Amazon developing Culture series tv show

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Holy shit

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>its a Ready Player One movie

The Culture is one of the most boring popular sci-fi series in the history of the genre.

>Culture
>Altered Carbon
>Dune
>Annihilation
>Electric Dreams

Sci fi lit adaptation renassiance?

It's all garbage though

you're garbage.

Looking at the people involved it might not suck horribly. So that's good I guess.

Its about time.

I'm torn on it being at Amazon, however. So far their output has sucked. But I think Bezos is hugely driven to make Amazon the netflix killer so they might be willing to throw the money and talent at the project to make it the next Game of Thrones.

Player of games would be a better choice.

>So far their output has sucked.
What is The Tick.

>people in rich countries lose jobs to automation so they go to third world countries to do social enterprise or fight proxy wars to find meaning for their lives

At the very least Netflix and Amazon duking it out has allowed some unconventional shows to be made, no way cable would make a fucking Jean Claude Van Damme show where he makes a Huck Finn action movie as a cover to be a spy

name 1 (one) netflix series that is not purple dildo tier

low quality entertainment for low quality people. Amazon is equally shit at a bigger scale. Bezos is fucking rich, but he is not some visionary CEO, he just sits in his office playing with his micro penis

I'm genuinely excited... that is all
Come on Amazon, don't fuck it up! I want "The Player of games" on my tv

It objectively is garbage. The Culture novels are boring as fuck, because the Culture and the GSVs are basically omnipotent, they are a civilization of Mary Sues. Dune is just Lawrence of Arabia on acid, forced and incomprehensible after the first book. Annihilation is a GRRL PWR gender flip of superior Roadside Picnic and Crystal World. And Electric Dreams is adapting Dick's pre-late 60's and 70's stuff which is just straughforward pulp sci-fi he wrote for money, and doesn't even touch his signature shit.

Yeah, it's all garbage.

cant wait to trash it on Sup Forums

Now, who will be brave enough?

old man's war series would probably have been a better show

mite b cool

They picked the wrong novel though.

what would you rather see? foundation?

Considering David Goyer is now in charge of that adaptation I really don't

>Culture and the GSVs are basically omnipotent,

And yet there are multiple novels of conflict and loss.

You're like a caveman looking at modern humans with a magic ice box that has a seemingly never-ending supply of food, that one of the major problems of the 21st century is *too many* calories, and thinking there is no way to tell human stories anymore since we're not constantly on the verge of starvation. Thats not key to the human condition, removing that persistent fear was what allowed for stuff like Shakespeare.

The human condition continues exists just fine within the Culture universe, its just not *your* condition.

you know, it probably would.

and i'm not even much of a fan of the series. but it'd adapt to tv well.

it would probably need a huge budget though, every other page they're in a new battle. would be a pretty entertaining show if they ever did it though.

This, right after the mars trilogy and Starship Troopers.

Would prefer Blindsight series but still cool

We might get a blindsight fan thing though.
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What's this bullshit book even about

How come Snowcrash and Neuromancer stay in development hell but all these secondary works get adaptations now?

Between Altered Carbon and Blade Runner what is there left for Neuromancer to say? Those works basically cribbed from it whether intentionally or coincidentally

please god no more cyberpunk. read one read them all.

>Call novels boring because of Mary Sue set up and characters
>Culturefag goes on an unrelated pseudointellectual tangent

10/10 response my dude it's as if you were parodying Banks' narrative structures themselves. In the end the Culture novels are boring, tryhard books with nothing to say.

Shizmastrix, which is a far from perfect on its own, could run circles around any and all Culture novels.

I think a lot actually. Neuromancer is about an AI puppeting humans into unleashing it. It has a very eerie cyber-gothic atmosphere to it, they liken AI to demon summoning at one point in the book at and I think that is crucial, for it to be filmed as a kind of subtle horror story.

Both blade runner and carbon are about people trying to hold on to being human, when Neuro is almost the opposite, about unleashing something completely inhumane.

But on the otherhand I think you are right, I can't imagine hollywood really putting those themes front and center and if the film was made today it would just be more rain slick neon sludge.

It would be cool to see a Villa Straylight if they got someone with a strong visual sense to design it

>they are a civilization of Mary Sues

Oh look, it's another user who misuses that term.

Unironically this.

this

Fan thing looks great, but there's no way you could actually sell Blindsight to any audience. Maybe as a two-parter mini-series or something. Vampire waifu in the sequel would be interesting, but that's even more of a clusterfuck story-wise.

Amazon sucks

That's nice but I wish Oasis were given a full season first.

I think Neuromancer is fascinating because Gibson admitted he didn't know shit about technology. That kinda frees the author from subconscious constraints compared to when he knows HOW what he writers about works.

>Starfish
> A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew--people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater--down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness.

