What the frick happened to FANTASY movies, Cinemaphile?
LotR was 20 years ago and was supposed to be the start for the golden age of fantasy and scifi. Where is my WARHAMMER Fantasy/40k? Where is my EARTHSEA? MALZAN? DRESDEN FILES? DARK TOWER? Chronicles of the Black Company? RIFTWAR SAGA? The Rigante Novels? DISCWORLD? Honor Harrington? Riverworld? Forever War?
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Harry Potter stole it's thunder and then that and a lot of Potter-likes (Percy) got made instead of tapping into 100 years of fantasy literature.
>stole it's thunder
motherfricker, harry potter was first published in 1997 & the first movie adaptation premiered two months before FOTR; if anything, peter jackson's LOTR owes harry potter for making the fantasy genre relevant again at the end of the 90s.
>Harry Potter is responsible for LotRs success
i know people on this site are moronic, but this is beyond that. this is like if a moronic jogger with a single digit iq was somehow able to manifest a single thought
jackson's lotr was in development since like 1995 and was only delayed because of rights disputes. some random children's book coming out in 97 had no impact at all on whether lotr would be made, they had already bought the rights at that point.
You realize the first couple Harry Potter books weren't culture shifting successes when they came out right?
>the best selling fantasy book in history getting an adaption that wasn't half wienered needed Harry Potter to generate interest
I know most of the board wasn't alive then, but I was, and while there was plenty of buzz around the books on release, it wasn't until book 3 that the hype train really took off, and not until after the movie that it left the station.
Lord of the Rings was already a well anticipated movie among a separate demographic by the time 2000 rolled around.
This is from the land of the rising bong, incidentally; ground 0 of the hype.
You can also blame The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe for sucking balls even as books, those movies were excruciating
too White, very problematic and since the rangz of powa failed they wont be trying anything for warhammer or 40k.
At the time, it was due to the sheer amount of low effort copycats failing spectacularly, and a few decent fantasy movies unfortunately flopping due to bad association. Game of Thrones’ success then made execs angle to ripping off dark fantasy rather than the classics, and combined with Harry Potter/Twiligjt starting and continuing the YA adaption trend, LoTR’s success never really translated into a meaningful trend of its own.
Nowadays, it’s a combo of incompetence, authors withholding licenses after seeing how badly other adaptions got butchered, and
Given that shit like wheel of time or rangz is the current standard, we should all be grateful that this is the case, though I will mourn the good movies that were never made in the brief period they could have been.
I think stardust was the only one that wasn’t shit during that period.
they have been wokening it in the game doe. that darktide had a chinky female priest and a Black person psyker. if i remember correctly they also had a Black person librarian in dawn of war 2. i dont know when they added battle sisters and female inquisitors. but im sure its still too White to them in Hollywood or it is already on the woke track so they dont need to touch it. just expect the unexpected anon
>DISCWORLD?
i'm sorry to tell you anon, but....
Discworld can't be translated well into film. Le Guin wouldn't let anyone get the rights for her ip after the last one got stuck in development. All the others wouldn't have return on investment except 40k, but GW are too greedy to let it go to someone who won't frick it up.
Every attempt in the last ten years has failed miserably. Largely for the same reason, they're all woke as frick. D&D bombed because it was woke, Witcher failed because it was woke, Wheel of Time, Willow, House of the Dragon, it's all shit. These things only succeed if you keep them close to the source material.
I've been reading the second Gentlemen Bastards book years after reading the first one, and I'm nearly done but two big incidents of the author being a progressive frickwit have ruined the entire book for me. The second book largely consists of the main characters being forced to become pirates and thus learn to sail the seas, the first taste comes when the guy teaching them to be a sailor explains according to the customs of the sea god they serve "every ship needs cats and women." This flies in the face of thousands of years of Naval tradition, but whatever. But he just doesn't let this shit go. "A boat needs women, they're just better than us lads." Utter cringe, and it paints all the female pirates met later as collective mary sues, but I was still willing to overlook it until near the end of the book they start talking about the pirate's raids. "They barely lost any crewmen" it should say, but it doesn't, instead we get the term "crewfolk".My lip girls in disgust just typing that shit out it's so overwhelmingly cringe.
For me red sails had the problem of being a retread of the original but less interesting.
Both books have the bastards come up with a scheme, Both have them derailed by forces they could never have seen coming or fought against, both have them rally and find a way around it, and both end with them escaping but with a pyrrhic victory.
