(urth) Not a film version but ... (was: Re: UotNS and how it screws with your head)

[Lane Haygood]

Ever since I saw the Japanese book covers for BOTNS I've had in mind
that a really subtle anime studio could probably do the series
justice.  Damn near incomprehensible quasi-gnostic puzzles are the
bread and butter of a lot of sci-fantasy anime.

If I win the lottery, I'll finance it.

LH

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Jane Delawney <jane_delawney at sky.com> wrote:
> On 13/07/10 18:27, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>>
>> Was thinking of this the other day.  BotNS could be adapted for a movie
>> (perhaps animated) but the story would have to be simplified and spelled out
>> much more than in the book.
>>
>> Have any of Wolfe's works been made into screen versions?
>
> Don't know whether any have; but regarding BOTNS did you know that
> Innovation attempted to produce a *comics* series back in 1993? I think it
> was originally supposed to be a 12- issue limited series (that would have
> covered vol. 1, Shadow, only, as far as I know).
>
> Only 3 issues actually made it on to the newsstands. Although there was some
> interesting artwork in there (The Matachin Dance made it on to the page
> pretty impressively) and the script was apparently approved by Wolfe
> himself, the whole thing was so compressed as to be unsatisfying to the
> Wolfe/BOTNS fan, and consequently so dense that the average X-men fanboy
> would have found it incomprehensible and left it on the shelf.
>
> Kudos to them for trying, though! Even in the world of comic-books that took
> some hubris.
>
> JD
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>> - Gerry Quinn
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