A is for Adaptions

Feb 09, 2011 09:02

Good fannish news to look forward to in a busy life: there will be an adaption of Good Omens for tv, by Terry Jones, no less. The combinaton of Terry Prattchet, Neil Gaiman and an ex-Monty Python sounds almost too good to be true. Incidentally, while I love individual works by either writer better than this collaboration, Good Omens is definitely enjoyable, and an four episode format should do it justice. (The only sad thing is that the mundane will accuse Good Omens of ripping off all the subsequent imitations which have ripped off Good Omens but went multimedia first.)

News that made me first go "yay" and then "hang on...": Jessica Jones will get a tv show of her own , on ABC, no less; since the name Alias obviously can't be used, it'll be called A.K.A. Jessica Jones. I suspect this benefits from the general attempt to prepare the Avengers movie by reminding non-comic readers of that whole part of the Marvelverse (as is the cartoon Avengers series), and the news that Melissa Rosenberg will be writing/producing pleased me; I think Dexter missed her direly last season, and her four previous seasons of Dexter give her able experience in the mixture of dark and completely screwed up, humour and every day problems. The "hang on..." part in my reaction came from the journalist's description of Jessica Jones as "a very normal person with superpowers". Because well, no. Jessica at the start of Alias the comic is as normal only if your standard of normality is Chandler's Philip Marlowe. She's a classic noir detective, drinking too much, really bad at relationships, trauma in her past (not what you at first assume, though), sharp tongue and regular run-ins with the authorities. I really hope that won't be toned down and white brushed because it's what makes her Jessica Jones. (Also she has an arc to go through in those comics, and if you start a tv adaption with her already emotionally more or less balanced, that's gone.) But I am an optimist by nature, and like I said, I am fond of Melissa Rosenberg as a writer due to her Dexter episodes & co-producing in seasons 1-4, so I am assuming for now that the journalist just got it wrong and wrote only part of what he was told. And I'm looking forward to Jessica Jones, P.I., on my tv screen!

This entry was originally posted at http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/652734.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.

alias, good omens, marvel

Previous post Next post
Up