And a studio could basically print money with it. I mean, even once they're out of Elric content, they could adapt Corum, Ereköse, Hawkmoon, and the Von Bek cycle, all culminating in a Tanelorn movie.
Yeah this fan animation is what I’d want! Whatever the studios these days would do would be less colorful and creative than the comics. They’d use boring modern music instead of Hawkwind. Elric is 20th century counterculture and HBO or whoever would water it down. Prob cast some buff guy. Basic shit
Well Hawkwind do some good Elric music, but about half is pretty corny, TBH.
And not all modern rock sucks.
Mastodon could do some FUCKING EPIC Elric stuff...
Oh but to my broader point: do you think they’ll pay for music or do you think it will be some synth composition made by AI or that standard soundtrack sound
Opeth yes. But consider that Hawkwind is the band that Moorcock was literally in has been soundtracking his work since before you or I were born. And however many songs they have that you might not like, they have that many more that are heavy (which I assume is your genre preference) to pick from.
I hang out on some of the Moorcock pages on Facebook, and whenever renderings of Elric are posted there you have no idea how regularly it looks like the über-muscular Conan sort of stuff.
That's irony X 100, since it's literally the other way around
Besides, how is the Emperor of Melnibone with a soul eating sword fighting reality-changing wizards and gods of chaos ANYTHING like Witcher or GoT?
I mean, there's swords I guess. And a few dragons.
chart. It's more like Stargate's last few series but the gods ACTUALLY ARE gods. And it's not galaxies, but literally other universal realities - multiple planes, no less.
Oh man, where to start? Elric’s been optioned more than once, but nothing’s ever come of it. He’s iconic within our circles but still niche beyond them and with so many newer properties borrowing his vibe, some fear the chance of it looking derivative. Basically, he’s shown up late to his own party.
...and since nothing ever came of the Apple TV/Skydance Eternal Champion series (it seems to be dead in development hell), it isn't likely that the show will get as far as adapting any of the facets of the Eternal Champion, let alone Elric.
This for me always should've been the music score for such a thing.
Yeah I know, there's Hawkwind, BÖC, et al., and it's kind of subjective from having first read the Elric books and heard this album around the same time back in mid-80s, but this for me always *was Melniboné.
That baffles me too, and also the Memory Sorrow and Thorn series! It’s like Hollywood thinks JRRT and GRRM are the only two people to ever write fantasy
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Even an animated one.
https://youtu.be/yGkWohEMcJQ?si=qysOQoGCb0cBwciG
And not all modern rock sucks.
Mastodon could do some FUCKING EPIC Elric stuff...
Depends on if they want to sell the soundtrack I guess.
I'm not sure we want campy OR corny for an Elric serial though. 😁😁
My Dying Bride?
Devin Townsend?
Opeth maybe?
No reason not to make one of them Elric.
BBC was developing a runestaff show in 2019, but it seems that might have fallen through since nothing has been heard of it since...
Besides, how is the Emperor of Melnibone with a soul eating sword fighting reality-changing wizards and gods of chaos ANYTHING like Witcher or GoT?
I mean, there's swords I guess. And a few dragons.
But the scale of Elric is off the
Yeah I know, there's Hawkwind, BÖC, et al., and it's kind of subjective from having first read the Elric books and heard this album around the same time back in mid-80s, but this for me always *was Melniboné.
https://youtu.be/PSYMxC3agK4
(Art by Michael Whelan)