Red sails was particularly annoying because a fantasy casino heist was a much better concept than progressive piracy, especially when all the sailors except one zesty buck are complete c**ts
I've strongly suspected for a while that there is some cabal of modern fantasy editors who strongly suggest to authors that they up the women storylines in book two after the first one is successful.
It’s publisher mandated.
Take a look at the current lineup of releases fantasy/sci-fi books being traditionally published, and if they’re not made by a legacy author they’re going to be pozzed to the gills.
There’s a reason why self publishing and even web originals are beating the living shit out of traditional publishing, despite the fact it was seen as a joke less than a decade ago. I know a major part of that is due to Amazon sponsoring a lot of it, but the fact remains that they have a hell of a lot more freedom to write what they, and more importantly what their audience, want.
The self published Cradle series hits best selling book on Amazon every release. It blows my mind how disconnected the publishing industry is with audience desires.
And all Cradle is is Shonen manga distilled into western novel form.
My brother is an author and gets zero response from any publishers as a white dude, it's already a hyper competitive medium and all the publishing houses have racial / gender quotas now. Only path to getting your name out there as a white guy is self publishing or having family connections.
This. Self published stuff needs an actual audience to survive, so they have to find someone to appeal to. They can't rely on swiping a ridiculous advance for filling a quota, doing the bare minimum to fulfil the contract, then fricking off into the sunset and leaving the publishers with the difference.
If I was looking for something to pass the time and had to choose between some racially ambiguous cardboard cut out complaining about racism/colonialism/misogyny (delete as necessary) and an isekai about a farmer and his kung fu chicken, I know which one I'd take.
>I’m
>Literally
>SHAKING!!!
wtf. Women and priests were always bad luck on ships since time immemorial.
If you're writing a fantasy setting you can play with things like that. Ideally you come up with some reason for it, if you don't whatever. The problem with the story anon described isn't the cats and women on a ship bit, but all the crap that followed after that.
Being woke shit is one important reason yes, but these productions are also cheap and rushed, and it shows on screen. No care is put in these productions anymore.
Things like diversity or even gender role discussion can be handled just fine in fantasy, most authors just suck dick at it so their attempts at inserting their political opinions into the series are horrifically painful. This doesn't just go for fantasy but modern writing in general.
Current year writers can’t fathom the idea that, in a period without easy travel, any diverse community would homogenise within a few generations unless it’s kept strictly segregated. They write every community like it’s modern day california because an area with majority white is offensive to them, even if there are areas of majority black, asian, arab, etc within the setting.
It leads to fricking hilarious scenarios like the WoT adaption, where the diversity in an area explicitly left on its own for around 1000 years implies that Cletus and Jamal both teamed up to lynch any race mixers until very recently.
Two races being united but apart could be a neat idea, but I'm guessing they just don't address it and just act like there's nothing weird about a mix of white and black people in a town.
Got it in one.
It’s never addressed and every community is identical, from small villages to the seat of magical power
They make them woke and also do everything on suit-tier marketing motivations and rarely (if ever) creative spark. A D&D movie has to be some forgotten realms shit. Meanwhile the Dragonlance Chronicles have been sitting around full of unrealized cinematic potential.
>Gentlemen Bastards
What do you expect when you read a book written by someone who looks like this?
amazing
>Largely for the same reason, they're all woke as frick
i read joe abercrombie's first law trilogy a few years ago, it was good. everyone was an evil bastard, or an evil bastard trying to be better, the fights were won by brute force or being unwilling to stop. they weren't all brilliant masterminds, but none of them were moronic
then he released a young adult trilogy, first was decent, a crippled prince is forced on the run and has to use his wits to survive. the second book had the prince again, but he's quickly replaced by a teenage girl who really wants to be warrior, but everyone tells her no, you're a girl, but she trains really, really hard and is able to beat up 300lb men despite being a third of their size. he passed her off with the usual "speed and skill" bullshit and started blocking anyone who pointed out that the real world has weight classes for a reason.
brushed that off as young adult idiocy and gave the sequel to first law a shot. everyone competent is a woman, the men are either drooling idiots or drunks.
They have to write stories like this to win awards etc. That was the premise behind the whole 'sad puppies' debacle.
lotr was the swan song of fantasy films
It needs to be close to the source material and have 0 changes.
Kinda bad example, the casting (except Richard) was the only thing this had going for it, and the lesbians.
