Which books have the worst video adaptation? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by abbadon420@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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For me it's definitely the Dark Tower, but the Golden Compas was also a huge letdown.

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[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

I agree but a direct adaptation of the books would not make a good TV show.

The books are a series of vignettes spaced decades apart with no continuing characters and each is a separate short story. While they work in the written form, they would not on the screen.

[-] hellothere@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It could be done as a series of vignettes, for example, as 6 episode series, with each series centred around each crisis. That would give you 4-5 hours - or 2.5 Mrs Doubtfires - to do what Asimov does in around 60 pages (depending on crisis).

I don't understand the argument that this is impossible to do, pretty much every film you will have ever seen will have had a shorter runtime than 5 hours, and handled all aspects of character introduction, motivation, conflict, growth, and resolution, within than time too.

I am not saying it has to be identical or a word for word adaptation - I have no issues what so ever with gender swapping Hardin - but as another poster points out, having Seldon live on (other than as recordings getting increasingly divorced from reality) directly rejects the core premise of the book, which is a refutation of the great man hypothesis.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 11 months ago

I think the closest you get is B5's Deconstruction of Falling Stars.

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