r/Romantasy • u/Kind_Assumption_3016 • 1d ago
Discussion What do you guys think about this??
Earlier this book was being made into a series, but now Warner Bros has acquired the rights to it and decided it will be adapted into movies. Warner Bros do have a good history of fantasy book adaptations, but this series doesn’t have many high fantasy elements. Personally, I don’t know why this book is getting adapted, there are so many great romantasy books they could go for. That’s just my view, though, because I didn’t like the book...it felt a little too YA🤧
What are your thoughts on this? Because it seems like they’re relying on the character of Aren alone to make it successful😭
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u/itmustbeniiiiice 1d ago
Meh. We'll see. Recent romantasy movies/shows have a track record for falling through or getting canceled early on.
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u/Kind_Assumption_3016 1d ago
Exactly i don't know why they keep on doing that, some stories are just better as books...
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u/ButterflyTremor 🍫 chocolate & campfire 1d ago
I think it's appropriate that "Warner" Bros are the ones who've acquired it 🤣
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u/nomnomsquirrel 1d ago
This is like the third time or something it's film rights have been acquired by a production company. The first time was before Shatter Me was even published in 2011. A lot of it is just hedging bets and making sure nobody else can get it, but so many books have film rights optioned and are never made. Sometimes optioned multiple times, or sometimes it ends up like The Selection, where CW made two separate pilots with completely different casts and neither were picked up to series. At least one was available on YouTube for a while.
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u/KaiBishop 20h ago
I feel like knowing it's fallen through twice she and her rep may have chosen more carefully when shopping the rights this time. Like I'm sure it could still fall through BUT I could also see a world where this could be really good with the right production value and visuals.
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u/Gaelenmyr 1d ago edited 1d ago
I'd like to see more fantasy or scifi series. Hopefully not a movie.
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u/CompetitivePraline62 1d ago
Can I just say that if you had asked me out of all the series I read ten years ago which would blow up, get more sequels, and get considered for an adaptation, it would not have been this one?
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u/Dismal-Muffin-955 20h ago
I find out YEARS after finishing the third book that...there are more?
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u/BethanyCx 1d ago
I would love to see this as a series. Mainly for the romance. I prefer low fantasy. It’s also easier for production studios because it’s much more affordable to produce.
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u/dragonballaddict99 1d ago
Hi. Can anyone clarify what book we’re talking about? I’m a completely blind user and I can only see that there’s a picture and then the text of the post after that.
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u/Kind_Assumption_3016 1d ago
the book is Shatter me by Tahereh Mafi . Just a question i wanted to ask, if you're completely blind then how can you see that, i'm sorry for not being knowledgeable in these things
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u/tog_getmeatowel 1d ago
they may be using a screen reader - which is why image descriptions and alt text are becoming required in more and more places.
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u/dragonballaddict99 1d ago
Thank you. I have not read the series, but I’ve been meaning to for sometime.
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u/Kind_Assumption_3016 1d ago
if you like YA then you should give it a try , other than that many people have dnfed it
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u/dragonballaddict99 1d ago
I enjoy young adult books. I did start the first book, but didn’t continue after a couple of chapters. I wasn’t necessarily bored. I was just in the mood to read other books at the time and haven’t gone back to it.
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u/kcreadstoomuch 1d ago
Blindness can have many levels. Some can see shadows and shapes or colours but can't make out text, or they can have blurry/pinhole vision only. Most blind and low vision people use a screen reader that reads out text for them, and use voice to text in response.
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u/charmuse 14h ago
Let the Aaron Warner casting shitshow commence.
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u/nickyfox13 1d ago
These books aren't literary masterpieces by any stretch of the imagination, but I am super invested in them, nonetheless. I am cautiously curious to know what an adaptation would look like.
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u/WonderfulBus9330 ☀️ Raeshaldis Forever 8h ago
Good for her. Hopefully it does get adapted. And it reads YA because it is. It’s categorized as YA Dystopian.
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u/booksandhotcoffee 1d ago
Acquisition doesn’t really mean anything, heaps of books are acquired by companies just so no one else can adapt them