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Anagrams can be interesting, but can be very interesting when made visually clever in film posters:
Here's another clever one, on a bookcover for a film that was supposed to be done by Ron Howard, but hasn't materialised yet:
Playing with visuals like that is cool. Both make a clever but meaningful/meta twist to their anagrams.0 -
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cdgalwegian wrote: »Anagrams can be interesting, but can be very interesting when made visually clever in film posters:
Here's another clever one, on a bookcover for a film that was supposed to be done by Ron Howard, but hasn't materialised yet:
Playing with visuals like that is cool. Both make a clever but meaningful/meta twist to their anagrams.
Anagram? Oops. Meant to say palindrome. D'oh!
re Neal Stephenson, his cyberpunk novel 'Snow Crash', often seen as 'impossible to adapt' as a film, is set to be developed as a tv series by HBO:
https://deadline.com/2019/12/snow-crash-sci-fi-drama-series-hbo-max-michael-bacall-joe-cornish-paramount-tv-1202809103/0 -
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Out of curiosity, as I've never read his work, but why is it considered impossible to adapt?
Numerous attempts at adapting were tried:
From 2012:
https://uproxx.com/viral/snow-crash-supposedly-getting-a-film-adaptation/
"Back when Neal Stephenson wrote books instead of lengthy dissertations that you had to hack the novel out of with a machete (that is, the early ’90s), he wrote a book called “Snow Crash”. And people have been trying to adapt it to various media ever since, with zero success.
The claims that it’s impossible to adapt the book are patently not true: it’d just take a lot of money. And now, thankfully, Hollywood has gotten desperate enough to A) consider adapting books that audiences might remotely recognize and
actually throw some money at them.
Hence, the word is that Joe Cornish of “Attack the Block” is writing and directing a “Snow Crash” adaptation.
True, this is Hollywood; we’ll believe the movie’s coming when Cornish announces he’s locked in a cut."
My favourite novel; I've read it 3 times, doesn't seem impossible to adapt to me, with the right director and with cgi technology levels now ; lots of avatar scenes (a word which Stephenson didn't dream up, but popularised) that might not have translated to screen very well in the past, but wouldn't be a problem now. The multiple strands in the story make it more suitable for long form, as well as the fact that: "Snow Crash is a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1992. Like many of Stephenson's other novels, it covers history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics and philosophy." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
There's a lot in it: interesting to read, but would come across like Dan Brown powerpoint style stuff in a film.0 -
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