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No Myth!! ABC Commits To Pilot
Based On DC/Vertigo’s FABLES!!

Awesome by David Cloverfield	Dec 8th, 2008 12:25:49 AM
Love the funnybooks
Awesomeer! by seppukudkurosawa	Dec 8th, 2008 12:30:11 AM
Now who to play Snow... Anna Paquin? Does she do television?
Paquin does cable... by Sherman_Lives	Dec 8th, 2008 12:31:50 AM
See Also: True Blood. Will this last as long as Pushing Daisies, or only as long as the new Fantasy Island?
who the HELL calls it funny book? by mistergreen	Dec 8th, 2008 12:42:29 AM

I don't know. by Onyx390	Dec 8th, 2008 12:55:17 AM
Fables deserves better. Brian Fuller better, maybe. It is one of the best contemporary comics we have right now, and I won't be able to stand it if they don't do it justice.
Don't bother, a TV show would be terrible. by Flim Springfield	Dec 8th, 2008 12:55:28 AM
A weekly show doesn't have the budget to include all the little details that make Fables great.
Could be very AWESOME...could Suck. by jimbojones123	Dec 8th, 2008 12:58:25 AM
Stick to the source material. I need to see Colin's head on a stick. I need to see Wolf Babies. I need to see the Gepetto look EVIL. I need to see Boy Blue KICK ASS. I need to see Jack screw himself over. If they go for what TIN MAN was trying to go for, they would be really close. The last 2 parts anyways. The first part of TIN MAN sucked. I need to start these books again. They are fantastic.
Film Springfield by jimbojones123	Dec 8th, 2008 01:00:32 AM
It would never hold for 5-6 movies. It would take at least 4, minimum, to get where we are now in the stories. I could see it more like a very large mini-series a la Shogun.
Oh god no by loquaciousmuse	Dec 8th, 2008 01:10:04 AM
oh no no no no no. i love this comic too much. those guys? abc?! it's all wrong. ughhhhhh.
jimbojones123 by bibble 3000	Dec 8th, 2008 01:12:20 AM
shouldn't that be "FLIM SPRINGFIELD"?
The comics are brilliant! by Amy Chasing	Dec 8th, 2008 01:31:47 AM
Hope the TV show gets better treatment than Ellis' Global Frequency.
The Best Current Comic Book by WavingFlagsInSpace	Dec 8th, 2008 01:37:37 AM
This, if handled sensibly, could be absolutely fantastic. The stories are epic, the characters already exist within most people's cultural awareness (and therefore raiss the profile of the project immediately) and Willingham has over 70 issues of narrative gold for the scriptwriters to mine, plus the Jack of Fables side-stories. Please don't phuq this up, please don't phuq this up, please don't phuq this up...
PLEASE FIND NEW WRITERS by kgerm	Dec 8th, 2008 02:04:13 AM
That's an awful track record of putrid shit. Elektra? What about Brian?
How are they gonna by TotalFreedom	Dec 8th, 2008 02:11:24 AM
pull off all the talking animal that permeate the series? And no I don't accept telepathy, that'd be gay. And to replicate all the other weird shit in Fabletown as well, I don't see how it works. Heroes can't even do superpowers good.
Bill Willingham was one of my two favourite D&D artists by newc0253	Dec 8th, 2008 02:28:45 AM
the other was Jeff Dee, who has also had a career in comic books, though arguably not as successful as Willingham.
They are gonna fuck this up SO MUCH by V'Shael	Dec 8th, 2008 03:12:18 AM
This could well be the most fucked up adaptation of all time. I kinda sorta can't wait. :) I love the comic, though I stopped reading it a few months ago when the war was done. I'll go back to it when the new trades come out. But I think anyone who knows anything about television, and who has read the source material, knows this is gonna be fucking awful on a scale previously undreamed of by television execs.
