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minus-squareAlexlinkfedilink3•2 months agoI don’t know if the Culture is filmable? Having said that I think they said the same of things like Dune so maybe?
minus-square@adam_y@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish5•2 months agoI’d still like to throw infinite amounts of money at it to find out. But yeah. If it was filmable, someone would have had a half-hearted stab by now.
minus-square@dustyData@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoApple tried to adapt Asimov’s Foundation with mixed results. I think something small and approachable like Player of Games or Consider Phlebas does for a nice action flick with philosophical underpinnings if taken by a good screewriter.
minus-square@Chip_Rat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•2 months agoI’d be up for The Wasp Factory. In the Gothic horror style of “the fall of the house of usher”(Netflix?)
Ian M Banks entire culture series.
I don’t know if the Culture is filmable? Having said that I think they said the same of things like Dune so maybe?
I’d still like to throw infinite amounts of money at it to find out.
But yeah. If it was filmable, someone would have had a half-hearted stab by now.
Apple tried to adapt Asimov’s Foundation with mixed results. I think something small and approachable like Player of Games or Consider Phlebas does for a nice action flick with philosophical underpinnings if taken by a good screewriter.
I’d be up for The Wasp Factory. In the Gothic horror style of “the fall of the house of usher”(Netflix?)