As I mentioned in my last post, The Magicians by Lev Grossman (click here to read my full book review!) got adapted as a TV show by Syfy. You can watch the Trailer below and then I’ll share some thoughts about the differences and similarities between the book and what I saw of the show so far. This will include Spoilers for the book though!!
So, first off, I imagined this all VERY differently. None of the people look like I thought they would, but maybe that’s for the better. The cast is mostly unknown or at least not super famous and includes: Jason Ralph, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Stella Maeve (is that why you left Chicago PD Nadia?), Hale Appleman, Summer Bishil, Arjun Gupta, Rick Worthy and Anne Dudek
For those of you who know the characters, will be happy to hear that Quentin, Elliot, Alice and Julia exist and Julia plays an even bigger role than she did in the first book. As for Janet, she’ll be called Margo now (apparently because there were already too many names with “J”!) and Penny is there too but is Q’s roommate (that so can’t work …) and he’s not a punk at all. There’s no Josh or Anaïs though …
I think the show will focus a lot more on Quentin’s time at Brakebills, the College for Magical Pedagogy he attends. We can already see Quentin’s entry exam in the trailer, which looks fairly accurate to me. There is not much trace of Fillory yet and the blurb on imdb doesn’t mention it either. BUT it was said that we’ll get an early glimpse at it because Quentin will daydream about it a lot and obviously he’s reading the books. I have no idea when exactly it will come into play, because I could imagine that they just loosely based it on the novels and want to make it a more adult Harry Potter instead. I don’t know that for sure though.
There really can’t be much more deduced from the trailer, what are your thoughts? Either way, I am excited for the show simply because it’s about magic.
had totally forgotten that Nadia was in this. The trailer looks super cool, but I can’t see that many relations to the book you described… I see a lot of partying, drugs and sex.
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Well, there is a lot of partying, drugs and sex in the book. So that part is actually pretty okay.
I still think they’ll focus mostly on the school stuff though.
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which is a good thing, right?
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I think so, yes! I think the show looks really good too. Just not like the book, but in this case I am fine with that.
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🙂 I’m actually really curious about this show 🙂
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It’s on the top of my list for 2016 (behind Shadowhunters and Lucifer)
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😀 oh yeah! both of those 😀 yeah!
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I’m so excited for all the new shows though, the ones that come out this fall too. I think it’s a good season for TV this year.
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i agree 😀 It’s time for me to make my year’s calendar for all the shows I’ll try to watch 😀
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The trailer is quite exciting. Every once in awhile I don’t mind if a film adaptation isn’t the same as the book as long as it’s done well. 😊
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I’m the same! I think this looks quite good, so I’m okay with it not being exactly the same.
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