Could Book of the New Sun be adapted into a miniseries?

Could Book of the New Sun be adapted into a miniseries?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    why does he look like an s&m twink? did the artist actually think this looked badass?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's tumblr art, most likely.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      the executioners wear a mask and work shirtless

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      His sword looks cool. I always like swords that are slabs of metal with no tip. It looks very utilitarian and barbaric.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That is taken directly from historical German executioner swords. The idea for the construction of the sword in the book is cool, with an internal space running down the entire blade partially filled with mercury. When held upright the mercury flows to the hilt end, increasing dexterity. When swung, the mercury flows to the tip and makes the cutting end heavier, increasing power. I wonder if anyone ever tried to make it in real life.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          No, anon. I don't think anyone has tried to make a sword with poisonous metal in the middle of it where it is meant to swing and strike things.
          You could test it with a baseball bat though.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Every artist has to embellish his attire because the way it's described isn't fancy. He has some boots and trousers, a cloak that doesn't reflect light (not a hood), and a mask he almost never wears. This gay had to add useless embroidery and straps and armor pieces, and bandages on his knees for sucking dick I guess.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yep. The most prominent cover of this book is notorious for what you described, which is weird because it's pretty much the only cover you can find anywhere despite being totally fricking wrong

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          OP's art deserves credit because it's one of the few works that actually depicts the cloak and mask as not reflecting any light

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          He gets the fancy, embroidered cloak near the end of the story. It's still supposed to be pure black, though.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Every artist has to embellish his attire because the way it's described isn't fancy. He has some boots and trousers, a cloak that doesn't reflect light (not a hood), and a mask he almost never wears. This gay had to add useless embroidery and straps and armor pieces, and bandages on his knees for sucking dick I guess.

          https://i.imgur.com/JwmMU4j.jpg

          Could Book of the New Sun be adapted into a miniseries?

          >Bitches don't know about the 3 issue adaptation they made in the 90s

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            jesus, fantasy covers are simply absolute kino

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            scans never

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            i want it

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I'm pretty sure a rocket ship would fall down over that amount of time lol

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                it goes into the urth

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Severian is literally an s&m twink that was raised in an s&m tower

      thats just the citadel not the whole city

      >le gyoll
      The french are so gay

      book 4 is fine
      Urth is unfilmable

      >urth is unfilmable
      Thats like the most coherent one, what are you talking about? First half is straight up scifi, second half is jesus-but-future.

      You homosexuals memed this book into the ground. Frick you.

      Best sci fi / fantast author. I wish there were more like wolfe that made me want to reread his work immediately after finishing it.

      the virgin severian
      >bad man trying to be better
      >dynamic and introspective
      >was it rape?
      the chad cugel
      >moronic sociopath
      >learns absolutely nothing
      >it was rape

      I finished Eyes of the Overworld, is Cugel's Saga better? I wasn't a fan of the first one book in the series simply because the dialogue felt like it was straight from a bad anime
      >ah you have struck me with my one weakness, for that i shall fall back and forgoe my attack on you!

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        If you're not a fan of the dialogue you're not gonna like the rest of the series I'm afraid, I personally love the dialogue, you can tell Jack Vance was greatly influenced by works of P. G. Wodehouse.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Every artist has to embellish his attire because the way it's described isn't fancy. He has some boots and trousers, a cloak that doesn't reflect light (not a hood), and a mask he almost never wears. This gay had to add useless embroidery and straps and armor pieces, and bandages on his knees for sucking dick I guess.

      Isn't the cloak he gets at the rag shop described as being the colour of dead leaves, as he wants to conceal his identity as a torturer. I can't remember what happens to it later on. Does he get rid of it?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        he definitely goes back to the fuligin cloak

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No, the entire book is based around misleading descriptions that you have to read between the lines to uncover the truth. That doesn't work on screen.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      why not

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I always imagined it as bigger.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          thats just the citadel not the whole city

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            in english but less detail

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >why not
        Because it's like post-apocalyptic sci-fi except the language, which is a major draw, is couched in fantasy aesthetic. A lot of it is read between the lines. Like the lance of a knight is actually some kind of extreme high-tech weapon. The language puts the reader into viewing things initially as being more primitive or undeveloped, and that is the mindset of most of the characters who are not privy to the history.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        midwits couldn't keep up or even implement it well

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        i've seen you make this exact thread at least a dozen times in the past two months frick off to Cinemaphile where it belongs

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        thats just the citadel not the whole city

        in english but less detail

        This is the only official map released. Came in 1984's Planet Engineering

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Melito
          I feel like this was important but I can't remember why.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'd add Hyperion and Revelation Space to the list that need to be adapted

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Add The Gentlemen Bastards series to that.
      One of the few that I think Hollywood couldn't manage to frick up.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        you know they'd like cast mindy kaling as both the sanza twins or something

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >The Gentlemen Bastards
        only the 1st is good

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You can't really adapt hyperion because the fist book is seven individual short stories while the second book is a more conventional novel

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No. The entire point of the book is that the evocative language that makes everyone's interpretation of the visuals completely unique. Seeing someone visually adapt it would be like reading a written description of a song. You're just getting that guy's interpretation with none of the emotion.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It would only work as an anime

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      1980s anime OVA would be the absolute best and arguably only way to aakv4xdapt Gene Wolfe.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Fist of the Northern Star style BotNS

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          He'd be a weeb if he were born later. I just know it.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            he was in the Korean War

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              nips and asiatics are natural enemies

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No and why would you want it?
    Long Sun would be much better on film or numerous of Wolfe's other novels

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Soldier of the Mist would be pretty kino

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It would work very well because the narrative conceit is simply that Latro doesn't remember between certain scenes but the audience does. Lots of room for interesting direction and performances, interesting special effects.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Should Book of the New Sun be adapted into a miniseries
    No.
    Heavy Metal/Métal hurlant comic adaptation at the most.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Cast it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      ah a true smart lad

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      good book
      I should reread sometime

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I feel like as soon as you get to the last book it becomes mostly unfilmable. Almost everything that happens is psychological and revolves around what Severian is feeling rather than physical things actually happening.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      book 4 is fine
      Urth is unfilmable

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I always thought the claw was red not blue

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    yes but you need a visual genius like Roger Deakins to make it work

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      bit overrated tbh
      Jordan Cronenweth or Peter Suschitzky

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You homosexuals memed this book into the ground. Frick you.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      thank Cinemaphile not us

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Simply read his other stories and don't tell anyone about them. I mean short stories too.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Island of Dr Death and Other Stories is kino

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    the virgin severian
    >bad man trying to be better
    >dynamic and introspective
    >was it rape?
    the chad cugel
    >moronic sociopath
    >learns absolutely nothing
    >it was rape

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >chad
      >moronic
      >sociopath

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The Cugel stories are my absolute favorites of all the "Dying Earth" subgenre.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        they're so fricking good

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Also they have great covers

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          when did he get the animu treatment

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            That's the cover from the Japanese edition of The Eyes of the Overworld.
            There's also some Japanese editions of BOTNS.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    for some reason I always imagined the Claw as being red with a black thorn inside of it, saw this image and thought "what the frick is he holding"

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    maybe but the showrunner/writer/whoever would have to care a LOT
    probably work better as a cartoon

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >2022
    >asking for goyslop adaptation filled with Black folk and troons

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Here's your Severian bro

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Haven't read it yet.
    I'm excited.

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