This would make a FANTASTIC television series... by brokentusk	Dec 8th, 2008 03:34:42 AM
... on HBO. Honestly, I believe that ABC has the potential to do this justice based on how well they've handled LOST... but those writers… yeesh... Consider me extremely cautiously optimistic.
I think it's settled. by Onyx390	Dec 8th, 2008 04:16:39 AM
Being on regular network television significantly decreases the chances of a show being good.
ABC doesn't scare me by Bloo	Dec 8th, 2008 04:20:53 AM
although it's a concern, it's the ELKETRA writers...it's almost as bas as MSJ attached to Preacher
Exile in a Blue State? by teethgnasher	Dec 8th, 2008 06:44:31 AM
Should have been Oklahoma!
Already cancelled! by NOVAJimBo	Dec 8th, 2008 07:19:09 AM
ABC has already pre cancelled the show after 3 episodes.
Wasn't ABC thinking of doing a by Grammaton Cleric Binks	Dec 8th, 2008 07:25:58 AM
Snow White series with her as a lawyer, the Queen another lawyer who pushes her out of her firm, and she lands with seven other lawyers like the dwarfs? A bunch of us said prepare for a Fables lawsuit. Maybe ABC wised up.
I guess I should read the whole article by Grammaton Cleric Binks	Dec 8th, 2008 07:27:31 AM
I see it was Fox who was doing the lawyer thing.
linky by ziah_vaempiir	Dec 8th, 2008 07:39:56 AM
Can you relink the article? It seems to be dead.
So Chris Penn is doing the music? by Nice Marmot	Dec 8th, 2008 08:32:32 AM
Eh? EHHH???
Mixed feelings by DannyOcean01	Dec 8th, 2008 08:36:05 AM
Ecstatic that someones got the balls to do this, but filled with dread that it isn't HBO. Can anyone tell me what the last great ABC series was? And I'm not being cynical, I'd really like to know. Anyone remember that 7th Kingdom (or whatever it was called) show?
Enchanted (the movie) is/was being considered for series... by Jim Jam Bongs	Dec 8th, 2008 08:36:55 AM
Last I heard ABC was considering developing Enchanted into a series, which makes sense as that's a Disney flick and Disney owns ABC. I'm wondering if that's still happening -- Fables sounds like it'd be complex to pull off well, and it's an intellectual property owned by another company (Time Warner).
Bummer by DrWhat	Dec 8th, 2008 08:37:25 AM
I wanted HBO to do this. Be more in tune with the original comic. I wanted to hear Snow White say, "Well, boo-F*$&ing-hoo."
This does not fill me with confidence by gruntybear	Dec 8th, 2008 08:40:18 AM
Fantasy on network television gets the shaft even harder than "sciffy." Unless they're already planning just a one season stop-gap, I can't see this lasting for any length of time. The networks won't allow anything the time it needs to find its audience and build week upon week. It's a shame too, as this is fantastic source material.
And I think Enchanted the Series could work better. by Jim Jam Bongs	Dec 8th, 2008 08:43:34 AM
A weekly musical, modern-day fairy tale fantasy, starring a cute, quirky girl-woman who can summon animals to do her bidding, searching for her true love in NYC. Really, Herc, this sounds like your ideal show, the kind of concept you have a particular fetish for.
Elektra screenwriter?!? That can't be good by indyjonez100	Dec 8th, 2008 08:45:01 AM
I'm worried now, I so want this to be good, Fables is a great book and would make either a terrific movie series or show, but in the right hands. In the wrong hands you may get, "shudder" Knight Rider Part II or Bionic Woman redux
Stu Zicherman and Raven Metzner suck as writers. by Leafar the Lost	Dec 8th, 2008 08:50:07 AM
Stu Zicherman and Raven Metzner wrote “Elektra,” “What About Brian,” “Six Degrees,” ,“Life Is Wild” and they are scripting the pilot? This show is D.O.A.