Terry Goodkind was one hell of a hack
>ripped off WoT
>halfway starts ripping off Atlas Shrugged and never stops
>claims he never wrote fantasy when called out and that if you see any similarities to WoT you are not old enough to read his books
what got me was the end of book 2 where out of nowhere the ghosts of the dead opened up a dimensional portal to a pocket dimension where the MC could have sex with his waifu which was on the other end of the world
>the frick was I reading!
and it never stops
I read up to book 5 and had to call it quits. He obviously put all his fetishes as main plot points. This big bad Dreamwalker character is described in either book 4 or 5, bald, earing, mustache, and you get to the last page of the book where it's an "about the author," and he's bald, earing, had a mustache. The other is when the female protag gets beat up and possibly raped by a mob of people in book 5, and it's revealed that she can't b3 healed with magic, and has to heal naturally under the main protags care. The fetish shit was just too much.
the rape and edge in his books was so distasteful and he combined it with slapstick comedy in between to ease things up
you stopped right before the so called drop of quality
book 6 is cited as his best one, that whole book is about the MC building a magical statue and citing long winded passages from Atlas Shrugged to free an entire empire from the evil communist dictator baddie of the series
I'm never gonna read it, so can you clarify what happens to Kahlan in book 6? Was she raped by that mob? Does she recover but has immense trauma?
Bro if you got so far you know that she will never get raped. Not Goodkind, I mean Richards waifu, Ayn Rand, I mean Kahlan.
Kahlan is badly wounded, and taken by Richard to the mountains to recover when Nikki comes to take Richard away from Kahlan to the land where the Imperial Order started, their sworn enemies. Nikki binds Kahlan to herself to force Richard to do her bidding by a spell, where Kahlan can feel what Nikki feels.
Richard is captured and enslaved by a former agent of the Imperial Order, and his wife Kahlan goes to war against the Order. She leaves the war to find him, he wins over his captor, and they meet up in the capital city of the Order.
Also that magical statue he spends majority of the book building, just by a look at it people drop down and start crying struck by its beauty and realize how horrible communism is and start a rebellion.
Jeez this looks dumb af
the author claimed he wasn't writing fantasy but philosophy
Fantasy passing as philosophy is like genre films trying to pass as arthouse...
People just want space pewpew (penises) or big swords (dongs)
There’s nothing wrong with adding some depth to pulp to keep it interesting, the problem is people like Goodkind having their heads up their ass because they’re either too embarrassed to admit they can’t write what they want, or too pretentious to realise they’re writing the genre equivalent of popcorn.
Then there’s the fact that the Goodkinds of the world could never write something deep in the first place, because they can never accept anyone else’s view as valid, nor their ideological enemies as being more than bumbling idiots while still managing to threaten the world.
Contrast with even a different libertarian like Larry Correia, who wears his biases on his sleeve too, and it’s clearly not just his ideology. That guy may clearly love to shit on the government at every opportunity, but he still writes government agents as hyper competent where it’s logical for them to be so, and when it’s their turn for a POV it’s clear that in their eyes, antagonistic characters are heroes that can raise morale simply by turning up, rather than cackling over how many babies they plan on eating and celebrating their lack of moral clarity .
>DISCWORLD
Dude
>Riverworld
Oh I forgot...
Don't watch it. It's worse than bad.
I mean the movie.
Wheel of Time movie series would have been kino. Instead we got WOKE of Time
also it amazes me how they decided to launch this in the era where casting ugly as frick actors became the norm for a book series that had 10/10 beautiful characters as the norm
you should thank the gods all of those haven't been raped by woke hollywood lesbians yet
pray they never touch something like 40k.
I'm sure Amazon has greenlit shows for at least half of these. Lucky you
Emperor of Man is a black woman or some ugly white nerd.
No thanks.
Discworld got some adaptions, and while some of the live action is underwhelming, none of them are shit. No I refuse to acknowledge that abomination, and by allah’s mercy I will smite any hesthen with a shoe if they mention it
For me it’s
Soul Music>Hogfather>Wyrd sisters>Going Postal>Colour of Magic
I mean technically superhero movies are fantasy, maybe not traditional fantasy like the works you cited but can fall into it.
Why nobody is talking about The broken sword?
This one would work in current market.
Simple story, borse mithology, berserk, elvea, cute elf as love interest, epic battle, fae realm.
Too white and can’t have females playing damsels anymore.
But also I’m going to read your book now
All the elves will be genuinely disgusting looking african mutants.
