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Post by pawntake on May 18, 2020 13:58:19 GMT
Unusual one here - By The Sword Divided The original TV series is great and dealt with the political upheavals of the English Civil War and ended with Charles II's restoration in 1660 The star was Tim Bentinck who has done loads of BF already. A 3rd series could be set many years later in 1680-88, starting with the Exclusion crisis and ending with the Glorious Revolution YES!! This would be great""(i have the Boxset)BF can make a good job of anything!!!!But the wonderful Originals has proved sadly that the majority of the BF fanbase are only interested in Doctor Who(nothing wrong with that)but for me its sometimes nice to listen to something different!
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Post by timegirl on Aug 1, 2020 21:10:00 GMT
They would need to wait until the tv series ends but wouldn’t it be amazing if big finish got the rights to Stranger Things! They could do all sorts of things with it. They could do whole prequels about the other experiments in Hawkins Lab, Joyce, and Hoppers early years. Also they could do stand alone stories about people affected by the upside down. They could have character pieces of individual characters, maybe do short trips. They could have a continuation into what the characters are up to in the 90s and 2000s. I think stranger things would perfect for big finish and give them even more of an audience!😀
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Post by grinch on Aug 14, 2020 19:52:09 GMT
I think there’s a few book series they could adapt which would be ripe and perfect for the audio format.
The underrated Edge Chronicles as an example. Imagine Gabriel Woolf playing the Gloamglozer or having a few newcomers portray Quint, Twig and Rook.
I’ll never understand why it has never been adapted in any medium outside of the original books.
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Post by shutupbanks on Aug 15, 2020 1:32:54 GMT
I think there’s a few book series they could adapt which would be ripe and perfect for the audio format. The underrated Edge Chronicles as an example. Imagine Gabriel Woolf playing the Gloamglozer or having a few newcomers portray Quint, Twig and Rool. I’ll never understand why it has never been adapted in any medium outside of the original books. They’re a great set of books. Just occasionally you get a perfect blend of author and illustrator and the Edge was that. An adaptation would be marvellous.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Aug 15, 2020 2:31:31 GMT
I would still love the Belgariad, the Mallorean etc. David Eddings. They would be epic undertakings however.
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Post by mbt66 on Aug 15, 2020 10:19:22 GMT
I think there’s a few book series they could adapt which would be ripe and perfect for the audio format. The underrated Edge Chronicles as an example. Imagine Gabriel Woolf playing the Gloamglozer or having a few newcomers portray Quint, Twig and Rook. I’ll never understand why it has never been adapted in any medium outside of the original books. I confess I have never heard of these, but have just spent a few minutes looking them up on line and I can see there is plenty of scope for audio stories. Unfortunately I suspect that after the less than positive reviews and sales of the Wizard of Oz adaptation, Big Finish will not be too keen on doing more children’s stories. Unless they could pre sell it to BBC radio...? I have suggested in the past The Invisible Library book series as I think audio adventures of previously untold tales could compliment an on going series of novels. Perhaps they could test the waters with The Edge in a similar way.
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Post by sherlock on Aug 15, 2020 10:28:33 GMT
I think there’s a few book series they could adapt which would be ripe and perfect for the audio format. The underrated Edge Chronicles as an example. Imagine Gabriel Woolf playing the Gloamglozer or having a few newcomers portray Quint, Twig and Rook. I’ll never understand why it has never been adapted in any medium outside of the original books. Oh I need to re-read those. Honestly I feel that animation would be the most natural way for those books to be adapted, as the illustrations are so vital to them. Audio could be neat to though.
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Post by grinch on Aug 15, 2020 10:34:32 GMT
I think there’s a few book series they could adapt which would be ripe and perfect for the audio format. The underrated Edge Chronicles as an example. Imagine Gabriel Woolf playing the Gloamglozer or having a few newcomers portray Quint, Twig and Rook. I’ll never understand why it has never been adapted in any medium outside of the original books. Oh I need to re-read those. Honestly I feel that animation would be the most natural way for those books to be adapted, as the illustrations are so vital to them. Audio could be neat to though. A traditionally animated film in the style of Riddell‘s illustrations would be truly something to behold. On another note, I feel like the Edge would be the perfect setting for a tabletop RPG. If not official then a homebrew of say D&D. Certainly has enough varied races and factions you could make use of.
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Post by grinch on Nov 25, 2020 22:51:33 GMT
Considering we’re probably soon to enter the era where they will be a lot of nostalgia for early to mid noughties properties, I think Primeval could be a good fit for Big Finish. Do it akin to the Torchwood Monthly Range where each release focuses on one character at a time.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2020 17:38:12 GMT
I think there’s a few book series they could adapt which would be ripe and perfect for the audio format. The underrated Edge Chronicles as an example. Imagine Gabriel Woolf playing the Gloamglozer or having a few newcomers portray Quint, Twig and Rook. I’ll never understand why it has never been adapted in any medium outside of the original books. I confess I have never heard of these, but have just spent a few minutes looking them up on line and I can see there is plenty of scope for audio stories. Unfortunately I suspect that after the less than positive reviews and sales of the Wizard of Oz adaptation, Big Finish will not be too keen on doing more children’s stories. Unless they could pre sell it to BBC radio...? I have suggested in the past The Invisible Library book series as I think audio adventures of previously untold tales could compliment an on going series of novels. Perhaps they could test the waters with The Edge in a similar way. I have never been tempted by Wizard of Oz was it bad?Scott Handcock normally has a good vision?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2020 17:49:09 GMT
Well at 54 years I have a wide range of audio that I love and can be persuaded if it is done well enough and engaging it is very rare nowadays that I actually get near the Television 😂
full cast dramas I love most but recently narrated tales and single voices have been appealing to me again reading I find I have to set aside time for the books whereas narrated or full cast I can get all my single mans chores done while also enjoying the benefits of a story.
