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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd go one further. Do longer run remakes for good source material that ended up with a bad movie.

Golden Compass Movie = bad

His Dark Materials limited series = fantastic

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, there are so many movies based on media with a deeper and richer source material than can be presented well in a 2-hour movie format. For example, the Ender's Game novel spent a significant amount of time on the progression of Ender's career at the Battle School and the movie only spent as much time as was necessary to show that he was good. A TV series could tell the parallel story of Ender's Shadow as well in the same season.

A counterexample is that sometimes the TV series may over milk the source material and drag out which should be a shorter story. The first season of American Gods was awesome, but they kept dragging out the series way too much by stretching out the stories of minor characters and fumbled in the end.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just as long as we avoid giving money to Orson Scott Card...

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago

We just have to wait for him to die first.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do longer run remakes for good source material that ended up with a bad movie.

I immediately thought The Hobbit for some reason.

God that trilogy was so painful.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I immediately thought The Hobbit for some reason.

God that trilogy was so painful.

That doesn't count. There was a bunch of stuff in those movie that never happened in the source material.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think remaking it with less.

I even watched the fan edit, and it was still too much.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh good to hear, I just acquired his dark materials, but haven’t seen it yet.

There are so many poorly executed great ideas. I’d love to see them redone, whatever format (tho complex stuff does tend to be better serialized… limitedly - end the story when it’s done, not when people give up on it because it fell apart)