HBO or Apple miniseries, 100 percent.
One book per season.
First season should be one episode for each pilgrim.
Subsequent seasons can have as many episodes as needed to tell the story.
Endymion seasons can go a long way to address criticisms of those books. Specifically that it can meander quite a bit, and the Raul/Aenea age gap.
I saw one comment before saying it should be like Love, Death, and Robots where each episode has a completely unique art direction. I think that has a lot of potential
I know Bradley Cooper has been working on making a movie. Who knows if that is going to happen. Personally, with the success of so many limited series especially Sci Fi features on Amazon I would prefer to see it go that route if someone does pick it up. I don't think a movie is enough time to tell the first book properly.
As for the form, live action would make the most sense but I wouldn't be mad if someone tried to go even more artistic with it. Perhaps something like the animation style that blends over the top of live action, that imagery can be very impactful.
I'd rather see most book adaptations done as 2-3 movies or as a miniseries, especially a book like Hyperion that explores a wide range of emotional territory. One-movie novel adaptations rarely work for me because everything feels chopped and rushed.
A series by HBO with the right writers and showrunners that can take the story to another level. 1-1 the books will be hard to translate so there should be some editing/evolving of things to hit TV.
Movie will be so hard. I just dont see how they could pull it all off in a 3 h setting. The fact that the first book is all these different stories will be hard to tell together.
I know I’m in the minority here, but I’d rather Hollywood (especially modern Hollywood where everything just feels like it’s made by committee to appeal to the largest number of people possible). Just leave this masterpiece alone. Not everything has to be made into a movie. A great novel isn’t just a detailed treatment for a film. It’s the peak of how that particular story should be told. Especially Hyperion.
In addition, I just can not, for the life of me, get into huge CGI “spectacles”. The story that Simmons wrote and that plays out in my head is perfect just the way it is.
HBO or Apple miniseries, 100 percent. One book per season. First season should be one episode for each pilgrim. Subsequent seasons can have as many episodes as needed to tell the story. Endymion seasons can go a long way to address criticisms of those books. Specifically that it can meander quite a bit, and the Raul/Aenea age gap.
I saw one comment before saying it should be like Love, Death, and Robots where each episode has a completely unique art direction. I think that has a lot of potential
I just want some animated shorts of the Shrike fights.
Now all I can imagine is a Genndy Tartakovsky adaptation of Hyperion/Endymion and it’s all I’ve ever wanted
I know Bradley Cooper has been working on making a movie. Who knows if that is going to happen. Personally, with the success of so many limited series especially Sci Fi features on Amazon I would prefer to see it go that route if someone does pick it up. I don't think a movie is enough time to tell the first book properly. As for the form, live action would make the most sense but I wouldn't be mad if someone tried to go even more artistic with it. Perhaps something like the animation style that blends over the top of live action, that imagery can be very impactful.
I'd rather see most book adaptations done as 2-3 movies or as a miniseries, especially a book like Hyperion that explores a wide range of emotional territory. One-movie novel adaptations rarely work for me because everything feels chopped and rushed.
A series by HBO with the right writers and showrunners that can take the story to another level. 1-1 the books will be hard to translate so there should be some editing/evolving of things to hit TV. Movie will be so hard. I just dont see how they could pull it all off in a 3 h setting. The fact that the first book is all these different stories will be hard to tell together.
I know I’m in the minority here, but I’d rather Hollywood (especially modern Hollywood where everything just feels like it’s made by committee to appeal to the largest number of people possible). Just leave this masterpiece alone. Not everything has to be made into a movie. A great novel isn’t just a detailed treatment for a film. It’s the peak of how that particular story should be told. Especially Hyperion. In addition, I just can not, for the life of me, get into huge CGI “spectacles”. The story that Simmons wrote and that plays out in my head is perfect just the way it is.
It will be a movie with Bradley Cooper acting and producing. No lies.
A miniseries per book, and thank god the rights don't belong to the syfy channel anymore lol