What director, old or new, would you feel most comfortable with adapting Legends to the big screen?
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What director, old or new, would you feel most comfortable with adapting Legends to the big screen?
Hypothetically. For me, gonna say Steven Spielberg. I never read the book past the differences it had with the movie, but even knowing that, I will say I respect his approach to making Jurassic Park. There is a certain element of sacrifice to the action quota and spectacle you gotta meet, like how Hammond shooting down his own raptors was changed to the T-rex being the big damned hero, or how Muldoon never got a chance to take out raptors with a bazooka, but even so, I think it's overall a fine balance, unlike today, where the excesses are out of control.
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Re: What director, old or new, would you feel most comfortable with adapting Legends to the big screen?
What does that mean, exactly?
My counter argument for Spielberg would be The Lost World. As an adaptation he straight up butchered it.
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Re: What director, old or new, would you feel most comfortable with adapting Legends to the big screen?
Kinda the same with The Never-Ending Story, huh? Seems to be a pattern. If you adapt a book for artistic reasons, then please don't adapt other elements into a sequel. They never end well.
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Re: What director, old or new, would you feel most comfortable with adapting Legends to the big screen?
Christopher Nolan or Nicholas Meyer.
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Re: What director, old or new, would you feel most comfortable with adapting Legends to the big screen?
Hell yes, Nolan is awesome! Same with Meyer and his mountains of homework he does into the lore.
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Re: What director, old or new, would you feel most comfortable with adapting Legends to the big screen?
I would agree with Nicholas Meyer.
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Re: What director, old or new, would you feel most comfortable with adapting Legends to the big screen?
The Lost World was a separate book. It bears almost no relation to the movie.
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