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[muji]

From Debi:

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One of my canons - Discworld - is primarily a series of adult novels, including illustrated novels and young adult novels. It has been adapted into comic book format, spawned a board game and three computer games; dramatised as radio plays; cartoon series; two live action TV movies, and as of this week, a stage musical:

http://www.acompletelossforwords.com/mort.html

My question to you: which format do you most want or fear your canon being adapted into, and which adaptations do you just never speak of.

Today's Daily Entertainment brought to you by the excitement of seeing Death dancing and singing about how happy he is that he has little pussycats.

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I, for one...really, really enjoy pretending that the Fireflyverse RPG books were just invented to give me a rough guide to the planets and moons of the 'verse. And Alliance guns, those too.

Comments

[ostro_goth]

My canon was adapted into a musical (??) that was staged by boy scouts.

Trufax!

Still going WTF a lot at that...

[muji]

...Uh. The last thing I want to do is give boy scouts axes.

[tinylegacies.livejournal.com]

Well, now I'm imagining Eureka! - The Musical.

It's kind of funny in my head.

[muji]

♫ Won't you please be my neighbor? ♫

[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

Forget musicals. Ben's story would be an opera.

[muji]

Rock opera. *runs*

[timjr.livejournal.com]

True fact: One summer, I almost helped put together and attempt at turning Stephen Briggs' adaptation of Wyrd Sisters into a musical.

And... I like weird takes on my canons. So... I don't really dread anything?

[innerbrat]

Did the attempt ever come through?

[gorgonfondness]

Video games are so close to musicals that I need not fear that for Lunar. Listening to the soundtrack pretty much tells you the story anyway, which means it's 3/4ths there already. The format I would want would be Saturday morning Dungeons & Dragons style cartoon show for the older kids. The game is pretty long and some things that I believe deserved some anime-style cutscenes were left out, such as meeting the other three dragons or Nash's betrayal. The format I fear is the very same thing toned down for little kids. I can do without the adult jokes, even if that would change Kyle a little, but I want to keep in the pop culture references that children might not get.

As for Homestar Runner, the format I want would be comic book. There's nothing like eagerly awaiting that Saturday trip to the comic book store to pick up the latest issue of something because that feels so much better than a subscription. The format I fear is CGI animated movie, which fortunately probably will never happen ever.

[innerbrat]

STEPH.

HE SUNG A SONG CALLED NO JUSTICE. HE HAD A DIALOGUE WITH THE NARRATOR. HE DID THE CONGA. WITH A PARTY HAT ON.

BEST MUSICAL EVER.

I'm sort of afraid of the Runaways movie. I really hope it's good.

[muji]

Milliways rendition?

[viridian.livejournal.com]

The new Angel comics frighten me especially the covers where Illyria makes out with Spike wtf wtf, but I can't stop reading them.

[timjr.livejournal.com]

The Angel (and new Buffy) comics to me scream "Joss Whedon's imagination is best left with a limited budget!"

[ashen_key]

I want, I long for pre-movie Once Upon A Time In Mexico graphic novels/comics. I want to see AJ and Sands running around in their own snarky, sexy relationship. I want to see more of Rodriguez's fantasy Mexico, with all its surreality, and, yes, I think AJ would make a kickASS comic heroine. She has all those curves already.

...I do have to say, though, that OUaTiM as a musical is faintly disturbing me.

And, frankly, I think Johnny Depp was BORN to play Marlowe. I mean, the man LOOKS like him - both canon drawings, and the painting commonly supposed to be him and then I wouldn't have to do eyepatches in paint.

My other canons...please leave them alone, kthanx. We do not speak of Medusa in Clash of the Titans, or whatever it is called. And Chronicles of Amber...argh.

Although, actually, the Russian Astronaut's canon was, originally, going to be a movie. But for some reason it didn't work out, so Arthur C. Clarke turned it into a short story.

[homicidalfink.livejournal.com]

So I probably shouldn't mention the DCed!graphic novels of NPiA and GoA, huh. >.>

[autocommander.livejournal.com]

We do not speak of KISS Players.

Ever.

We'll talk about slagging Beast Machines before that.

Or Headmasters, let's talk about Headmasters, a show where the entire concept is that powerful Cybertronians rip their heads off and then engineer humans to transform and replace the heads.

People may complain about some of the movie continuity stuff? But Japan has come up with ideas that are obviously the results of really bad fuel.

