Not a film version but ... (was: Re: UotNS and how it screws with your head)

Jane Delawney · 29 Jul 2010, 00:32 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: jane_delawney at sky.com (Jane Delawney)
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:32:17 +0100
Subject: (urth) Not a film version but ... (was: Re: UotNS and how it screws
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On 13/07/10 18:27, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> Was thinking of this the other day.  BotNS could be adapted for a 
> movie (perhaps animated) but the story would have to be simplified and 
> spelled out much more than in the book.
>
> Have any of Wolfe's works been made into screen versions?
Don't know whether any have; but regarding BOTNS did you know that 
Innovation attempted to produce a *comics* series back in 1993? I think 
it was originally supposed to be a 12- issue limited series (that would 
have covered vol. 1, Shadow, only, as far as I know).

Only 3 issues actually made it on to the newsstands. Although there was 
some interesting artwork in there (The Matachin Dance made it on to the 
page pretty impressively) and the script was apparently approved by 
Wolfe himself, the whole thing was so compressed as to be unsatisfying 
to the Wolfe/BOTNS fan, and consequently so dense that the average X-men 
fanboy would have found it incomprehensible and left it on the shelf.

Kudos to them for trying, though! Even in the world of comic-books that 
took some hubris.

JD

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