While I agree about Foundation, I really don't know how anyone would properly adapt the book(s) and make something enjoyable to watch. The book is an important piece of sci-fi and inspired a lot of writers, but it really has aged like milk: it doesn't even have a named female character until 3/4 of the way through the book, and even then it can't pass the Bechtel test.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Fans said Dune couldn't be done. Time skip is easy given the popularity of anthologies.

Gender swapping a character to modernize it is done all the time too.

[–] VonReposti@feddit.dk 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Amazon did Fallout and it turned out good. Not like how The Witcher was treated at Netflix...

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not commenting on the quality I expect, just the company involved. I actively go out of my way to avoid Amazon as much as possible, so I will not be seeing this.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

While I agree with the sentiment:

Torrents
Shows like It's always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Orville are owned by Fox which feeds profit to Murdoch to support Fox News. That's far worse.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, exactly this.

I don't feel ok supporting Amazon or Fox.

And ofc rich things gonna have nice things (nice budget = at least nice looking results), but at the sauce it's just really really dirty money being fatter.

[–] deadcream@sopuli.xyz -5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not like Warhammer has a lot of high quality source material to adapt.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

There's like over a hundred novels to choose from, some of them are pretty decent.

My guess is he's going to do Gaunt's Ghost by Dan Abnett. It's good enough to be a stand alone series even if you don't know much about the 40k universe.