[sdelmonte]

I suppose about the only thing that most of my canons would do badly with is puppet shows. Puppet shows are creepy and weird and require very deft hands.

The inevitable Musical-ization of everything once included Superman, with an aborted Batman musical by Jim Steinman (the guy who writes music for Meatloaf) still drifting around in bits and pieces out there. Someday we will see a PotC musical, I am sure. There was talk a decade back of a Star Trek opera. And Veronica Mars deserves an opera.

All my canons have either seen comic book form (including some forgettable PotC kiddie comics in Disney Adventures magazine), or have been discussed for comics (VMars).

I suppose the one thing I cringe these days is the tie-in novel. The Trek novel, once a source of lightweight fun in under 200 pages, has turned bloated and bland, no book standing alone and none of the writers of the 80s still involved aside from PAD. Movie adaptations serve no real purpose (though Denny O'Neil's adaptation of my canon's cousin, Batman Begins, at least boasted several sections that read like a Denny O'Neil comic and not a movie). And rather sadly, the self-same Denny O'Neil who wrote the Question's series in the 80s wrote a novel based on those comics that, according to all reviews, really stinks.

I can only be thankful that so far no one is clamoring for tie-in novels for PotC or VMars.

[chanter1944]

For me, tie-in novels depend very, very much on their adherence to established canon. If an author is true to the characters and possibilities of a specific 'verse, then I'm much less likely to have a problem with them. If they're spouting implausibilities from left field... uh, well. Not so much.

I *fear* the idea of a Trek opera, regardless of series. A heck of a lot, at that. Sariel's giving me thoroughly shaken looks here too; I think she agrees.

[newredshoes]

494 would make an awesome comic book. *shinyeyes* The Alec Show. It would win.

(Hi from vacationland! *so happy!*)

[naelwyn.livejournal.com]

Knights of the Old Republic canon is rumored (and I think confirmed?) to become a MMORPG. It's a video game to begin with, I know, but I don't know how I feel about it becoming a massively multiplayer. Probably because I used to play WoW and, uh, yes. It's already a comic book too, which I love so I'm happy there. I kinda think a TV series from that era would be awesome? But I doubt that would ever, ever happen. I'd like some KOTOR novels though.

Apparently, they've been working on an Artemis Fowl movie for a long time, but there's been problems with the script. Depending on how it's done, it might turn out to be good, but who knows. They've also already got a graphics novel for the first book, which was...interesting. I'd assume they'd be doing the rest of the series as well in that format, but I haven't heard anything about that.

Harry Potter already has the books and the movies. I kinda hope they include the epilogue in the movie? If only because I want to see little Scorpius. They've already got video games and board games too. No comic books yet. At least, I don't think so? I think I'd die (of laughter) if they ever did a Harry Potter: The Musical.

[muji]

I thought that was what Potter Puppet Pals was for. :O!

[camwyn]

Work is currently under way on a Ghostbusters manga. If the cover art I saw is anything to go by it's a shonen manga working from the art style of the Real Ghostbusters cartoon.

That doesn't make the prospect any better.

[leeshajoy.livejournal.com]

Guh. When Americans try to do manga it comes out absolutely horrible nine times out of ten.

[misslucyjane]

Despite the fact that most of the cast can sing, the words "Torchwood! The musical!" strike fear into my heart.

"The Ballad of Janet the Weevil" would just be "grr, grr grrr, grrr..."

[(Anonymous)]

DAMMIT, Janet!

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(Why yes, I am a Milliways player who's too lazy to log in right now. YOU MAY NEVER KNOW WHICH.)

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

I have only this. (http://www.usatoday.com/life/theater/news/2008-06-08-brokeback-mountain_N.htm)

[whisper2ascream.livejournal.com]

0.o *facepalms*

[wakeupnew]

I am so, so, so fucking afraid of this.

Though The Red Star's already been turned into a videogame and an RPG. This is a movie, though! It's different!

You know what would be a really terrible adaptation of the canon to make? A musical, Rogers and Hammerstein style.

[sdelmonte]

I just heard about this on Monday, in an odd way. I was at the Museum of Modern Art while wearing a Green Lantern t-shirt (the Golden Age GL, not the more familiar one) when a guard asked me if I'd heard they were making a movie about GL. He then added that he was also excited about a Red Star movie. Weird but cool.

[minkhollow]

I would love to see a movie of Villains By Necessity, provided it was a relatively faithful adaptation. (I didn't comment on the casting DE because Cata is a very minor character, and her one face-time appearance would probably be cut to Save Time.) I kind of really doubt a musical adaptation would work at all, though.

