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Originally Posted by troutman
Any chance the Malazan Empire will be made into a cable series like GOT? Too complex?
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I've been very impressed with how well the GOT series has come along, but the Malazan series would be much more difficult to pull off. For one there's the sheer volume of characters in the books. Between Gods, Ascendants, the Bridgeburners, Tiste Andii you already have a large volume of essential characters that would
have to be in the show. Then there are hundreds of other characters essential to the plot (Coltaine, Karsa Orlong, Leoman, Kruppe, Iskaral Pust, Ikarium, etc.) That alone makes it a massive undertaking.
Then you add in the magic itself. GOT really only has the dragons and white walkers. Malazan has full blown mage battles, dragons, gods, d'ivers, soul-taken, T'lan Imass.....basically take the CGI/effects budget of GOT and multiply exponentially.
I know "Gardens of the Moon" was originally written as a screenplay, so maybe that's a direction it could go, but the first book in the series is likely the least complex of the bunch. I'm not sure how you would condense any of the others into a 2 or 3 hour format.