I'd be interested to see an adaptation of the Empire Trilogy, but as you say, I don't know if it could be done without some substantial decolonisation of the source material and unlinking the cultures of Kelewan from their barely-veiled real-world analogues, otherwise you'd just get a mishmash of what might quickly come to be some quite racist tropes. You'd also have to change a whole bunch of character names for a start, because IIRC there are a whole load that are Asian place names with one letter changed eg Nacoya/Nagoya etc, but that's the least of it. It is frustrating because there is a lot that's good in the series - I reread them recently too, and I found much more to like in the third book than I remembered, particularly the stuff re: the magicians and the lands outside the Empire.
I've been so nostalgic since the WoT adaptation started that I've been rereading a lot of old faves. The Fionavar Tapestry is apparently getting an adaptation, which I'm profoundly sceptical about already because it sounds like they hate the books, IDK. I understand that people feel they want to update things for modern audiences, but if I were adapting those particular books, I'd make it a period adaptation and set it in the time period the books were set, because that would be much more fun than trying to set it now with modern kids and modern sensibilities. I'd also leave the real world action in Toronto, but I think I read somewhere they wanted to move it. Why? Stuff can happen outside of America, FFS. Clive Barker's Weaveworld is also apparently getting an adaptation, and ditto, that's being modernised, and the main action there is also being relocated outside the UK. No idea why. Personally, I'd love to see Julian May's Intervention adapted, and make that a period adaptation too - an alternate history starting in the 60s. That would be grand.
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Date: 2024-04-16 04:39 pm (UTC)I've been so nostalgic since the WoT adaptation started that I've been rereading a lot of old faves. The Fionavar Tapestry is apparently getting an adaptation, which I'm profoundly sceptical about already because it sounds like they hate the books, IDK. I understand that people feel they want to update things for modern audiences, but if I were adapting those particular books, I'd make it a period adaptation and set it in the time period the books were set, because that would be much more fun than trying to set it now with modern kids and modern sensibilities. I'd also leave the real world action in Toronto, but I think I read somewhere they wanted to move it. Why? Stuff can happen outside of America, FFS. Clive Barker's Weaveworld is also apparently getting an adaptation, and ditto, that's being modernised, and the main action there is also being relocated outside the UK. No idea why. Personally, I'd love to see Julian May's Intervention adapted, and make that a period adaptation too - an alternate history starting in the 60s. That would be grand.
Erm. That got away from me a bit!