How are we this far into the 21st century and no one has made or even seriously attempted an Elric movie or series? Madness.
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My theory is the pitch meeting started with “so his name is Eric right?”
jun 9, 2025, 1:33 am • 0 0 • view
I've been waiting for someone to try and do Pern justice. By now, the FX wouldn't be hard at all.
jun 8, 2025, 4:05 pm • 1 0 • view
From your lips to the gods ears.
jun 8, 2025, 2:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh yeah! Even an animated one.
jun 9, 2025, 9:21 am • 0 0 • view
And a studio could basically print money with it. I mean, even once they're out of Elric content, they could adapt Corum, Ereköse, Hawkmoon, and the Von Bek cycle, all culminating in a Tanelorn movie.
jun 8, 2025, 3:32 pm • 1 0 • view
jun 8, 2025, 11:19 am • 0 0 • view
IMHO Amber is the lowest hanging fruit in the classic F/SF catalogue. Epic fantasy combined with a spectacularly dysfunctional family, perfect for TV.
jun 8, 2025, 8:12 pm • 1 0 • view
I dunno, could be a bit Random.
jun 8, 2025, 8:14 pm • 0 0 • view
jun 8, 2025, 8:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Have you seen this marvelous piece by @deliverypig.bsky.social, based on the concept art by @gorangligovic.bsky.social? youtu.be/yGkWohEMcJQ?...
jun 8, 2025, 1:16 pm • 11 1 • view
Yeah this fan animation is what I’d want! Whatever the studios these days would do would be less colorful and creative than the comics. They’d use boring modern music instead of Hawkwind. Elric is 20th century counterculture and HBO or whoever would water it down. Prob cast some buff guy. Basic shit
jun 8, 2025, 8:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Well Hawkwind do some good Elric music, but about half is pretty corny, TBH. And not all modern rock sucks. Mastodon could do some FUCKING EPIC Elric stuff...
jun 9, 2025, 9:29 am • 0 0 • view
Oh but to my broader point: do you think they’ll pay for music or do you think it will be some synth composition made by AI or that standard soundtrack sound
jun 9, 2025, 3:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Hmmm... Depends on if they want to sell the soundtrack I guess.
jun 9, 2025, 4:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Mastodon could. But I think you’re confusing corny with campy.
jun 9, 2025, 3:02 pm • 1 0 • view
No, I see you. I'm not sure we want campy OR corny for an Elric serial though. 😁😁 My Dying Bride? Devin Townsend? Opeth maybe?
jun 9, 2025, 4:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Opeth yes. But consider that Hawkwind is the band that Moorcock was literally in has been soundtracking his work since before you or I were born. And however many songs they have that you might not like, they have that many more that are heavy (which I assume is your genre preference) to pick from.
jun 9, 2025, 4:59 pm • 2 0 • view
(Not before I was born 😜😜😉) I have Chronicles Of The Black Sword...on vinyl when it came out. I wasn't QUITE old enough to see Lemmy with Hawkwind, but not far off. I'm pretty eclectic for a guy my age.
jun 9, 2025, 5:36 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s supper cool. I got into Hawkwind based on a 1 minute clip about them in a Motörhead documentary that was extemely dismissive of Hawkwind. My thoughts were “so directorial voice, I see you don’t like Hawkwind but this very much seems for me”
jun 9, 2025, 5:54 pm • 1 0 • view
You were born in 1970?
jun 9, 2025, 5:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Wha? Why does it say 70?! I wish! Add ten years 😂🤣 How dafuq do I change that?
jun 9, 2025, 5:50 pm • 1 0 • view
I also don’t think avoiding camp *entirely* is either possible or desirable
jun 9, 2025, 5:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Hmm... I never really got camp from the novels, except maybe the way the movie Heavy Metal, or Krull, or Conan The Barbarian are. Is that the vibe you mean? Sort of ominously a little bit non-hetero in a good way.
jun 9, 2025, 5:40 pm • 0 0 • view
I mean, camp is defined in the most expansive sense by ironic amusement at something with exaggerated artifice, and that rather describes the entire Melnibonéan civilization. Elric as this effete, jaded sorcerer swanning about in golden dragon armor is pretty camp…
jun 9, 2025, 5:53 pm • 2 0 • view
Not to mention, all the Eternal Champions books are pretty blase about sexuality regardless, which is pretty camp.
