Whatever happened to Sword & Sorcery Cinema?

You mean Joanne Whaley (added a -Kilmer soon afterwards, only to remove the -Kilmer soon after THAT?).

As for which Fafhrd & Gray Mouser book would translate best, I'd say Ill Met In Lankhmar. Get Howard Chaykin to adapt.
 

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Conaill said:
Can't help but think that Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser would make for an excellent "buddy" movie though...
Let's get somebody on this right away. I think the Fafhrd and Mouser stories would have great potential as a Sword & Sorcery series.

I think they could do a series of movies. Pick several of the stories, make several movies, DON'T try and cram everything about the two into a single movie.

Warrior Poet
 

hmm conan the b, dragonslayer (very cool effects if the thunderstrom outside matched the action in) and what other fantasy movies out there were good.
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let see ferrets and loincloth guy got his own series in 90s
let see rocket sword launcher guy the actor got his own series in 80s
williow left me weeping
 

Ranger REG said:
"Dodgy"? Is that a new lingo for "mediocre"?
No it's primarily British slang for uneven or uncertain quality.

Edit: To be on topic a bit. ;) I think S&S movies problems were not so much that they flopped as much as they were never major blockbusters. People in Hollywood seem to look for the next big thing over something that brings in a little bit of money.
 
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Ranger REG said:
"Dodgy"? Is that a new lingo for "mediocre"?
No, it's not new at all. And plenty of British slang has been popularized on this side of the Atlantic; especially through the Harry Potter books and movies. I'm surprised you've not heard dodgy. I actually use that term quite a bit nowadays.
 

Joshua Dyal said:
I'm surprised you've not heard dodgy. I actually use that term quite a bit nowadays.
I never bothered to ask.

As mentioned before by others, S&S is associated with cult film genre, so they are never taken seriously, especially when you have scantily-clad priestesses.

Gawd, I missed those days. :D
 

Speaking of REH...

I would actually like to see Solomon Kane done...maybe with Russell Crowe (he rocked in Gladiator, and would be a good S&S star, now I think on it).
 

Klaus said:
You mean Joanne Whaley (added a -Kilmer soon afterwards, only to remove the -Kilmer soon after THAT?).

According to the IMDB, Joanne Whaley and Val Kilmer were together for 8 years. They married after meeting on the set of Willow back in 1988, and divorced in 1996.
 

Warrior Poet said:
I have my doubts about an Elric movie. How do you capture all that narrative, all the weird chaos and happenings, in a film? Seems to me a project beyond the scope of film. I've been plenty wrong about film adaptations of fantasy material before, but Elric seems particularly resistant to translation, I think, or perhaps that it feels like it would be more in danger of falling on its face really, really badly.
I fear they would downplay his reliance on drugs and Stombringer's soulfeading. I'd say there is 70% chance Hollywood would change Elric to object to the humans torture & enslavement, rather than his uncaring attitude towards the atrocities.

At least we know hollywood can pull the look off. :lol:
 

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