(urth) Not a film version but ...

[António Pedro Marques]

Pedro Pereira wrote (29-07-2010 13:31):
> (...) That's the beauty of Wolfe. The books can be read at face value
> like any other "fantasy" books and it works. It would be extremely
> difficult to capture the "second level" reading nature of Wolfe in movie
> format and I honestly don't think it is needed to be a good desirable
> project. (...)

I don't even know that it would be very difficult. Just put the thing into 
moving pictures. Of course, a lot of detail would have to be left aside, but 
as long as a faithful rendering were done, afaic the books would be 
'captured' into the movie. Of course, to really understand it all, one would 
have to go read the books and the kilometers of exegesis that have been 
written, but that's simply starting a step below the usual. If there is 
anything that I think could work on movies or comics that's Wolfe - simply 
because you *always* have a lot of investigation you can do.

Of course, no 'creative' producers, please. Which probably means it can't be 
done. Also the incest thing would have to be toned down if there were any 
hopes of actually screening it.