It's worth putting this into perspective. Whilst a book might have several
million readers around the world, it takes a lot more than this to make a TV
series or Movie successful. In Australia, a population of 22 million roughly,
a TV series is considered a failure if it get less than 1 million viewers, and
only becomes a success when this get up around 1.5 - 2 million. Now book sales
of a million would be considered very successful.
I guess the point I am trying to make is that the faithful fans of the books
are a very small minority, and unfortunately are not as important as the
general public which will make the TV/Movie a success or failure. Personally I
hope that some form of TV series or Movie becomes a reality at some stage, and
I will simply take it as it comes, and hope that it is good, even if not
completely faithful.Subject: Re: Midkemia on tv
From: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:17:25 -0400
To: [email protected]
I bet if Peter Jackson made Goodkind's books into a movie or a tv series it
wouldn't suck. Sam Raimi was blatantly trying to repeat Hercules and Xena and
it showed. Super campy crap. Now, why he went that way I'm guessing is major
money was perceived to be in the syndication and they thought the real stories
were too complex to make syndication work well, but any way you slice it, it
was bad. Two seasons is a really short run for something with literally
millions of embedded fans around the world.
