Multifandom news and a rec

[selenak]

It's good to know that Bryan Fuller's American Gods adaption is still on, and progressing. (Not just because I'm looking forward to the Fuller-meets-Gaiman result, but because I would like a Fuller series I can watch again. Says she who tried and disliked Hannibal, thus gave it up after eight episodes.) Meanwhile, I've just seen a (German) tweet to the effect that they want to do a remake of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Methinks someone took notice of the fact that Penny Dreadful is drawing an audience and recalled they still have the Alan Moore property. Dear movie makers who own the LoeG rights: I didn't see your first movie because your git of a director and your idiot of a producer gave an interview before it ever came out in which they said they changed the set up from Mina being the leader to Alan Quatermain being the leader because "can you imagine Sean Connery taking orders from a woman?" So if you want me to watch a new film version, pray go back to the Moore, let Mina stay the leader (and don't change her into a vampire, the entirely human sharp tongued take charge woman of the first two LoeG volumes will do nicely), and if you must add non-Moore characters, don't let these be Dorian Gray and Tom Sawyer. Go for Lydia Gwilt from Armadale and Marian Halcombe from The Woman in White instead.

Yesterday I got a mail informing me the BBC will stop its Global iPlayer service, so that was depressing. Whyyyyy, BBC? I loved watching your shows in my trusty iPad! Has the newly confirmed Cameron slashed your budget that much already? On the bright side of BBC news, though, they're planning an adaption of A Place of Greater Safety. Considering this is the Hilary Mantel novel I love, whereas I have mixed "yes, BUT" feelings about the Thomas Cromwell novels, I hope this will indeed come to pass. Not least because: a British production about the French Revolution in which the French revolutionaries are the heroes and there's not a heroic aristocrat, British or otherwise, in sight, that will truly be a first one. (There are some sympathetic aristocrats in Mantel's novel - poor trying-to-do-the-right-thing Lafayette who gets loathed by Marie Antoinette and the Jacobins alike for his trouble, Mirabeau as the gifted and corrupt but not evil type, oh, and Mantel has fun giving a few scenes to the author of Les Liasons Dangereuses since he's Philippe d'Orleans' sidekick for a while - but they're all supporting, not major characters.) I'm also looking forward to bisexual Camille Desmoulins, a tragic instead of evil Robespierre and hope that whoever gets cast as Danton has the necessary charisma (and voice!). Finger crossing for Alex Kingston as Annette Duplessis - for Lucille, I have no opinion yet.


And lastly, because Elementary is so much on my mind these days, a fanfic rec:


When You Know I Can't Love You (3319 words) by AxolotlQueen
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Elementary (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes & Joan Watson, Sherlock Holmes & Kitty Winter
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Joan Watson, Kitty Winter, Jamie Moriarty | Irene Adler
Additional Tags: Character Study, Platonic Love, Mental Health Issues, Mentions of addiction, Past Sherlock Holmes/Jamie Moriarty | Irene Adler, Gray aromantic Sherlock, Loneliness
Summary:

He had thought himself, for a long time, incapable of love. Some people simply are, after all.

A character study of Sherlock and various kinds of love.

Comments

[monanotlisa]

Broken italics tag after the first League of Extraordinary Gentleman alert!

[selenak]

Thanks! *edits*

[kangeiko]

Oh wow, that would be a good one! Looking forward to it. I honestly tried Hannibal, I did, but I have SUCH a squick about cannibalism that I only made it to episode 4 before giving up (and living on lettuce for, like, a week).

LXG - hmmm, well, I saw the film, and you were right to avoid, it was a complete mess. I think most reviewers gave it about 1/5? So yeah, not good. I suppose anything on that would be an improvement but I'm not holding my breath...

[selenak]

Hannibal: helping to encourage vegitarian diets since 2013. :)

Yes, "it can hardly be worse" isn't a ringing endorsement. Especially since Penny Dreadful, catering to the same narrative kinks the original comics did, is so good...

[kangeiko]

I've watched a little of Penny Dreadful but I haven't had a chance to properly get into it, is it good? The first few episodes were a little uneven but I wondered if it improved?

[selenak]

I love it dearly.

[wee_warrior]

Thanks for the Mantel novel name, I feel myself quite interested in her recently. *scribbles down*

[selenak]

You're welcome.

[jesuswasbatman]

Also, since Moore's reputation is a lot lower now (thanks to Neonomicon, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Get Off My Lawn, and that particularly unpleasant Ó Méalóid interview), people won't react so badly if it isn't a word-for-word adaptation.

[selenak]

There's that, and I'd be okay with an original plot not related to the first two volumes (the ONLY two volumes, ahem), as long as whoever does the new movie, see above, leaves Mina as the (utterly human) leader, has her bossing Alan around and leaves her relationship with Mr. Hyde. Oh, and of course an Indian actor to play Nemo would be preferable. (I'm trying and failing not to make a joke about them casting Benedict Cumberbatch.)

[saturnofthemoon]

I had the misfortune of seeing League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, (before I read the comic), and the thought of another one makes me cringe. With the exception of Watchmen, I just don't trust Hollywood with Alan Moore's creations.