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I'd love to see an AB movie, or anime. ^^ There's no way it could ever be a TV series here, and I think that if it became a movie, alot of the book fans would get disapointed with the changes they'd have to make. But, with the recent advances in computer animation, I think they could pull off the amazing effects they'd need.

If it was an anime, hell, anything goes. ^^ I think they could really do it justice, and stay true to the mood of it. Or, they could completely butcher it. One or the other. ^^;;;

I totally agree with you. Movie studio's have butchered many page-to-screen projects and they just want to make it the next big thing that'll draw crowds by adding s**t they don't need and taking important stuff out. They want to make a profit over staying respectful to the original text.

Same for me if I'm published - unless I can have a big say on the movie and seeing as I'm training in performing arts and have done film and tv studies and scriptwriting as part of it, I don't see why I shouldn't be able to!!

Err, probably not the best statement. None of the Harry Potter movies have been terribly true to the books. There are holes that somene who's read the books would know and somene who's just seen the movie would be going, "huh?"
Kind of like the Lord of the Ring movies too.

Oh, hell. You guys are so negative. Please god, not ALL vampire books-made-movies turn out horrible. Queen of the Damned was actually a good movie(in itself..I thought), just a horrible representation of the chronicals.

Do you REALLY think a woman such as Laurell K. Hamilton would let someone butcher the s**t out of her book? I'd put money on the movie turning out fairly well. Granted, it won't be awesome. You just CAN'T add everything that's in a book to a movie.

Here's a quote from her blog that may (or may not) interest some of you:

Movie's like Van Helsing help make me happy that I havn't signed a movie or t.v. deal. I do not want to leave the theatre to my book on screen, shaking my head, and saying, "Well, it was pretty." It's gotta be more than just visually pretty. Do not even get me started on how the vamps and werewolves walk and crawl up the walls. Everyone does it in the moves. I know it's stunning visually, but it's not logical. It's not good biology. Yeah, spiders, flies, bats, rats, mice, can climb walls, and sometimes across cielings, but not by magic. Their biomechanics allows it. They have claws or little spiny hairs on four limbs, or more. Geckos have sticky pads. You gotta have a way to stick to that wall. My vamps levitate and sometimes fly, but I see it as a type of energy use, that acts as lift to push against gravity. You don't just stroll along the wall and cieling. It is bad biology.

So many movies of late, just can't seem to resist a good visual, to hell whether it makes any sense. What happened to logic? What happened to research? What happened to thinking, why, or how, a thing works, not just can I do it. LORD OF THE RINGS were thinking man's movies. Of course, it was based on books where someone thought, but they could have been ruined so easily, and they weren't. I would love for someone to bring that kind of time and attention to my books. I would love to sit in a movie theatre in the dark and see my vision that closely followed on the screen. But I fear, greatly, that it will be like Van Helsing, pretty, visually appealing, and with the best of intentions, it will get away from the person who promised so much, who had every intention of doing the 'right' kind of movie, and I will come out of the dark, shaking my head, and saying, "Well, it was pretty." I don't think I could bear it.

There are only two ways to let Hollywood take your book and work it up to a movie or television show. First, you take the money and put the entire project out of your mind. It does not effect you. Second, you find someone that will put in writing in a contract what you want and need to feel secure. I've actually had one person willing to do that, but was told no studio would bank-roll it, because they wouldn't trust me, a writer, not to flake, and pull the plug if I had that much power. I am almost pathologically incapable of the first way, so number two, it is. But even if I could find someone to agree to it, and we could jump all the hurdles, it would mean that I would have to be much more involved in the movie process than any writer ever is, which no one will like, or allow, and I don't know if I could ride herd on a movie project and write my books. I might have to concentrate on the movie and put the books on hold while the movie got nursed into existence. My schedule doesn't really allow that kind of time off. I also don't know enough about the different jobs and skills that go into a movie. It's so much more complicated than most people relize. (Yes, I have started researching movies and how they are made, and how parts of them work. It's like writing a book by committee, but with other people doing the writing. Very odd.) I guess there is a third way. Someone in the movie business could convince me that they share my vision, will give me the written contract to prove that they can be trusted. It would have to be someone who had enough clout to protect the project all the way through the process. What I've learned is that no matter how sincere the movie people are, most of them do not have the clout to protect the baby. They mean well, and they will fight for it, for "our vision", but if they aren't a thousand pound gorilla, then someone else who is a thousand pound gorilla, will come along and force their vision on ours. Movies are ruled by the strong, or the lucky, or the rich. Strong is not the same as rich, though a lot of people in a lot of businesses mistake the two. I can't imagine how anyone would convince me to trust them. My background taught me at a tender age, to trust no one, and that the person smiling at your face, usually has something painful behind their back. More than a decade in the publishing industry sort of finished off my basic cynisim. Dealing with even the edge of Hollywood has sort of solidified it. Oh, well.

Well...yeah...I guess negativity isn't the way...

I don't know that I'd want the Anita Blake series as a movie or tv series. If they did make a movie out of it, I think Alex Proyas should direct it. He was the guy who directed The Crow, and David J. Schow did the screenplay writing. I think they'd have to make it into an epic and run some of the books together though. Movies have a tendency to do a nosedive after the first one or two films leaving the others with massive plotholes, bad character development and whatnot. It's kind of like taking on Marvel's X-Men. They had to re-write a bunch of things to make the movie work that just didn't happen in the comic series. As a stand alone, I think X-Men is a well done movie series, but if you compare it to the comics then it becomes a headache.

If you turned it into a TV series it could either be really great or really horrible. You'd have the potential to do nice slow character development and really take your time with the stories. I think the guys that were in charge of Dark Angel the first year did a fairly good job and could really make the story work for that. If you turned it into an anime I think, Yoshiaki Kawajiri and Tai Kit Mak should be in charge of the project, they're the ones who did Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, and I think the animation team was excellent and could bring about the air of the AB series.

Those would be who I suggest, but I love the idea of keeping them as books better. I think my imagination and Hamilton's writing is a lot better of a match than TV/movies.

Oh it would be great as an HBO series. That way the violence & sex wouldn't be cut out. It could be the sex of Sex & the City, the violence of the Sopranos, the paranormal activity of Carnival & the drama & comedy & death of Six Feet Under. It would be something for everyone biggrin .