#adaptation idea

[friendlycursedspaceotter]

Potentially hot take: wuthering heights would be adapted so well as a Bollywood tragic romance

[letrune]

How I would adapt House of Leaves to television

A miniseries with three segments:

The Navidson Record. It is this found-footage-esque horror of the weird house itself.

Zampanò's comments and reenactment of the Navidson Record.

Johnny's vlogs and reenacted events and stuff that happened to him.

As the episodes go on, these three parts shift between each other. As in the book, more and more screentime is taken over by the third one, eventually forming a meta-arc.

An entire episode that starts with the Navidson Record, interjected by Johnny's in-the-corner commentary, which eventually turns out to be longer than the actual footage of the Navidson Record in the story itself.

Screen next to screen, with multiple different arcs going on at the same time.

Will Navidson says a sentence, cut to Zampanó's reenactment of the same scene being different, which stops mid-sentence to Johnny's comments, which then turns into a short story, then we DON'T finish the second layer of reenactments.

Maybe even a fourth layer on top, a "making-of", which starts straight enough, but turns out to be a fictionalised version of the very series itself.

But that is just my take. Maybe others got better ideas. I mean, there is a reason why Mark Z. Danielewski doesn't let us into this house.

[mzannthropy]

I re-read Agatha Christie’s short story Philomel Cottage again (it’s one of my favourites) and I got a thought, damn, this would have made a great Alfred Hitchcock film!

Agatha should have written more domestic thrillers, she’d absolutely slay that genre. Read it for free here.

[thewilliamambervein]

Okay so I got some adaption stuff for Kamen Rider. Specifically 7 seasons I would want to start off a series with and a basic gist. I could probably do an episode by episode adaption, but these would set up the origins and whatnot.

1) Build. Mostly the same with it being set on a artificial island originally for scientific discoveries that the world could share but not resetting things. Treating Evol like Braniac from the animated Superman show.

2) W. The results of the Kamen Rider technology left behind by Build flooding the world and being used by the rich and self-important.

3) OOO. Revealing that aliens visited and accidentally left technology behind which was combined with alchemy and magic.

4) Wizard. Now some people know that magic is possible after OOO and attempt to use the technology to their own personal gain.

5) Fourze. New Kamen Rider technology with the promise of the aliens that made Evol showing up again, realizing what Evol and their left-behind technology did. The good guy convincing them that despite everything they should keep the technology they made using theirs.

6) Gaim. The technology is unknowingly put into an AR video game to further the goals of an ancient and different alien race. This goal it to try and use the Kamen Rider technology to achieve what Evol was able to but it backfires.

7) Drive. Some humans decide to try to mess with reality again using the Kamen Rider technology and end up breaking the natural order of things. The character would still be kicked off the force but would not join back up after the corruption was revealed and exposed.

In the Drive season I think a crack down on Kamen Rider tech would be important and Kamen Riders would be seen as criminals/walking nukes. So after that we could still do big stuff but it wouldn't be the same hat. Like Zero-One could be like if Iron Man was a wanted criminal or in Zi-O it's a time traveler bringing Kamen Rider tech to the past when it wasn't originally supposed to be there.

Decade could be like a Kamen Rider bounty hunter because of Zi-O's actions. I didn't watch Zi-O (I swear I tried) so I'm not sure what his involvement is.

[mzannthropy]

My mind can really work in some type of way.

I just had a thought about Emma Watson appearing in an Agatha Christie adaptation (because in Three Act Tragedy there is a character called Hermione) and it just makes so much sense to me that she should be in one! So, Agatha Christie has a lot of young women characters who find themselves solving a mystery. Victoria of They Came to Baghdad, Frankie from Why Didn’t They Ask Evans (which has just been adapted), Emily in The Sittaford Mystery, Anne in The Man in the Brown Suit, etc etc. I think Emma would be great at one of those roles. There is, of course, the best known of all, Tuppence Beresford (though she’s only young in the first two books, as she and Tommy actually age, unlike Poirot and Marple). So I’m thinking, what if Emma played Tuppence? The David Walliams series a few years ago was not really much, we could do with a new, better adaptation. So who would play Tommy, I’m thinking, so I’m thinking what if Emma was reunited with her HP boyfriend, Rupert Grint? And you know what, Tommy is a redhead like Rupert!

[mzannthropy]

For the past few days I’ve been thinking about a Rilla of Ingleside adaptation. (This is the final book in Anne of Green Gables series that focuses on Anne and Gilbert’s youngest daughter during WW1.) I think this could do really well onscreen and WW1 is always a popular subject. 

I think it would be better as mini series, rather than just one movie. The book is all written from Rilla’s POV (a chunk of it is her diary) but an adaptation could expand on it and include also Nan and Di, and others. Also a bit more of Anne & Gilbert, who play only a small part in later books. It would be just so great to have stories of people who stay at home during the war and wait for war news and letters from their loved ones at the front, especially women. Susan could be quite a character. And Miss Gertrude Oliver, a bit of a gothic heroine. They could add a back story about what actually happened in her early life, we’re only told she suffered a lot. Other LMM works could be used as inspiration for this. 

And despite it taking place during the war, there’s still a lot of funny moments. The war wedding especially (Rilla: Susan make a wedding cake. Susan: ??? Okay. So umm, who are you marrying? Rilla: No, not for me!) Susan chasing Whiskers-on-the-Moon with the boiling pot. (Also a good example how men immediately resort to insulting women when they’re told “no”.) Oh and the dog who spent the entire time Jem was away at the station waiting for him! Stock up on tissues already.

So what does everyone think?

[idiosyncreant]

This is an exhibit of “ideas come cheap it’s the execution that makes it art”

(That “etc” also is doing a lot of work in these notes…)

Is this a fantastic idea? Yeah! Will I ever actually write this?? ABSOLUTELY NOT

I don’t know how intelligible this is to others, but for the non-drama audience You’re My Destiny is a show that kicks off with a mistaken-identity hookup and resultant pregnancy that brings the MCs together.

[archiveofthelibrarian]

Okay, everyone. So. We want a Silmarillion adaptation but we don't want it to be screwed over, right? Then how about making the adaptation be more of story narrations with good the events playing out on the background in episodic format? Like, you know those narrated storytime episodes in kid's shows? But with the Silmarillion.