"Report on Martha Wells Book Tour"
https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1879r5j/report_on_martha_wells_book_tour/

1. There is a Murderbot TV show in the works
2. She mentioned her recent breast cancer diagnosis and treatment
3. ...
4. She based Murderbot the character on herself, as she recalls being
painfully introverted as a younger person
5. Sanctuary Moon is inspired by How to Get Away with Murder
6. etc.

Lynn

On 11/29/2023 11:58 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> "Report on Martha Wells Book Tour"
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1879r5j/report_on_martha_wells_book_tour/
>
> 1. There is a Murderbot TV show in the works

As in someone bought the TV rights or,
as in someone has a production company hiring scriptwriters and
auditioning actors?

If its the first then I feel the need to point out that there is
probably someone out there trying to buy the rights to grade schoolers
"What I did during the Summer" homework.

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> writes:
>On 11/29/2023 11:58 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> "Report on Martha Wells Book Tour"
>>
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1879r5j/report_on_martha_wells_book_tour/
>>
>> 1. There is a Murderbot TV show in the works
>
>As in someone bought the TV rights or,
>as in someone has a production company hiring scriptwriters and
>auditioning actors?

It appears Apple+ has something "in development".

There's a 2012 show also called "Murderbot" based on the work
of a different author.

On 11/30/2023 9:02 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> writes:
>> On 11/29/2023 11:58 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> "Report on Martha Wells Book Tour"
>>>
>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1879r5j/report_on_martha_wells_book_tour/
>>>
>>> 1. There is a Murderbot TV show in the works
>>
>> As in someone bought the TV rights or,
>> as in someone has a production company hiring scriptwriters and
>> auditioning actors?
>
> It appears Apple+ has something "in development".
>
"In development" can mean anything short of having started shooting but
usually it means "we bought the rights, now we're going to spend the
next few years deciding if we actually want to make this and if so a few
more years seeing who can we con into making it."

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

Lynn McGuire wrote:

>"Report on Martha Wells Book Tour"

>1. There is a Murderbot TV show in the works

I'm ambivalent about this. So much of Murderbot is its internal dialog.
I don't know how a show would handle that and make it successful.
Possibly voiceover?

I fear that we'd end up with something not that close to the original.

Brian

On 11/30/2023 11:00 PM, Default User wrote:
> Lynn McGuire wrote:
>
>> "Report on Martha Wells Book Tour"
>
>
>> 1. There is a Murderbot TV show in the works
>
>
> I'm ambivalent about this. So much of Murderbot is its internal dialog.
> I don't know how a show would handle that and make it successful.
> Possibly voiceover?
>
> I fear that we'd end up with something not that close to the original.
>
Its a TV adaptation of a book series. You'll be luck if there is much
of anything of the original books in it other than some names and places.

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

On Fri, 1 Dec 2023 08:59:43 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

>On 11/30/2023 11:00 PM, Default User wrote:
>> Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>
>>> "Report on Martha Wells Book Tour"
>>
>>
>>> 1. There is a Murderbot TV show in the works
>>
>>
>> I'm ambivalent about this. So much of Murderbot is its internal dialog.
>> I don't know how a show would handle that and make it successful.
>> Possibly voiceover?
>>
>> I fear that we'd end up with something not that close to the original.
>>
>Its a TV adaptation of a book series. You'll be luck if there is much
>of anything of the original books in it other than some names and places.

Even expecting names and places from the novels to be used seems
unduly ... optimistic ... to me.

This is a story about a Murderbot. The TV show, if it ever appears,
probably will be about something called a "Murderbot", perhaps as the
protagonist, perhaps as the quarry. Or at least using "Murderbot" in
its title. Although writing it as "MurderBot" would not be beyond the
realm of possibility.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

On Dec 1, 2023, Dimensional Traveler wrote
(in article <ukd3dt$1ukpr$1@dont-email.me>):

> On 11/30/2023 11:00 PM, Default User wrote:
> > Lynn McGuire wrote:
> >
> > > "Report on Martha Wells Book Tour"
> >
> >
> > > 1. There is a Murderbot TV show in the works
> >
> >
> > I'm ambivalent about this. So much of Murderbot is its internal dialog.
> > I don't know how a show would handle that and make it successful.
> > Possibly voiceover?
> >
> > I fear that we'd end up with something not that close to the original.
> Its a TV adaptation of a book series. You'll be luck if there is much
> of anything of the original books in it other than some names and places.

Ahem. Even names and places may well be unrecognizable.

Famously the Bladerunner movie was based on PKD’s Do Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep?, but with Allan Norse’s medical thriller’s title (because
they apparently had rights to both and didn’t want to generate a medical
thriller, and, besides, there wasn’t a sheep, electric or otherwise, in
sight)

Starship Troopers, Nightfall, Foundation, and most especially Lensman are
also examples of what happens to books when Hollyweird gets hold of them.
(OK, Lensman was Japanese, not Holyweird. It still stunk.)

To be sure, some books get treated well; Greyhound was at least in shouting
distance of The Good Shepard, and The Cruel Sea was pretty good. I’d have
liked to have seen a movie of HMS Ulysses made by the team that made The
Cruel Sea; I suspect that we’d get something closer to (ick) U-571, though.