#adaptaions

[razzberry-pi]

desperately need the directors of everything everywhere all at once to direct an adaptation of this is how you lose the time war

[thedegu]

thoughts about adaptations for the podcasts I've listened to 

WTNV: made for tv special or four-part mini series, live action. maybe a hybrid of 2d animation and live action- just to up the weird factor

TMA: best in podcast form; might work well as a visual novel but uses the medium too well to translate perfectly to a different medium- would be difficult but live action as well. directed by Guillermo del Toro because he’s the only monsterfucker who would understand  

CR1; is getting a animated special so hhhh not gonna comment

CR2: the same people who did the castlevania series would be great for any CR adaptation

TAZ A: animated series or seven movies *has* to be animated in the style of the book or the animated trailer- something cartoon network-y

TAZ B: live action mini series or a full four season TV run.  SCI-Fi Channel, CMT,  or something along those lines (i haven't watched tv in a long time so idk what channels are out there anymore)

TAZ G: slightly yet to be seen but something similar to TAZ A, Cartoon-network style animation maybe a hybrid or 3d landscapes and 2d animation. could work with mo-cap 3d animation as well

TPP Juno: i think this series is by far best suited for the big screen.  Riddely scot, The Wachowskis, Patty Jenkins, are all good choiceness for a big-screen adaptation.  though an up and coming queer director would be the best fit for the Juno stories.

Find us Alive: still kind of early to say for sure, but i’m feeling mini series or a movie, beyond that there isn't enough of the series yet for me to have an opinion: could be a video game 

tbh any of these series were directed by Guillermo del Toro i would be first in line for a midnight screening. feel free to add your own ideas/opinions  

[bookgeekconfessions]

Logan

5 Stars Reviewed by Naomi

Directed by: James Mangold Written by: James Mangold, Michael Green, Scott Frank Starring: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart and Dafne Keen

Official Synopsis: In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces.

For most of my life, I have had two great loves; The Batman and The Wolverine. It comes from weekday afternoons in front of the TV watching these two larger than life characters kick ass and take names while being dark, broody and angry. There have been many Batmans’ close to my heart, but Hugh Jackman is Wolverine.

Superheroes aren’t new. Whether it’s Arthur, Beowulf or Hercules, we have had tales about man as myth and legend since the first humans used their imaginations to tell stories. But, there is just something about Wolverine. Whether it’s his willingness to use deadly force, the adamantium forcibly fused onto his bones or his status as the ultimate anti-hero, Wolverine is one of the most popular comic book heroes of all time.

With Logan, Wolverine is now cemented as one of the best cinematic heroes of all time.

Comic book adaptations aren’t new. Whether it’s Adam West’s Batman, Christopher Reeves’ Superman or the cartoons of our childhoods, we have all grown up with comic book characters in one form or another. I walked into Logan aware that I was not getting the average comic book movie. You can tell from the trailers that you’re not getting The Avengers or even another installment of X-Men, but something new. Even that knowledge did not prepare me for the experience that is Wolverine’s last stand.

The Wolverine is retired. He’s old. Logan is limo driver with a drinking problem and a secret. He is hiding the most dangerous mind in the universe and that mind is slipping into dementia. Logan has one goal, raise enough money, take a boat and sail out the rest of his days with his old friend, away from the world and its troubles.  When a stranger with a little girl in possession of his anger and adamantium claws approaches and calls him by a name he long buried, Logan is once again pulled into the duty of saving a young mutant life.

Logan is a risk. It is the first time that the ‘genre’ has broken out of the mold. Super Hero movies are usually a story about a galaxy, world, continent or nation in trouble and a hero, or a group of heroes must save the day. Logan is not about that. Like, at all. It’s a modern-day western in the likes of Shane or Unforgiven where a man is on the run from his nature and faced with his greatest fear and the past he’s been trying to avoid.

The film does this character justice, by examining this man that we have all been obsessed with for decades. What is Logan afraid of? What has he never had? What does Logan need?

These questions are heavy, but for a man who has watched people and a species die around him, it’s a burden heavier than those of normal mortals. 

