Stahelski says:
“We’re bringing it forward from the early 1500s in the highlands to the beyond present-day New York and Hong Kong, and seeing how it goes. There’s big opportunity for action.
There’s a chance to play a character that not a lot of people get to play. And it’s a bit of a love story, but not how you think. On ‘John Wick,’ I learned a lot on how to bend the storytelling a little… another kind of myth.”
Stahelski then goes on to explain how he pitched the project to Cavill and the uniqueness of the role being one of its draws:
“My selling point was, to [Henry Cavill], look, you’ve got a guy that’s been alive for over 500 years. He’s the last person in the world that wanted to be in this situation. So you get to cover quite a broad spread of a character arc there. And you get to experience someone that’s trained over 500 years and sort of played [with many types of] martial arts.”
Shout out to Roger Zalazny, The Chronicles of Amber is the shit. I haven’t heard his name in a while though.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/george-r-r-martin-presents-wild-cards-sleeper-straddle-a-novel-in-stories-george-r-r-martin/20063261?ean=9780593357835
After Zelazny died the Wild Cards editors decided to retire his character, The Sleeper. This novel covers the untold stories of the Sleeper’s long career.
I would love a Lord of Light movie/series too … I can’t imagine it’d make it through the editing process without a lot of changes though.
There was a movie in the works once and when it fell through, the work done up to that point was used to create a cover story to rescue USA diplomats in Iran. And about that rescue they made a movie: Argo.
One of my favorites. I’d love to see ten seasons of the Chronicles made some Day. (Doing ten movies would not do them justice)