• Roadside Picnic trailer
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[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dts0rjp5V8[/media] I'm hopeful.
I'm hopeful as well. Looks like they added a bit more stuff to it in order to make if more exciting. [editline]19th February 2017[/editline] For example, The space between the empty discs didn't react with anything in the book. And the girl didn't have psychic powers.
Not sure how I feel about this. I loved the book. I hope they don't fuck this up, because the tone of this feels pretty different.
Artistic liscence and all. But this actually looks interesting.
[QUOTE=nerdster409;51844532]I'm hopeful as well. Looks like they added a bit more stuff to it in order to make if more exciting. [editline]19th February 2017[/editline] For example, The space between the empty discs didn't react with anything in the book. And the girl didn't have psychic powers.[/QUOTE] Maybe they're also taking inspiration from the Stalker movie? [sp]IIRC it was implied at the end that Monkey may have been psychic.[/sp]
This looks so cheap it bleeds AMC all over the place. It will most likely go completely unrelated route besides some names and the title. Looks like another US bastardization of a non-english piece of work.
Keep in mind that a faithful on-screen adaptation of Roadside Picnic would be the most boring thing ever.
i keep thinking this is S.T.A.L.K.E.R in America with all this Zone talk
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;51844584]Keep in mind that a faithful on-screen adaptation of Roadside Picnic would be the most boring thing ever.[/QUOTE] It's doesn't need to be completely faithful to the exact story but it does need to be faithful to the setting and themes.
I'm hoping that they don't make it outstay its welcome while keeping it interesting and entertaining at the same time. Worst case scenario would be them accidentally making The Walking Dead: Stalker Edition.
This trailer is pretty fucking terrible to be honest. I'll wait for the actual series to come out.
I'd like to see this dubbed in Russian with English subs
Not sure about this. What I liked about Roadside picnic was that if focused on a relatively small selection of interesting characters. It was more about exploring the effects of the zone on a very personal level from a scientific, philosophical and social perspective. The adventure bits inside the zone are exciting and tense but there's only a handful of them and they are completely driven by the characters as well, including the zone it self as a sort of character. Especially Red as a POV protagonist is an essential element to translate into the film media so I think it all depends on how well the cast works and how much they deviate from the original writing. My hope would be that they manage to pull off these really focused and intimate character chapters where you just get to know a resident of Harmont, their environment and how the impact affects their life. The editing of the preview clip suggests a more dramatic approach instead of the slow, esoteric style of the book but that could just be the way the trailer was cut. I guess what we're getting is an adventure series, inspired by the book and not a real, faithful adaptation so I don't really know how much it has to compare to the books in the first place, as opposed to just being evaluated by itself as an individual piece. The theme and setting of the book is good material for an exciting adventure series but the style and pacing of the book is very different and would most likely appeal to a whole different audience than a more dramatic, action-packed approach. After all, we already have the Stalker movie to capture the slow, heavy and intimate aspects of Roadside Picnic. All in all, I'm curious to see what choices were made to translate the story into a different medium
[QUOTE=Stolons;51844664]I'd like to see this dubbed in Russian with English subs[/QUOTE] The book was set in canada so not really appropriate.
I'm also wondering if they'll go further than the end of the book or if it'll end the same way as the book.
[QUOTE=nerdster409;51844853]I'm also wondering if they'll go further than the end of the book or if it'll end the same way as the book.[/QUOTE] I like AMC's shows, but I have a feeling we'll never know. If it goes good, they'll drag it out and make it last forever, so when it ends, it'll be [I]years[/I] from now... if it goes bad, it'll just have the plug pulled.
[QUOTE=spekter;51844777]The book was set in canada so not really appropriate.[/QUOTE] AFAIK it's not really Canada, it's an unspecified English-speaking country.
[QUOTE=Scorpo;51844608]i keep thinking this is S.T.A.L.K.E.R in America with all this Zone talk[/QUOTE] which would be fucking amazing
[QUOTE=gudman;51844898]AFAIK it's not really Canada, it's an unspecified English-speaking country.[/QUOTE] "The novel is set in and around a specific Zone in Harmont, a fictitious town in Canada"
[QUOTE=Scorpo;51844608]i keep thinking this is S.T.A.L.K.E.R in America with all this Zone talk[/QUOTE] Well, given that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was loosely based on the novel, it effectively is. Although I've noticed that series' like this always seem to be disappointing because it never fits the tone that you imagine in your head when reading the book. Hopefully I will be wrong.
You had me at Roadside Picnic.
I'm just hyped to see their take on the zone and the anomalies/artifacts. Everything else, if good, will be a bonus.
I'm a blasphemous heathen and have not read the book ( I really need to get off my ass and do that), so I'm obviously more interested due to having played S.T.A.L.K.E.R, but my interest is piqued. Again I'm not as wary as some since I still need to read it, but at the very least the production values look good. At the risk of sounding like an elitest prick, my main concern is that I hope they don't "Americanize" it and the story becomes too predictable and droll to cater to the mass audience. Does remind me of Coppelion when that was airing a while back.
[QUOTE=UnidentifiedFlyingTard;51844906]"The novel is set in and around a specific Zone in Harmont, a fictitious town in Canada"[/QUOTE] Yeah, that's Wikipedia, it's nowhere in the text though. Not in the original, that is, but I somehow doubt that it's something that was added in translation.
I checked my copy, and it mentions Harmont a lot, but the only time it mentions a country is the line "Where in Canada do they find these guys", referring to the UN soldiers. edit: also, " you've been Canadian consultant to the UN Commission on Problems of the Visitation.", referring to Dr. Pilman, who was from Harmont, so I guess it was set in Canada.
[QUOTE=laserpanda;51845314]I checked my copy, and it mentions Harmont a lot, but the only time it mentions a country is the line "Where in Canada do they find these guys", referring to the UN soldiers. edit: also, " you've been Canadian consultant to the UN Commission on Problems of the Visitation.", referring to Dr. Pilman, who was from Harmont, so I guess it was set in Canada.[/QUOTE] You know what, I've taken the book to re-read it and there's also Newfoundland mentioned in a very specific context, so yeah. Harmont is strongly implied to be in Canada, I was wrong. [QUOTE=laserpanda;51845314] edit: also, " you've been Canadian consultant to the UN Commission on Problems of the Visitation.", referring to Dr. Pilman, who was from Harmont, so I guess it was set in Canada.[/QUOTE] Worth noting, however, that in the original there's no "Canadian" there in that part. It's [quote] Однако вы уже два года являетесь консультантом Ко- миссии ООН по проблемам Посещения...[/quote] In the original text Canada is explicitly only mentioned once, referring to UN soldiers and that's it.
I hope this will be something akin to a "slice of life" of zone hoarders/stalkers and not some dumb character drama
[QUOTE=damnatus;51845573]I hope this will be something akin to a "slice of life" of zone hoarders/stalkers and not some dumb character drama[/QUOTE] Roadside picnic [b]is[/b] 'dumb character drama' though.
It has my interest, for what it's worth. Here's hoping they don't under-do the artifacts and anomalies.
[QUOTE=gudman;51845597]Roadside picnic [b]is[/b] 'dumb character drama' though.[/QUOTE] It's not exactly dumb, is it
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