After seven years in Netflix’s fantasy epic, the actor has cast her final spell. She talks about the genre’s toxic fans, welcoming new boy Liam Hemsworth to the cast – and what sorcery really sounds like
The writers famously hate the source material, and seem to forget the cardinal lesson with adaptations: The source material is what made millions of dollars, not your shitty untested ideas.
No, there were books, then there were games. The games changed some stuff (probably, didn’t read the books didn’t play the games didn’t watch the show), the show changed more from the games.
The books were an original idea, but there were a few of them before it got notable enough. Point is the showrunners aren’t pitching original ideas that immediately shoot to popularity, original shows need time to build up to know if it’s good but networks and publishers can pull the plug anytime they decide it’s not fast enough. You don’t strike gold on the first 3 episodes.
The writers famously hate the source material, and seem to forget the cardinal lesson with adaptations: The source material is what made millions of dollars, not your shitty untested ideas.
But shitting on an existing IP is the only way to get your own material out there nowadays
Nobody picks up originals anymore, so you take your own shit, wrap in in an IP and sell it
Was the Witcher not an original IP when it got picked up? This seems like a lazy answer.
No, there were books, then there were games. The games changed some stuff (probably, didn’t read the books didn’t play the games didn’t watch the show), the show changed more from the games.
The books were an original idea, but there were a few of them before it got notable enough. Point is the showrunners aren’t pitching original ideas that immediately shoot to popularity, original shows need time to build up to know if it’s good but networks and publishers can pull the plug anytime they decide it’s not fast enough. You don’t strike gold on the first 3 episodes.