betancourt...

[Nihilistic Mind]

Amber Chronicles' only hope of ascending again in top seller list and hope of spreading awareness about them:

Amber: the movie

Amber Diceless, version 2.0

Amber DRPG reprints

Amber RPG, the clandestine free version: an amalgam of Amber roleplaying wisdom and ideas, the work of Amber enthusiast communities on the web.



Oh, and if anyone has information about whether or not Betancourt's novels had a positive impact on sales of the Great Book of Amber, I wouldn't mind finding out. I mean, when people saw a new book, were they then drawn to pick up and read the original author's work? I would hope so...

[jibbajibba]

Amber Chronicles' only hope of ascending again in top seller list and hope of spreading awareness about them:

Amber: the movie

Amber Diceless, version 2.0

Amber DRPG reprints

Amber RPG, the clandestine free version: an amalgam of Amber roleplaying wisdom and ideas, the work of Amber enthusiast communities on the web.



Oh, and if anyone has information about whether or not Betancourt's novels had a positive impact on sales of the Great Book of Amber, I wouldn't mind finding out. I mean, when people saw a new book, were they then drawn to pick up and read the original author's work? I would hope so...

Didn't the Scifi channel pick up the rights for a TV show and I remember reading in the late 90s that WB had picked up the film rights and that someone was writing a script. All very dubious...
I think a TV show works better. A 3 part mini series of Nine Princes with the same quality as that Merlin one Sam Neil was in. It's odd that there has been little take up because Amber has all the elements of a good show, its got low cost special effects, great character parts, a nice foreshadowing plot that takes the reader with no experience and slowly introduces the world to them thus no need for previous interest, its got fighting, mystery, the kind of who is doing what to who and why questions that you get in shows like Lost. In fact its very much on the template of a show for now.
I can see that in the past the 'fantasy' elements might have put of producers but surely the success of LotR, Narnia, Golden Compass et al has put paid to that myth (although still no "fantasy" show has made it on TV...).

I always worry that my favorite books will get made into crap films (anyone ever seen Tarnsman of Gor!!!! oh my god) and that will finish them for ever so in may ways I am glad the SciFi channel never pursued it. Then there is the risk that a reasonably good film gets made that just isn't like the book (Constantine, I hate to admit is not a bad film, and it even keeps to the spirit of the comics but ... shotguns? Keanu? what were they thinking) and it spawns a load of stuff that isn't like it should have been.

[Nihilistic Mind]

I know, I've been hoping for SciFi to take advantage of the rights... I'm not in the business so I don't know how long this stuff should take, but it's been years. There's also no recent buzz about it either.