NYCitygurl posted:No, he's not, but I, for one, don't know any others, and he did a good job. Whoever did Narnia . . . shouldn't.
RolandofGilead posted:As much as I loved 1/2 of the LotR Trilogy, Jackson is far from the end-all, be-all of fantasy films. John Millius is still capeable of a fantastic Conan film, Stephen Spielberg is still a force to be reckoned with, and whoever did the last two Harry Potter films did a fine job IMO. A really great fantasy director may come completely out of left field. The new Dark Crystal film is going to be directed by Samurai Jack and Clone Wars director Genndy Tartakovsky of all people and I bet he's going to be great.
SilentSpeaker posted:Though it isn't needed, I’d be curious to see King's Dark Tower series as a film (or even a series in animation, good animation that is, none of this 3D computer gen stuff that's choking theatres today). King would probably have to write the script and cast it to prevent suckiness. I'd like to see a Gemmel film, Legend to be precise. Although it might get boring, just one big siege... Isn't a Moorcock film in the works? Elric? It would be terrible if that was messed up. Ender's game: I sure hope they get the casting right, otherwise it would really suck and be yet another let down . (Although I hear Scott-Card is working closely with the script writers etc.,) Warhammer 40k: Hey Syntax! remember the "Bloodquest" debacle! Magician: I agree with the first person who brought this up, it would be better as animation. It would be far too cluttered as live action. Basically the director has to actually like the story (even a sucky story, I believe, can be remedied by good direction. If it has that at least, it shouldn't be too painful to watch), and will actually put the effort to make the screen adaptation good. Jackson (sorry, again) is a prime example of a director who likes the story, I mean, he'd have to have liked it right? Spending 8 or so years of his life working on it. With film adaps of any media, it just seems that all to often there are directors who apparently dislike the source material so much that it is obvious to any who watched the film. (ie. it was super sucky ) All obvious stuff aside... they're remaking Dark Crystal!? I used to be afraid of that as I child ( ) And the 2nd Narnia film (if there is one) will be better, most assuredly
RevantheJediMaster posted:Would you guys like to see a movie trilogy based on T.H. White's The Once and Future King or Mary Stewart's The Merlin Trilogy.
RevantheJediMaster posted:NYCitygurl posted:No, he's not, but I, for one, don't know any others, and he did a good job. Whoever did Narnia . . . shouldn't. Well maybe he was not completely right but Peter Jackson's name is thrown out an awful lot when talking about Fantasy films. I thought Andrew Adamson did a pretty good job directing Narnia and thought the film was pretty good overall.