Fables would be better as a movie by Jim Jam Bongs	Dec 8th, 2008 08:53:05 AM
So I found this news kind of baffling as to why Time Warner and ABC would spend the effort in trying to turn Fables into a series, especially in light of the failure of Pushing Daisies. I figured Daisies' loss was why I hadn't heard anything more about an Enchanted series. Disney has been flipflopping between doing a sequel or doing a series version. Maybe with a Fables series, they're going more for a LOST + Smallville style. Otherwise, I can't see this being pulled off in the "quirky modern-day fantasy" style.
HBO or Showtime would be a better for this as a series by indyjonez100	Dec 8th, 2008 08:54:05 AM
Than a prime time network. Hell, even FX or any other cable network. It seems they can get away with a little bit more than the major networks these days, would still prefer HBO or Showtime, On those we might get to see some Snow White or Goldilocks au natural. But I can still dream.
One major problem by Grendel745	Dec 8th, 2008 09:17:01 AM
Given the entertainment industries anti-smoking ban, how the hell are they going to do Bigby right? He's not what one would call PC and would fit much better on another network. However I would love to see some flat-out spy action with Cinderella so maybe we'll see some further adventures of the more human characters like Cindy and Blue.
No way!! Next Sandman, Lucifer and Preacher! by Damien Chowder	Dec 8th, 2008 10:45:58 AM

Yeah, Cancel Eli Stone by Crow3711	Dec 8th, 2008 10:59:43 AM
and hire the geniuses who penned Elektra to create a new show based on fantasy worlds. Fuck you ABC. Fuck You.
yeah, isn't this a bit too 'mature' for ABC? by oisin5199	Dec 8th, 2008 12:02:27 PM
I agree with others who say if it was on HBO or Showtime, I could see it happening, but isn't the series pretty dark?
Robbie Benson or Ron Perlman by Grammaton Cleric Binks	Dec 8th, 2008 12:22:03 PM
as the beast.
Lame. by Johnny Smith	Dec 8th, 2008 12:31:45 PM
Such a great comic deserves a great adaptation...on HBO. Put David Milch on that sucker and let it ride. Also? Ian McKellen as Gepetto. You know it to be true.
Erol Otus was my favorite D&D artist by Continentalop	Dec 8th, 2008 12:47:17 PM
Mostly do to the name. But I also like David C. Sutherland III, Jim Holloway, Dee and Willingham.
Actually, Marmot... by SleazyG.	Dec 8th, 2008 12:51:40 PM
...you mean Michael Penn.
by Luf	Dec 8th, 2008 12:55:06 PM
"We set up a structure to allow any fairy tale character to show up in any one episode," Metzner said. --- So it will be a boring murder/crime of the week procedural. GTFO!
Continentalop by Grammaton Cleric Binks	Dec 8th, 2008 01:06:01 PM
Plus, he woul always hid his name in the illustration somewhere. I remember a drawing which had a potio labeled Ool Erts.
I'm not at all familiar with these books by Big Jim	Dec 8th, 2008 01:14:20 PM
but even I'm worried, based on the writer's resume, of how this will turn out.
Here How it will work by Phategod1	Dec 8th, 2008 01:42:21 PM
If it sucks it will be on way too long and if its good it'll get canceled before its first full season.
"Erol Otus" - great name, OK artist by Frietag	Dec 8th, 2008 01:54:12 PM
But David Trampier kicked ass. And I liked a lot of Keith Parkinson's stuff (RIP), although his best work was actually in other venues.
As a fan of the books, I must say this will suck (just think, Go by Bunger!	Dec 8th, 2008 02:52:03 PM
The books are way too violent and sexualized to ever survive even close to intact on disney-owned ABC. . . . The character of Goldilocks, alone, makes it completely wrong for anything except hard-R rated TV. . . Not to mention that the metaphysics of the concept are so involved and esoteric that it would have to be completely debased for a TV audience to get it, and if that happens, then what's the point? This is going to suck ass and it will not see the light of day in any worthy form.
they will fuck this up royally by Jack Burton	Dec 8th, 2008 03:09:55 PM
3 comic series that do not need to be on network TV: Y: The Last Man, The Walking Dead, and Fables. All 3 are too deep, too smart, and too R rated for the mainstream viewer. You can water then down but then you are going to lose what makes them great. My guess is Fables: The Series will take the books as a starting point and tell its' own stories. I'd love to see the series down in TV or movies, but they better have a massive budget to make it believable. I don't see that happening.
