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Warners' Movie Adaptation Of Tad Williams' OTHERLAND Has A Producer And A Writer!!
Merrick here...
Warner Bros. is looking to adapt Tad Williams' OTHERLAND for the big screen - its four installments are entitled "City of Golden Shadow," "River of Blue Fire," " Mountain of Black Glass," and "Sea of Silver Light" respectively.
Dan Lin (TERMINATOR SALVATION, THE INVENTION OF LYING, SHERLOCK HOLMES) will produce from a script by John Scott III.
THIS piece in Variety describes the project thusly...
Story for the adaptation is set 100 years in the future and follows a group of unexpected heroes who must escape an assassin and make their way through epic digital worlds to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to destroy humanity
When I first saw the word "Otherland" in Variety's headline, I imagined the wrong words and knee-jerked with glee, delighted that someone out there was either dorky enough or insane enough to reboot CBS' long ago defunct series "OtherWORLD..."
I know, I know. I'm easily confused and my Geekiness is sloppier and more obscure than many folks. What can I say?
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How they will do some of this though I have no idea.
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FUCKING AMAZING
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Jan. 19, 2012, 1:29 p.m. CST
I agree lacobus. I was hoping for this one more than The Dark Tower
by UGG
If this get's the budget and script needed this could be beyond epic.
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Should I check them out? I've never read any Tad Williams.
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I read the first couple books, these books are just WAY too long and involved to be good movies, but could make a quality mini series type thing on HBO Also, when Ready Player One gets optioned and fast tracked, it'll fit better in the movie world and this one will go into turn around
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Jan. 19, 2012, 1:51 p.m. CST
So long as we're getting misty for cancelled sci-fi shows... Dark Skies FTW
by Nerfee
Jeri Ryan, Jeri Ryan Jeri Ryan...
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Maybe bring back Space: Above and Beyond, but put Jeri Ryan in it!
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Patrick Rothfuss is writing the third book in this trilogy right now and so far it is amazing. The best fantasy genre series I've read in a while. A Song of Ice and Fire is great too but it's frustratingly dense and will never end. Rothfuss' series would make a terrific movie.
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I read the first and was quite impressed.
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much better stuff out there.
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Ark II
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Jan. 19, 2012, 2:15 p.m. CST
You've got to love a show that starred the great Jonathan Banks.
by cookylamoo
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Jan. 19, 2012, 2:31 p.m. CST
Just saw an EXTREMELY early test-copy of Prometheus and...
by Matt Goodman
If you are reading this sentence, you actually believed me.
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You should have finished that book - it's got a LOT of setup, but once it gets into the actual story, it's awesome. It's not 4 different stories, it's 4 books because that's needed to tell the one big story.
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Anyone remember that one? NBC ran it for 10 episodes back in 77. Always wondered how that story would have resolved.
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I must have completely missed that OtherWorld TV series! Was it a one season-and-gone show? I've never heard of that one!
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Otherland is a wonderfully written and plotted piece of speculative science fiction, mixed with strong mythological fantasy elements in the digital worlds traversed. Tom Hardy for Dread? Patrick Stewart for the weird old guy?
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i am old
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I agree with utopiacomplex 100%. This could be the type of top tier scifi Hollywood has seemingly abandoned, IF done right
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Seriously...I can't fucking believe it. It's like the ultimate vindication to my 90's fiction tastes.
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otherworld wasn't 70s - it was 80s - and it was AWESEOME That and misfits of science
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that guy is awesome
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Jan. 19, 2012, 4:42 p.m. CST
Who´s Dread, Reni, !Xabbu, Sellars.... ONLY new faces please... no Hollywood-Heads....
by AdzonVonMelk
That is some great news! I was so hoping, that someday there will be a movie made out of these books. but please no hollywood-faces for that. all new and unknown fine actors please. man, that whole thing really could be good.... but i am afraid, as allways, they do fuck it up... just think of all the mistakes you could do in casting dread... or even !xabbu... reni.... please no hollywood - crap..... god what a crucial moment in the evolution of this project.... hnng.... anyway... count me in.
