Scifi/Fantasy/Horror for TV & Film

[Umbran]

As for the Nightside, I liked the books, but they may be a little over the top to pull off as anything but MAYBE anime.

Yeah. By the second book there are angels flying around threatening to destroy everything. In terms of dramatic tension for a TV series, it ramps up way too fast.

 

[Janx]

Yeah. By the second book there are angles flying around threatening to destroy everything. In terms of dramatic tension for a TV series, it ramps up way too fast.

darn those angles, they're just so gosh darn acute.

 

[Umbran]

darn those angles, they're just so gosh darn acute.

So, you're going to back me into a corner over a typo?

 

[Hand of Evil]

Roger Zelazny stuff, think it is untapped.
Karl Wagner's Kane stories.
Do think Flash Gordon could make for a great cable show (HBO, STARs or MAX).
Cthulhu mythos could make for fantastic horror shows, aka American Horror.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I love Flash Gordon, but...the LAST iteration was Ass Incarnate.

 

[Janx]

So, you're going to back me into a corner over a typo?

If it's the right corner, yup. I didn't think I was being obtuse.

 

[Umbran]

If it's the right corner, yup. I didn't think I was being obtuse.

Well, we can probably leave it at that, then. We wouldn't want to clutter the thread with an off-topic tangent.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I love Flash Gordon, but...the LAST iteration was Ass Incarnate.

Had to check when the last one was done...the quote in Wiki matches your statement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Gordon_(2007_TV_series)

The show was not well received. Metacritic gave the show an average score of 35/100 based on reviews from 13 critics.[4] UK science fiction magazine SFX described episode 3 as "possibly the worst episode of anything, ever",[5] and as part of their 200th issue features, they named the series as the worst they had ever reviewed.[6] The New York Post gave the show 0 stars describing it as "a disgrace to the name of the enduring comic-strip-character-turned-movie-and-TV space hero."[7] Another UK science fiction magazine, TV Zone, in a review for episode 13, stated "the series continues to improve, and you start to see the meaning in the producers' madness—they must have hoped they could lull passing viewers into watching Sci-Fi with pedestrian, mainstream plots, before building up a world of Dune-like complexity...which might even have worked if the early episodes hadn't been so dire that no-one but reviewers are still watching."[8] When the show premiered in the UK, the magazine recommended it to readers, noting "You may well be wondering, considering the vitriol of our early reviews of the series, why we're picking out Flash Gordon as something to watch out for. Well, the point is that while the early episodes are dire...this is one series that does eventually—and we mean eventually—reward patience and endurance."[9]

 

[Scott DeWar]

So, you're going to back me into a corner over a typo?

That's right!

on an aside, at least we know you ain't square.

 

[Ryujin]

Had to check when the last one was done...the quote in Wiki matches your statement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Gordon_(2007_TV_series)

Yes, that one made me embarrassed to be Canadian. Some things, however, just don't translate well out of their time. Just too much has to change from the original in order to bring the material "up to date", which changes it to the point that an original and similar work would have been a better option.

For example I would love to see a live action "Lensman" series, based on Doc's original books, but I just don't think that it would work.