| From: | Rick Jones <rick@******.COM> |
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| Subject: | Shadowrun on TV |
| Date: | Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:14:07 -0600 (CST) |
movie - and even if we did get a movie, it would a> not be a big budget
monster, and b> not please the hardcore fans of the game. The way I run
Shadowrun is different from the way Gurth does, or Deirdre or .....
Assume that the scriptwriter doesn't either, and would change things because
that's what happens when you adapt something from one medium to another.
(Look at *any* adaption of a comic book to a movie or tv show and you'll
see what I mean.)
Anyway, suppose that, somehow, FASA got the same kind of deal White Wolf
did to make a Shadowrun TV show.
Dwarves - check. Hire "short people." They won't be Shadowrun dwarves,
mind you.
Elves - check. Makeup effects can give us an okay elf, though they won't
get it entirely right.
Orks - check. More makeup, but still possible.
Trolls - sorry, see you later. A TV show budget couldn't do the
prosthetics right, and CGI isn't up to a "toon" Troll. I suppose you
could have 'em in a movie, but they'd be a pain. Good odds that the
trolls and orks would be combined into one metatype, called either orks
or trolls (I'd guess troll).
Magic - not a problem. CGI effects can do everything a mage can do. I
doubt anothing would be cut due to "moral majority" influences, especially
if the "featured magician character" was a Native American Shaman.
Matrix - ditto. CGI is up to the task. Mostly because it's _supposed_ to
look like computer graphics.
Storywise, it'd probably be something similar to the first Secrets of
Power book. Ordinary guy (one the audience can relate to) gets sucked up
in the world of magic and corporate conspiracies that make up Shadowrun.
Much as I am predicting about Kindred, purists would hate it. But it
might not suck.
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