NOPE

Blindsight/Echpraxia would be pretty easy to adapt I think.

yes please just one optimistic
sci fi story. I am starting to get really buttblasted about all sci fi showing a terrible futures to be afraid of. If they turn the culture into pseudo americans who are disgusting and force poinless proxy-wars i will never be able to be exited about anything ever again

Neuromancer is a cool fucking book. It's stylish, hip and still "with it" after 30 years. Altered Carbon is some derivative tryhard shit like most Sci-Fi these days, and Blade Runner isn't cyberpunk at all besides the broadest visual attributes.

You could certainly show a lot of shit book has to explain to the reader directly, but I think we'd just get a space action show where they fight the alien threat and not nearly enough exploration of the society of the future and unique people on-board.

>Dune is just Lawrence of Arabia on acid, forced and incomprehensible after the first book.
It picks up again later on. Anything based on Heretics or Chapterhouse would be straight kino.

That's a very bad synopsis.

>consider phlebas
I should probably finish reading that. Although it's been so long that I'll probably have to start all over again

There's exactly one series of SF books I want adapted.

It's a company buy the rights of everything they can to make shitty shows which everybody will forget episode.

Netflix model business was a mistake, too much shit on the walls to care about anything nowdays.

Amazon has made oscar winning movies though. It's like dismissing movies because a company makes shit ones.

When I was in my mid-teens I remember buying perhaps 3 Culture novels and I don't think I finished any of them. I have a lot more patience now, but at this point I really have no interest in ever going back and reading them.

Thank god it's Amazon and not netflix, I loved the culture novels when I read them as a kid, hope they get a good adaptation.

Really? A writer on an okay sci fi show and a producer on LotR?

Been waiting for this for a long time.
We'll see how it turns out, but I remain hopeful.
Sup Forums is def going to hate this show.
The Culture is the epitome of they would call 'degenerate'.

I've been wanting to read this for ages

i think it's a great introduction to the Culture, but i agree it's not the best novel in the series.
my pick would be Use of Weapons. Now that would be absolute kino.

I legit thought the Expanse was an Amazon series since it showed up on my home page. I was enjoying it and Thomas Jane but the other actors were trash and the production values were not great and then I saw it was a SyFy show. That made much more sense.

Whatever happened to that pilot show with Robb Stark playing a priest on Mars, that looked interesting.

>Netflix working on Old Man's War
>HBO working on Foundation
>SyFy working on Hyperion, Stranger in a Strange Land, Brave New World
>Amazon working on Snowcrash and Ringworld

>I didn't understand what I read so it's bad

ahem
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i'm wondering if you've even read the novels.
sure, the culture itself is as you describe, but the novels all take place on the fringes of it, and many of the characters are from outside the culture, or disillusioned with it.
Banks did a great job of creating compelling plots and conflicts in spite of the idyll of the Culture itself.

Who are you quoting?

>Whatever happened to that pilot show with Robb Stark playing a priest on Mars, that looked interesting.

Oasis? Should start airing in March.

Just an observation
Meme arrows are more flexible than what you think

the culture is what would happen to society eventually if everybody who is even a little bit Sup Forums just died right now.

honestly though how did altered carbon get adapted before the classics

It didn't get picked up...

No self awareness

I really want to know how they'll show the Idirans without them looking goofy with their tripod legs.

>Foundation
now THAT is a boring af series

I read Consider Phlebas, Player of Games and The Hydrogen Sonata. They're just boring books, user, both in thematical and literary senses.

Like i menationed earlier, Bruce Sterling's "The Shizmatrix" did it earlier and better.

Books is more recent. Unrelated, but too much YA trash has been getting adaptations in recent years.

>SyFy working on Hyperion, Stranger in a Strange Land, Brave New World

these have been in development hell for years. i think syfy spends all it's money on the expanse right now.

>hasn't read Use of Weapons
that's the best one user

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nice. they just grabbed it recently so it'll probably take another 2 or 3 years to get a tv show

I think HBO dropped Foundation, at the very least it's changed hands from Nolan to Goyer

Too bad the remaining ilk would die off in less than a generation too.

Literally none of those adaptations are good (Dune has a chance)

I think excession was my favourite

how would you make the AI email chats work? serious question, on screen i mean

Should've gone with Use of Weapons or Player of Games much more interesting plots to start off the adaptation. Save shit like Consider Phlebas for after you draw people in.

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obligatory

>Literally every single Sci-fi universe getting adaptations now
>Halo show is still nowhere to be scene
I just want an adaptation of the OT or Fall Of Reach. Is that too much to ask?

Can humans have sex with those ships?

some ship avatars like to get laid from time to time

There's a pretty decent movie about it

Sounds perfect

I really need to start reading the series

It's not, that's the whole point. The Culture's motivation comes from postponing boredom, which results in them fucking other people's shit up constantly.

>Dune has a chance

Say hello to Paul here

One of the ships is called meatfucker for a reason user. Though it probably won't be consensual.

>objectively
follows through with subjective opinion

absolutely this. the books only get marginally interesting when they're set as far from the actual culture as possible, and even then they're dull.

Will they replace spice with soy?

Stop being obsessed withblack people
It's not healthy

I always find it really funny that The Culture is this super advanced society where AIs make it so everything is perfect and yet most of the stories are some contrived reason why an actual organic citizen has to go do some shit.