Re:Amazon developing three new sci-fi series: Lazarus, Snow ...
by haikuginger on Friday September 29, 2017 @12:23PM
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> though you have to deal with the significant separation between Part 2 and Part 3.
I don't think that'd be too hard to do. You just have to add some sort of ritualistic ceremony or somesuch occurring at the beginning of Part 3 where "the story of the Seven is told".
You'd have a faceless narrator for the seasons of the show that cover parts 1 and 2, and then, once you reach the end of part 2 (at the end of a season, natch), you reveal the narrator as some sort of hierarch who's been telling the whole story up until now, and jump into the beginning of the next season from there, narratorless, possibly with flashbacks to the narrator telling bits of the post-Epic history as they become relevant.
What I really want is an Anathem TV show though.
Re:Amazon developing three new sci-fi series: Lazarus, Snow ...
by acheron on Friday September 29, 2017 @12:54PM
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That's true regarding Seveneves. And hey, once you get a season out of part 3, there's no reason you couldn't continue from there with new stories. It's a perfect introduction of a new setting.
As far as adaptability of Stephenson goes, I could see Zodiac, or maybe REAMDE, that would work in a way that resembles the books. Maaaybe Seveneves, though you have to deal with the significant separation between Part 2 and Part 3.
The rest of his books, including Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash, are too intertwined with "theoretical" concepts to make much sense in an adaptation. I mean, yes: you can have a show or movie about a pizza deliverer/hacker named Hiro Protagonist who swordfights in the metaverse; or Jack and Eliza's Adventures in Enlightenment Europe; or whatever. But the real underpinnings of the story aren't going to make it in and that's what makes Stephenson's books interesting.