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10 hours for each book seems excessive, especially since most of the actual events in the Foundation novels happen "off-screen" and are only revealed through co
by apetresc 8y ago
10 hours for each book seems excessive, especially since most of the actual events in the Foundation novels happen "off-screen" and are only revealed through conversations by the characters.
10 hours is the equivalent of the entire Hobbit trilogy of movies, for a book that is much shorter - and we all know how that turned out.
- stormbrew 8y agoI don't think there's anything inherently wrong with taking a sparsely plotted novel (like The Hobbit or Foundation, both of which have a lot of details happen off-stage and sometimes bafflingly so) and fleshing out the details. The problem with the Hobbit movies is just that they did that very badly.
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- fullshark 8y agoBut that's why it would be such a great miniseries. You should use the novels as a framework, and allow showrunners to get creative fleshing out the characters and plot details. The Novels are pretty short, but dense with plot and ideas. A direct translation of the source material would be bad but the potential is there for a great adaptation if characters are more fleshed out.
- true_religion 8y agoThere is precedent. Look at Altered Carbon which got 10 hours for the first book, or The Man in the High Castle which was adapted into 2+ seasons for a book that's only 240 pages.