(But speaking of musicals, I would also love to see Sondheim's version of Mary Poppins. It would be the CREEPIEST THING EVER, but that's okay!)

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

There is nothing left to be done.
My canon is turns tricks under bridges for a nickle.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

My primary canons, whether originally books or comics, already have gotten adopted into big budget films, novelizations, live action television, RPGs, games, cartoons, radio dramatizations, comics, home vids, you tube parodies, web comic parodies, Twisted Toyfare Theater, audio books, you name it, it's been done.

So...there is nothing left to fear, except fear itself?

Actually, vis a vis the Big Two, I think a lot of people in the fandom fear what the big budget films will bring.

The coming Green Arrow film in particular. What the hell, DC. What. The. Hell.

[52-dropoff.livejournal.com]

The GA film is written by Goyer, and I trust him a lot more than, say, Brian Singer. It's still not what I would do, but the right casting could make it work reasonable well.

What really scared me was the mid-budget JLA film that died more deaths than Norman Osborne. Rumors of its resurrection still appear monthly.

[whisper2ascream.livejournal.com]

It might be inevitable but semi-fear the possibility of a Young Avengers movie a little.

Heroes? Well there's already comic books, and the recent webisodes this summer have been blah. There will likely be a movie adaptation. Musical or opera might be very uhhhh whut? But more likely there will be a RPG system.

Potter? There's already craploads including now a fairy tale book from the Potterverse coming out later this year. So yeah the only thing now would be manga or musical at this point. (Hell, they can just use the themed bands in existence now like Harry and the Potters, and Draco and the Malfoys.)

The Dead Zone, the series has just been cancelled, and it's still a little obscure so think it's mostly safe.

[(Anonymous)]

I think YA is waaaay to self-referential and canon-seeped for a movie, but we'll see in ten years or so when Marvel finishes milking it's huuuuuge properties.

[skidmo]

Well...they've just announced that they are canceling my canon *weeps* and continuing with 'several' made for TV movies. God only knows how many that will stretch into. So that takes care of two of my pups, though I wouldn't mind seeing a comic version of SGA.

Harriet has already been made into a movie (which I haven't ever seen, mostly because the idea of Rosie O'Donnell as Ole Golly really disturbs me), but I think she'd be brilliant as a comic as well.

And lastly, John...well, there's talk of a movie, and James A. Owen has written a script for it (he's discussed who he'd like to have play other characters but not John as of yet). I'm not opposed to this idea.

[(Anonymous)]

Harriet is rather brilliant, from what I remember as a child, but not terribly faithful to the book.

[spiderine.livejournal.com]

On behalf of Mr. Constantine, I give the same answer to this one as I did to the one before.

KEANU REEVES.

[minkhollow]

Hey, at least he didn't say 'whoa' once in the whole movie.
(That said: I don't know from comics, but I respect via Sandman that the casting is rather an atrocity. Still, it's a good movie to watch with a group of people who don't mind mocking it.)

[shati.livejournal.com]

There's an official Utena musical. (There might be two. Are there two? I forget. Maybe two performances.)

I'm afraid of it.

[campkilkare]

The Chinese have a saying*: The crack Shati does not fear is not the true crack.

*No they don't.

[ceitfianna]

Robin Hood has already been multiple movies, a few animated kids shows, more just regular tv shows, far too many books, I gave up on reading new takes in books a while ago. I'm not sure if there's an RPG yet but I might just not know about it. So honestly they've already done enough terrifying things to it.

Pirates starts out as a musical so my fear would be a SRS movie of it.

Narnia also has had a lot of things done to it, I'm not sure what would be scary, a musical might be a little out there though.

[candied-rabbit.livejournal.com]

Fruits Basket could totally turn itself into a soap opera. I mean, seriously, it's all there. Old, reclusive family with dark secrets. Romantic tension lurking beneath the surface. Angst to the point that you have a hard time believing the whole cast shouldn't just check into a mental rest-home for a while.

It'd be kind of awesome, in a self-referential sort of way.

Beyond that...I haven't had a chance to see the movie adaptation of Death in Venice. But I'm told that Aschenbach ends up as a composer, rather than a writer. Which is a big NO.

[wakeupnew]

-- Oh man! I don't know why, but I completely didn't realize til now that Ascenbach was the guy from Death in Venice! That's awesome!