GanrokhDune Part Two Release Date Delayed to March 15th, 2024
MapleWhat is it with movies releasing in two parts nowadays? Saw the same thing with Across the Spiderverse, and I guess the same thing happened to Ninja Turtles, but I haven’t watched that one so I might be wrong. Fast X too from what I hear.
It’s an adaptation of a book. And there’s a lot of stuff going on in that first book. Most people are not up for a 5 hour movie.
Maybe not, but why not just make it a series at that point? Or end it in a way that has some closure, with potential for a future movie. Like we’ve done for decades.
You can’t just split a movie up into a series. Every episode has to have its own structure and should have some progression. Splitting up a book into two movies with their own structure is a lot easier than doing the same with 6 or more episodes.
Just look at the Marvel shows. If they had been movies, maybe two-parters, some could have been pretty good stories. This way there’s lots of unnecessary downtime and distractions, without a logical through-line.
Of course you’d plan to structure the episodes in a way that made sense to the format.
And what evidence do you have in saying splitting a book into movies is easier than doing so into episodes? Just because there are more episodes than there are movies does not equate to difficulty. If you planned for it, it would make just as much sense as a movie.
Of course you’d plan to structure the episodes in a way that made sense to the format.
But you’re adapting an existing story which already has a beginning, middle and end. It’s much easier to split this up into two than 6+ if you want to keep to the original story.
And what evidence do you have in saying splitting a book into movies is easier than doing so into episodes? Just because there are more episodes than there are movies does not equate to difficulty. If you planned for it, it would make just as much sense as a movie.
It’s more difficult because there are more opportunities to fail, and you have to get more things right. You can’t just focus on each episode, you also have to make the whole thing together a good experience. Doing so for two movies is much easier than 6+ episodes.
It boils down to a simple truth: making something smaller good is easier than making something bigger good. A movie is bigger than an episode, but it’s smaller than a series.