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[–] [email protected] 82 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He's as disappointed in the witcher as the rest of us

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

dang what happened with the witcher? i'm not in the loop

[–] [email protected] 71 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The show runner insisted on telling "their version of the story".

Which... let's put it like this:

If you're making a TV series about a book series written by a world famous author, and you think you can do a variation / "your take" on the story, because you think you're just that great of a writer, artist, director, etc., then you better actually be on his level.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Say, for example, Kubrick and The Shining or Ridley Scott and Blade Runner or Jackson and The Lord of the Rings, as opposed to Shyamalan and The Last Airbender or Jackson and The Hobbit.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The Hobbit wasn't Jackson's fault. The studio was going to make the movies in that time frame with or without Peter Jackson, so he chose to helm the crashing ship.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

It's true, that wasn't an entirely fair comparison, but I was thinking about disastrous adaptations, and that one sprang to mind.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And without him they were threatening to have the production leave NZ, which would've put a bunch of his friends out of the job.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I didn't know that detail. What a mensch.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It was good. Then, they fucked it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

They fucked it dry.