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I never thought these books would ever be made into a movie, but I would love to see it. Visually they could be incredibly stunning. Not my favorite of Tad Williams works, but I can actually see some pretty great movies being made out of these books. Unfortunately I think a lot will have to be cut out.
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Jan. 19, 2012, 5:08 p.m. CST
@Zobie fatigue--YES, the 2nd Rothfuss book is out & it is excellent
by batmancw
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Certainly the technology exists now, but the choices of screenwriter & director, as always, will be crucial
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Sorry it's the only oppurtunity I have to troll. Im usually defending shit.
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Jan. 19, 2012, 6:20 p.m. CST
Scope of Otherland is massive, seems destined for failure
by Dan the Man
If this even gets off the ground I can't imagine it working. These are four long, involved books, and while the story is excellent it requires a great deal of investment to get into it. The sections involving the adventures in the "Fractured Fairy-Tales" and other crazy virtual worlds have great potential for a movie, but that doesn't really pick up until the second book. The first book is all character work and setting the scene, and it's a lot to get through. Plus I can just imagine people who haven't read the books screaming about it being too derivative of the Matrix, even though I believe the first book came out several years prior.
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Jan. 19, 2012, 7:12 p.m. CST
Screw Otherland, should have adapted Memory, Sorrow and Thorn
by gopher
Much better series from Tad Williams
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Jan. 19, 2012, 8:43 p.m. CST
Memory, Sorrow... is about a whiney little shit who gets his ass handed to him every time
by Wookie_Weed
Better off having a spinoff series following Binabik.
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Jan. 19, 2012, 8:45 p.m. CST
Tried rereading MST last year for the first time since it came out
by Wookie_Weed
Christ is it overrated crap. Simon/Seoman annoys the fuck out of me, literally 2000 pages of Simon whining and getting his ass kicked with NO character development, then suddenly he can swing a sword and is a knight. And fuck Tad Williams for taking up too much bookshelf space.
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It was released a decade too early, imho. If he'd sat on it for at least 10 years, and worked on it now, it'd be something special. Waste of potential.
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Too much story for a single film. Do a diptych of City of Golden Shadow and Sea of Silver Light. Can't wait to see the mythical Egypt, the Houseworld, Jonglers tower, and a floating sarcastic plate of eggs and bacon. FUCK YES!
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Kvothe is a great character.
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Jan. 19, 2012, 8:57 p.m. CST
I predict his girl turns out to be a resin addict somewhere in book 3
by Turingtestee
Seeing as she has already eaten a bunch
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that predated the Matrix...the best Tad Williams ever did...
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Jan. 20, 2012, 12:52 a.m. CST
Otherland and Ender's Game getting movies after all these years
by lv_426
I remember back in the early to mid 90's, everytime I would go browse the science fiction/fantasy section at the tiny B. Dalton bookshop in the mall, they were always stocked up on Orson Scott Card and Tad Williams books. Especially the Ender and Otherland series. Man, this really brings me back... to a time before the Star Wars prequels existed to piss us off. Back when the idea of a big budget Lord of the Rings movie trilogy seemed like a pipe dream. To a time of Mortal Kombat, Myst, Doom, The X-Files, The Outer Limits, and KMFDM. Good times.
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Jan. 20, 2012, 12:57 a.m. CST
I'd love to see an epic HBO series of Alastair Reynolds REVELATION SPACE books
by lv_426
Or an HBO/BBC series adaptation of Iain M. Banks CULTURE books. Maybe do each book as its own miniseries, one book to miniseries adaptation a year, which would logically break things up and give the writers and producers some time to write the best possible scripts for each miniseries storyline.
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Jan. 20, 2012, 2:14 a.m. CST
Love Memory, Sorrow, Thorn (Dragonbone Chair).
by Bedknobs and Boomsticks
Better than the current fascination with rapey, grim fantasy that barely has fantastical elements.
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Yes, It's out. I am just about finished reading it on my Kindle as we speak.
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I cant see it being done,not right anyway.. this is an epic series of books with multiple vr worlds godlike human avatars and something "other" it could be Game Of Thrones awesome or my worse geek nightmare.. Next they're going to be telling us that Donaldson's "Gap" series or Hamilton's "The Nights Dawn" trilogy is being adapted and my meltdown will be total
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