Can a movie work?

[jjwalla]

Do any of you honestly believe they can include all the scenes from the books and find good actors for the movie? I honestly think a movie wont work and as much as I would want to see one Id rather just have the mental images in my head than have WB view of the book.

[Taura-Tierno]

I'd rather see it as tv-series. Much more room for fitting much of the story.

 

Would they include all scenes? Of course not. They shouldn't try to.

 

Would they find good actors? Yeah, probably.

[Cillian]

Do any of you honestly believe they can include all the scenes from the books and find good actors for the movie? I honestly think a movie wont work and as much as I would want to see one Id rather just have the mental images in my head than have WB view of the book.

 

Well nobody would be forcing you to watch :P.

 

But there's an entire sub-forum for this, http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/board,253.0.html

[Mithan]

I think a movie can work.  The Lord Of The Rings worked in the movies, though obviously some stuff was dropped, but the movies were awesome in the end.

 

What worries me is that they would start the movies, and then not get critical mass to continue with it, leaving long time fans disappointed, especially if it IS good. 

[Knightfall]

I'm more of the opinion that a series would work out better than a movie, but it couldn't be television. It would have to be HBO.  ;D

 

Yes, they'd find amazing actors to do it.

 

I could be a bit premature in my opinion, but after they come out with Song of Ice & Fire, I would think there would a pretty good indication one way or another.

 

Just imagine it. They could have voice over narration by...

 

Morgan Freeman. Just close your eyes and imagine him doing the opening and closing paragraphs of the books. Maybe get him to do the voice of the Creator near the end of the first book as well, just for kicks.

[mb]

The 'Red Eagle Entertainment' section I take is the section to discuss this kind of stuff.

Another poster gave the link to the section.

 

[Usernameless]

I think a movie can work.  The Lord Of The Rings worked in the movies, though obviously some stuff was dropped, but the movies were awesome in the end.

 

What worries me is that they would start the movies, and then not get critical mass to continue with it, leaving long time fans disappointed, especially if it IS good. 

Lord of the Rings: 1000 pages/3 3 hour movies

Wheel of Time: 10000+ pages/ a Sht ton of long ass movies

[Talmanes]

There is way too much detail to be contained in one movie, which is why I also agree that a series would be better. You could do a season a book or something. I'm still not sure how that would go either though.

[metallicafan08]

The problem I have is if they make a movie they will have to leave things that aren't important to moving the plot of that first book along. Which is all well and good and the first film might work but if they continue through the series leaving little scenes and minor characters out then later on the films won't make sense if you haven't read the books and only have the knowledge of things that were shown in the films, do you see what I mean?

[Majsju]

http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/board,253.0.html

[Guest BaLefireP]

If they do make movies of WOT, I think they should start with [glow=red,2,300]New Spring[/glow].