Could be great. Any guesses on which channel or streaming service will do this?
I wonder will they touch on any of the other Eternal Champions?
That's a good question. The BBC has recently announced they've acquired the rights to the first series of Hawkmoon books.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/bbcstudios/2019/Michael-Moorcock-Runestaff
The Champion Eternal was really developed as a concept with the Erekose and Corum stories, and was retconned into Hawkmoon, then Elric. The BBC is doing the first Hawkmoon series that doesn't touch on the concept at all, but the second one goes whole hog on the entire concept.
As such, it would be easy for the Hawkmoon show to just end with the first set of books and not have to deal with it and the Elric show could just as easily omit the two crossover tales and probably not really lose much.
For myself, I would hope that isn't the case. Like many, I was introduced to Moorcock's work via Elric (first the comic by Pacific Comics, then the books), and "Sailor On The Sea Of Fate" was where my love really took off as I was introduced to these other incarnations who also had their own series of books. I remember tracking down each book of each series and really loving the various nods, subtle or obvious to the other Champions or books. So for me personally, it would be a great loss to not have that element in the shows. And in this era of shared universes, I'm hopeful that they would not ignore that aspect, but rather capitalize on it.
Any network or streaming service that looks at this is going to see it through a Game Of Thrones lens.
I recently began re-reading the Elric series in publication order, and just finished "The Flame Bringers" and was struck by how GoT it felt. Especially the huge Mongol / Dothraki army and the use of dragons. Though for the dragons, I'm wondering if they'd use fire or the flaming venom of the books.
Hiddleston would be epic.
Moonglum?
Mark Strong for Yyrkoon.
With the right make up, I could buy Hiddleston as Elric. Moonglum is a harder choice as he's usually described, IIRC, as not really handsome and having an ugly mouth or something along those lines. If this were 30 years ago, Willem DeFoe would've been my choice for Moonglum as he has unconventional looks.
As a fan of MM, I'm happy and hopeful that both of these get made, but won't get too excited until casting and set pic's start showing up.
