TV show?
Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2017 12:36 am
A forum to discuss John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel and films based on it.
http://www.let-the-right-one-in.com/forum/
http://www.let-the-right-one-in.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=9640
And a more recent one from his January 13 live event on Instagram:John worked on Little Star as a 4 x 1 hour TV series for about a year. Some episodes had gotten as far as version 17 when the TV company in question unexpectedly pulled out. Now the screenplay is lying unused, but there is some interest from the west.
John: "This is probably the most convoluted job I've ever gotten myself into. So many turns, so many meetings, so many rewrites. Many nice ideas and connecting elements appeared in the process, so the screenplay is good, but I don't know if it was worth the time."
Someone would like to see Little Star as a film. So would I, and that might happen because... maybe I'm getting careless, but this isn't particularly public. Thea Hvistendahl, the Norwegian director who's going to be making Handling the Undead, originally wanted to do Little Star. That's the one she's most attached to, but at the time it was being made into a TV series for HBO. We worked on it for a year, it was a ton of work, and in the end, after revision number 17 on some episodes—it was 4 x 1 hour—they pulled out. So if Handling the Undead turns out good and Thea wants to, she may end up doing Little Star.
My gut feeling is that it'd be better to follow the structure of the book and only introduce Teresa in the second episode. It might be distracting to jump back and forth between the two during the first two episodes since there's nothing connecting them until Theres' Idol audition. Also, while Theres' story has an obvious midway climax (killing Lennart and Laila) that could fit as the ending to her portion of the first episode, there's nothing on the same level for Teresa that I can think of. Admittedly it's been a while since I read the book, so maybe I'm forgetting something obvious.gkmoberg1 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 23, 2021 3:37 am'Lilla stjärna' for television, as four one-hour presentations, works in my mind. But first I wonder if it would be good to build the story in the same way as done in the novel.
The novel builds one character and then rewinds and builds the second. That would seem to give for two one-hour episodes: one for each.
Then a building episode as Theresa & Theres end build their friendship, transitioning this into the finale episode where it builds to the same climax as the book.
Would it be better, though, to introduce Theresa and Theres from the start, winding their stories across the two first hours as separate threads, even though they do not meet until the third episode?