Dresden Files?

[BrandonSi]

I just saw that this was coming out in January on SciFi.. has anyone else read the books? I thought they were great! The topic is a little out there (a wizard detective in Chicago) but the books pulled it off fantastically, I hope the series does as well. The SciFi ad I saw said January 21 9/8C, but I can't find it in the TiVo listings.. does anyone else have it?

[Bierboy]

Yep...shows in my schedule. Set up an SP with high hopes.

[7thton]

I've read the first 2 books. Pretty decent. Not awesome, but not bad. Looking forward to the show. Apparently, the show will not use any of the plots from the books and some details have been changed.

[JDHutt25]

Very excited for this show. Have read all the books.

[Amnesia]

Very excited for this show. Have read all the books.+1

[acvthree]

I've read the first 2 books. Pretty decent. Not awesome, but not bad. Looking forward to the show. Apparently, the show will not use any of the plots from the books and some details have been changed.


They get better. I just read book 7 and it's far and away the best of the series so far.

I've seen the previews. There are a few things that don't fit with the books. The police detective should be smaller and a blond for example. The actress in the preview didn't come across quite as tough as the book character. I guess that's one of the details. I hope they make the Dresden character dark enough. I can't tell with what I've seen.

Al

[mrmike]

These books are some of my favorite "bubble-gum" books. I hope they do the character and his supporting cast justice. Particularly the supporting but there are some very rough edges on all the characters in the books and I'd hate to see them smoothed for the sake of placating the lowest common denominator.

[dylking]

One of the things I'm NOT happy with, in the tv show, is the change in the "Bob" character. I read quite a bit over on the scifi channel, and word is that Jim's ok with the changes. I guess if the author and owner of the IP is ok with it, I should be too. I hope to be pleasently suprised, but I suspect this may be another "Starbuck should be a man!" concept...changing my mind when I see the actual results.

We'll see. It's only 11 eps, so... we'll see.

[JMikeD]

One of the things I'm NOT happy with, in the tv show, is the change in the "Bob" character.

I'm with you there.

[Rob Helmerichs]

One of the things I'm NOT happy with, in the tv show, is the change in the "Bob" character.
What change?

[dagap]

The SciFi ad I saw said January 21 9/8C, but I can't find it in the TiVo listings.. does anyone else have it?I had created an ARWL for it some time ago and the first ep showed up in my ToDo List yesterday.

I didn't know it was based on a book series. I'll have to grab one.

[dylking]

What change?
Bob's not a spirit in a skull.

[JDHutt25]

Bob's not a spirit in a skull.

Then what the hell is he?

[7thton]

Then what the hell is he?

I think the role of Bob has been shifted to the cat, whatever its name is.

[JDHutt25]

I think the role of Bob has been shifted to the cat, whatever its name is.


I suppose if that's true, that's not SO terrible considering that's how bob gets around sometimes.

[Rob Helmerichs]

I suppose if that's true, that's not SO terrible considering that's how bob gets around sometimes.
And considering that doing him the other way and keeping him a regular would either bankrupt the show or make for some really cheesy FX...

[dylking]

I think the role of Bob has been shifted to the cat, whatever its name is.

Nope.

Bob is played by Terrance Mann

[JMikeD]

From SCIFI.COM:

"The character of Bob in the Jim Butcher books and in the original pilot is a talking skull," said executive producer David Simkins in a conference call with journalists on Jan. 9. "When the pilot was shot, there was a valiant attempt to duplicate, create and augment that talking-skull aspect [for the series]," Simkins said. "Bob's original role was almost like a computer or a font of knowledge for Dresden."

But duplicating that was going to be expensive. And "the relationship between Dresden and Bob wasn't coming across," Simkins said. "We had many discussions about whether we should get rid of the Bob character, and it was decided we actually would make him a [full] character."

In the TV version of The Dresden Files, Bob is now a fully realized human, albeit magically attached to a skull that resides in Harry Dresden's Chicago-based private detective office. Mann plays the character opposite star Paul Blackthorne (24) as Harry Dresden.

[Royster]

I've seen several bus top ads for this, but I know absolutely nothing else about it. Does this guy do magic like David Copperfield or Gandalf?

[mrmike]

I've seen several bus top ads for this, but I know absolutely nothing else about it. Does this guy do magic like David Copperfield or Gandalf?

More like Gandalf (of those two), though not at all like Gandalf (in that he's more a ritual and reagent sort of wizard than a pure word and will type as I recall)

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