A plan... a play!

[Lord Zombiac]

I think I have a few ideas that might get TCTC on the cinematic map once more.

First off, the issues that keep the movie from being made. First concern is portraying the rape of Lena, and yet keeping Covenant a sympathetic character. Second is the idea of a ring series being perceived by the movie going public as derivative of Tolkien (we know better!).

Both issues dismissed in one fell swoop! How? Take a clue from George Lucas and start it in the middle!

By the middle I don't mean the literal middle, I mean start it from "the Runes of the Earth." This is where Donaldson himself, as a writer, knew he would be getting new readers and old readers. He had to create something that satisfied both people willing to read the whole series and impatient people who wanted to know what the buzz was all about.

I think he succeeded with "the Runes of the Earth."

By this time, Covenant is already a sympathetic figure, and furthermore, is dead and therefore is far less culpable for his atrocity in the viewer's mind.

By this time, the ring itself is less important than the Staff of Law and other plot devices that will distract the naysayers from calling this a Tolkien rip off (again, we know better!).

Now comes the best part...

Are you ready?

Film makers may be hesitant to act-- hell, I even thought of using my $50 digital camera and doing it up Ed Wood style, but then it hit me...

Like a bolt of lightening it hit me!

A play!

Costume, drama, soliloquy, lighting, could all be used to distill the entire TC universe into a single play!

It would be lacking in detail, but the crucial elements could be enacted on stage, cheaply enough that fans could do this, and with a good camera and film crew (who I have access to) could be videotaped and displayed.

Donaldson himself, wanting to promote this body of work, may grant the use of this play as a promotional device and...

(please let it be before Hough Laurie, Brian Blessed, and Grace Jones are dead or too old to portray their characters: see my other posts)

A movie could follow very shortly.

To be frank, I'm thinking of halting all other endevours to do this myself.

Let the brainstorming begin!

[Lord Zombiac]

BTW, Merry Christmas. I've just handed you the holy grail.

[Vader]

[jonnyredleader]

you know i think you are on to something.
I started off the series with the Illearth War (it was a gift from a friend and i didnt know at the time it was part of a trilogy) and i wasnt put off by the rape because i only ever heard about it 3rd person from the characters and it made the whole Elena thing more like a mystery (bit like darth vaders "i am your father" revelation)
missing out LFB didnt stop my enjoyment in fact it made me more interested in what on earth must have happened the first time he came to the land!!!
could be a movie revisioning of the novels which i think would be good as it is a different format and needs to be delivered to the formats strengths.

[Linna Heartbooger]

Aww, LZ... just saw this; you were trying to stir people to action. Sounds like something that could, theoretically, be ridiculously fun given the time. (but who has the time?) :-\

[Lord Zombiac]

Aww, LZ... just saw this; you were trying to stir people to action. Sounds like something that could, theoretically, be ridiculously fun given the time. (but who has the time?) :-\

I do, I collect a social security check and don't have to work!

[Vraith]

Aww, LZ... just saw this; you were trying to stir people to action. Sounds like something that could, theoretically, be ridiculously fun given the time. (but who has the time?) :-\

I do, I collect a social security check and don't have to work!

You'd almost have to do it as a modern grand opera. I can almost hear it in my head...kind of "Operation: Mindcrime" and Trans-siberian Orchestra basic orchestration, but with more dynamic/stylistic variation [like, for instance, lots of low-end and rhythm with an industrial feel for the ur-viles and such...something ethereal for the waynhim, maybe more traditional operatic bombast for the Giants...]
Of course it would have to be like [surprise surprise] Ring cycle...multiple long parts over a week or two...to do the whole thing.

[Ananda]

Could be a break out pop musical. Maybe see what ABBA is up to and get them to write it.

[sgt.null]

Aww, LZ... just saw this; you were trying to stir people to action. Sounds like something that could, theoretically, be ridiculously fun given the time. (but who has the time?) :-\

I do, I collect a social security check and don't have to work!

i will have three months but will be hobbled.

[Akasri]

Could be a break out pop musical. Maybe see what ABBA is up to and get them to write it.

*sings*

"You are the Illearth Queen! Young and green, only seventeen! Oh yeah, you can rave! you can rave! Having the time of your life... "

Hey, there's potential here!

[rdhopeca]

Could be a break out pop musical. Maybe see what ABBA is up to and get them to write it.

*sings*

"You are the Illearth Queen! Young and green, only seventeen! Oh yeah, you can rave! you can rave! Having the time of your life... "

Hey, there's potential here!

Must...ignore...must....not...hum to self....