Tangentially, there's an essay to be written about why there have been good Philip K. Dick adaptations but no good adaptation of his onetime classmate, Ursula K. Le Guin.
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A provisional answer would be that Dick's philosophical quandaries can be captured by plot but the essence of Le Guin is in her language, it's tact & ambience, which film can't duplicate.
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I've been reading Book of the New Sun lately and wondering if it would even be possible to film it, the prose feels so essential. I do hope for a good Earthsea adaptation someday, but I wonder if the material is just philosophically incompatible with corporate Hollywood
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The Peripheral is bad though
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There's a Ghibli movie partly based on LeGuin, though ai realize you're thinking of live action.
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A movie of SEVEN AMERICAN NIGHTS, yes, this is a good idea
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I love Wolfe but I don't think he'd like work in other media. Representing the stuff from his books filmically would either miss the appeal or spoil the joke.
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@mjohnharrison stuff would work really well visually in the same way a lot of Gibson stuff would (both do a lot of implicative visual detail stuff) if audiences could tolerate material with a lot more atmosphere at the expense of plot.
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Wolfe might be the least adaptable author in SF/F though (with the possible exception of Long Sun).
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