to be honest I fell for the television stories of Inspector Alleyn-(Patrick Malahide )-and I know BBC adapted a few that were pretty good but why not the Whole range perhaps Malahide could be persuaded to finish them all lol on BF he is a wonderful actor and distinctive vocal too and would give me a break between my Poirots My Marples my Marlowes My Shardlakes ,Dalgleishes I mean Ngaio Marsh had 32 stories of Inspector and Singing In The Shrouds is just itching to be dramatised lol
Plot synopsis[edit](wikipedia) Shortly before the midnight sailing of the cargo ship Cape Farewell from the Pool of London, bound for Cape Town, with its crew and full complement of 9 assorted passengers, the body of a strangled woman is discovered on the fog-wreathed dock, clearly the third victim of a serial killer who scatters flowers and broken beads on his victims and sings as he departs. The body is clutching part of a torn embarkation notice for the Cape Farewell, so it seems 'The Flower Killer' must be one of the passengers. Scotland Yard Superintendent Roderick Alleyn boards by pilot off Portsmouth and poses as a passenger with the aim of identifying the culprit and preventing another murder on voyage, despite the grudging co-operation of the ship's Captain Bannerman, whose obstruction and denial of the situation enables a further killing to take place on voyage.
The passengers are a very mixed collection - a glamorous socialite widow, a sweet young girl who's been jilted at the altar, a deeply unhappy middle-aged spinster with a specialism in church music, an Anglo-Catholic priest, a pedantically tetchy school-teacher, an alcoholic TV presenter on the edge of a nervous breakdown, a charmlessly smug middle-aged couple and an eccentric elderly bachelor. The cast of suspects is completed by the crusty captain, the very camp steward and the ship's young doctor. As the ship cruises into the tropics, the temperature rises, tensions emerge and events lead relentlessly towards another murder, as the ship's passengers gradually recognise, with horror, that the Flower Killer is on board and due to strike again. Eventually, this happens, despite Roderick Alleyn's best efforts to prevent it, but the killer is identified and apprehended as the ship reaches Cape Town.
Fitton/Dorney/Adams anyone ?
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Post by cjr on Dec 1, 2020 18:59:54 GMT
Under wishful thinking:
“Flood”, “Ark” and “Landfall” by Stephen Baxter
A hard Sci-Fi look at the end of the world and the future of the human race both on Earth and into the Universe in search of a new home. I’d love to see Big Finish juggle the characters and multiple threads and bring that Universe to life.
And the “Revelation Space” saga by Alastair Reynolds. Again, I’d love to see BF being that future Universe to life.
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Post by cjr on Dec 1, 2020 19:01:57 GMT
Also...
Who would be the Big Finish Poirot?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2020 20:53:42 GMT
Also... Who would be the Big Finish Poirot? Nah unless it was the new novels which I haven’t read ....I think Poirot should be left alone they have been adapted enough you either have the TV or Movie versions or the wonderful Moffat portrayal on BBC audio....bet you blooming Briggs has thought about himself as Poirot
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Dec 1, 2020 21:26:03 GMT
Also... Who would be the Big Finish Poirot? Nah unless it was the new novels which I haven’t read ....I think Poirot should be left alone they have been adapted enough you either have the TV or Movie versions or the wonderful Moffat portrayal on BBC audio....bet you blooming Briggs has thought about himself as Poirot He'd probably wanna play Miss Marple as well!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2020 21:38:00 GMT
Nah unless it was the new novels which I haven’t read ....I think Poirot should be left alone they have been adapted enough you either have the TV or Movie versions or the wonderful Moffat portrayal on BBC audio....bet you blooming Briggs has thought about himself as Poirot He'd probably wanna play Miss Marple as well! 😂😂😂😂👍👍
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Post by cjr on Dec 1, 2020 22:38:04 GMT
Also... Who would be the Big Finish Poirot? Nah unless it was the new novels which I haven’t read ....I think Poirot should be left alone they have been adapted enough you either have the TV or Movie versions or the wonderful Moffat portrayal on BBC audio....bet you blooming Briggs has thought about himself as Poirot I respect that sentiment - sometimes you should leave a set of works alone (especially when it’s been adapted several times). I just thought that with the increasing stable of wonderful actors at their disposal, it was a fantasy scenario
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Dec 1, 2020 22:43:13 GMT
When are they going to do a reboot of Crime Traveller
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2020 8:38:37 GMT
Nah unless it was the new novels which I haven’t read ....I think Poirot should be left alone they have been adapted enough you either have the TV or Movie versions or the wonderful Moffat portrayal on BBC audio....bet you blooming Briggs has thought about himself as Poirot I respect that sentiment - sometimes you should leave a set of works alone (especially when it’s been adapted several times). I just thought that with the increasing stable of wonderful actors at their disposal, it was a fantasy scenario Well I think also maybe a rights issue but hey you could be right...it may not be for me but perhaps a generation who wouldn’t have normally listened may be attracted to them
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Post by lidar2 on Dec 2, 2020 10:14:32 GMT
Also... Who would be the Big Finish Poirot? Nah unless it was the new novels which I haven’t read ....I think Poirot should be left alone they have been adapted enough you either have the TV or Movie versions or the wonderful Moffat portrayal on BBC audio....bet you blooming Briggs has thought about himself as Poirot Have you heard his cod French accent in The Silurian Candidate?
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