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[cassildra.livejournal.com]

I almost forgot I'd taken DE today!

My hastily-thought-of idea: If your pup's canon could be changed or expanded from its current format to a different one, what would you like to see, and why?

Comments

[gone_byebye]

Well, I'd ordinarily say a comic book version of Dog Soldiers would be interesting, but it'd have to be a graphic novel rather than an ongoing comic, because in canon the only person not dead at the end is Cooper, and I refuse to acknowledge anything that has anything to do with the supposed existence of a rumored NOT REAL TOTALLY NOT REAL sequel.

Ghostbusters has already been a movie, a cartoon, a comic book, a manga, and a different comic book. I'm just waiting on the first-person shooter video game.

Half-Life might make an interesting comic book...

And, well, Transformers:

- cartoon
- comic book
- animated movie
- different comic book
- different cartoon
- manga of which we do not speak
- computer animated television show
- video games
- still other comic books
- live action movie

I'm not sure what's left.

[innerbrat]

Radio plays, that's what's left.

My canons win!

[gone_byebye]

... damn, you're right. Woe!

Side note: Saw this, thought of you.

[lilmsmiraclegro.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that's amazing, isn't it?

[moonlup.livejournal.com]

Despite it still being up in the pre-production page, I'm pretty sure the sequel's dead.

And if not, they'd probably have to replace actors. Kevin McKidd might be more than they can afford now, and the rumours I heard that Ryan would be in flashbacks would also have to be changed. Liam Cunningham's kinda old now.

Though it's amazing what they can do with make-up these days.

[prob-japanese.livejournal.com]

GOOD.

(On the dead part, I mean.)

[innerbrat]

I would like to see Dinah being portrayed as a sensible, intelligent, highly talented fighter.

Not as a psychic teenager way out of her depth and getting under Babs' wheels.

[innerbrat]

Similarly, I would like any Discworld visual adaptation to pay attention to the ethnicity of characters and not white wash the most important chromatic characters just because a hobbit wants to play.

And no David Jason plzkthx.

[newredshoes]

Dark Angel would be The Alec Show. Or the Alec-and-Joshua-and-OC-and-Sketchy-and-Normal Show. Because those main characters and that S2 mytharc were just... plech.

Also, it would have been more X-Men-y and more dystopian, with more focus on social issues and prejudice and acceptance and constructed family. Honestly? I want the "Big City Life" show. But, this is what fanfic is for!

--oh hai, watch me misread the question!

Comics. It would make awesome comics. Or a really amazing animated show.

[prix-etoile.livejournal.com]

Star Wars has all the formats, amirite??

STAR WARS RULES THE WORLD. With uh, Transformers.


(Star Wars rules the GALAXY.)

(as father and son)

[prob-japanese.livejournal.com]

Heck, there were even a few Star Wars radio plays and newspaper comic strips, from what I recall...

[alt-hulk.livejournal.com]

IT DOMINATES THE GLOBE.

Which kinda makes me cry, because then a lot of shite comes out.

(Like the Palpatine Chibi (http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/65/35/69/32/0065356932306_500X500.jpg) doll. Dunno if I've showed that or not.)

[innerbrat]

Lemme see.

DC Universe has:
- comics
- one shot graphic novels
- live action movies
- live action TV shows
- cartoon series
- animated movies
- BBC radio drama
- a stage musical
- computer games
I have no idea if it's got novels. Huh.

Discworld has:
- novels
- graphic novels
- stage plays
- a stage musical
- cartoon series
- live action TV miniseries
- BBC radio drama
- computer games
- a unique (specially invented) board game

What have I missed out?

[jothra]

DC does indeed have novels, as well.

[innerbrat]

Then it's definitely edging out Discworld. Do you know if it has games, that aren't just 'variant' games like Monopoly?

(Does it have Monopoly? It totally should)

[md_donighal]

It probably does. And it's had at least two TRPGs*, but neither Mayfair nor West End survived.

I was going to include this footnote in the original comment, I swear blind.

[aberrantangels]

* TRPGs: "table talk" RPGs. Usage from Japan, where "RPG" without a prefix is assumed to refer to the console type.

[calluna]

I would love to see a Get Smart cartoon. XD

[djcati.livejournal.com]

I totally want to see an X-wing cartoon in the style of the Clone Wars, except good. Preferably with Wraith Squadron. With cameos from Wedge just to facepalm.

Actually, I just want a cartoon series based around Wedge Antilles facepalming.

[spiderine.livejournal.com]

Hellblazer was made into a movie. It sucked.

Then it was expanded into a couple of novels. They sucked.

No more, please!

