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  • "Report on Martha Wells Book Tour"

    From Lynn McGuire@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 30 01:58:51 2023
    "Report on Martha Wells Book Tour"

    https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1879r5j/report_on_martha_wells_book_tour/

    1. There is a Murderbot TV show in the works
    2. She mentioned her recent breast cancer diagnosis and treatment
    3. ...
    4. She based Murderbot the character on herself, as she recalls being
    painfully introverted as a younger person
    5. Sanctuary Moon is inspired by How to Get Away with Murder
    6. etc.

    Lynn

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Thu Nov 30 08:39:49 2023
    On 11/29/2023 11:58 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    "Report on Martha Wells Book Tour"

    https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1879r5j/report_on_martha_wells_book_tour/

    1. There is a Murderbot TV show in the works

    As in someone bought the TV rights or,
    as in someone has a production company hiring scriptwriters and
    auditioning actors?

    If its the first then I feel the need to point out that there is
    probably someone out there trying to buy the rights to grade schoolers
    "What I did during the Summer" homework.

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to Dimensional Traveler on Thu Nov 30 17:02:58 2023
    Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> writes:
    On 11/29/2023 11:58 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    "Report on Martha Wells Book Tour"

    https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1879r5j/report_on_martha_wells_book_tour/

    1. There is a Murderbot TV show in the works

    As in someone bought the TV rights or,
    as in someone has a production company hiring scriptwriters and
    auditioning actors?

    It appears Apple+ has something "in development".

    There's a 2012 show also called "Murderbot" based on the work
    of a different author.

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to Scott Lurndal on Thu Nov 30 12:39:55 2023
    On 11/30/2023 9:02 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
    Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> writes:
    On 11/29/2023 11:58 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    "Report on Martha Wells Book Tour"

    https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1879r5j/report_on_martha_wells_book_tour/

    1. There is a Murderbot TV show in the works

    As in someone bought the TV rights or,
    as in someone has a production company hiring scriptwriters and
    auditioning actors?

    It appears Apple+ has something "in development".

    "In development" can mean anything short of having started shooting but
    usually it means "we bought the rights, now we're going to spend the
    next few years deciding if we actually want to make this and if so a few
    more years seeing who can we con into making it."

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

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  • From Default User@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Fri Dec 1 07:00:35 2023
    Lynn McGuire wrote:

    "Report on Martha Wells Book Tour"


    1. There is a Murderbot TV show in the works


    I'm ambivalent about this. So much of Murderbot is its internal dialog.
    I don't know how a show would handle that and make it successful.
    Possibly voiceover?

    I fear that we'd end up with something not that close to the original.


    Brian

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to Default User on Fri Dec 1 08:59:43 2023
    On 11/30/2023 11:00 PM, Default User wrote:
    Lynn McGuire wrote:

    "Report on Martha Wells Book Tour"


    1. There is a Murderbot TV show in the works


    I'm ambivalent about this. So much of Murderbot is its internal dialog.
    I don't know how a show would handle that and make it successful.
    Possibly voiceover?

    I fear that we'd end up with something not that close to the original.

    Its a TV adaptation of a book series. You'll be luck if there is much
    of anything of the original books in it other than some names and places.

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to dtravel@sonic.net on Sat Dec 2 08:47:01 2023
    On Fri, 1 Dec 2023 08:59:43 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
    <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

    On 11/30/2023 11:00 PM, Default User wrote:
    Lynn McGuire wrote:

    "Report on Martha Wells Book Tour"


    1. There is a Murderbot TV show in the works


    I'm ambivalent about this. So much of Murderbot is its internal dialog.
    I don't know how a show would handle that and make it successful.
    Possibly voiceover?

    I fear that we'd end up with something not that close to the original.

    Its a TV adaptation of a book series. You'll be luck if there is much
    of anything of the original books in it other than some names and places.

    Even expecting names and places from the novels to be used seems
    unduly ... optimistic ... to me.

    This is a story about a Murderbot. The TV show, if it ever appears,
    probably will be about something called a "Murderbot", perhaps as the protagonist, perhaps as the quarry. Or at least using "Murderbot" in
    its title. Although writing it as "MurderBot" would not be beyond the
    realm of possibility.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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  • From WolfFan@21:1/5 to Dimensional Traveler on Sat Dec 2 13:20:50 2023
    On Dec 1, 2023, Dimensional Traveler wrote
    (in article <ukd3dt$1ukpr$1@dont-email.me>):

    On 11/30/2023 11:00 PM, Default User wrote:
    Lynn McGuire wrote:

    "Report on Martha Wells Book Tour"


    1. There is a Murderbot TV show in the works


    I'm ambivalent about this. So much of Murderbot is its internal dialog.
    I don't know how a show would handle that and make it successful.
    Possibly voiceover?

    I fear that we'd end up with something not that close to the original.
    Its a TV adaptation of a book series. You'll be luck if there is much
    of anything of the original books in it other than some names and places.

    Ahem. Even names and places may well be unrecognizable.

    Famously the Bladerunner movie was based on PKD’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, but with Allan Norse’s medical thriller’s title (because they apparently had rights to both and didn’t want to generate a medical thriller, and, besides, there wasn’t a sheep, electric or otherwise, in sight)

    Starship Troopers, Nightfall, Foundation, and most especially Lensman are
    also examples of what happens to books when Hollyweird gets hold of them.
    (OK, Lensman was Japanese, not Holyweird. It still stunk.)

    To be sure, some books get treated well; Greyhound was at least in shouting distance of The Good Shepard, and The Cruel Sea was pretty good. I’d have liked to have seen a movie of HMS Ulysses made by the team that made The
    Cruel Sea; I suspect that we’d get something closer to (ick) U-571, though.

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Mon Dec 4 16:40:11 2023
    On 12/4/2023 2:34 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    On 12/1/2023 10:59 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
    On 11/30/2023 11:00 PM, Default User wrote:
    Lynn McGuire wrote:

    "Report on Martha Wells Book Tour"


    1. There is a Murderbot TV show in the works


    I'm ambivalent about this. So much of Murderbot is its internal dialog.
    I don't know how a show would handle that and make it successful.
    Possibly voiceover?

    I fear that we'd end up with something not that close to the original.

    Its a TV adaptation of a book series.  You'll be luck if there is much
    of anything of the original books in it other than some names and places.

    The Expanse tv series was fairly faithful to the Expanse books.

    In large part because the authors of the books were _heavily_ involved
    in the production. Which is rare.

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to dtravel@sonic.net on Tue Dec 5 05:34:11 2023
    In article <uklrh8$3kc77$1@dont-email.me>,
    Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
    On 12/4/2023 2:34 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    On 12/1/2023 10:59 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
    On 11/30/2023 11:00 PM, Default User wrote:
    Lynn McGuire wrote:

    "Report on Martha Wells Book Tour"


    1. There is a Murderbot TV show in the works


    I'm ambivalent about this. So much of Murderbot is its internal dialog. >>>> I don't know how a show would handle that and make it successful.
    Possibly voiceover?

    I fear that we'd end up with something not that close to the original. >>>>
    Its a TV adaptation of a book series.  You'll be luck if there is much
    of anything of the original books in it other than some names and places. >>
    The Expanse tv series was fairly faithful to the Expanse books.

    In large part because the authors of the books were _heavily_ involved
    in the production. Which is rare.


    "One Piece" is working pretty well for the same reason.

    But in general it's: Throw a book over the wall and catch the bag of
    money they throw back. And don't expect anything more.
    --
    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..

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