baxus Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 I love seeing names of the characters in English, having read it in Serbian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilusmagnus Posted September 10, 2014 Author Share Posted September 10, 2014 Circle-breaker, you inadvertly switched the actors for Jezal and West. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KalibakCruel Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Posted this a while ago. But this would be my wet dream cast Logen Ninefingers: tom hardySand dan Glokta: Mads Mikkelsen Jezal dan Luthar: ewan mcgregorCollem West: Damian LewisArdee West: Carla GuginoFerro Maljinn: Kerry WashingtonBayaz, First of the Magi: Ben KingsleySeverend: Tom HiddlestonBethod: Rory McCannDogman: Jude LawBlack Dow: James PurefoyShivers: Clive StandenThreetrees: Ray StevensonCosca: Nathan FillionThe Navigator: Alan TudykThis is a great cast, I always envisioned Vinnie Jones as Black Dow, but Purefoy is genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howdyphillip Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 I have Mickey Rourke as The Bloody Nine,,, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Gilfellon Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 What about Mel Gibson as Logen? Nah, only joking.... Rouke fits in my mind having just watched the Wrestler last night. And if we're typecasting Rory, might I suggest the Dog Lord in JV Jones's series? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrienneofQarth Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 I have just started reading 'The Blade Itself'. I'm about sixty pages in, and so far I am finding it a slog.... it's got plenty of action, but there is so much darkness, misery and depressing-ness, it's not really gripping me; Even GoT has its ten seconds of happiness in Winterfell before all the dark... It would be interesting to see it turned into a film though; It would be the most depressing film that I had seen since I saw The Phantom Menace. Maybe I should persevere with the book before I condemn..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 I have just started reading 'The Blade Itself'. I'm about sixty pages in, and so far I am finding it a slog.... it's got plenty of action, but there is so much darkness, misery and depressing-ness, it's not really gripping me; Even GoT has its ten seconds of happiness in Winterfell before all the dark... It would be interesting to see it turned into a film though; It would be the most depressing film that I had seen since I saw The Phantom Menace. Maybe I should persevere with the book before I condemn..... The first book is pretty light in comparison with later installments and other purveyors of "grimdark". It may not be your cup of tea. In terms of film I weirdly feel like every other book would make an excellent film from the series but I don't think enough really happens in book 1 for it to be a big screen event. It feels more suited to TV for me where the emphasis can be on the characters. The problem then would be that the other books would be far harder to film on a TV budget. Who knows, though - TV is doing impressive work these days and CGI effects can cover a lot up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilusmagnus Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 If you give it the budget they had for season 1 of Game of Thrones, it's just perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrienneofQarth Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 The first book is pretty light in comparison with later installments and other purveyors of "grimdark". It may not be your cup of tea. :eek: Thanks for the heads up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Gilfellon Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 You mean the budget that did not extend to the battle scenes at the end of the book? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilusmagnus Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 You mean the budget that did not extend to the battle scenes at the end of the book? Yes, I mean a pretty huge budget for a TV show. And the way they dealt with the battle of the Green Fork in the show was extremely clever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night's_King Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Yes, I mean a pretty huge budget for a TV show. And the way they dealt with the battle of the Green Fork in the show was extremely clever. Make a TV show or a movie of The Blade Itself with that amount of money. Either way I don't think that it would pay off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilusmagnus Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 It paid off with A Game of Thrones, which is a book twice as big, with at least twice as many characters and much more complex. A 8-episodes season with the same budget would do well enough for The Blade Itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night's_King Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 It paid off with A Game of Thrones, which is a book twice as big, with at least twice as many characters and much more complex. A 8-episodes season with the same budget would do well enough for The Blade Itself.And there you have it. It's a lot less complex, and while it has interesting characters, there's really not much going on in book 1. Few people would watch it, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilusmagnus Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 Which is why you would have to adapt the story to fit on-screen. Screenwriters do that a lot, they can find a way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilusmagnus Posted September 13, 2014 Author Share Posted September 13, 2014 Do you think it would be realistic to invent languages in a movie/series adaptation? In the books, there seems to be three languages the characters talk in : Northern, Union tongue (that everyone kinda speaks) and Gurkhul. Would those fit in an adaptation? If we consider Union tongue as English, we would not have too much subtitled parts, if we have Bayaz speaking Union with Logen and Bethod. The only scenes in other languages would be the beginning of Ferro's storyline, the beginning of Logen's and the parts with the Dogman's band.Seems doable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted September 13, 2014 Share Posted September 13, 2014 And there you have it. It's a lot less complex, and while it has interesting characters, there's really not much going on in book 1. Few people would watch it, I guess. Another solution would be to skim over the first book and have the first film/season deal with part of the sequel. They could still have 3 films/seasons but maybe play around with how they are spaced. The only thing with that is that with book 2 you can't really split the journey over 2 seasons It's not that I hate book 1 - it's just that I don't think it would translate well to screen without some serious playing around. Vikings has shown you can have good battles on TV but they are still more skirmish like than what goes down in this series, Then there's the magic as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yersinia Posted September 13, 2014 Share Posted September 13, 2014 Do you think it would be realistic to invent languages in a movie/series adaptation? In the books, there seems to be three languages the characters talk in : Northern, Union tongue (that everyone kinda speaks) and Gurkhul. Would those fit in an adaptation? If we consider Union tongue as English, we would not have too much subtitled parts, if we have Bayaz speaking Union with Logen and Bethod. The only scenes in other languages would be the beginning of Ferro's storyline, the beginning of Logen's and the parts with the Dogman's band.Seems doable.They could take the lazy approach and just have people speaking English with funny accents for the "foreign" language bits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilusmagnus Posted September 13, 2014 Author Share Posted September 13, 2014 They could take the lazy approach and just have people speaking English with funny accents for the "foreign" language bits. Like British accent for the civilised Midderland people, Irish for Angland, Scottish for barbaric northerners, Arabian for Gurkhul (cause yknow, theyre like the bad guyz) italian for traders and like guys from the Old Empire and maybe Greek accent for Dagoskans? And maybe a French accent for Bayaz because like he's so venerable so he has to pronounce strong "R"s... Yeah, that would be totally terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yersinia Posted September 13, 2014 Share Posted September 13, 2014 Like British accent for the civilised Midderland people, Irish for Angland, Scottish for barbaric northerners, Arabian for Gurkhul (cause yknow, theyre like the bad guyz) italian for traders and like guys from the Old Empire and maybe Greek accent for Dagoskans?And maybe a French accent for Bayaz because like he's so venerable so he has to pronounce strong "R"s...Yeah, that would be totally terrible.Yeah, maybe, but by lazy approach I was referring more to the way characters in a movie might be speaking, for example, English with a fake German accent, and the audience is supposed to pretend that they're speaking German. I think this technique has fallen out of favor, but you hear it sometimes in older movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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