[saphyria.livejournal.com]

Abhorsen Series: At this point, I'm just in the boat waiting for Moar Canon Plz in Yrael's case. We've been promised two new books in the next few years, and Garth Nix says there may be a movie in the works. Which, if they do it right, even just staying faithful to the spirit of the book if not the letter, I'll be fine with. It'll give me icon material. ^____^

The Dark is Rising: I'd like the canon to be contracted to no longer include the movie.

It's not canon.

Slayers: We've got the light novels, the manga, the movies, and the ongoing anime series. I'm fine with it. I just wish I could get my hands on the new series so I could actually keep up with the story.

[genarti]

I second this motion on The Dark Is Rising.

I'm pretty sure all of fandom does too, of course. So it may pretty much count as a done deal.

[alt-hulk.livejournal.com]

Yup, definitely. And I haven't even seen it.

[vivien]

I don't think there are Harry Potter graphic novels or comic books. I'd love a graphic novel filling in Voldemort's rise, but I am sure if they ever did one, they'd focus on the Marauders' Era. Yawn. Minerva and Tom's era of Hogwarts would be cool, though.

Neverwhere has been a graphic novel, and it made me sad. Except for the brief glimpse of Ingress. I'd love for Neil to write the sequel. One day. Please.

[jothra]

I SO WISH for an HP comic of any era. I WANT TO SELL YOUR STUFF, GUYS. MAKE ONE FOR ME.

As long as it isn't just panels capped from the movies with text bubbles stuck on it. Bleh.

[prob-japanese.livejournal.com]

I also have to say that I really enjoy the comics that SaigonTimeMD, of DeviantArt, has made from Team Fortress 2. Unlike a fancomic like Concerned, this isn't a parody- this is an attempt to get actual characterization and plot out of what's essentially a completely story-less game based on 'run around and shoot anything that moves'. As far as I'm concerned the '2fort' comic series in Saigon's DeviantArt gallery could just as easily be a Team Fortress 2 comic book.

[moonlup.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with Cam that a graphic novel for Dog Soldiers would be awesome.

For Kédra, I am both intrigued and horrified of someone turning it into a movie. Books just get screwed over too often in that sort of transformation.

Cthulhu and Ratchet both already have about every medium know to man, though Cthulhu is often just guesting. (Real Ghostbusters, anyone?)

The Lost World's been a TV show, various awful movies, and, of course, the book. It wouldn't surprise me if there was more canon I'm not aware of. Dinosaurs are popular.

[aberrantangels]

Kyle covered Star Wars, so I don't have to.

It might be interesting to see Snow Crash made into the movie that (as the linked article says) can probably never happen, or the graphic novel as which it was originally proposed.

Homestar Runner has all the formats it needs as far as I'm concerned. Though Strong Bad wouldn't say no to an ongoing The Total Adventures of Strong Badman comic.

As for the Trinity Universe, I'd settle for it having any new canon at all. (The last we had of that was some additions to the d20 versions of Aberrant and Trinity, back in '04.) Beyond that... well, Trinity was supposed to be supported by a trilogy of novels, but their announced writer, George Alec Effinger, suffered author existence failure around that time, so all we got of Jan Zsolt's story was the fiction piece at the start of the Trinity corebook. Aberrant needed more comics, that looked like comics, in support of it; possibly an ongoing comix series.

[aeons_crackshot]

I second the motion for new canon for the Trinity Universe, although I'm biased towards the Adventure! era since that's when Annabelle is alive.

It would be nice to have canon where Annabelle actually interacts with the man she's in love with. Annabelle and Michael never speak to each other "on screen" in canon. :-(

[alt-hulk.livejournal.com]

RE: Snow Crash: or to see a real Metaverse, not this sorry excuse for online interaction some call Second Life.

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

*counts out loud*

Comic book
Cartoon
Comic strip
Novelization
Live Action Movie
Animated Movie
Rock-Opera stage show
....canned pasta.

Seriously, it's all been done. It hasn't all been done well, and from what I'm hearing it won't be done for much longer.

A second CGI movie would be nice. One without HUGE FREAKIN' plot holes, but with the same voice cast.
*sighs*

[lilpocketninja.livejournal.com]

Mm. I would just like MOAR CANON at this point.

For either of them. *sighs at Marvel*

An Avengers 'toon would kick ass, either team.

[alt-hulk.livejournal.com]

*nods furiously* And no more of this SI bullshit. Seriously.

[ceitfianna]

*eyes Robin Hood*
Many TV shows, movies, books, comic books, action figures, must be plays and other stuff I don't know about.

Greek Myth, I'm not sure what hasn't been done to it even just in its original era.

Pirates of Penzance starts as a play and has been a movie, its even had parodies of it done which amuses me.

I'm sure others would know more about Narnia but its had a fairly good treatment in various forms through the years.

I realized I didn't actually answer the question.

[ceitfianna]

Apparently my brain is not working that well today.

