OT: Sword of Truth coming to television Fall 2008

[DrPraetorious]

IIRC, Sword of Truth is some kind of Ayn Randian preachy right wing bollocks, yeah? I recall that it was even worse than Modesitt in terms of lecture:adventure content.

Song of Ice and Fire sounds much more promising, and I can't argue with dragons+boobies=4w3some+win.

[Agrajag]

Song of Ice and Fire should probably be turned into a TV series, not a movie. There's just way too much content to be contained by movies.
Take a look at the LOTR movie, it had 3 movies, each 3 hours long and they still had to drop all sorts of stuff. Song of Ice and Fire has more books, each with more pages, each page with more words (I think), and more of it has really important content.

[BigandScary]

What I want to see is a movie of David Gemmel's "Legend"

[Endoperez]

BigandScary said:
What I want to see is a movie of David Gemmel's "Legend"

YES! Even as a book, it felt more like there was an epic movie being played in my head. And the fact that Druss is old, and his axe unpossessed, and the battle is taking its toll, and he still beats everyone up just makes the skin crawl in your back.

[Meglobob]

Endoperez said:

YES! Even as a book, it felt more like there was an epic movie being played in my head. And the fact that Druss is old, and his axe unpossessed, and the battle is taking its toll, and he still beats everyone up just makes the skin crawl in your back.

Love Legend, I think its David Gemmels best book.

If done correctly, with the right actor playing Druss and some matrix style combat scenes (except with a bloody big, formerly demon possessed battle axe) and a good supporting cast, it would be a great film.

Sadly, hollywood has a track record of ruining fantasy films based on good books.

Btw, did someone mention Lucy Lawless? I can watch her all day...

[BigandScary]

Who would you cast as Druss? I would say Sean Connery, but he doesn't have the right build. I don't rally know of any hulking, aging men who are good actors.

[S.R. Krol]

"Legend" was the best ten cents I ever spent.

At the time I was able to fit in reading a lot more than I can today, and because of that I spent a lot of time in used book stores. I was browsing the fantasy section of one such store and came across "Legend". At the time I had never read anything by Gemmel and was completely unfamiliar with the book. I picked it up on a whim, and with my store credit the cost came to a dime.

Sat down that evening at dinner and started reading it and was completely amazed. One thing you learn from picking up books on the cheap, there are *a lot* of really bad fantasy novels out there. "Legend" was not. Totally blew me away.

I sought out other stuff from Gemmel but I have to say nothing seemed to equal that first taste.

[S.R. Krol]

Agrajag said:
Song of Ice and Fire should probably be turned into a TV series, not a movie. There's just way too much content to be contained by movies.

That's what's happening with it. HBO is turning it into a series, not a movie, so it should get a decent treatment. You'll still lose stuff, but that's always going to happen, but it will definitely be better than trying to abridge it down to 2-3 hours.

[Tuidjy]

I cannot see a series being faithful to Song of Fire and Ice. Too much stuff - too
many viewpoints and plot lines, too many major characters dropping off like flies,
and way too much 'War is Hell' lately. I suspect the author is an anti-Iraq-war
activist, judging from his latest two books.

[DrPraetorious]

And another character went blind, so he must be agitating for vitamin A supplements in the third world, the hippy.

"A Feast for Crows" was the provisional title for novel #4 back during the Clinton administration. You think that if not for Iraq it would've been full of fluffy bunnies?

I don't think the current military environment is what shapes his plotlines.