5 Answers2025-06-23
‘Pretty Things’ is happening as a limited series with approximately 6-8 episodes. It will be a moody, character driven drama and not an action-packed series. The book was about the flawed, complex women in it and so far the reports are that the women will not be sugar-coated. If they find the right actresses, it could be award-worthy.
9 Answers2025-07-16
This rumor was always floating around right before the pandemic, and several 'insider' accounts on Twitter would announce the 'end' of RFH, only to never hear from it again for years. It's all part of a cycle to garner attention and discussion, with someone occasionaly bringing up the rumor and starting a 'what if?' thread on Twitter, only for it to die off again with zero new information. I won't believe it until Variety or The Hollywood Reporter writes up a trade announcement.
6 Answers2025-08-31
Instead of general TV (which I described above), consider high-end TV as a limited series on Apple TV+, HBO Max etc. Something with the same ‘serious story-telling’ credentials as His Dark Materials. Run it as a single season, covering one arc, 6-8 hours, 6-8 hour-long episodes. If it does well, make the next arc. This slow-burn, quality over quantity approach is all that will be able to tackle the complexity of storyline and character. As opposed to general TV shows with 20+ episodes per season which would be clogged with filler material. A novel-based, single-season approach would be best.
8 Answers2025-07-08
I don’t think it has happened. And I am not really interested in seeing much-adapted fiction, especially when it has been so poorly done in the past. I would rather there were no film of The Unteachables than a poor one. For fear of having my perception of the book ruined in some way I would prefer that The Unteachables remained a purely literary work. We don’t need to see The Unteachables in order to believe that it is good. The full power of the work resides within the words, the pace and the unique voices of the various characters as they are expressed by its author, Elizabeth Korman. Not everything needs to be ‘commodified’ in this way and there are some works of art that are better left in their original format. This could well be one of them.
7 Answers2026-07-29
The twist hit way harder in the book than it did in the series, mostly because the series had set it up a mile away and I was worried that viewers wouldn’t get it. In the novel, it was a total gut-punch and totally reframe[d] everything. The TV version of the twist felt more like the series was checking off a plot box than anything actually surprising or meaningful.
12 Answers2025-05-23
But there are so many amazing, popular hockey romances written by self-published and indie authors as well (so, so many of them). Trying to get one of these adapted into a film or TV series would be an even more complicated journey than with a traditionally published work.
Indie authors might need a literary agent who specializes in film and television rights to shop their work to producers. So a huge Amazon hit in Kindle Unlimited might never make it to the studios of Hollywood, even when published traditionally. It’s not fair but it’s reality.
5 Answers2025-08-07
Chemistry of Love could be made into a film and that would be amazing. The book is really unique in that it combines science with romance and the dialogue is already written in a really screen friendly way. I would love for them to cast well and for them to bring the lab scenes to life as well as the rest of the story and its emotional payoff. Here’s hoping they do the book justice.
11 Answers2025-10-22
A lot of fans have very strong, very specific opinions. This means that any adaptation of a book would get a lot of criticism if it deviated from the original text in any way. In fact, fans can be so protective of a book that they have taken umbrage with casting choices and story alterations in film and TV adaptations of novels. This can be very daunting for a studio looking to adapt a much-loved series of books by a very devoted fanbase, because there is always a risk that you’re going to alienate your pre-existing fanbase and get nothing but hostility from them.
It's a no-win situation. People can get so worked up trying to keep things true to the book that you'll never get it right as a visual medium unless you're really, really good. And if you are good, core fans are going to hate you for changing things up. That takes a very confident and communicative production team – something that is exceedingly hard to find in today's rage-filled online world.
8 Answers2025-06-27
On another note: I would love to hear a soundtrack for the coronation ceremonies (or any magic rituals for that matter) – I think it would be an amazing score and really elevate the material. In terms of current film scores, I think someone could create a great soundtrack by blending the more epic scores (How to Train Your Dragon, for example) with some more traditional/romantic scores for the opposite sex scenes (Pride and Prejudice comes to mind). I can already imagine my idea of the main theme… It’s fun to imagine all the different ways they could make a movie of this (casting, costumes, etc.), but that’s all part of the fun of the fandom – to imagine and explore all the different creative ideas. The business side of it is stressful and unknown, but daydreaming about it all is pure joy.
That's where I'm living right now.
9 Answers2025-06-19
And what if the best way to realize this story was as a stage play? Minimal set, focus on the actors and the words, the boxes could be made of cardboard and paper. The changes of time could be indicated by a change of lighting and costumes. The intimate and philosophical character of the dialogue would in a theater be highlighted in all its aspects. The audience could even be given a small box or a piece of string when they arrive, and so become part of the play.
Every story doesn’t need to be a big film. Some stories will thrive in a much smaller, more imaginative space. The ideas in Passage can be had directly by an audience in a theater, without resorting to the paraphernalia of spectacle normally used in film to ease the burden of dialogue-heavy stories. The play could have a great off-Broadway run or even a run in London’s West End, and then later a more adventurous film version made of it. Sometimes scaling down is the best way to do justice to a story.