrombie) TV show. Probably I'd be the only one watching it though.
People calling for a Warhammer series are nuts. Mainstream audiences will never watch grimdark hyper violence in the millions.
Thrones snuck it's fantasy elements in after several seasons of political intrigue that would have fit in a period drama. By the time the fantasy elements took center stage people were already invested in the characters so they didn't care.
It's almost laughable to think people would watch seven foot tall hulking space marines fight bugs and demons en mass.
Some that focuses on people being people brings the audiences in. The wire, the supranos, breaking bad, etc. All these shows are focused on intricate, intense character interaction.
Dune would work if it were trimmed of a lot of Sci fi elements. Hell it might be great if adapted to low fantasy to ground it more.
Warcraft, Star Wars, Transformers, Avatar. Shit like thatI can't imagine a large scale scifi epic fantasy where basically everything would need CGI.
Sanderson sold the movie rights (and presumably TV rights as well?) to DMG Entertainment
What are you talking about? Amazon spends almost twice what HBO does on original content, $4.5 billion. They are second only to Netflix. Netflix actually got scared and had to increase their spend in response to Amazon.
No it wasn't
And FYI, the internet would make a show even more popular not just inflate the hype.
I don't think there is any further news about The Witcher except that Platige Image is producing it and that it's based on the books. We don't even know if it's going to be a live action show or an animated show.Get that Witcher tvshow going.
Netflix is going low budget with it anyway, no?
I can legitimately see this happening.Easy. World of Darkness. Tons of world building, multiple locations, Magic and Tech. Vampire clans, Werewolf tribes, Mages, mortal hunters, The Church and CIA conspiracies. Guns and Sex.
Easy. World of Darkness. Tons of world building, multiple locations, Magic and Tech. Vampire clans, Werewolf tribes, Mages, mortal hunters, The Church and CIA conspiracies. Guns and Sex.
I have a suggestion... Berserk.
What are you talking about? Amazon spends almost twice what HBO does on original content, $4.5 billion. They are second only to Netflix. Netflix actually got scared and had to increase their spend in response to Amazon.
Easy. World of Darkness. Tons of world building, multiple locations, Magic and Tech. Vampire clans, Werewolf tribes, Mages, mortal hunters, The Church and CIA conspiracies. Guns and Sex.
People calling for a Warhammer series are nuts. Mainstream audiences will never watch grimdark hyper violence in the millions.
Thrones snuck it's fantasy elements in after several seasons of political intrigue that would have fit in a period drama. By the time the fantasy elements took center stage people were already invested in the characters so they didn't care.
It's almost laughable to think people would watch seven foot tall hulking space marines fight bugs and demons en mass.
Some that focuses on people being people brings the audiences in. The wire, the supranos, breaking bad, etc. All these shows are focused on intricate, intense character interaction.
Dune would work if it were trimmed of a lot of Sci fi elements. Hell it might be great if adapted to low fantasy to ground it more.
I 100% think Berserk would work well as a live-action Game of Thrones-esque TV show and be the best adaptation of the source material. Good luck getting the budget for that though.
Ugh I hate talk like this, always from useless executive types who do nothing and yet paid a fortune for it. Did it really take looking at "the data" for some time to realise big shows make the difference? Really? Did you pitch that big breakthrough to your bosses and get a fat bonus for it? Pfft."It comes out of analysis of the data and conversations among the leadership team," Price said. ”We've been looking at the data for some time, and as a team we're increasingly focused on the impact of the biggest shows. It's pretty evident that it takes big shows to move the needle"
In my opinion the world building and fantasy setting is a distant second as to why GoT is so popular. The story is set up like a soap opera or cw drama, a cliff hanger in most chapters, constant backstabbing etc. If something like LotR was on hbo with an unlimited budget it wouldnt be nearly as popular.