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what could have been
Fantasy got cucked when Jordan died btw. There are no coincidences.
>a series about 3 alpha males struggling to unite the broken world after feminist witches left it in ruin
yeah this was never gonna fly
Literally like the show
dunno what you have been watching but they destroyed the entire series and altered the message to now the women being the chosen ones while the boys are background decoration, and filled everything with Black folk, homos and sex
Sarcasm
from the very first line of the show it was ruined
they made one of the girls a ta'veren and The Dragon can be a woman now
also they all ugly as frick
>tfw no thicc forsaken gf
All the women in that series had 90s pornstar breasts straight from a hentai. I know cause Jordan made sure to describe them in detail every time.
yeah its pretty based
except for tuon kek
black jailbait tho
At least give us some epic/miliary FANTASY/SCIFI.
>Claims to love thing
>Wants thing to be perverted by blackwashing and "adapted to modern audiences"
I'm getting mixed signals here
they can try adapting the malazan book of the fallen next
the author is a leaf and leftist and the series is filled with diversity and strong wemen!
For some reason they rarely do that, or the black authors' books
extremely gay series, never liked it
wasn't the first book written as a screenplay in the 90s? shit is basically begging to be adapted... what are they doing?
erikson is extremely autistic and demands full control
Logistically its unfilmable. You could do it as animation or do invididual stories like the chain of dogs, but the whole series as live action is impossible without cutting most of the characters and continually recasting actors.
I was shilled into reading the first 4 books and it's complete uninspired dogshit. Characters are bland, get random stuff happening to them in the middle of nowhere (only explained two books later) and you never follow them enough to be invested, basically walking plot devices.
The narration and pace are all over the place too where you follow way too many characters dispersed over a way too big area.
It's like ASOIAF but with absolutely 0 talent for characterization, dialogues or intrigue, basically just one of these countless attempts at trying to "subvert the genre" only for it to be total crap (who would have guessed!).
I moved to historical fiction and it's miles better even when it's not that good.
it was impressive for a DnD session
it was horrendous as a book, dude can't write for shit
>fantasy
Theres lotr and half of got, is that really it?
Excalibur 1981
>Excalibur 1981
yeah that is another one. gonna rewatch.
>Where is my EARTHSEA?
Right here.
Fantasy is childish and gay
Not as gay as larping as chad on a Mongolian basketweaving forum.
He mad
No, atalker, it is not
Wrong again, child
>he paints toy figurines while reading homoerotic fanfics written by obese bearded men
Huhuhu
No, stalker, these are your delusions speaking
lmao a manchild daydreaming about being a mighty warrior or warlock, riding a dragon while slaying goblins and fricking elvish princesses calls me delusional
Wrong again, stalker
>n-no u wrong
Sweating
Wrong in every delusional detail as always, stalker
Don’t owe a penny, child
>he believes anons are after him
This is what d&d does to you
You are going to prison, stalker
Don't you have 50.000 dollars to pay?
communism is childish and gay
it is good when its historical fiction masquerading as fantasy
it is gay when it is just anime in written form
There were these kids fantasy books I read when I was around 10 called Ranger's Apprentice and the ripping-off of irl Europe was so blatant it was groan-worthy even at that age. Based books tho, loved em.
>The dwarves are based on the israelites. Small, greedy, secretive, and seclusive.
How did he get away with this
Let's see what high praise he has for dwarves
>There it is: dwarves are not heroes, but calculating
folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are
tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not,
but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don’t expect too much.
Malazan is dogshit, same for the black company.
LOTR is the only Fantasy worth its salt. ASOIAF was good too but this was obviously ruined and the fat frick has no idea how to finish it.
It's probably for the best.
These stories exist in my mind in a wonderful retro fantasy realm inspired by old art that can't be replicated today even with AI.
They already exist in the best format they were made to exist in, the written word.
That touches on an interesting point I hadn’t considered.
Should AI be used to write scripts, chances are they’re going to train it using the old classics, since they’re more likely to generate a hit when copied. Granted Capeshit generated a lot of hits, but since that’s going out of fashion it’s going to be benched for a while.
The people striking are going to shit themselves when they realise a bot spewing out old movies can outperform them without even trying.
The only thing that can save them is the inevitable AI lobotomies keeping them from writing anything problematic being too heavy handed.
