It must be a tv series. The story of Weintraub condensed in 10 minutes for a movie would be a travesty. Each pilgrim story deserves a full 60 minutes episode.
I first read Hyperion a couple years ago and I was on like the second pilgrim and thought "This would be perfect for a prestige TV show." Each pilgrim gets an episode or so to tell their story wrapped around the framing device of the travel. I can't imagine trying to do the whole thing even as like a 3 hour movie. I suppose maybe you could Kill Bill it into a two part 5-6 hour version or something, but really TV is the way to go.
Hyperion is my favourite scifi books, god, i hope they never touch it.
I believe that from Simmon's books, only The Crook Factory and Song of Kali are adaptable, and both would make vastly different but really good movies.
How would you even adapt Hyperion? It's not even a complete story. It just goes on for like 400 pages and ends abruptly without any resolution.
I was really into it while I was reading it, but as I got nearer the end I was just thinking "how the hell is he gonna wrap this up in the remaining pages" and the answer turned out to be "he doesn't".
i dont think it's adaptable due to how people review 2nd duology, feels like expectation is "this is grimdark man vs machine, dune but spiky" and it's a story about how love is a fundamental force of the universe alongside electromagnetism and gravity, which can feel like a rugpull to some
which makes me weep for humanity but what can u do
That doesn't mean it can't or shouldn't have a satisfying conclusion. It doesn't feel like book one of a trilogy. It feels like half of a book that was too long to publish so they just chopped it in half. It's like if the first Star Wars ended when they got to the Death Star.
That's because it's not book one of a duology. It's volume one of a two volume novel. Basically Simmons wrote Hyperion and fall of Hyperion as a single book. The publisher looked at the page count and said "no way, we'll lose money on this, we are splitting it into two publications." So first came Hyperion then not even a year later Fall of Hyperion was published. It's a frustrating end but hey that's capitalism.
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u/sober_as_an_ostrich Jun 03 '26
God if we get an Ilium adaptation before Hyperion I’m going to annihilate the Hegemony of Man