/lit/ - Literature

>>6274831
A direct adaptation would be too depressing, weird, and explicit for general audiences. I would love to see it happen, but it would absolutely bomb in theaters.

>>6274846
Not to mention a *direct* adaptation would be 15 minutes long.

Though I do love the story and would watch an adaptation for sure.

>>6274858
There's actually a lot of detail in the short story that could all be captured to make a full length film.

It's like the opposite of the problem where book adaptations into movies have to cut things out due to time constraints.

Did anybody played the game? It's pretty fucking weird. Not very good, but certainly unique. And Harlan voicing the computer was pretty funny.

>>6274831
David Cronenberg or David Lynch could probably do it.
All the casual rape of a black woman and the giant engorged monkey penis, and the endless torture, means a movie studio is entirely unlikely to go anywhere near it.
Except for those guys that made a serbian film perhaps.

>rewrite the story entirely,
>turn it into "slice of shitty life" stream of consciousness movie
> keep the characters similar, or same,
>swap out the things AM does to the characters with everyday things like drug abuse and stuff
>keep the gangbang/rape stuff so I can beat off to it
>deny all influence
>troll ellison just so I can watch him on television bitching about something

it would involve a business deal with Harlan Ellison. nobody's willing to go through that kind of pain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Dangerous_Visions

>>6274831
In space no one can hear you meme

>>6274831
>film

>>6275004
>troll ellison just so I can watch him on television bitching about something
Man, I would pay money just to see Uncle Harlan rant and bitch about things on TV again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgAXCT99m0M&list=PLn5mSh00tKGGwiZ0CsZvWAzA0M2xQn8jA

>>6277975
Absolutely based.

>>6274878
It's not that strange, just the normal point and click adventure that were hip those days. There were stuff like phantasmagoria and harvester that had similar themes. I enjoyed the game.

>>6274846
The only way is independent stop motion film. Someone ought to do it.

>>6278052
Yeah, but it was weird in it's structure and the shit you had to do to move the game forward. Usually it involved being a shitty person, and that wasn't usual in games back then. Definitely not a "normal" point and click, I've played plenty of those.

>>6277975
>Man, I would pay money just to see Uncle Harlan rant and bitch about things on TV again.
holy shit
this guys incredible
I want more- Imagine if they played this shit today hahaha so much butthurt

>>6278113
That whole playlist is glorius and so is the rest of that channel.
This one specially: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsbiB_4AEqI&index=6&list=PLn5mSh00tKGGwiZ0CsZvWAzA0M2xQn8jA

>>6278124
hahaha fuck
my sides are gone
fantastic

>>6277975
>getting this angry about Superman

he's the original Comic Book Guy

>>6278151
Did you even watch the video? It wasn't about being angry about Superman at all.

I had never seen those Watching videos. Now I know where a lot of the Garth Marenghi stuff came from.

I think if it were animated it would work better. Ellison's stuff is very surreal and lends itself better to a creative visual medium with much less restrictions.

I don't know why, but if it had the cute and colorful style of characters like Futurama in a totally fucked up and drab atmosphere it would really work. Epecially as a nice ~20 min short.

>>6276877
This. He's a genius, but after all the shit he's pulled, I'd rather try to get Kanye West to play "Janitor #4" in my Ex-Lax commercial than try to deal with Ellison.

>>6274866
are you the asshole who turned The Hobbit into three films? get the fuck out of here.

I tried reading this and couldn't understand what was going on. Am I stupid?

>>6278698
what makes you say he's a genius? a genius at getting people to give him money for sitting on their work forever?

when i look through all the things he's been involved in - the first Star Trek film, that television show "The Starlost" - you see, over and over again, people bringing him into a project to wave his magic genius wand, and in every case he plays on that and acts like a twelve-year-old throwing a tantrum.

he is a genius at relentless self-promotion, i'll give you that. the introductions to every story in both the Dangerous Visions collections aren't about the authors of the stories - they're about how lucky these people are to know a famous writer like Harlan Ellison.

>>6278124
>>6278146
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnE1iO-WJu8

>what is 4chan

>>6278090
>Usually it involved being a shitty person
Not if you play the scenarios correctly.

>>6276877
>Authors marked with a '†' are known to have died since submitting their work to Ellison.

lol

>>6275004
>completely change the story
he is already on his way to your house

>>6278113
>I want more
he did about 50 episodes

>>6280067
>what makes you say he's a genius?
his creative
his productivity

>>6274878
I played the German version of the game and - I shit you not - they removed a character (the nazi guy), which made it impossible to get the best ending. I was really pissed.
But yes, I'd love to see a movie based on it.

>>6274831
Maybe nobody's adapted it because its just some deformed people being taunted by an edgebot.

>>6280067
Screw his scripts: his short stories, the Dangerous Visions anthology, etc., were extremely important in defining New Wave SF. Historically he's very important to the evolution of the genre. Sure he's a cantankerous assclown, but so was Heinlein.

>>6281116
"I smell burning flesh... But this is not a kitchen."