I'd love to see a movie version of Demeter-Kore/Persephone and Hades' story, starting with the beginning as a sort of prologue and following them through the year in the modern world. I'd love to have them trying for almost talking but not sure how to make it work without the Bar perhaps others in the family going, Demeter, Hades, sit down and talk.

All my others, I can't think of any version that I'd love to see though if someone could convince James McAvoy to play Will Scarlett in some form of Robin Hood would just make me glee.

Ooh, interesting question.

[genarti]

Movie version of the X-Men! Uh. No, obviously the movies exist (and the cartoons, and the video games, and the tie-in novels, etc etc) -- it's hard to really think of a format the X-Men haven't been translated to. But I'd be really curious to see a movie that gave Piotr a larger role and some character development; I think a good actor could do very interesting things with him. (He's in the second and third movies, but he's American and has only a handful of lines total despite being vaguely around in the background of a lot of the third movie.) I don't expect it to happen any time soon, of course, but I think it'd be neat.

WoT is very cinematic in some ways, but it would also be 156468106846 hours long. They did a comic book version of New Spring, the Lan-and-Moiraine-and-Siuan prequel novel, which was kind of fun and quite pretty at points. Alas, they ran out of funding or something halfway through. (Before pretty much any Lan scenes, either, so I can't steal art for icons, either. Oh well.) The problem with adapting anything WoT is that it's ginormous and dense and has a huge cast, so you'd have to either do an equally huge adaptation or pick and choose what parts to adapt -- also a problem, since the huge cast is all intertwined. Which is why they picked the prequel for the comic, of course.

Firefly has a show and a movie and some comics, and a novelization. I'm not sure of what other formats would work well for it, really. Ouran is an anime and a manga, and is so very much tied to anime/manga tropes that I'm not sure what else would work; a movie, I suppose, but I don't think the complexity would translate very well. Gundam Wing has a series, a movie, and a bunch of manga of various canonicity, plus tie-in songs and the usual doujinshi and I don't even know what else; again, I'm not sure what else would really work well. (Live action would be really interesting, but I suspect it would be very hard to do without ending up even more ridiculous than the anime but without the charm. Plus you'd need very good actors to match the voice actors, and you'd need them to all look the right ages which movies almost never get right.)

Re: Ooh, interesting question.

[mountain-born.livejournal.com]

Firefly has a show and a movie and some comics, and a novelization. I'm not sure of what other formats would work well for it, really.

Broadway musical?

Can you imagine the dance number to Hero of Canton?

Re: Ooh, interesting question.

[genarti]

...I can now, and it would be awesome.

Hunh. There are actually a lot of characters and moments that would transition really well to a musical, I think! I'm not sure if the entire thing would be a success -- I'm not sure how you'd successfully convey the spaceship-western parts of it, at least with the same kind of feel -- but I can picture a lot of little moments, now. (Mal totally gets a song of Secret Broody Angst.)

Re: Ooh, interesting question.

[mountain-born.livejournal.com]

And the Mal song of Secret Broody Angst can be intercut with Inara singing about her Carefully Guarded Love.

Hero of Canton should have a chorus line of mudders.

The ball in Shindig has possibilities for an upbeat Kaylee number.

River, of course, would have the elaborate and complicated dance solo.

.....and it's possible that I've put way too much thought into this.

Re: Ooh, interesting question.

[will_scarlett]

Zoe and Wash need a duet and dance number that's kind of Astaire and Rogersish full of banter and laughter.

Book and Simon need a duet too of religion and science or something like that and there needs to be a wonderful Sondheim type number for the whole crew.

Re: Ooh, interesting question.

[river_meimei]

Oh no, my friend. I think you have put an excellent amount of thought into this.

[jothra]

But Gen! Live action bok choy!

[genarti]

BEST INCENTIVE EVER.

(Worst incentive ever: live-action hair.)

[candied-rabbit.livejournal.com]

...I am somewhat dementedly amused by the idea of a Fruits Basket live action television series. For some reason, I feel like it would work just as well in that format as it did in its manga form. And maybe better, actually, than it did in anime form. If you took the plot straight from the manga and whittled out some of the clunkier flashbacks, I think you'd have a silly-but-functional show.

I imagine TV-FB would be a little less cracky and a little more realistic, just because there are things you can do in drawings and cartoons that wouldn't work with real actors, but that would be a neat, alternative take on things.

And casting Momiji would be kind of adorable.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

It's probably not fair for me to reply to DE this late, especially since I haven't played in goodness knows how many months, but I have an answer!

His Dark Materials needs two more movies, both of which focus on the theology of the series rather than on the imitation-LOTR violence, and which include an unknown actor who plays Will Parry as well as Dakota Blue Richards plays Lyra. Also, Will and Lyra must have chemistry, even if they're barely teenagers.