jun 9, 2025, 8:02 pm • 1 0 • view
But the pulps in general with exaggerated heroes and villains, and constructed archaisms can’t help but be camp
jun 9, 2025, 5:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah camp is pretty baked in going back to the pulps
jun 9, 2025, 5:11 pm • 1 0 • view
I hang out on some of the Moorcock pages on Facebook, and whenever renderings of Elric are posted there you have no idea how regularly it looks like the über-muscular Conan sort of stuff.
jun 8, 2025, 10:04 pm • 2 0 • view
o h n o
jun 8, 2025, 10:05 pm • 0 0 • view
But, but, but, emaciated scrawny elfling with hidieously powerful magic sword...
jun 9, 2025, 7:55 am • 4 0 • view
They just don’t get it.
jun 9, 2025, 3:03 pm • 2 0 • view
i'm in a private fan discord full of young queer elric fans and they do not suffer fools. Some great fan artists among them too :)
jun 8, 2025, 10:07 pm • 4 0 • view
Ask Moorcock. He's still alive.
jun 9, 2025, 12:46 am • 0 0 • view
Do you know what I would give for an adaptation of The fortress of the Pearl?
jun 9, 2025, 4:38 am • 0 0 • view
Remember what happened to John Carter?
jun 8, 2025, 11:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah they made a good movie!
jun 9, 2025, 2:28 am • 3 0 • view
And lost $150 million 😥 that's why they won't do Elric
jun 9, 2025, 2:38 am • 0 0 • view
Trust me when I say this: everyone currently making movies still have enormous flops ahead of them. No reason not to make one of them Elric.
jun 9, 2025, 2:41 am • 5 0 • view
Last I heard executives told Moorcock it was too similar to the Witcher and Game of Thrones. BBC was developing a runestaff show in 2019, but it seems that might have fallen through since nothing has been heard of it since...
jun 9, 2025, 8:48 am • 1 0 • view
That's irony X 100, since it's literally the other way around Besides, how is the Emperor of Melnibone with a soul eating sword fighting reality-changing wizards and gods of chaos ANYTHING like Witcher or GoT? I mean, there's swords I guess. And a few dragons. But the scale of Elric is off the
jun 9, 2025, 9:26 am • 0 0 • view
chart. It's more like Stargate's last few series but the gods ACTUALLY ARE gods. And it's not galaxies, but literally other universal realities - multiple planes, no less.
jun 9, 2025, 9:26 am • 0 0 • view
Oh man, where to start? Elric’s been optioned more than once, but nothing’s ever come of it. He’s iconic within our circles but still niche beyond them and with so many newer properties borrowing his vibe, some fear the chance of it looking derivative. Basically, he’s shown up late to his own party.
jun 8, 2025, 11:14 am • 9 0 • view
Yep. See: The Witcher.
jun 8, 2025, 8:31 pm • 2 0 • view
...and since nothing ever came of the Apple TV/Skydance Eternal Champion series (it seems to be dead in development hell), it isn't likely that the show will get as far as adapting any of the facets of the Eternal Champion, let alone Elric.
jun 8, 2025, 8:47 pm • 3 0 • view
This for me always should've been the music score for such a thing. Yeah I know, there's Hawkwind, BÖC, et al., and it's kind of subjective from having first read the Elric books and heard this album around the same time back in mid-80s, but this for me always *was Melniboné. youtu.be/PSYMxC3agK4
jun 8, 2025, 2:24 pm • 3 0 • view
Considering all the remakes and revivals and rehashes these days... yeah.
jun 8, 2025, 10:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Get Pauly Shore as the voice of Stormbringer and the guy who played Steve Urkel as Elric.
jun 8, 2025, 11:48 am • 4 0 • view
I hate you.
jun 8, 2025, 2:09 pm • 1 0 • view
That baffles me too, and also the Memory Sorrow and Thorn series! It’s like Hollywood thinks JRRT and GRRM are the only two people to ever write fantasy
jun 8, 2025, 9:36 am • 9 0 • view
Ooh I love this
jun 8, 2025, 8:28 pm • 1 0 • view
I still have this hardcover somewhere, but the binding's been damaged due to me carting it around during my school years.
jun 8, 2025, 8:27 pm • 1 0 • view
That series got me into fantasy as a kid. I'd watch it almost no matter how bad it was.
jun 8, 2025, 9:09 pm • 1 0 • view
😱Good Point
jun 8, 2025, 10:24 am • 0 0 • view