Maybe it’s time to stop watching and just go back to good old fashioned reading. Adaptations have made us lazy. I’m trying to watch less and read more. Even books I read 50 years ago take on a whole new experience re-reading them in my old age!
Reading is great! I have been a habitual reader for the last 60 years! I managed to wrangle an adult library card at the age of 14 in Carlsbad NM back in 1961. Reading kept me sane in my teen years!
The book that got me started way back then was CAPTAIN BLOOD by Rafael Sabatini, which I found in the school library in Tatum NM back in 1960.
I’ve read hundreds of books. Read WAR and PEACE last year, and just finished Doctor Zhivago.
You would be shocked to see how different the movies are from the books.
One of my all-time favorite sci-fi series of novels was written by Larry Niven: Ringworld. I would love to see it made into a series of movies, I know the visuals would be stunning. There is a lot of info on line about the books, and people have done their own versions of artwork inspired by the novels. I still have the first three novels in paperback, and I should take them out and read them again, instead of wait for a movie to be made. I might be dead before that happens🙄.
ALSO, and I know this is going a bit off subject, but I would also like to see a remake of a 1970’s miniseries “The Awakening Land”, it starred Elizabeth Montgomery, Hal Holbrook, Jane Seymour, and was William H. Macy’s first film role. If I remember right, it’s about pioneers from Pennsylvania settling in Ohio in the early 1800’s. Based on a series of books by Conrad Richter, actually won a Pulitzer (when it was worth something) for one of the books. I remember loving the series so much I purchased the novels , “ The Trees”” The Fields”
“The Town”. I purchased the DVD set some years ago. I think you can find the books, but they have long been out of print.
Sorry about going off the subject, but it was on my mind…🙂