Amazon looking to make a Culture series

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http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2333693

I love the Culture series of books, and although Consider Phlebus isn't my absolute favourite, I'm still psyched about this.

 

[JD]

Cool, I've heard a lot of good things about the Culture books, but I haven't read them yet. I've had Consider Phlebas on Nook account for a while now, but haven't gotten around to reading it yet.

 

[Forbin]

I'm reading one right now!
Love the ship names.

 

[JD]

It turns out this is not going to happen. The creator of Amazon's US version of Utopia says that he worked on a show bible for a while, but stopped when Ian M. Banks' estate decided they didn't want to do a series.
That's a shame, I was looking forward to it.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Honestly, it's such a sprawling series with such a wide variety of main characters that I don't think any screen adaptation could possibly do it justice. Part of the problem is that I'm sure that any network or streaming service would insist on bringing back "fan favorite" characters for later seasons, which is totally not what the series is about. The universe is so big that every book is only able to cover a very small portion of it and none of the books really overlap. The massive galaxy spanning war that serves as a backdrop to the 1st book is reduced to barely a footnote of pub trivia in the 2nd book. I can only recall 2 characters that even appear in multiple books: Meat Fucker was in both Excession and Look to Windward and then the main guy from Use of Weapons makes a very brief cameo in Surface Detail. (Upon further reading, Meat Fucker doesn't even appear in Look to Windward. He's only mentioned.)

BTW, I love the opening line of the article: "They did it. They canceled Culture."

 

[Ridcully]

Sorry...most people are too dumb for this stuff...