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Post by Black Cat on Jun 22, 2020 15:05:58 GMT
Saw this on Variety. Say what? I'm excited about this! link |
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Post by andyc on Jun 22, 2020 18:47:33 GMT
Wow. Very interesting indeed and certainly ambitious. My worry is that we all have a picture and feel of the Lone Wolf world in our heads and it will be difficult to match that in a live action form; I wish them the best of luck though!
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Post by kurz81 on Jun 22, 2020 19:21:29 GMT
Sounds good. I'm crossing fingers.
But my utmost desire is to see the main series completed.
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aggsol
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Post by aggsol on Jun 24, 2020 11:05:49 GMT
I some wish Lone Wolf would get a The Witcher treatment :-P
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Post by jdubs1211 on Jun 24, 2020 13:46:33 GMT
I guess Ben picked up an extra "e" along his journey of life.
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Post by Black Cat on Jun 24, 2020 15:17:05 GMT
I guess Ben picked up an extra "e" along his journey of life. Apparently, it seems that it is really how it should be written, with the extra E. After all, Joe Dever civil name is Joseph Robert DeVere... |
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Post by rhygar on Jun 24, 2020 19:17:40 GMT
I guess Ben picked up an extra "e" along his journey of life. Apparently, it seems that it is really how it should be written, with the extra E. After all, Joe Dever civil name is Joseph Robert DeVere... According to his obituary in the Daily Telegraph: [Joe's] grandfather, who had socialist leanings, changed the family surname from DeVere.
The extra 'e' made it sound too posh, it would seem. Joe lived near a village called Blackmore in Essex .... 'My family have lived here since Sir Aubrey de Vere, my distant ancestor, was granted land in this part of England by William the Conqueror in the year 1068, for his services during the Norman Invasion.' |
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Post by jdubs1211 on Jun 27, 2020 23:37:03 GMT
Apparently, it seems that it is really how it should be written, with the extra E. After all, Joe Dever civil name is Joseph Robert DeVere... According to his obituary in the Daily Telegraph: [Joe's] grandfather, who had socialist leanings, changed the family surname from DeVere.
The extra 'e' made it sound too posh, it would seem. Joe lived near a village called Blackmore in Essex .... 'My family have lived here since Sir Aubrey de Vere, my distant ancestor, was granted land in this part of England by William the Conqueror in the year 1068, for his services during the Norman Invasion.'  It is cool how this ended up being more than just a typo of his last name. |
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Post by Nym90 on Jun 29, 2020 17:38:30 GMT
I also assume Dever is pronounced differently than DeVere--emphasis on the first syllable with Dever, and on the second syllable with DeVere.
Also, Dever is likely pronounced with the first e long and the second e short, whereas Devere would have a short e first and a long e second (and a silent 3rd e). If that is not right, please feel free to correct me.
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Post by GhostofLandar on Jun 30, 2020 16:55:42 GMT
It's a little funny that almost a millenia later, the Normans are a touch embarrassed about their distinctive names.
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Post by Black Cat on Jul 2, 2020 14:40:52 GMT
Back on the main subject of this thread, I think the series can be made in one of the three following ways:
-We follow Lone Wolf's adventures from the gamebook series;
-We follow Lone Wolf (or a Kai Lord) through original adventures;
-We follow a character that is not a Kai (like most of the bonus adventures in the CE of the gamebooks).
I hope they don't go with the first option: this is TV we are talking about. Lone Wolf lives most of his adventures alone, without any companion to interact with. For TV, and in this case an interactive show, the main character has to talk to somebody to give clues that will help the viewers make a decision. I don't think people will like to see for an hour a guy running around in silence. So either Lone Wolf breaks the 4th wall and talks to the viewers (like Bear Grylls does in his Netflix interactive series You vs Wild) or the producers twist the story and have Lone Wolf live his adventures with a companion, which will not respect the source material. However, I agree that some adventures could be suitable for TV without modifying too much the source material: book 2 comes to mind because LW is almost always with a companion, and book 8 because of the presence of Paido.
For the other two options, since they will be brand new adventures, this will help the writers have more creative freedom and include companions without affecting the source material. As long as they respect the universe created by JD and be consistent with what that has been written in the various publications, I'm eager to see what they will come up with.
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Post by GhostofLandar on Jul 2, 2020 19:27:26 GMT
After the last few years, I'd generally say I have no faith in anyone in TV or film to be true to the source material and not inject their own agenda (or appeal to mass market, whichever.) That said some of the best movies, I've seen involved mostly silence for a large portion of the film. Cast Away, that movie with Robert Redford. Here is where I think they could work around Lone Wolf being alone:
It's clear in many adventures that he talks to someone at some point. That person may not be a companion in the book, but there might be enough upon which you could expand. make the conversation philosophical/expository...Have a few extra people inserted into a story that he encounters once or twice more in that adventure. For Tahou/Zaaryx, I think you could have a lot of interaction throughout. Meeting the Crocaryx is very short in the book but I don't get the impression that it needs to be, same with Gwynian, the Senate of Tahou, the mercenaries, rangers, etc.
1 (if you go up to point of massacre) 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9, 10, 11, 12 all have significant contributions in a chronological sense of people interacting with Lone Wolf (or doing something integral to story before/after he meets them.)
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Post by LandarVargan on Sept 27, 2020 16:39:22 GMT
Wonder if they'll go for something like Mandelorian
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Post by Nym90 on Sept 28, 2020 20:51:51 GMT
A gamebook doesn't translate well to TV or film for the same reason a video game doesn't; the loss of the interactive element, which makes the art form distinctive (and in my opinion superior) really hurts the product.
I hope this will be an exception, but almost every movie or TV show based on a video game has been pretty bad, and much worse than the original product.
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Post by Black Cat on Sept 28, 2020 22:43:33 GMT
Visibly, some people didn't read the article by Variety: "The U.K.’s ChorMedia and Holmgard Ltd are adapting Joe Dever’s popular fantasy-adventure gamebook series “Lone Wolf” as a live-action interactive series."
Forget "The Mandalorian" or the lack of interactive elements: it will probably be more like Netflix's "Black Mirror: Bandersnatch".
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