i've been looking forward to this, they're very rarely called wrewolves in the books, they're often refered to as shapeshifters

Aren't these the porn books? No thanks.

WereWolfH wrote:

Hmmmm, the ideas of the werewolf look is based from the comic book. You're right I don't know and unless they change book one we won't know about the werewolves until book 3 movie 3/season 3.

Well we have to wait and see, the thing with TV Shows is they have to cater to a budget, and that decides the look for complex FX, like Werewolves, in the end. Or how much we actually get to see in the end of the numerous beasties from the series.

Viergacht wrote:

Aren't these the porn books? No thanks.

I does turn porn around book eight or nine, the early ones are fun to read though.
Lot's of gratuitous violence and gore, plot is a always rather thin but the characters are fun to read.
It's pulp horror, if you don't look at them to serious and just read for entertainment value they are worth their money. Although, even in the early books she's already a tad too free with the use of sexual violence in some of her stories.

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Instead of basing it from the comicbook,why not base it from the actual novels themselves?...I loved the novel,and think that "Midnight Cafe" would be perfect for the first movie/season 1

SWAMP THING wrote:

Instead of basing it from the comicbook,why not base it from the actual novels themselves?...I loved the novel,and think that "Midnight Cafe" would be perfect for the first movie/season 1

Well the comic book is pretty much a condensed version of the books. (Only two books have been turned into comics. The first, Guilty Pleasures is fantastic so if they followed this I think they'd be successful. The look of it, the feel of it, is fantasatic.)

okay i havent heard this was a movie/tv show now.
cool!
I've read the books and their awesome so, i hope the moves/tv shows are too!

Sadly the show has been cancelled folks!!! Personally, I'd have rather had a tv series like True Blood (well in the sense of 12 hour long episodes vs. one hour long movie). Here's hoping we get a tv series. But I thought it wasn't going to happen b/c the comic series has fizzled. (Personally I stopped buying b/c of the crappy artwork. How do you have a mature comic series with kiddy cartoons. Come on!!!)

Anyway, I'm bummed. And I was feeling her when she said it was (paraphrasing) sucky to know that other books have been turned into a series that you pioneered (True Blood).

I don't know, I just don't know, this should have been on Showtime. Maybe she wanted to write the script which is a no no. She should know she's gotta give up some if not all (as long as she puts caveats) . Twilight was about to be something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT when it was gonna be from Mtv. Even when it was from Summit it was first gonna be something else until they decided to just make it like the books.

Personally being somewhat in the business, I'm pretty sure someone wanted to change something JUST BECAUSE their egos insisted on having some creativity in the matter vs. just freaking letting the story be from the books b/c it's a great story (at least guilty pleasures, my favorite).

Dag in this economy that'd have been easy money if the right investors were behind it. Duhhh look at TWilight, Harry Potter, and True Blood that kept with the material.

Now I'm pissed!

2nd edit- Okay for real, she needs to give up soem hold on these characters so she can make bank. Which would mean she'd have some money to act as a producer and thennnnn she'd have a better position than just being the nagging author wanting to be involved (you heard about stuff like this from other movies such as Blood and Chocolate)

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Daninsky wrote:

WereWolfH wrote:

Anyway, I'm bummed. And I was feeling her when she said it was (paraphrasing) sucky to know that other books have been turned into a series that you pioneered (True Blood).

She pioneered?
Only, if we close both eyes and completely ignore all the other authors that went over that territory before.
It's not as if she invented the genre, that's as if George Lucas was claiming to have invented Sci-Fi.

You know what I mean!!! I get what you're saying though.

2nd edit- Okay for real, she needs to give up soem hold on these characters so she can make bank. Which would mean she'd have some money to act as a producer and thennnnn she'd have a better position than just being the nagging author wanting to be involved (you heard about stuff like this from other movies such as Blood and Chocolate)

Agreed, and from what I hear it's not as if she couldn't spare a couple dollars if she wants to keep control.
But that's the way it's done in the movie business, isn't it, taking other peoples money and then complain when they want to have a say in the matter for it.

I don't know about that. Some people take a smaller cut to keep some creative control (don't kill this character off, this character CAN'T HOOK UP WITH THIS CHARACTER, ETC). Sorry I meant along the lines of maybe release more stuff (t-shirts, figurines, ornaments, etc) doubt it sells much so that's probably why not much is out...

There's always a risk involved with getting your work adapted to a different medium, but with the Anita Blake series I think it would be best for her to just take the money and let those do that understand the business.
She's after all not that brilliant a writer, and I doubt that she understands that she can't just waffle around for like 12 to 20 ep's the way she uses to in her books.

I disagree with this. Personally from hearing her talk I think she's a bit much, but look what happened in Spiderman 3, they picked that Topher guy to be VENOM!!!! COME ON. So I understand wanting to be able to say NO TO THAT crap. Friday the 13th they made Jason run. NOOO NOOOO NOOO HE SHOULDN'T HAVE RUN. Jason doesn't run, he's that confident he'll catch you. So it's when peopel b.s. is when I'm on the author's side!

Still, it's a pity, I though the first books to be great and Anita sure would have made for a fun movie character.

Yeah I mean dag, it has male strippers they could have added female strippers and then hello bigger audience b/c of the sex appeal plus monster appeal= more merchandise potential b/c of all the conventions that would love to have them.... I just don't get it. Showtime or Cinemax should have picked this up, though in the season 3 how do you have good werewolves? Nah the Thundercats kids that made their indy trailer proved you can have realistic werecreatures. And so did Planet of the Apes (which is on now )

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Someone find out, I'm not sure if this is new news or not. They seem to still be adapting a a script, so it might be shopped to other networks and stuff.