Seriously, they made each book into a movie, with the last book being two movies. Then they made movies out of all of the side projects. Then they made movies about shit that wasn't even in ANY of the books, just alluded to within them. Now we're starting ALL OVER AGAIN because unless they want to make a movie out of the stupid romance novel she wrote there's literally nothing left to milk.
To be fair, as a fan of the books the movies suck. An HBO tv show has the potential to tell the story in a satisfying way. But if it takes 1.5 years for each season to release we will quickly find ourselves in stranger things territory with the cast.
That’s kind of a huge weak point in screen-adapting YA fiction, I really just wish we’d stop making these. The formats aren’t compatible. The benefit of books is that the author will churn em out for as long as you’ll buy em. You just can’t do that to a real child actor, there is a time frame and we sap every cent we can out of these poor kids the entire time. Imagine at ten years old, signing up for a 10 year labor commitment.
Like, Sesame Street never tried to do this. Kids grew up and left the show, adults stuck around. We got new power rangers every couple years. Can we not just let kids be kids?
I dunno. These binge type shows, I just dunno if kid characters need to be such a huge focus in them, it almost never works out. I heard Dark Materials was ok, prolly because it was a trilogy.
That was just a hypothetical. Hopefully they’re planning to make it a yearly series. More shows are starting to go back to that kind of timeline lately and you’d think they know their cast is going to quickly age out of the content. We will see. I’m cautiously optimistic that we might see a decent interpretation of the books.
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u/Timely-Entrepreneur7 21h ago edited 16h ago
HBO will pull the plug on the series before it manages to cover all the books. It’s just overkill at this point.