[ SECRET POST #2608 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2608 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

The Stardust movie is vastly superior to the book, though. I love Gaiman, but the movie version is just so, so good. The actors alone are excellent.

I do agree with you about American Gods, though. I just don't think it would make a very good movie/mini-series.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, Gaiman wrote the script for Stardust. So... XD

[the_missing_y]

I just don't think it would make a very good movie/mini-series.

I think it would depend entirely on the strength of the actors playing the various parts. It's a fantastic world, but the strength of the characters are what drive the story more than anything else.

Can't think who they'd cast though.

Shadow: I want to say Idris Elba. Built like a tone of bricks, can play the character type so well, but shadow is not so obviously black. it would need to be someone who could pass for a dark skinned white guy or a light skinned black guy.

Wednesday: Maybe Jeff Bridges? Oo oo ooh, Donald Sutherland! OOoo No Sutherland would be a much better Czernobog, so how about Bruce Campbell as Wednesday!

I cast Morgan Freeman as almost every cool old black guy, but I can think of no better Anansi. He's the only one I have no qualms about.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't care for the movie, tbh. Parts of it were fine, others were... I just didn't go for the nutty slapstick of Robert DeNiro as a camp Captain Shakespeare. It felt really cringeworthy and juvenile, even for a movie that was meant to appeal to a younger audience.

[queerwolf]

I thought Stardust was great. I especially loved Robert DeNiro.

I need to read American Gods. It's been on my to-read list forever.

[(Anonymous)]

Robert DeNiro is so wonderful in Stardust. And Michelle Pfeiffer and Mark Strong both KILLED it. It's rare for a movie to have two incredibly good villains.

[othellia]

Filling up the echo chamber by saying I vastly preferred the Stardust movie to the book. Actually pretty much anything Gaiman, I prefer the adaptations to the originals. He has good ideas, but there's just something about his prose that never clicks for me.

Pretty sure I've had this conversation here before...

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[loracarol]

What was wrong with Stardust?

I don't mean that as sarcasm- I'm honestly curious; I tried to read the book, but Neil Gaiman's novel writing style doesn't work for me, but I had so much fun with the movie.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm worried about this one, too, but less due to the book and more due to the mythology behind it. In particular, I'm nervous about them making the tree sequence into a Christian thing. It would be really easy for them to do and would require less exposition than keeping the link to the Norse myths.

I disagree with you about Stardust, though. I love, love, love that movie and can forgive all of the differences between it and the book. Robert de Niro's performance alone makes it all worth it.

[ginainthekingsroad]

I thought Neverwhere was planned as a show first? Because it's clearly paced for serialization, whether for tv or comics I'm not sure, but it's not very appealing in novel form. In my opinion, of course.

[(Anonymous)]

HBO dropped it and someone else picked it up. Didn't Gaiman make a blog post about it recently? Tbh, I think this one will stay in development hell for a while yet so nothing to worry about.

[(Anonymous)]

A TV show couldn't possible make this thing worse. :/ They might even improve it, by cutting the fat.

[dwell_ondreams]

I don't think American Gods should be adapted either. They won't do it right. I don't think they should do Sandman either.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a bit anxious that they'd fuck up the casting. I usually don't have very clear pictures of characters in books, but American Gods is an exception (mostly due to fanart I really love) - Especially the Egyptian Gods concern me. I had to stop listening to the audiobook after I hated the voice they did for Jacquel.

[azi]

Neverwhere's TV serial was released prior to the book. B(

I mean, it's fine if you don't like it and stuff, but let's not act like it was a poor adaptation as if the book already had a massive following and the series wasn't up to par, okay?

[(Anonymous)]

Stardust was amazing and all the changes from what I understand were done by Gaiman himself.

[(Anonymous)]

This but with Sandman

[gondremark]

Since I heard about this show I've been trying to figure out who the hell could possibly play Shadow. I can't think of anyone. I can't even think of which type of actor should play him. All I've gotten out of this is some weird introspective stuff about how a story is told through a narrator (even when that narrator isn't a first person one), and proof of the fact that American Gods is a really good book, and is a book because it can't be a play or a poem or a movie or anything else.

[chlorhexidine]

Neverwhere was a TV series before it was a book, and the book version of Stardust has an extremely weak ending; the film improved on that massively.

I don't think American Gods should be made into a film or a TV series, but this is largely because a whole heaping lot of nothing happens for vast swathes of the book.

Although I would be interested to see if the unbirthing scene made it to any adaptation!

[(Anonymous)]

I saw the movie for Stardust first, then i read the book and I STILL think the movie was MUCH BETTER

[iggy]

I thought that the Stardust movie was a lot better than the book to be honest.

[(Anonymous)]

Neil Gaiman is overrated. Period.

[arcadiaego]

I don't think they will do it justice, so I'm just going to enjoy it for what it is. And if it exceeds my expectations, that will be good. (Although Neverwhere wasn't an adaptation, it was a screw up because of the way it was filmed, so I wouldn't count that one personally.)