And why?
TV series / mini series.
Tokyo Vice.
I rest my case.
TV series adaptations. Because they have more time to cover more/all of the books aspects.
TV, I like to get all cozy like
I’m begging for more miniseries. Good Omens is the perfect example of taking just enough time to tell the story correctly.
The second season was fan service and unnecessary. Sometimes it’s fine to end with one cohesive story and leave the rest to AO3.
What does she have to do with TV series, I thought she was a politician?
Fanfiction, not politician. I hope there’s no overlap.
Wait, why do you hope there’s no overlap? I bet she could create a mean fanfiction that would spread a good message and encourage younglings to vote. Like that WoKe FoRcEd dIVeRsitY cartoon of my childhood, Captain Planet And The Planeteers. Yes, I’m old, now stop doing your Tic Tacs in my nursing home!
Back in the day, fanfiction.net had to impose a No Real People Fic rule, because it just got too weird and bad. I am also elderly.
I have no objections to her writing fan wank.
I will never be mad at more Jon Hamm.
TV or miniseries gives much more time to explore everything. I’m surprised it’s not more common.
Movies tend to have better monetary returns in both the short and long term for the movie and meechandising, so I can see why they would be a first financial choice.
For actually telling a good novel length story a limited series tends to be best for sure, but most will have a smaller viewing audience and therefore less likely to be funded.
TV series for stories I loved. (Preference for animation unless it’s sci-fi)
Movies for stories I enjoyed.
I don’t have a great deal of time anymore to just binge watch every show that comes across my table so I need to be more selective.
I actually agree with some people here. I enjoy mini series the most. This restricts the writer to stay closer to the source without going excessively out of bound with their interpenetration, allows for better character arcs and world building, without being restricted to 2-3 hours and no cliffhangers to sell the next 20 seasons. I prefer the 1 hour long episodes and then 8 to 12 at most. No season 2 unless it’s another finished season in on itself.
TV series would be best most of the time for adaptations. Miniseries specifically.
TV series. If it’s good, I get to spend more time with it that way.
I always said the Harry Potter movies should have been a series, each book getting a mini 6 episode season or something.
Unfortunately that cast was great, and to be the time is passed. I know they’re trying to do it again - but at this point I love the movies, they could have just been better. I don’t have any hopes that they could recreate the magic.
Depends what it’s based on. It should have a similar runtime. So short story -> movie, book -> mini series. If it’s like a series of 5 books I guess it can be a full TV show.
One season per book seems to be what usually works best. That’s why I think a Harry potter tv show of 7 seasons would be cool
Depends on what’s being adapted. Some things benefit from a longer run time to cover all the good stuff, while other things benefit from a lot of the guff being cut and the story streamlined.
With streaming the way it is, I would stop the chopping up of stories and start telling them in a new way. Shows are longer now and the quality difference is minimal, so just film and tell the story. Sitcoms and the like I get doing episodes but I think it’s time to review how stories are dispensed visually
Peter Jackson releases the ultra-extended 176 hour cut of Lord of the Rings.
Miniseries. That way I can make a proper movie week.
I wish that in order to make a non-original piece of film, there was a lengthy process where the filmmakers had to prove they had something new to say and jump through a bunch of hoops so that 17 groups of people didn’t remake the same fucking book every couple of decades.
I like original stories.
imagine If instead of writing stories, most authors just wrote somebody else’s story with the same names, sequence of events, and swapped out car for a horse and buggy. because the guy isn’t eccentric enough.
Depends. Is it a novel with a single entry? Is it a series of books with a lot of emphasis on world development? Is it an action video game franchise with little plot or lore? Or a video game franchise that prides itself on story? Is it set in the current world or in a wildly different fantasy/sci-fi setting?
In general, it’s rare for an action videogame or book to convert well into a series because it requires lots of writing by writers who didn’t invent the world and, vice versa, it’s rare for a highly detailed fantasy world to work well in a movie because there’s not enough time to do world building. Not saying it’s impossible and there are great examples of both, but generally those are the ones that don’t work out.