Sounds like... by STLost	Dec 8th, 2008 03:25:11 PM
"American Gods" from Neil Gaiman.
STLost by Eats_sandwich_gets_laid.	Dec 8th, 2008 03:44:54 PM
It's not like AG at all. It's got more of a fairy tale structure than a Cambell hero-quest feel. The only thing the two have in common (aside from both being spectacular stories) is the notion of the fantastic living side by side with the real world, which is a pretty common theme anyway. However, if you enjoyed AG, or any of Gaiman's stuff, I'd recommend Fables. It's one of those comics that wouldn't be possible without Sandman having happened (thank you, Neil!!)
ABC stands for "Anal-Butt-Cunts"... by Leafar the Lost	Dec 8th, 2008 04:26:40 PM
I only watch the network for Lost. I can't think of another show on ABC that is watchable. Fables could only work if it were on HBO, Showtime, or FX...I will miss The Shield...
Necgray by V'Shael	Dec 8th, 2008 04:28:47 PM
"this is mitigated by the knowledge that if they suck, the network will hire new writers" Oh really? Well would kindly explain then what the fuck has happened to Heroes for the last two years? Is there a shortage of non-shitty writers?
So Pushing Daisies tanked... by drewlicious	Dec 8th, 2008 05:06:20 PM
And they think they'll get better ratings with this?
How to screw it up/ water it down? by jocutus	Dec 8th, 2008 06:00:29 PM
I'm trying to think of ways they'll turn this into a more conventional TV show. Maybe have Snow White fall in love with some mundane guy and the hilarious culture clash that results ala "Bewitched" or "I Dream of Jeanie". Or perhaps a love triangle of Snow, Bigby and Jack of Fables, likeJjack/Kate/Sawyer on Lost. Bleh. Any way I try to figure it, the budget is going to demand it focus more on the Fables characters interacting more with the real world than they did in the books. Could it possibly last long enough to get a Jack of Fables spin off?
Why it won't work by The Funketeer	Dec 8th, 2008 08:21:52 PM
On the surface it seems like a monster of the week idea but the reason the book is so good is the overall story arc that's been playing out for the last 75 issues. Do you really see ABC going into the war for the homelands? No, they'll just use the basic premise as some sort of "clever" jumping on point for telling stories about fables living in the modern world.
FUCK FUCK FUCK by Nice Marmot	Dec 8th, 2008 08:48:50 PM
But thanks, SleazyG. I type faster than I think.
this will fail by v1cious	Dec 8th, 2008 09:12:12 PM
i love the comic, but i just can't see it seeing catching on with the general public. not only will it require a big budget, but there's just too much plot that has to be developed, and many people will get bored. just look what's happened to Pushing Daisies.
They've already pissed on the fantasy audience by Drath	Dec 8th, 2008 09:23:50 PM
They unzipped and made water all over the Pushing Daisies, why would any fantasy fans get back in the line of fire by kneeling before the alphabet channel again?
Why not? by Charlie_Allnut	Dec 9th, 2008 04:49:00 PM
Look at some of the crap on TV. This can't be much worse.
Necgrey: Failed at reading comp did you? by V'Shael	Dec 11th, 2008 08:09:42 AM
"what the fuck has happened to Heroes for the last two years?" Don't pull Season one as a defence against the shit of the last two years (Seasons 2 and 3). The point stands. Deal with it.
Finally the networks are reading my posts. by rbatty024	Dec 11th, 2008 08:56:47 AM
Well, not really, but I have been telling every who will listen that television needs to start adapting comic books. Next they need to get a Y: The Last Man series because I don't think a film will do that series justice.

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