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

Milton Jackson · 29 Jul 2010, 01:36 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: miltonwjackson at gmail.com (Milton Jackson)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:36:50 -0400
Subject: (urth) Not a film version but ... (was: Re: UotNS and how it
	screws with your head)
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I used to think I'd like to see Book of the New Sun made into a movie.
Unfortunately I doubt even the best filmmakers could make a successful
version of it. The intricacies of the story just seem to preclude the
possibility of a faithful and watchable series of movies, even in anime
format.

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ever since I saw the Japanese book covers for BOTNS I've had in mind
> that a really subtle anime studio could probably do the series
> justice.  Damn near incomprehensible quasi-gnostic puzzles are the
> bread and butter of a lot of sci-fantasy anime.
>
> If I win the lottery, I'll finance it.
>
> LH
>
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Jane Delawney <jane_delawney at sky.com>
> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> - Gerry Quinn
> >>
> >>
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