I've thought about that too. Well seeing all those Characters moving and hearing them. But I think it would be quite hard to make a movie out of it, and it would be sad, if the movie would turn out to be most horrible.

yeah, and I guess now one below 18 would be alowed in the Cinemas to see it anyway ;D

Yeah, I guess it head to be a series and I would like it best animated, well, you have to do most scenes animated, for they play in Otherworld.

RPG would be pretty cool, but there lot's alike those already. It's like me wanting to play a game of shent ^^

Mini-series on TV? Like Gormenghast, maybe, but completely different?

i like the idea of live action otherland. it's constantly emphasized how life-like otherland is. so why kill that with animation?

i agree with the TV series, since it would be way too long for movies, even if it were done as a three-parter like LOTR. but not an ongoing one, just the pride and prejudice and gormenghast kind, that only exist for six episodes or whatever. i would not want someone to come along and massacre the story for the sake of ratings so that they could drag it out for endless lengths of time.

I'm actually glad that I'm not the only person who has envisioned an Otherland movie.  I would really like to see it.  I would not like to see the story butchered so if they made just a quadrilogy that was jam-packed with every little detail, it would be one of the greatest things ever.

I don't think it would work as a movie, the main reason being, I guess, that the movie would end up being made for the people who haven't read the books and everything important would get cut. I think it would be entertaining as a animated feature, but Hollywood seems to be leaning away from that. :( Oh well :P

Animated would take away from it. Since parts of it would be animated anyway, I think a combination of animation and live action would be the best. And incredible. And I think they could be just one really long movie for each book. Even though every detail is important to the book, this story deserves full length film attention, and not just sci-fi special attention.
Please make it and make it amazing!

I think it'd be an okay animated movie as long as it's done like FFVII: Advent Children (as opposed to, say, Toy Story or Shrek).  But in terms of making it a movie in the first place, it'd take a lot of effort to make sure it's done well.  It'd be hard to convey a lot of ideas, and I'd hate to see it turn out like the Harry Potter movies, with holes everywhere in the plot.  So maybe I'm happier with it just as an awesome book series.  :P

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LeoDeSol wrote:

1st post :P

Movie? I can't see that, not without butchering the story all to hell. There is just too much that is important enough that it should not be left out of the story. A movie would have to be 20 hours long to capture the story IMHO.

I think Sci-Fi channel series is more appropriate for Otherland. Think Farscape, but the Otherland story and worlds instead, as an ongoing series. Hell, depending on how you do it, you could probably get three complete seasons out of the Otherland series just as it stands now, if not more.

What I truly want though... Otherland the MMORPG!

Hear Hear!! Otherland the MMORPG! Mwah-ha-ha-ha!

In other thoughts though, I will think back to the days of yore when I was but a girl reading through LotR for the third or fourth time thinking to myself how sad it was that that selfsame series could never possibly be rendered on the silver screen.... "Surely it's too long! And how would they encompass the variety of creatures?!" =} Makes me not give up hope that maybe Otherworld could become encapsulated as well, and not terribly diluted.

I would prefer Otherland to be a series on HBO so nothing would have to cut out. And if live-action isn't an option, I think some sort of animated series would be fine too.

Well, they just made a tv series of "Legend of the Seeker" by Terry Goodkind, and some of the storylines were left out or were changed, which is disappointing. I guess some sacrifices have to be made in order to make a movie from any book. Otherland is very complex - there is the real world and there is the network, the sim-worlds, and a lot of different characters. It would be difficult to keep track and at the same time not to confuse the audience. I'd love to see an Otherland movie, though.

Hi, I'm new to the series (only about 3/4 thru CoGS), and I'm loving it so far. I think in the right hands, Otherland would make a great adaptation. I don't want to sound like Mr. I-think-random-director-who-just-had-a-popular-movie-would-make-a-great-director-for-a-hypothetical-movie, but I think Neill Blomkamp (District 9 director) would be perfect for the job.

I mean, the guy's incredible at blending fantasy tech seamlessly with reality.

Proof-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmd8BDiB-qU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snfc_wNWqSU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNReejO7Zu8

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