Duhjoker wrote:Again I say do it right or don't do it at all. Many have us have invested a lot of time and money into these books and we deserve to see it done right. Originality is the key to a good movie. If your gonna throw in every cliche from every space movie ever made then why make it. Of you want to chew bubblegum like the rest of the Hollywood BS, go ahead. But I like the originality of the series and would rather see it pure or not at all. Now the sail plane and trophy incident would make a good dream sequence per sé but it's told as a flashback in the books so it's still an FU to originality, the fans and the writer who wrote these stories to do it that way. And don't even bother with Mr. P.Y. till it makes sense to do so.
If it ain't broke don't fix it.
What you need to remember is that literature rarely, if ever, translates perfectly to film. Some narrative conventions work in literature but not onscreen, and vice-versa. The story is, by necessity, going to have changes made to it in order to present it on the big screen. If you go in to any film adaptation expecting a literal, word-for-word transcription of the book onto film, I have to inform you that you are going to be sorely disappointed.
Changes are not, by default, bad.Evergreen is working very, very hard, and closely with Mr. Weber himself, to ensure that the film stays faithful to the novels, but that does not mean in any way that everything will happen exactly the way it did in the book. Some characters will have to be cut; others will be consolidated; scenes will have to be reordered; some will be cut.
This is unavoidable. An adaptation is just that; an
adaptation.If you cannot accept that changes will be made, do not see the film.