tuesday de: change in format

[inlovewithwords]

If your canon were to be presented in a different medium than it is, what would you like to see? For those of us with canons that come in basically ever format ever, is there a specific part of canon you'd like to see told in a different medium?

Brought to you by my joy that Coco won at the Oscars and my desperate need for an extended novel series about Hera Syndulla being a total badass.

Comments

[i_am_your_host]

I would love to see a film version of the stage production of Cabaret. Or even a dark and gritty series a la "Babylon Berlin" (which is freaking AMAZING, it's on Netflix and I recommend it to anyone who likes noir or historical fiction set in the 1920s/30s). Yes, the Liza Minnelli movie was great, but it was more of a Liza showcase and isn't the stage show. I just want to see more of the other characters and how their lives develop, not only Sally and Cliff.

As for Preacher, so far I am beyond pleased with the TV adaptation of the comics, and I can't imagine that a movie (which has been repeatedly proposed) would have done any good because there's too much material. And as for a specific part of canon, I cannot wait to see how the TV show handles Cassidy's backstory and vampire origins.

I never really thought about it, though, but I think Preacher would make for a really cool (and gory) anime.

[cottoncandypink]

Wilford’s canon would do very well in an animated format. I’d also love to see the scripting process since I know they go though loads of revisions up through even the filming and editing.

[for_everyone]

Star Wars comes in just about every medium. Except podcast. A Rebellion/Resistance dispatches podcast would be cool.

And we would definitely also be happy to see a bunch of badass Hera novels. White-texted but-just-reaction spoilers: especially after our disappointment with the finale :(

[bjornwilde]

All the bad-ass Hera novels. And totes agree with your white-text.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

An Overwatch animated series or movie would be really cool! Although, honestly, I just want a bigger chunk of story than we've been getting. In any format. (At one point there was going to be a graphic novel but it was cancelled.)

Homestuck is kind of every format at once already. While it already has some parts that are animated, I'd enjoy it if more of the story was told that way.

Fallen London is essentially a very large, sparsely illustrated choose-your-own-adventure book in internet form, and Sunless Sea takes that format and adds top-down sailing and boat fights. (I haven't tried Sunless Skies, but it doesn't seem massively different.) I'd love a version that has more visuals, whether that's a different genre of video game or a live-action show set in the Neath.

[sticktothemission]

Seconding the desire for an animated Overwatch series, but would be happy with anything coming out on a regular schedule.

[inlovewithwords]

Lois: Honestly the teen novel trilogy so cute I would totally want to see TV show/movie of it, whether animated or LA.

Evelyn: Not sure, although for some reason my brain just threw "lol Thedas the musical" and I'm basically dead.

Tavi: TV show. Either LA or animated, no strong preference, but I'd love to be able to watch my canon.

Star Wars: I mostly answered my current feelings above, in that in this moment I really just want an extended novel series about Hera, particularly during the heydey of the Rebellion post-show. So, so much material there. I will note that the novelizations of the apocrypha are way more sense-making than the movies. Also that the other thing I want could be novels or comics or animated series and is [spoiler, actually, never mind]. And Mandalore! I could do with more of Mandalore. And maybe more about Anakin's youth with Obi-wan, fill out that relationship and their broventures. Or political drama, probably novels at that point, about Padme between Ep1 and 2, R2 could even be with her through that.

As far as a format switch, though, I think I would vaguely like Ahsoka to make it into something outside the TV shows/comics. Hera and Chop and the Ghost got cameos in Rogue One, it could happen!

Oh, and I guess actually the thing I've wanted for a while is a Screencap RPG Webcomic of Star Wars Rebels, which is basically someone's tabletop campaign already anyway. But I might have to make it and we all know I'm too lazy for that.

(And if all this is focused very little on my two, let's face it: Anakin and R2 get lots of screen time in lots of formats.)

sorry were you expecting me to want anything belgariad/mallorean made no i love eriond but i am too angry about many toxic tropes in his canon to want to see anyone adapt it ever

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

... so you're saying you don't want to see a shonen manga Belgariad where Polgara's looked approximately nineteen for the past three thousand years and the Sword of Riva is twelve feet long?

[bjornwilde]

I kind of want to see that now.

[inlovewithwords]

I--

. . .

I am now torn between horrified trainwreck syndrome and emphasizing that hell no I don't, because mixing shonen tropes with bad Eddings tropes leads to my head exploding.

[quick_clean_pure]

Repo!'s already been a stage show, album, and a movie, so maybe a TV mini-series?

It would be cool to really dive into the world of the story, since canon for this whole universe is only 90 minutes long and was made on the cheap.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka: I'd like a animated movie of the Siege of Mandalore. And a comic series of her time helping to build the Rebel Alliance. Pretty much anything more really, but also a live action solo movie with Rosario Dawson playing her, since Rosario has already expressed interest.

Sabine: I would love a book about the reunification of Mandalore. Political action with more details on Mandalorian culture please.

Sam I wouldn't mind reading a comic or book about his time as an avenger between Age of Ultron and Civil War, as well as the time between Civil War and Infinity War.

An animated short or comic for Scrapper's time on Sakaar could be a fun read.

A live action Netflix/TV series of the October Daye series would be fabu.

[misslucyjane]

Marvel usually does a bridge/tie-in comic between movies, so we might see what Sam and Co. got up to before April. (According to Wikipedia they haven't been released yet but are scheduled for 2018. Edited to add, further research reveals the tie-in will be released April 4.)

[bjornwilde]

Woot! I should look into the post-AoU comic then....which made me just remember seeing a pre-Black Panther that mentions Bucky.

[moonandstar]

There have already been two Mortal Kombat films, the first of which is a reasonably competent B-movie and the second of which is a hilariously incoherent fever dream that plays out like an episode of Power Rangers if catering served pure cocaine instead of food. If they make another one, I'd kind of like it to be a more violent version of Big Trouble in Little China - something with a lighthearted spirit of fun about it. (Johnny Cage would be the Jack Burton in this scenario, i.e. comedy sidekick who thinks he's the hero).

As for the Elder Scrolls, most of what's great about it is particular to the fact that it's a video game franchise and wouldn't really translate well to another medium. However, I would watch the SHIT out of a TV series about Cyrus from the Redguard spinoff game. A fantasy pirate adventure and mythpunk travelogue with an all-black principal cast? Sign me the fuck up, please.