Stahelski says:
“We’re bringing it forward from the early 1500s in the highlands to the beyond present-day New York and Hong Kong, and seeing how it goes. There’s big opportunity for action.
There’s a chance to play a character that not a lot of people get to play. And it’s a bit of a love story, but not how you think. On ‘John Wick,’ I learned a lot on how to bend the storytelling a little… another kind of myth.”
Stahelski then goes on to explain how he pitched the project to Cavill and the uniqueness of the role being one of its draws:
“My selling point was, to [Henry Cavill], look, you’ve got a guy that’s been alive for over 500 years. He’s the last person in the world that wanted to be in this situation. So you get to cover quite a broad spread of a character arc there. And you get to experience someone that’s trained over 500 years and sort of played [with many types of] martial arts.”
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Go read old school science fiction writers like Roger Zelazny and Poul Anderson. Roger wrote about men becoming gods and vice versa, and Poul created hundreds of alien races.
There are literally thousands of great stories out there that no one has ever done.
We want new stuff!
Shout out to Roger Zalazny, The Chronicles of Amber is the shit. I haven’t heard his name in a while though.
I would love a Lord of Light movie/series too … I can’t imagine it’d make it through the editing process without a lot of changes though.
There was a movie in the works once and when it fell through, the work done up to that point was used to create a cover story to rescue USA diplomats in Iran. And about that rescue they made a movie: Argo.
One of my favorites. I’d love to see ten seasons of the Chronicles made some Day. (Doing ten movies would not do them justice)
https://bookshop.org/p/books/george-r-r-martin-presents-wild-cards-sleeper-straddle-a-novel-in-stories-george-r-r-martin/20063261?ean=9780593357835
After Zelazny died the Wild Cards editors decided to retire his character, The Sleeper. This novel covers the untold stories of the Sleeper’s long career.
People don’t pay to see new stuff