"The Time Traveler's Wife" moves from novel to movie to TV

I love this book. Haven't seen the movie yet, but planning on it. Truthfully, when I read the headline of this article I let out a major groan, but I adore Marta Kauffman, so I may just have to give it a shot...if it ever makes it past pilot season...

 

"It might make Elizabeth Hasselbeck cry, but we're gonna do it." - Tina Fey

Cash. Cow.

I don't know, I actually am being optimistic enough to say that the miniseries might turn out being a better adaptation, with a more rightful cast, but I wish studios can try getting new ideas for shows too. Everything just seems based off the success of over things.

"I ate the mythology and dreamt."

---Yusef Komunyakaa

I think that the idea of a TV series is better than a film.  It gives you longer to develop characters....storylines....the 'extra time' simply allows it to be better, IMHO>  My guess is that as long as they don't have crap actors or writers, a lot of the problems that people had with the film (compared to the book) can be 'fixed' in the TV series medium.

The Daily News movie section (who I generally agree with [it was nice to see them be one of the only ones to admit that Transformers 2 was far better than the first]) gave it 1/5 (I think that was it anyway, I may be thinking of something else). While I haven't seen it, or read it, the previews have it looking.... just awful. Makes me glad I'm single, cause when I'm dating I seem to always get dragged to awful movies.

But, that's probably just me, this has never been my sort of thing.

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for some reason i have NO desire to see this movie....i think its that the time travelling part really doesnt appeal to me so i obviously would not watch the tv series either.

Wat is the deal??? Dude get the girl?? Again?

i have no problem admitting this - i loved it. sure, it's an Oprah's book club book, but then again, so was The Secret Life of Bees, and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and A Hundred Years of Solitude. She picks books that on occasion are not always the most literary, but are always fantastic reads.

Niffenegger's (what a mouthful!) novel is idealistic, sure. But it's also complex and layered, and far more thought out than any Nicholas Sparks novel I've read. I am really looking forward to seeing Rachel McAdams in this - though im not a huge Eric Bana fan - and if it does get turned into a series, hope that it takes the form of a miniseries in which all the plot points and twists can be revealed.

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Of course the book was better, but there were some disturbing things that I was glad they left out of the movie. I think it might make a good tee vee show.

I was really taken with the actresses  who played the daughter Alba, Tatum and Hailey McCann. Thought they were amazing.

It was called Journeyman, and look how long that lasted

but I haven't seen the movie yet. The book was fantastic and it looks like the movie will be great, but a TV series could be awful. I just feel like it would get tired and trite really quickly. I think it all depends on the cast...

I thought the book was sappy and dull, no stellar expectations for the movie.  A TV series would be the equivilent of beating a dead horse.

I think theyre beating this until its dead. Its not even about the book anymore. I thought the book was extraordinary albeit many oy moments with Clare but many people wont even consider reading the book seeing as how they have all this media. I hate this idea. Nice to have books adapted into visuals I presume but this is just too much. Read. Just read.

This book is my alltime favorite, one of the few books that made me cry, laugh, smile and something I couldn't put down. The time traveling seemed realistic, not out of place in the plot and completely real to life. The movie left out so many parts that I adored, but most book to movies do, much like The Secret Life of Bees did when it was made into a movie. I did like the movie, don't get me wrong. Rachel McAdams did a wonderful job playing Clare and I actually thought Eric Bana was a surprisingly good fit for Henry, he was a little bit like how I pictured him in my head.

The movie is definitely worth going to see. I don't know how I feel about the mini-series, might be overkill but I plan on watching it reguardless. At least sit through the first couple episodes.

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Allie Ray<3

the book atm and I'm really enjoying it! I don't now about the movie... I guess I'll hire it when it comes out on DVd but probably won't be as good as the book. It never is! Hum dunno about TV series...

Reading is so much better... Gives you more space for imagination! books take you so manly great places!

its like, "lets try to make as much money as possible" and then the series usually fails. i mean it happened with my big fat greek wedding. :/

I saw this in the bookstore the other day!  After Twilight, which I initially scorned and then absolutely adored once I actually started reading, I'm much more open to the idea of unconventional love stories, so I'm going to give this one a try.  First the book, and then the movie!  :D 

Not as interested in seeing the film after watching the trailer and I think this article best sums up my feeling about a tv series: http://io9.com/5340066/time-travelers-wife-leaps-onto-television

I'm disappointed.. I wanted to see that movie but now.. I'm not so sure about it :/

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i adore the novel, and i actually enjoyed the move. it obviously wasn't as good as the book, but i thought they did a pretty good job. they changed enough to get a pg-13 rating, but not so much that the story was lost, and eric bana and rachel mcadams were great. especially rachel mcadams. she's amazing.

but a series? bad idea.

I was a wee bit, sorta, kinda, a lot dying to see this movie after seeing the advert for it as it seened incredibly romanticized and passionate. It was not what I expected, athough I am not too sure what I expected or why it didnt really live up to that. I think it just wasnt as passionate as I had hoped? maybe I was thinking it would be similar in that respect to the Notebook or something. 

Regardless, I thought it was a really good film annnnnd managed to cry more times than you can count on one hand, although my cousin maybe only frowned once at one sad part in the film and that was about the extent of it. I am an emotional person what can I say :P 

oh and Rachel McAdams being one of my favourite people ever definitely helped add to the film.  Actually... come to think of it I am not too sure how much I would have liked this film if she had not been in it as I think her acting is amazing with respect to those type of films.