The Death of Doctor Island Movie

Kurt Schwind · 16 Oct 2006, 14:44 · from 2006-October.txt.gz

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From: kurt.schwind at gmail.com (Kurt Schwind)
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:44:37 -0500
Subject: (urth) The Death of Doctor Island Movie
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I was just thinking that we get a lot of shifty narration from the
Death/Island/Dr. stories too.  And for a Novel, WK is a lot more
straight-forward (imo) than Latro.  But I'll agree, if it were made
into a movie they'd drop all the things that make reading GW so great.

The main reason I read GW is because he doesn't treat his readers like
idiots.  Hollywood, on the other hand, nearly always does.  Not
exactly a good match.

On 10/16/06, peter heyneman <pheyneman at hotmail.com> wrote:
> In terms of translation to pure visuals, definitely. WK, like most of his
> books, has so much shifty narrator business and perspective-skewing
> mysterious detail-dropping that turning it into a movie would be almost
> impossible to do right--it'd lose much of its quality and become another dry
> Sword and Sorcery tale. His short stories, especially from that era, rely
> less on the voice and more on the image.
>
> In terms of appeal to 15 year old WOW players, I agree Wizard/Knight is
> perfect.
>
> --p
>
>
> >From: "Kurt Schwind" <kurt.schwind at gmail.com>
> >Reply-To: kurt at slithytoves.org,The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net>
> >To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> >Subject: Re: (urth) The Death of Doctor Island Movie
> >Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 08:55:47 -0500
> >
> >You think that that was more accessible than say Wizard Knight?
> >
> >On 10/16/06, peter heyneman <pheyneman at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > That's excellent.
> > > I always thought that the trio of IDD, DrOfDI, and DofDrI was the most
> > > accessible and visual of GWs works and would make an facinating triptych
> >  of
> > > short films. Hopefully this will not be awful and they'll make two more.
> > >
> > > --p
> > >
> > >
> > > >From: Jesper Svedberg <jsvedberg at gmail.com>
> > > >Reply-To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net>
> > > >To: urth at lists.urth.net
> > > >Subject: (urth) The Death of Doctor Island Movie
> > > >Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:26:01 +0200
> > > >
> > > >I just found this web site:
> > > >
> > > >http://www.doctorisland.com/
> > > >
> > > >Has anyone heard of this project before? I bit of googling brings up
> > > >that it's a short film of about 20 minutes. There's no mention of when
> > > >it will be released, but they have apparently shot most of it already
> > > >and is now in a post production phase.
> > > >
> > > >I was a bit surprised when I found it, since I hadn't heard anything
> > > >about it before, but the stills on their homepage definitely look
> > > >impressive and professional, so I really hope that we will actually see
> > > >the finished product some time.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >    // Jesper
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