Re: Re: Glorantha: The Movie

From: Gianfranco Geroldi <janjero_at_...>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 09:14:43 +0100


> > I am still waiting for someone daring to draw and produce The
> > Silmarillion. After that, I suppose King of Sartar the Movie could
> > be proposed with any hope.
>
> I think the whole of the Silmarillion might be a bit ambitious - I'd
> quite like a "Children of Hurin" mini-series to start with.
Agree. I'd like the Lai of Beren and Luthien (something like Scott's Legend).

> The danger with a "bad" Gloranthan movie comes from trying to
> persuade people whose only experience of Glorantha comes from the
> movie that there is much more to it than was apparant on the screen...
>
> ...Having said that, I don't suppose either the D&D cartoon or the
> movie have had that bad an effect on D&D sales, and no publicity is
> bad publicity... Get Oliver Dickinson to write us a "Griselda" movie!

It's a matter of taste: I'd like more Morthander than Griselda...

But what I fear is the nerdization/ghettization could derive from such a work.
"You like Glorantha? Ah, that immature teen-world like in the toons'series. How cute (and stupid) you are"
Even Dune performed bad on the big screen. I'd like something more mature, like Matrix as an example to follow. Or at least something like the BWP... low budget, big enthusiasm and sperimentation=a lot of people are attracted to the world...

Sorry if this seems to drift OT

Gian

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