"The Chronicles of Amber" and "The Forever War" For TV

DarkRabbit writes "i just noticed at the Futon Critic that the Sci-Fi channel announced April 2nd that amongst other popular pieces of fiction, Zelazney's "The Chronicles of Amber" and Haldeman's "The Forever War" will be getting the mini-series treatment by them sometime in the next year. I'm sure their adaptions will be just as contentious here as was their version of "Dune." Oh, and "Tripping the Rift" arrives as an 'Edgy-South-Park-esque' half-hour cartoon series..."

Comments

Re:Continuity.

[Valdrax]

"The Chronicles of Amber" is my favorite book series, hands-down. I've honestly feared the day that Hollywood or some TV producer finally got their hands on this series, because I have no doubt that they will completely ruin it like they have so many other of my favorites. I just can't stand having everyone's opinion of a book based off of some hack-job movie, like "Starship Troopers."

It's not like it would be hard to do the series right with modern moviemaking technology -- it is just completely unlikely. No good book gets made into a screenplay without something getting screwed. Parts will be cut out and minor scenes and characters will be made much more important, like Irulan in the new "Dune" mini-series. You can expect every sex scene Zelazny puts off to the side to get about 5 good minutes in each episode, while Corwin and Merlin's various solioquys will probably be cut.

I mean, why bother expecting continuity to the letter with the little details when they'll be too busy raping the spirit of the books like they do with everything else.