Vertigo's Fables, The Television Series?

[EliSnow]

It looks like ABC has committed to a pilot adaption of Vertigo's Fables series. (http://www.aintitcool.com/node/39364)

I'm a huge fan of a comic book series, and would love to see a faithful adaptation of the book, but I really don't think it will happen.

[Thebazile78]

I would LOVE to see a faithful adaptation as well, but it would be better suited to HBO or another cable network (even USA) rather than network TV.

I've been enjoying reading the TPB's ... still have a bunch to catch up on, though. I'm not particularly close to a comic shop. (This assumes you count Zapp! comics in the Freehold Mall as a "comic shop.")

[EliSnow]

I've been enjoying reading the TPB's ... still have a bunch to catch up on, though. I'm not particularly close to a comic shop. (This assumes you count Zapp! comics in the Freehold Mall as a "comic shop.")

If only you knew someone who worked at a comic book store.

Oh well, you should be able to buy the TPBs in a Barnes & Noble, or Borders or other bookstore.

[Thebazile78]

If only you knew someone who worked at a comic book store.

Oh well, you should be able to buy the TPBs in a Barnes & Noble, or Borders or other bookstore.

Noooooo! You don't understand. I have to buy them from my brother! (I just have to GO to the freaking store, but it's a friggin' schlep for me.)

[EliSnow]

Noooooo! You don't understand. I have to buy them from my brother! (I just have to GO to the freaking store, but it's a friggin' schlep for me.)

I just bought some comics from your brother without ever having to leave CT.

[SuperKarateMonkeyDeathFez]

I actually think this is a great fit for a non-cable TV series. I love Fables, but a lot of the "adult" content that make it a Vertigo title, namely the swearing and occasional nudity and flashes of gratuitous violence, is pretty superfluous. Almost all of the main storylines and characters could easily make the jump to network TV with the adult stuff trimmed down.

[EliSnow]

I actually think this is a great fit for a non-cable TV series. I love Fables, but a lot of the "adult" content that make it a Vertigo title, namely the swearing and occasional nudity and flashes of gratuitous violence, is pretty superfluous. Almost all of the main storylines and characters could easily make the jump to network TV with the adult stuff trimmed down.

The adult content is only one of the things that will be tough for network tv to handle. There are plenty of others as well, including the number of characters involved, and the amount of special effects and CGI to portray a number of the characters and locales in the story (the animal members of the farm, dragons, etc.). The entire Farm rebellion would be very, very costly to portray on television. Plus, if you're doing Fables you have to show the Homelands and how they were conquered. That's going to be costly and immense.

[Thebazile78]

The adult content is only one of the things that will be tough for network tv to handle. There are plenty of others as well, including the number of characters involved, and the amount of special effects and CGI to portray a number of the characters and locales in the story (the animal members of the farm, dragons, etc.). The entire Farm rebellion would be very, very costly to portray on television. Plus, if you're doing Fables you have to show the Homelands and how they were conquered. That's going to be costly and immense.

Hence my original impulse to have it done on cable with a preference for premium channels.

Also, premium cable seems to hire better writers than other places and I would HATE to have the story done badly.

[biggestmexi]

I dont like vertigo. gets me all dizzy.

[Thebazile78]

I just bought some comics from your brother without ever having to leave CT.

That's not the point I was inarticulately making.

I live in NJ and the store is in NJ.

The whole point (for me) of buying comics from my brother is the trip to go hang out with my brother. And wait for the number of girls in the store to outnumber the number of guys, 'cause they ring a special bell for that.

[SuperKarateMonkeyDeathFez]

The adult content is only one of the things that will be tough for network tv to handle. There are plenty of others as well, including the number of characters involved, and the amount of special effects and CGI to portray a number of the characters and locales in the story (the animal members of the farm, dragons, etc.). The entire Farm rebellion would be very, very costly to portray on television. Plus, if you're doing Fables you have to show the Homelands and how they were conquered. That's going to be costly and immense.

It's only costly and immense if they try and depict the conquering on a massive scale. There's no reason to do that since, by and large, the comic series itself hasn't done that very much. They've depicted some key scenes, namely the final stand of the exiled Fables before they escaped, but much of the rest was only flashed to in brief panels and in narrative descriptions and testimonies. For the scope of what the series is telling, it's a very "compact" narrative. Most of the series is not of the "epic" scale, which is one of the main reasons why it would be so appealing for a network to adapt, plus most of the "adult" content isn't anything not easily sidestepped.

[Thebazile78]

It's only costly and immense if they try and depict the conquering on a massive scale. There's no reason to do that since, by and large, the comic series itself hasn't done that very much. They've depicted some key scenes, namely the final stand of the exiled Fables before they escaped, but much of the rest was only flashed to in brief panels and in narrative descriptions and testimonies. For the scope of what the series is telling, it's a very "compact" narrative. Most of the series is not of the "epic" scale, which is one of the main reasons why it would be so appealing for a network to adapt, plus most of the "adult" content isn't anything not easily sidestepped.

I think I haven't seen anything advertised on/for ABC recently that triggered one of those "ooh, I MUST watch that!" reaction in me for a while except for Ugly Betty ... and even that's an American remake of Betty La Fea.