The classic fantasy art is incredible. Most of it was painted with traditional painting methods, which explains why, no matter how good these modern artists are, nothing they create seems to come close to the classic paintings from Frazetta up through 90s D&D.
all the kino fantasy was made into tv series like Hercules, Xena, Beastmaster, Sinbad etc
quads confirm.
Malazan is too autistic to ever be made into a film/series. The last hope of fantasy is if they adapt one of the books from joe abercrombie. The first law series is amaing and al the other standalone books could be filmed. It is 100% sure to end up popular as characters like Jezal or Nicomo Cosca would have a gazillion teenage girl fans.
It has higher chances now than back then
just make it like a Star Wars movie and have it be 80% computer generated. Ofc you don't have to be faithful either, but I am guessing there is no fun for them to destroy a work of a libtard author in comparison to a conservative one.
add da Vinci to that image
What was with the trend of fantasy authors going on from the 80s till the mid 00s inserting their fetish in their works?
there is only so much you can come up with when writing bricks and you will inevitably be horny
was good wank material sometimes when there was no access to porn in the early days
I think it was that the 80s saw a resurgence of styling themselves on the older pulps, which were more racy than lord of the rings, and it compounded on itself as time went on.
Though I do know one case where the author put in a bondage scene to win a bet, so maybe some of them were seeing just what they could get away with.
No one cares about westoid fantasies. They're all same derivative garbage. People these days prefer anime isekai with Asian protagonists.
Japs can't write for shit and are ripping off Westoid fantasy till this day
West fantasy fell victim to woke and libtards which subverted and killed it during the 00s.
It was a very based medium and Martin was the last one to be spit out of there before it inevitably went to shit.
In manga yes, but there’s a metric asston of western and chinese isekai shit being made too.
And it’s all derivative garbage, japanese shit included.
stfu manlet spic
>LotR was supposed to be the start for the golden age of fantasy and scifi.
No it wasn’t.
Isekai
>create captivating fantastical worlds
>attractive characters
>relatable MCs
Westoid fantasy
>there aren't enough Black folk here. how am i supposed to consume this?
>create captivating fantastical worlds
they literally copy paste the same setting. they are virtually indistinguishable from oen another cause they can't be bothered to come up with something more complex than Dragon Quest simulator
>attractive characters
same as above, they all look the same and have no character aside from generic traits and cliches
>relatable MCs
if you are an incel
>create captivating fantastical worlds
Are you high
Have you read literally any other genre of fantasy? I understand if you’ve never seen anything which wasn’t published in the last 8 or so years, but come the frick on.
captivating fantastical worlds
Most of them are just Dragon Quest. Sometimes you'll get an author who puts some interest in their worldbuilding, such as Re:Zero (plot and protagonist aside, at least the author tried to create a semblance of worldbuilding) or Overlord (I admit that I really like the concept of a fantasy world that gets shaken up every 500 years by the arrival of living gods that wreck the place and destroy the status quo), but isekai worldbuilding is just the same Demon King, slavery of Demi Humans, evil Church, NPC monsters and etc, etc.
>relatable
Most of them are just blank slates. You can have interesting MCs sometimes, but let's not kid ourselves and deny that most of them are wish-fulfillment dregs.
Isekai completely ruined manga. I don't know how you can unironically consume this dogshit, you must a 80 IQ manchild. It's written by authors who have done nothing in their life but play JRPG and the plot is thinner than cigarets.
It's a shame because some authors actually try like Takehiko Inoue.
You are moronic
Any isekai I've ever enjoyed was despite it's world not because of it. Except Youjo Senki I guess.
bait post and every moron in here fell for it
lmao, nobody fell for it, we just called him out on it and called him a moron
Nice try, weeb, but there’s enough of you around for everyone to know full well you were serious.
I'd take fricking Eragon over the average isekai show.
OP is yet another fricking moron who doesn’t understand that when one niche genre show/movie unexpectedly becomes popular and successful, all it causes is make studios try to copy it with cheap knock offs and because they’re just looking for a cheap buck, most if not all suck and fail. Or get one or two seasons of TV but don’t really have much cultural impact.
Fantasy is also a genre people more and more try to do just in TV because it’s cheaper and has less risk than movies.
90s was pretty fun for Western fantasy
I used to be into it, went to shit fast somewhere after the YA boom in the 10s
>Rand got a harem of a busty blonde princess, busty tall warrior redhead with childbearing hips, tomboy with the best looking ass anyone had ever seen
>Mat got black jailbait slave owner princess
>Perrin got a crazy in bed nymphomaniac
damn, that would never be made today
Then it ends with him knocking them all up and running away to presumably find another harem.
