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> So I'm much more thrilled about Amazon developing a series based on Banks' "Consider Phlebas"... Wow that is big news, I did not know that! That book is so
by alphadevx 8y ago
> So I'm much more thrilled about Amazon developing a series based on Banks' "Consider Phlebas"...
Wow that is big news, I did not know that! That book is so cinematic already, it leaps off the page. Should translate to the screen very well. Hope they do "Use of Weapons" and "Player of Games" also, in fact the entire Culture series is an amazing opportunity for TV conversion.
- deng 8y agoI agree that the Culture series would be perfect for TV. Banks is incredible with characters and dialogue, so I think the screenplay pretty much writes itself. His world-building is spectacular and would be a field day for any special effects studio: the orbitals, the "fire planet"... I would pay lots of money to see those on screen.
- latch 8y agoI don't see how the TV series will avoid the same problem as the books: the Culture is virtually omnipotent. Threats aren't exciting because, there is not threat (certainly none to the Culture and, as it turns out, very little to individual meat bags either). Excession stood out in this regard, until it didn't. (Consider Phlebas also stands out, but it's a unique culture book by a mile)
- awiesenhofer 8y ago> Threats aren't exciting because, there is not threat Thats because it's not primarily about the action but about the technological, social and societal issues and conflicts. For me at least.