I wish more classic sci-fi novel series would get a high end tv series treatment today. The right way to do something like Dune, the Demon Princes or the Berserker series isn’t a movie in 2020. Or in the case of Dune a pair of movies.
Of course trusting them not to make random characters homosexual for no reason beyond ‘inclusion’ would be asking a lot. So on the other hand maybe it’s better they stay away.
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Modern politics wouldn’t allow the evil Baron to be homosexual, either.
The mini-series was a great format. I wish they’d bring it back, and don’t understand why in this day of “binge watching” they haven’t.
I thought it would have been the perfect way to do the Hunger Games. The movies, while they conveyed some aspects of the story well, made my feel that if I hadn’t have read the books I wouldn’t have understood what was going on.
Would “Beserker” by the ancient alien killing machines in older scifi? Arguably a greater threat than the Borg.
OMG the Berserker series would make an excellent TV show, as would Keith Laumer’s BOLO.
But the SyFy series (which was great) could not be made today showing the Baron as a predatory homosexual.