The director, James Mangold, dares to answer these questions. But, also the question that I myself wondered...who could possibly be Wolverine’s final villain? He’s faced Mageneto, Stryker, Sabertooth and the dark Pheonix. What could possibly threaten Wolverine at this point? Time, old age and his own body.

For someone who has loved Wolverine since elementary school, old man Logan is heartbreaking. Watching him be slower, weaker and not on his game was like a punch in the gut. He’s softer and out of practice because he’s taken off his suit and put the X-Men behind him. But, he is still Wolverine. The action sequences are fast paced, well executed and bloody. Hello, R-rating.

R ratings are interesting. I wasn’t the biggest fan of Deadpool, but I appreciate how it’s rating helped the creatives bring to live an authentic Deadpool. Well, Logan’s R-rating brings to life the Wolverine he’s always been, but so much more. Rated R means it’s not a kids film. It gave the filmmakers greater creative license to give Logan and Professor X the time they need to tell this last story. They can sit in conversation about the past, present, and future without having to resort to gimmicks. It gives the story time to unravel and the tension the correct time to build.

Which is important. Because, by the time you meet Laura, or Lil Wolverine as I call her, you are already emotionally compromised. Dafne Keen, the young actress who plays Laura, is a miracle. It’s amazing how Hollywood finds these kids who can sit in a scene with Patrick Freaking Stewart and hold their own. Dafne is a magnet that you can’t take your eyes off of. She fights viciously and to win and yet she’s still a little girl.

There are so many questions and drama and emotion in this film. Logan takes the mold that is the action film or the super hero film and decimates it in true Wolverine fashion. A film can be action and it can be drama and it can have a comic book character as a star. There’s no reason to separate it.

Logan is a call to arms for the Marvel and DC cinematic Universes. Similar to the change in quality that was brought with The Dark Knight, we have a new style in town and it will be interesting to see how future films run with the new found freedom given to them by Wolverine’s last hurrah.

Logan is funny. It’s smart. It’s action packed. It’s heartfelt. It will absolutely kill you and then bring you back to life. It is the Wolverine film I have been waiting two decades for and didn’t even know it.

I highly recommend it. A must see.

[katiekat228]

After 2 months of being inactive on YouTube I’ve finally uploaded a new video!

[mezzalunanova]

Thinking of writing a short adaptation of Pinnoccio.

It would be about a trans kid, and his nose would grow every time he says it doesn't bother him when people call him a girl. And instead of a pleasure island he gets taken to some kind of religious group that tells him being treated as a girl is worth it if he gets to fit in with everyone else. And at the end he gets to turn into a real boy. 

[dirtydreviews-blog]

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter

It seems where running out of ideas when all we can do is another book adaptation that will draw those who simply want to see it for the name. Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter is a film that’s title alone will draw fans from all around, unfortunately it does not deliver.  This over acted, true blood-esc, slow moving, and partially true story is just another flop that Burton can add to his list of productions. The effects are cheesy, the plot is farfetched, and the concept is just out of this world. Thinking I would love to see our 16th president as a vampire hunter, I was sadly surprised.

The adaptation begins with a child Lincoln and his family who live on a plantation owned by Barts, while seeing a fellow friend beat, Lincoln intervenes causing his father to lose his job and his mother to be attacked by Barts in the middle of the night. Eventually this leads to her death and Lincoln swears vengeance on Barts after his father tells him that he had poisoned his mother. Older, he tries to claim his revenge but is overpowered by Barts who is reveled to be a vampire. He is saved by Henry Sturges, a Vampire Hunter who has been hunting vampires for a very long time. After telling Lincoln of the truth and offering him a part in the hunting, he accepts, and cue the Rocky montage.

After back to health and fully trained, Sturges sends Lincoln on his way to receive letters by night with the name and where to find certain vampires to kill. Armed with a silver axe, and a silver pocket watch on his being at all times; Lincoln successfully tracks down many Vampires and kills them down. After witnessing an auction for slaves he soon finds passion in stopping this from happening, even more so when he follows a lead that takes him to a large plantation where slaves are bought for food for the vampires. Figuring that he can cut the vampires supply he then becomes an abolitionist and continues to track and kill vampires by night. He eventually tracks down his mother’s killer and after an over the top battle, on top of a stampede, where horses are thrown as weapons, he gets his revenge. But soon after his fiancée is too killed by a vampire where he again seeks his revenge and gives up his hunting ways to focus solely on starting a new family and his political career.  

