| What other Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy-ish books would you like seeing adapted to film or TV [message #23672] |
So, 01 Mai 2005 12:49 |
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What other Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy-ish sci-fi flavored
(or not really) books (not written by the late, great Douglas Adams)
would you like to see get adapted into either a film, TV series, or
mini-series for TV (because a cinema wouldn't have enough time to be
faikthful to the source material) and please say why, for each ones
named ?
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| Re: What other Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy-ish books would youlike seeing adapted to film or TV [message #23690 ] |
So, 01 Mai 2005 13:47 |
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gaz203 [at] hotmail.com wrote:
> What other Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy-ish sci-fi flavored
> (or not really) books (not written by the late, great Douglas Adams)
> would you like to see get adapted into either a film, TV series, or
> mini-series for TV (because a cinema wouldn't have enough time to be
> faikthful to the source material) and please say why, for each ones
> named ?
Interesting question.
A frequently recurring theme in this froup is naturally what other books
one might want to read if one liked Douglas Adams. Usually there is no
consensus on anything that resembles Douglas Adams very much, and most
that gets close is not science fiction.
That of course limits the possibilities of answering your question :-)
Wodehouse comes to mind as one of the authors often mentioned when
people ask for Douglas Adams-like material, but I'm not sure how much tc
material there is in that.
If we turn to any science fiction I might like to see on the screen, it
boils down to, for me, anything where the visuals will be cool - after
all I read the book, so I have that angle, the reason for a movie should
really be visualisation.
And that probably explains my dread at going to the HHG movie - the true
humour in HHG could never be visual, and indeed it seems my fears are
not without reason - the main criticism I seem to see on the froup is
against not being faithful to the play on words and cutting half lines
in what is essentially small sketches.
Thus I will have to go to the movie with everything about hitchhiker
forgotten, except to see visualisation of some concepts and hope that
the m,ovie will be great then. Who knows?
Anyway, I'm straying away from your question - hmmm - How about Dan
Simmons' Hyperion series? That might work, but would have to be a mini
series - or indeed a true series - to cover the story properly
Or here is a crazy idea: How about making a movie over Jules Verne's
"From Earth to Moon" and "Around the Moon" without changing anything
about the wrong physics etc.? That would be _great_!
Best
Kåre
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| Re: What other Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy-ish books would you like seeing adapted to film or TV [message #23730 ] |
So, 01 Mai 2005 17:52 |
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Dirk Gently forms a shaky coalition with Sherlock Holmes
to battle Asimov's version of Moriarty in "The Ultimate Crime"
from his Black Widower's mysteries:
http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/Asimov/Stories/Story290.ht ml
Be sure there's alot of comic feuding going on between
Dirk and Sherlock as their methods are surely perpendicular.
Make Moriarty the third dimension and throw in some
hyperdimensional beings for good measure.
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| Re: What other Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy-ish books would you like seeing adapted to film or TV [message #23773 ] |
So, 01 Mai 2005 23:54 |
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gaz203 [at] hotmail.com wrote in
news:1114944585.162575.102130 [at] f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
> What other Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy-ish sci-fi flavored
> (or not really) books (not written by the late, great Douglas Adams)
> would you like to see get adapted into either a film, TV series, or
> mini-series for TV (because a cinema wouldn't have enough time to be
> faikthful to the source material) and please say why, for each ones
> named ?
>
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett. A down-on-its-luck police force is
pretty easy for Joe Average to root for, and it's early enough in the
series that the only real in-joke is the Librarian, who's even funnier the
more people who behave as if they don't get what the big deal is.
An Oz pastiche ala Return to Oz combining perhaps the return of the Wizard,
and Dorothy & Family's immigration to Oz.
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| Re: What other Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy-ish books would you like seeing adapted to film or TV [message #29268 ] |
Mi, 04 Mai 2005 14:23 |
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gaz203 [at] hotmail.com wrote in news:1114944585.162575.102130
[at] f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
> What other Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy-ish sci-fi flavored
> (or not really) books (not written by the late, great Douglas Adams)
> would you like to see get adapted into either a film, TV series, or
> mini-series for TV (because a cinema wouldn't have enough time to be
> faikthful to the source material) and please say why, for each ones
> named ?
>
I read Good Omens (Pratchett/Gaimen) yesterday. I don't think it would
fit well into the length of a movie, but some of the scenes could be
quite impressive on film. Notably Crowley's last trip in his Bently
and the stuff with the Hell's Angels.
peter
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