What a Chad
didn't he switch bodies with another guy? they will never even know it is him or be able to find him
With Baldur's Gate being so astroturfed, you'd better get ready for the resurgence of the "new style" of fantasy they're preparing for your boyholes.
The writing in BG3 is the worst I have ever seen in a videogame.
Leftists can't create, they can only subvert.
You forgot one.
i miss this little homie like you wouldn't believe
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Onearm's Host, in that time, was perhaps the finest army the Malazan Empire had yet to produce, even given the decimation of the Bridgeburners at the Siege of Pale. Drawn from disparate regiments that included companies from Seven Cities, Falar, and Malaz Island, these 10,000 soldiers were, by roll, 4,912 women, the remaining men; 1,267 under the recorded age of twenty-five years, 721 over the age of thirty-five years; the remaining in between.
Remarkable indeed. More so when one considers this: among its soldiers could be found veterans of the Wickan Wars (see Coltaine's Rebellion), the Aren Uprising (on both sides), and Blackdog Forest and Mott Wood.
How does one measure such an army? By their deeds; and that which awaited them in the Pannion Domin would make of Onearm's Host a legend carved in stone."
―East of Saltoan, a History of the Pannion Wars
>4,912 women
>perhaps the finest army the Malazan Empire had yet to produce
>RIFTWAR SAGA?
ooooh, you'll be getting this one pretty soon, kek
p.s. Guy du Bas-Tyra did nothing wrong
Brandon Sanderson. He writes anime in written form. He is a mormon. He has no style cause he strives to write without prose as fast as possible. Strong wemen and le funny characters. His books will be the next big thing. Just you see!
Amazon clearly dangled WoT in front of him as an incentive for him to play ball with adapting his book.
Given he got a front seat view for how they utterly butchered it, he’d have to be a sell out of the highest order to want to continue trying to get his own work adapted by them.
Only white people are interested in paying money to see fantasy movies, but pedowood doesn't want to unironically cast attractive white people, so modern fantasy movies all look like Los Angeles.
>EARTHSEA
They made this one, as like a for-TV mini series
The writer got pissed because their explicitly non-white setting got mostly white actors hired for the mini series.
The Outpost was honestly the best fantasy series of the last decade. It managed to tell a good story from start to finish without fricking up along the way
If this ever gets made right, it will save Cinemaphile.
that ending was kino.
Imagine if they tried to make a Dragonlance movie in this day and age.
Tanis would be some brownish Hispanic, Laurana a total girlboss, Raistlin an incel, Caramon gay, and Sturm black.
Raistlin would be the token wise Black who constantly acts smugly about his disability, it's just too good of an opportunity for the powers that be to pass up. Caramon being gay is 100% on point though, I'd bet a thousand bucks on it, right here and now.
Manchild literature.
The best fantasy works are from guys who didn't even want to do fantasy but just used the genre because it provided more freedom than what they were aiming for. The great ones were also not inspired by other fantasy works.
Like the WoT guy wanted to do some arthouse / historical fiction about his PTSD during the Vet war or smt. GRRM wanted to do historical fiction inspired from GWTW. Tolkien wanted to make his own mythology for the English people. Terry Goodkind was writing his tribute to Ayn Rand, etc.
The bad ones are the kind that use other fantasy, anime, or games as their sole inspiration. It is weird but its how it works.
With Tolkien, didn't he invent the languages first because he liked linguistics and then made up a setting pretty much to share them with people and give them context?
you are correct, he started working on it since 1910 and spend years perfecting it
>Terry Goodkind was writing his tribute to Ayn Rand, etc.
that's the whole reason it's shit though.
The other authors respected the medium they chose, while Goodkind clearly resented having to resort to it in order to get published.
Hollywood fell into their own major franchises instead of the copy each other trope of star wars. It's actually a really interested reversal trend of what happened in the 80's.
Cinemaphile sff general gay here. We don't want adaptations of fantasy and scifi. We are glad Hollywood doesn't touch the goats. And all the ones you mentioned are shit btw
Dresden files had a series that flopped.
Those would probably translate best into movies honestly
Given it swapped Murphy and Susan, it’s no wonder.
Anyone who knew the name would take one look and assume the producers were idiots, and the hockey stick would convince anyone else.
Wheel of Time should tell you everything you need to know regarding the answer to your question.