The 3 Trailers of Awesome

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Words are wind; trailers are a tease -- looking forward to actual reviews of finished products.

I hope all of them do their source material proud. The one that needs to succeed most IMO is the D&D movie; the others are spinoffs of already successful franchises who largely do their source material proud (cough season 6-8 of GoT cough) . If D&D succeeds it opens a whole new vista for us fantasy geeks.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

I have the highest hopes for the D&D movie, because I believe it is very possible for a few screenwriters to write a fun little fantasy adventure movie based on an existing property and have it actually be good. It seems like a readily achievable project which, unless they bog it down with setting up sequels or yet another cinematic universe, has comparatively limited narrative ambitions. It might succeed, it might fail, but it doesn't seem like a bad idea to me.

These fantasy series seem like bad ideas to me. I think that the sort of writers room committee required to produce a season of television drama is unlikely to pull off the sort of sweeping fantasy epic they are hoping for with either the LotR or the Game of Thrones prequels. I'm not a "book is always better" extremist by any means, but the mess that is the Wheel of Time adaptation made me realize how poor the prospects for a a fantasy series are when they really want to do "grand, sweeping epic" but the writing is done by a large team of Hollywood writers on a deadline rather than by an obsessive novelist taking his or her own sweet time. And Wheel of Time has proper source material, they just choose not to use it half the time and make nonsensical story decisions in place of it (many of which made sense for the individual episode, but not so much the series as a whole). These series are making up a lot more. They look awful pretty, but I suspect they will both be narrative messes.

I think having any television show have satisfying season long storylines requires someone at the helm with both a strong creative vision and the pull to get their way to a degree rarely achieved, and that the structure of television writers rooms works a lot better for episodic storytelling based around well-developed characters than for grand ongoing narratives.

 

[wicked cool]

im going to be curious on who comes out as number 1 highest rated /most viewers

i would say house of dragon get the most views and non gaming fans will like the most

 

[Morrus]

im going to be curious on who comes out as number 1 highest rated /most viewers

Most viewers will be the movie, presumably.

 

[wicked cool]

Most viewers will be the movie, presumably.

im suprised. i figured the D&d movie would be last

 

[Morrus]

im suprised. i figured the D&d movie would be last

Popular TV shows get like 10 million viewers. Game of Thrones had 13 million by the final episode. Movies get a lot more than that.

 

[Parmandur]

im going to be curious on who comes out as number 1 highest rated /most viewers

i would say house of dragon get the most views and non gaming fans will like the most

Honestly, I expect any future GoT adjacent media to sink like a lead balloon at this point. Alienating fans isn't such a great idea.

Lord of the Rings, on the other hand, is one of the most beloved media properties of all time on one of the most commonly subscribed to services. If it is good, it could really go big.

Homor.Among Thieves has a huge advantage, other than being a movie: it is aimed at general PG-13 audiences looking for a laugh.

 

[payn]

Honestly, I expect any future GoT adjacent media to sink like a lead balloon at this point. Alienating fans isn't such a great idea.

Lord of the Rings, on the other hand, is one of the most beloved media properties of all time on one of the most commonly subscribed to services. If it is good, it could really go big.

Homor.Among Thieves has a huge advantage, other than being a movie: it is aimed at general PG-13 audiences looking for a laugh.

This is a really odd take. GoT was excellent, until Martin's writing ran out. So, I can seem some trepidation as to the new series being good. Though, I have no idea why original stuff based on Tolkien is a slam dunk?

 

[Parmandur]

This is a really odd take. GoT was excellent, until Martin's writing ran out. So, I can seem some trepidation as to the new series being good. Though, I have no idea why original stuff based on Tolkien is a slam dunk?

Just going off of what people say about how aggressively angry they were at the ending. I've never watched the GoT show, and stopped reading after the rather bad Feast for Crows. Though I did read enough to see that the ending that people hated was where the story was going all along.

Whereas Tolkien is Tolkien, even if it's riffing off of two pages of Appendix material.

 

[payn]

Just going off of what people say about how aggressively angry they were at the ending. I've never watched the GoT show, and stopped reading after the rather bad Feast for Crows. Though I did read enough to see that the ending that people hated was where the story was going all along.

Whereas Tolkien is Tolkien, even if it's riffing off of two pages of Appendix material.

Maybe you are right. Though Id take Martin any day over Tolkien. I know he was hugely influential in the genre, but his writing is not great. However, probably moot because its not Tolkien writing this, its folks writing it based on his work. Who knows where its going?