James Heard
Explorer
Yes, because people who've never read Leiber's work have more money than those of us who've read it, and every Hollywood bomb for a S&S movie kicks it for every future S&S movie. Therefore, if people can't "get it" then it doesn't do well and it actively contributes to less movies that aren't bad sequels of bad movies that people DO get. That being said, I don't think that Hollywood would have a significant problem figuring out F&GM because it's a buddy movie and they "get" buddy movies. The problem will be figuring out which of the dozens of short stories mixes well with a movie production, and of course, introducing Fafhrd as someone other than "the big guy".do we always have to dumb everything down for those people?
It's not a hurdle that couldn't be overcome, if people start saying the name they'll ignore weird spellings. It's probably even worth a joke that wasn't in the original books to make the audience feel "smart". I'm thinking Josh Holloway and Vin Diesel for the two best thieves in Newhon would bring in just about any audience as long as Ewe Boll wasn't directing...