GRRM kritrisoi "adaptaatioita" ja kehuu Shogunia. Katsoin itsekkin Shogunin vähän aikaa sitten. Oli kyllä todella kova. Virkistävää myös että etnisyydet ja kaikki muu oli koherentisti.
George RR Martin, Neil Gaiman Hate Hollywood Changing Source Material (variety.com)
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A few years back, Neil Gaiman and I did a joint event in New York City, when we were both in town.
It was a lot of fun, as events with Neil always are. We told some funny stories, talked about books and comics, about SANDMAN and WILD CARDS and days at cons… and touched on some serious topics too.
I would like to upload a video of the event if I could, but I am not sure one exists. If anyone was recording us, I have never seen the tape. But VARIETY had the best report of the session.
George R.R. Martin and Neil Gaiman Hate When Hollywood Makes ‘Illegitimate’ Changes to Source Material: ‘F—ing Morons’
That was all back in 2022, but very little has changed since then. If anything, things have gotten worse. Everywhere you look, there are more screenwriters and producers eager to take great stories and “make them their own.” It does not seem to matter whether the source material was written by Stan Lee, Charles Dickens, Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl, Ursula K. Le Guin, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mark Twain, Raymond Chandler, Jane Austen, or… well, anyone. No matter how major a writer it is, no matter how great the book, there always seems to be someone on hand who thinks he can do better, eager to take the story and “improve” on it. “The book is the book, the film is the film,” they will tell you, as if they were saying something profound. Then they make the story their own.
They never make it better, though. Nine hundred ninety-nine times out of a thousand, they make it worse.
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George Lucasilta muuten tuli juuri myös hieman näkemystä Star Warssin diversiteetistä. Ajoitus sattumaa? ehkä.