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[-] MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 46 points 4 weeks ago

Amaze!! Amaze!!

…I’m excited for this film, but so scared that it will be another enshitified movie of a great book with the story twisted and warped by producers and other interests.

Like Ready Player One turned out to be; utter garbage.

Ungh….

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 44 points 4 weeks ago

great book

Ready Player One

uh

[-] falidorn@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago

Admittedly the book is waaaaay better than the movie. Neither are great though.

I actually like the movie. It made the best out of the book, which is meh at best.

[-] jaycifer@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

I agree wholeheartedly. The book and movies are just vehicles for delivering nostalgic references, but while in the book 80% of those references were just listing off one thing after another, in the movie I could see and hear them, which makes it much better for that nostalgia.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yep. Book wasted time with unnecessary callback lists, obscure shows, and a hero that was kindof a jerk. The movie was fun - not deep or anything, it didn’t waste time though.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Ready Player One the movie wouldn't have been any better with him playing PacMan and Joust for hours or quoting Monty Python and War Games word-for-word.

[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 42 points 4 weeks ago

This was a fun book. Solid narrator on the audiobook. (Ray Porter)

[-] Zagam@piefed.social 4 points 4 weeks ago

Ray Porter stan checking in.

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Hi Stan. I meant to write you sooner, but I've just been busy.

[-] enbee 31 points 4 weeks ago

Hoping they pull a switcheroo and gosling plays Rocky

[-] Bldck@beehaw.org 9 points 4 weeks ago

Sylvester Stallone has signed on to reprise his role as Rocky

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

...I figured Rocky would be voiced by an array of theremins.

[-] enbee 6 points 4 weeks ago

Right but Hollywood so gosling does mocap and the voice is his but heavily vocodered thru the theremins.

In all seriousness I would love to be wrong about this but I doubt hwood will allow rocky and the other eridians to have musical verbal language. That means subtitles, and Hollywood fucking hates subtitles.

[-] Caffeinated_Sloth@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Yes! I had Jon Hamm in mind for the lead while I was reading it. But, Gosling surprised me as Ken in Barbie so maybe he’ll be great in this too.

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[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Ok that would be funny.

[-] thegr8goldfish@startrek.website 30 points 4 weeks ago

I feel like Any Weir's name should be on this poster. He's a bigger draw than Gosling in my book.

[-] klemptor@startrek.website 28 points 4 weeks ago

Just Any ol' Weir?

[-] lunarul@lemmy.world 24 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Damn, I kept putting off reading it and they're already making it into a movie. At least now I have a deadline.

[-] atomicorange@lemmy.world 17 points 4 weeks ago

It’s a page turner and a pretty quick read!

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[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago

Just listen to the audio book. It's read by ray porter and he nails it.

[-] warbond@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Seconded. Read it on my own first, ended up reading half of it out loud to my wife just because I was so tickled by it, then put it on for the whole family on a road trip. Such a great story, everyone loved it.

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yea it's become one of my top books. I have listened to the audiobook probably 30 times now. I'll go through a series like the Dresden files or the grey man and then PHM gets a listen.

[-] MerrySkeptic@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 weeks ago

Fist my bump!

[-] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 17 points 4 weeks ago

That's a pretty ambitious book to turn into a movie. Hope they don't go too "Hollywood" on it, and respect the source material.

[-] Bldck@beehaw.org 10 points 4 weeks ago

The Martian was almost entirely internal monologue and they did a faithful job adapting it. It wasn’t as good as the book, but still great.

I can definitely see some difficult moments to adapt on the big screen, but I have faith

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

They already had to cut out a big chunk from the middle of The Martian (which then broke the I've got no radio, so no one can give me permission to board, so I'm now the first space pirate joke, which they decided to keep anyway), and Project Hail Mary is a much longer book - it's about as thick as Dune, which became two movies and still cut loads. Something major will have to change if they're going to give it an acceptable runtime.

