Anita Blake movie?

[mhalachai]

So, apparently at the Wolf Howl last night, LKH told the audience that everything's signed and on the go to make a movie out of Guilty Pleasures.

I, um... Not quite sure what to think of that. Okay.

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[taligator.livejournal.com]

Just another comment, Charlaine Harris has options for movies on the Sookie Stackhouse books and I have mixed reservations about that. I think that they would work better as movies than AB but I still don't want them to be ruined either.

I keep seeing an Underworld type movie when I think of an AB movie and we know that went over like a lead balloon in the theatres.

[houses7177.livejournal.com]

Well, some of us loved Underworld, actually. Though I agree with you- didn't have great commercial success.

[taligator.livejournal.com]

Oh I loved it too, which is why I own it. But the comment wasn't about my opinion of it, but the general consensus, hence the lead balloon comment. *G* ;)

I really enjoyed the movie and thought it explored a lot of fascinating areas, especially the long life spans of vampires and creation of new lycans. Very very cool.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

PS i loved Underworld too :)

[taligator.livejournal.com]

And I might say that I bet all of us reading your journal and commenting on this thread probably liked Firefly and then Serenity as well. Again, not the general opinion (with the exception of Serenity doing well in box office). :)

[houses7177.livejournal.com]

Did Serenity do well at the box office? I heard rumor that if the movie made 80 million worldwide they'd do a sequel.

[cissasghost.livejournal.com]

I liked 'Underworld' . . but yeah. I think most critics, and apparently a large percentage of the audience, stop looking for psychological subtlety when they see too many flashing fangs. Selene was absolutely fascinatingly fucked-up, really a great character, but I think what the average viewer got out of it was that she was a kick-ass babe in lots of leather. I tend to think the Anita Blake books might go that way too. I cringe at the thought of what they'll do with Jean-Claude.

-Sonya

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[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

I hope they'll tone down JC. I mean, in the books, you can skim past the frilly shirts, but if they keep true to that in the movie... um, no. (Also, I hope they fix Anita's fashion sense in the movie. True, it was the 90s, but that's no excuse for those clothes)

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[houses7177.livejournal.com]

There is no excuse for her clothes. None. They were deplorable for the 90s even.

*cries into her fashionista clothing*

Hers are as bad as Stephanie Plums. Gah. Though at least Steph has the excuse of being from Jersey.

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[cissasghost.livejournal.com]

Yeah . . though, I mean, this is why I really don't want to see a movie.

That Anita dresses like a 1950s schoolteacher and doesn't realize it, is part of Anita - part of the fact that she grew up without too many useful female role models when it came to living in the real world. Raising the dead, sure, she's got that covered, but being a real live person? Nobody taught her how.

And JC's frilly shirts . . are part of the fact that he is continuously putting on a show, that he wants to be not quite real, that he's objectifying himself because it's how he's survived, both literally and psychologically. Again, a JC who dresses like he actually lives in the world . . wouldn't quite be JC.

But it's taken LKH roughly 12 books and a lot of porn to really effectively get across the fact that she's writing about very broken people. In one movie, plotline condensed from an already rather short text, it's just not going to come across . . it's either going to have be changed, or it's going to look just silly. And I don't trust them to change it in such a way as to make the same point more subtley. . I'm having visions of Hermione in pink frilly robes, here.

-Sonya

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

I think to make the AB books work as movies, they need to keep that air of "this is just a normal world and oh by the way we have vampires" to make it work. One can always hope, right?

[watcher457.livejournal.com]

i agree. in the normal world, people dress badly, lol. but, being a movie, she won't dress as badly. again, when it comes to the vampires and lycanthropes, i think they need to take the normal and just add the smallest twist to make them appear more... surprising. it's like looking at a normal person, then seeing the flash of fangs. i'm thinking of the two flapper vamps at the end of circus of the damned. where they seemed normal, then flashed fangs. that sort of thrilling "holy shit" moment. the darkness will come on it's own. it's always night.

[sabriel-0405.livejournal.com]

Actually, Underworld did so well the sequel is underway. It also had some very Anita moments.

[taligator.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I thought Underworld bombed in the theatre .. glad I was wrong! :)

I generally don't hear anything GOOD about it so I guess that's why I thought it didn't do well.

And sequel .. yay!