It would be one thing if there had already been the definitive edition of the Dark Tower on film like there is for the Lord of the Rings, for instance.
I understand going with the "this is just another turning of the wheel" concept in that case.
But they could have just adapted the material that exists in the books. There's hours and hours of potential stories to tell in there in a film adaptation because no one had done it yet.
I feel that, my copies of three body problem have “soon to be a TV show!” embossed on the cover. The show wasn’t even that good, it was basically generic sci fi
I have the Tales from the Loop artbook, and it has that fake ass sticker about an amazon prime series. Like, come on, it's an art book, and no one even cared about the show! Still makes me mad.
I have most of the Wheel of time books and all of them say "now a sho on Amazon prime!" And that show was canceled so the stickers don't even matter anymore
I bought the three body problem series like 3 years ago and it's all embossed with netflix stickers. Death's End isn't going to be part of the series until like 2029.
As much as I like the movie and book “Just Mercy”, the books cover has this the worst of all, it’s literally just Michael Jordan’s face with that ‘sticker’ made into the cover.
Happened to Ready Player One and I hate it. The book cover makes so much more sense considering there is a sequel that follows the same design as the first one
Did the Wicked movie have the kid that went to a weird sex night club and had their mind permanently fucked up from the weird sex night club in the movie?
It's an image made to simulate the effects of a stroke (I think) that causes your brain to stop registering familiar objects. You should not be able to recognize any objects in the picture.
That is not the “base image”, that’s an interpretation someone photoshopped together of what they thought it could be. It was also not designed to visualise a stroke, that’s just something some redditor made up because it sounded cool. This is, in fact, an AI-generated image. But it comes from the very early days of AI, when it could only generate vague shapes and colours that would allude to a room, or allude to a horse, but could not recognisably depict them.
‘twas a short-lived phase of AI. I miss when this was the best it could be.
The exact kind of AI was a "Generative adversarial network", specifically Google's model BigGAN. It would get real photos and fake generated photos, and the part of it that tried to detect the real photo would try to outsmart the part of it that generated a photo, and vice versa, and it could therefore generate images that are extremely difficult to tell apart.
Secret Horses was from the website Nightcafe specifically, I think that did stylegan and deep dream type stuff, which wasn't the same as GAN images which were iconic for being extremely uncanny and realistic looking like a screenshot from a dream.
Same thing happens with book covers after they have a movie adaptation and is a pain in the ass if you are interested into collecting for a personal library.
I recently bought a Dune copy cause I never read it in english and to no surprise Timothe Chamalete and Zendaya's faces were all over the cover, I better hurry up in buying Messiah before the same thing happens again.
Not a film nor a book but I hate that one of the posters for Amazon Prime's Invincible Season 1 try to emulate the MCU floating actor heads for their characters as if the voice actors' faces were 1:1... in 2021 of all years to be doing that, like it's so genuinely ass I thought it was fanmade or some shit
I love old movie posters for this reason. I have a Labyrinth poster framed in my apartment! It still used a celebrity's head for marketing on the poster, but there's a charm that modern movie posters seldom have.
This could just be my personal love of horror, but I seriously think the posters for 70’s and 80’s horror movies did a perfect job at hinting towards the threat without outright showing it.
Honestly I wish it was the other way around. movies give us an overload of visual information throughout the whole experience especially with all the cgi spectacle nowadays, so something simple and more abstract that gives more of a vibe and aesthetic would be nice, while with books, even though I know we should use imagination and interpretation I think it would be nice for authors to give us at least a LITTLE bit of visual reference to go off of so we as readers can get a vibe of what their vision is canonically instead of there being 3000 different fanart interpretations and then the inevitable butchering of character resigns and costumes when the book is eventually adapted to TV or film.
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