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Amazon CEO demands a 'Game of Thrones' style hit
- Thread starter Poetic.Injustice
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cpp_is_king
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The Dark Tower.
There, I said it
There, I said it
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
The dialogue is already perfect for TV if they get the right actors. The characters are charismatic and the show would be about them rather than about the plot. So it is perfect.
Unlike, say Berserk that is brought up all the time, but it gives little material to work with and one would have to rewrite it entirely to give it the right material to actors to perform unless you want to make it a show about two characters.
The Silver
Member
What do you do after the Eclipse when all the crazy fantasy shit comes back in full force, large scale battles can be done as seen with GoT, but dire wolves AND dragons? That's too much breh. And that's nothing compared to all the stuff in post eclipse Berserk.
Subpar Spatula
Banned
You don't even need a popular IP. Game of Thrones is big budget blockbuster. They could make their own medieval fantasy or even straight up medieval world where someone tries to conquer all the countries of Eurokita or whatever they wanna call it.
You just need blockbuster style CGI, decent writing, and 1000x humans to sacrifice to make it popular.
You just need blockbuster style CGI, decent writing, and 1000x humans to sacrifice to make it popular.
StrategyFan
Member
here's one reaction:
i didn't know anything about berserk. i watched the movies on netflix
the 3rd one is one of the worst films i've ever seen. it basically turned a nice story about medieval politics / war / sieges / mercenaries into someone's dark fantasy acid trip
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
Y the Last Man could have been the next Lost years ago if anyone ever made it a TV show instead of struggling forever to fit it into a movie.
this could be huge.
RipperGrim
Member
Cash in on the Witcher games success and popularity, give us Geralt hunting a different monster every episode.
They do make money directly through selling distribution rights, Blu ray sets, etc. But that isn't their main business which is subscriptions, and yes it's that good. HBO has over 130M subscribers worldwide and they are only spending 1/3 of what Netflix and Amazon are on content. HBO Now is the future but it's not a big money maker for now
Agreed, I think TLM is a perfect fit so long as it's well casted since it relies heavily on it's core trio of characters.
Netflix bought the rights earlier this year.
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
They should contact Terry Goodkind.
Forceatowulf
G***n S**n*bi
I, along with many many others, didn't know what the flying fuck GoT was until the show was announced.
Let's not sit here and revise history by pretending like GoT was a cultural phenom before the show happened. Because it sure as shit wasn't.
Baconsaurus Rex
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BlackDoomShadow
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Why does everyone assume "the next Game of Thrones" has to be 1) a fantasy series, 2) an adaptation of source material or 3) "dark" or "violent"?
The success of GoT is because of a variety of factors that basically boil down to "good writing that creates surprising events that people want to talk about." Trying to copy some random element is exactly why we get so many terrible carbon copy movies and shows.
The success of GoT is because of a variety of factors that basically boil down to "good writing that creates surprising events that people want to talk about." Trying to copy some random element is exactly why we get so many terrible carbon copy movies and shows.
dead souls
Member
My thoughts exactly. Whatever the next big show is, it most likely won't be a fantasy series.
Dune Messiah changes everything just as much as GoT
They tried. It ended up very BDSM.
BUT WILL IT PLAY IN PEORIA?
This news does make me think those robots are in charge at Amazon video.
Forget HBO and Netflix, they can't even match the quality that Hulu is putting out.
As long as we are all throwing out ideas, I think an adaptation of The Regulators/Desperation would be dope. So would Sandman for that matter but I think Warner is still pretending they are going to make a movie out of it one day so they may not want a TV show spoiling it. Or they could take more chances on unique original stories that are like nothing else out there.
Or they can do a live action Initial D.
As long as we are all throwing out ideas, I think an adaptation of The Regulators/Desperation would be dope. So would Sandman for that matter but I think Warner is still pretending they are going to make a movie out of it one day so they may not want a TV show spoiling it. Or they could take more chances on unique original stories that are like nothing else out there.
Or they can do a live action Initial D.
While I agree with your general point there are decent reasons that they may very well consider adapting existing material. One very good reason is that it gives the series a core set of early ambassadors, if the series is done right. And if the series is not done right you won't get the GOT scale success anyway, ambassadors or not. This aside, adapting from existing material helps getting rid of some of the structural issues that Tv-series often end up having due to the poor (time wise) relationship between production timeline and script development.
RespectThySole
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The Witcher franchise has a lot of potential. Netflix already scooped that up though.
cripterion
Member
Not sure if people asking for Berserk are serious, a live action tv show would be plain awful.
They can't even get Death Note right, do you think they would do Berserk justice? lol
I'm sorry but anime from live action is always crappy, wether it's from Japan or USA.
They can't even get Death Note right, do you think they would do Berserk justice? lol
I'm sorry but anime from live action is always crappy, wether it's from Japan or USA.
Team Medical Dragon turned out alright
Imperfected
Member
People are unhappy that in the most recent season Game of Thrones characters do not spend enough time on boats.
So, they have formulated a solution.
I don't think The Name of the Wind is too similar to GoT. Multiple points of View vs One sole unreliable narrator, the world is more "magic" and the Chandrian are a more interesting ancient menace than the ice dudes.
The one thing they have in common is an author who is never going to publish the next book.
Neveeer!
The one thing they have in common is an author who is never going to publish the next book.
Neveeer!
Poetic.Injustice
Member
Liar Game also has good potential for an American live action series, though it wouldn't get as big as GOT.
Seriously. I'd do anything for a TV adaptation of The Realm of the Elderlings.
Other excellent options:
Joe Abercrombie
Scott Lynch
Brandon Sanderson
Mark Lawrence
Any of those has potential to become the next big fantasy TV series hit.
Few things are more epic than ending to the first Farseers Trilogy, I'm already salivating at the thought of it being live action
alright, this is borderline shameless. You just know that whoever came up with that concept was really digging Fables
It surely would be a task for sure, but not totally impossible one. Gardens of the Moon is a bit more straight forward than the rest, though you would need to build the world in that one. They would still need to combine stuff, so that one season wouldn't be just about Midnight Tides.
Also they could skin a lot of content. Like Redmask that took hell of a lot pages, but ultimately isn't essential. Also characters could be probably combined.
But even if they could make it more straight forward series, the viewers probably wouldn't be there.
TwiztidElf
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Sanderson stuff has already been optioned. But i believe as films. His worlds are probably a little budget heavy for TV as they're never set in medieval europe.
Its single narrator though and probably wouldn't work as a multiple character piece as so much of the plot relies on Fitz not bothering to tell anyone else anything about what is going on.
kraspkibble
Permabanned.
haha. you can't force this kinda thing. i don't think we'll get anything close to game of thrones from anybody for a long while yet.
Liveship Traders would work better imo. Lots of characters, multiple pov's, Dragons, dark and violent stuff. It's got it all really.
Brilliant.
Or just a miniseries of Wan
Give unto us live-action Yang Wenli
This could actually work.
Killer Queen
Banned
So Berserk becomes Berserk