Fables isn't coming to ABC, no really...
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Posted on: 2010-11-03 07:51 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Er... huh. I'd imagine DC/WB will be looking at this with great interest.
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Will give this show a go.
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Ok, so is this a version of Fables for the small screen or is this just a blatant rip off of the comic?
I love the comic and I believer the concept could carry over to tv, but I have no interest in watching a plagiarized idea.
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It's a rip off. Fables the actual TV show was in development and then got axed for whatever reason.
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Originally Posted by Antigonus
Ok, so is this a version of Fables for the small screen or is this just a blatant rip off of the comic?
I love the comic and I believer the concept could carry over to tv, but I have no interest in watching a plagiarized idea. |
Probably cheaper to use an "original" idea than it is to have to pay some kind of royalties to use/adapt an existing property.
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Fairy tales set in the modern day ain't exactly a new idea anyways.
Now, if they have it some the characters are here hiding from a war, the Big Bad Wolf is a detective of sorts, etc, then we are creeping into rip-off territory.
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Exactly. For instance, the ABC (?) miniseries The Tenth Kingdom featured a similar idea, and it came several years before Fables. Note, too, that the setting here seems to differ significantly from the urban, New York focus of Fables.
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Originally Posted by BafflingBeerMan
Fairy tales set in the modern day ain't exactly a new idea anyways.
Now, if they have it some the characters are here hiding from a war, the Big Bad Wolf is a detective of sorts, etc, then we are creeping into rip-off territory. |
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