In Washington, Lincoln is met by never before heard of friend, Edgar Allen Poe, who,”of course” knows of the vampires and their plans. Poe is then murdered which pushes Sturges to summon Lincoln to New York where he is told the vampires are intending to start a civil war so that they may conquer the north and claim all human life as their own. With this information, Lincoln goes on to debate Douglas, an ally to the vampires and loses. This in turn though gets Lincoln great publicity and respect, which allows to him get the Republican nomination and eventually win the presidency. His election triggers the first battles of the civil war, where vampires defeat union troops due to an obvious set of abilities and immortality.  So to defeat the vampires he decides to again try to eliminate their food source and creates the Emancipation Proclamation Act and encourages slaves to fight their owners.

Tragedy again strikes when his son is assassinated in the White House by a leader in the confederate vampire army. Enraged, Lincoln banishes all vampires from the White House and sends out troops to confiscate all silver to make silver weapons, which you would think would make headlines. Knowing of an oncoming betrayal; Lincoln tricks the head of the vampire army into a trap where he picks his axe back up and once again becomes a hunter. In this explosive scene a train, on fire, and on broken track is the battle grounds where Sturges and Lincoln must defeat Adam and escape the train, which he successfully does using the iconic silver pocket watch he has always owned. His wife, in the meantime, is using the Underground Railroad to carry all the silver to the troops. Upon arrival the troops are attacked by the vampires but this time are ready, silver bullets in hand they defeat the oncoming vampire army and go on to win the war and allow our First Lady to get her revenge. After learning the Vampires have fled the country and decline the lure of becoming an immortal hunter he heads for a relaxing night at the theatre. Flash forward, Sturges is in modern time’s approaches a man as he once did Lincoln, leading us only to believe there will be a [insert president here] [insert folk lore being here] hunter, faux sequel, not excited.

This film does it all too over the top, you just cannot take it seriously when it tries so hard for you to do so. If this were to take the same route as Snakes on a Plane, and Piranha, both movies that knew they were not to be taken seriously; then it would have been successful. Instead this film tries so hard to make you believe Lincoln truly balanced his career and underground hunting life without ever getting noticed. Too many plot holes, over acting, and bad looking vampires leads this film to fall short in the fantasy film realm. Although the story was garbage, I do commend Walker on his portrayal of our beloved leader; he looked the part, and held the political Lincoln we all know to be true, well. I would not encourage anyone to see this film, it’s too long, you can see everything coming, and not even the stuff that is written in history, it is just too obvious. I won’t bother with it ever again but if your vampire movie choices are between this film and Twilight…just kill yourself. 

[doctorofwhut]

The Last Airbender was a bad comic book movie

 See, there are two styles when it comes to adapting television into movies.

Style One is when you take the premise and the character names and maybe even some trace of the actual plot lines and update to modern day. It's used mostly with older shows.

And apparently also with spy shows, which I did not notice until I made this. 

Style Two is when the movie is a continuation of the show. Same actors, same established plot lines, and if the show continues on after that, then the movie becomes part of the canon. It's mostly used with Disney children's shows and/or shows that recently ended.

I have mixed feelings about what I have created here today.

Comic book movies, on the other hand, draw from a large and varied canon and the specifics are usual unknown/accessible for the majority of the audience. It's similar to Style One from above, made from broad strokes that seek to reference the source material without becoming bogged down by depicting the time Aang lied to get two tribes of stereotypes to stop fighting.

That could work. Technically. Technically I'll eat a potato if enough butter, cheese, sour cream, and chives have been slathered on it.

Still not enough cheese to make me even consider putting this near my mouth. 

[doyoulikewaffle-blog-blog]

They're making a Wonder Woman adaptation?! God dammit, next they'll be making an Aquaman film.