[-] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 18 points 4 weeks ago
  1. No it isn't, Hail Mary is 180 pages shorter than Dune
  2. Dune is way more dense than Hail Mary, Weir very clearly writes his books to become movies. Way more dialog, much simpler problems, and clearly defined acts translate much easier to the screen
  3. They'll obviously have to cut some parts, but having read/seen The Martian I don't think anything of major importance was lost
[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

I said they're similar thicknesses because they're right by each other on my bookshelf and are similar thicknesses. I just looked inside for the page counts, and excluding appendices, maps and diagrams of spacecraft, my copy of Project Hail Mary (the original paperback, starting on page 3 and ending on page 476) is just 55 pages shorter than my copy of Dune (50th anniversary paperback, starting on page 1 and ending on 529). Having 10% fewer pages seems pretty reasonable for about as thick. If yours are different by 180 pages, then you've clearly got a different edition of at least one of the books to me with a different font or page size, which is pretty likely given how long Dune's been in print. Given that I didn't even mention page count or word count or the complexity of the prose, just thickness, which could have simply been because of thicker paper, I think your response is unreasonably harsh.

Obviously, I don't disagree that Dune's a more complicated book, but regardless of that, The Martian is much shorter than either, and to turn it into a film, a lot of detail had to go, and a whole act had to be turned into a montage and condensed to Watney modifies a rover and drives to another site, then takes apart a rocket that's waiting for him there. I don't think there's anything simultaneously as large and expendable in Project Hail Mary, yet they obviously need to cut more.

[-] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

I used goodreads because different editions are presented differently. It puts Dune at 658 and PHM at 476. If you want to truly go apples to apples the kindle edition of both, which I assume has consistent font/margins/spacing/etc has Dune at 883 and PHM at 482 for a 400 page difference on an eReader. Comparing the task of turning a vacation book into a movie vs adaptating a legendary book into movie (which was so difficult to do, that this is the third attempt and the first commercially successful one) is a false equivalence

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

I never said that it was the same, just that more would have to be cut than The Martian as the book was much longer, and gave an example of the most similarly wide sci fi novel on my shelf that's successfully been turned into a movie. You're the one that made the leap that the thickness of a book is a definitive measure of anything and wanted the comparisons to be apples-to-apples, which it never was as one book's becoming one movie, whereas the other became two.

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[-] TachyonTele@piefed.social 5 points 4 weeks ago

It's nowhere near as complicated as dune though. They can cut out a lot of the flashbacks.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

If they cut too many of the flashbacks, it gets rid of, or at least erodes, the WTF? Where am I and how did I get here and why? part of the book, which is a pretty major part of it.

[-] TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 points 4 weeks ago

They don't need endless scenes of meetings. Those will probably go.

Regardless, I just hope the main character isn't as annoying as he was in the book. (He shouldn't be mr cool, either)

[-] frozenpopsicle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

That was a fun, very light sci fi novel. I hope they don't fuck it up too bad. I hope Gosling plays Rocky, bwahaha

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

I hope Gosling plays Rocky

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[-] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

Cautiously hopeful.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 7 points 4 weeks ago

That's an incredible poster. Hope they do it justice.

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[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Gosling is not a grace... really hope they do great but knowing hollywood they're gonna turn grace into some hero that was always a hero vs what he was in the book a scared scientist that just loved knowledge.

[-] Visstix@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Gosling personally wanted to make this movie cause he loves the story. I don't think he's too far off, and rather have someone who cares.

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[-] bblkargonaut@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

"jazz hands"

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

Wait this is gonna be a movie?!?!

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

The book is so good, I don't know if I wanna see the movie.

[-] scytale@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 weeks ago

That would be a great mobile wallpaper without the text.

[-] NecroParagon@midwest.social 3 points 4 weeks ago

I love this book! I was hoping they'd try to adapt it into a movie! I hope it'll be good. Very exciting!

[-] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

Everyone working on this behind the scenes has a really fantastic track record. Cant wait.

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