(urth) Film Version of New Sun?

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

I would not favor a BotNS film, for I suspect it would get all the
images right but miss the point of the book.

On 6/19/07, Christopher Hettinger <telpeurion at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello everyone,
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> I have been reading through the Urth lists on occasion for some list for
> quite some time now. However, I did not notice until tonight that it was not
> all dead. That in mind, I decided to write posing a query for you all.
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> With the success of The Lord of the Rings, many fantasy and science fiction
> literary works are seeing new life on the big screen.
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> Gene Wolfe, although a critically acclaimed author by all means, is
> completely unknown by anyone outside the box. I myself would not know GW if
> I had not accidently found a complete hardcover edition of the Book of the
> New Sun (The one with a close up on Severian in a twilight local with frizzy
> hair and a six-pack of abs featured on the cover) in my brother's box of old
> books. I have read the New Sun series three times now, and I constantly feel
> like it could easily, if done right, be the next big thing. There are just
> so many scenes beautifully articulated in the book that could be displayed
> with greater ease in visual format. The Duel on the Sanguinary Fields,
> Vodalus' feast, Severian's adventure in the House Absolute, the
> confrontation with the alzabo, the fight at baldander's castle, and the
> whole battle in the north screams the word "epic". Perhaps a movie format
> would not do the series justice, but I can think of a Television mini-series
> easily accomplishing that. In that way, you could still have all the hidden
> items littered throughout, maintain the first-person narrative, and because
> of the former, have watchable through repeated viewings.
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> Bad idea? Probably I know, but hey, it would at least Mr. Wolfe some more
> success that is due to him.
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