No, this isn't a petition to do one. But this is a thread where folks can brainstorm ideas they'd implement for an animated adaptation of MTMTE.

The thing with an adaptation is that you don't really want to copy the original word for word. This holds true for MTMTE as well, though I wouldn't mind a page-to-screen adaptation. It's MTMTE, after all. But what would you change, if you had to?

As for cast, we should probably keep it in the other voice actor thread.

With limited options for broadcast - either CN, aka Cancel you Network, or Discovery Family, which hasn't had the best track record with one out of their two original Transformers shows, I would just put the thing on Netflix. No worries about ratings or hiatuses. It's more than likely gonna be the older fans watching anyway.

I thought about it, and what if the series was called "Transformers: Lost Coastlines"? Just get the opening title sequence to be set to the song, and probably the ending credits too. As for score, get either Sebastian Evelyn (TFA) or maybe Jeremy Zuckerman (Avatar/Korra). I don't have much experience with the composers of animated series but those two have provided some of the best music I've heard for an animated series.

As for each episode, more or less stay the same. Maybe adapt the prose stories into vignettes? Each episode could probably last 44 minutes? And the annual can be a 90 minute special.

For voice direction, get Susan Blu. Or Andrea Romano.

Oh, and of course, keep it 2D. Not sure what animation studio could do it, but as long as they keep Milne's general feel, I'm game.

Just some thoughts of mine.

 

Have Frederik Wiedmann (The Composer for Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Beware the Batman & Flashpoint Paradox) do the music, as well Charlie Adler voice Direct it.

As a bonus, Make it take the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Route. As in Having a group of Main Characters per season.

 

I'd love for some of the action scenes to be improved via animated format.

I use Issue 15 as an example. I've read that issue many, many times and I still often find it difficult to place what's happening and how things are happening. Example: Overlord rips Drift in half, who drops his swords and Overlord does not have swords whilst being pummeled by Magnus. Apparently off-panel, Overlord grabs Drift's sword and impales Magnus (for like my first three reads I thought Overlord just did it with his hand). Then, Overlord does not have a sword for the rest of the chapter until halfway through being attacked by Fortress Maximus, where suddenly its back in his hand again. I'd love for an animated series to take this, not only to expand on Overlord's almost entirely off-screen fight with the Lost Light, but also show us what what Overlord was doing during the fight. I feel that 15 is a chapter that would work so much better with moving pictures then static ones.

 

To be honest, of all Transformers comics, MTMTE would probably need the least work to adapt into TV scripts, because Roberts already formats issues so much like a TV episodes. They typically tell a self-contained story (if they're not a multi-parter), they frequently have 'pre-titles' sequences, and the density of writing is such that they'd easily fill a 22 minute slot.

 

Yep, pretty much, it's not even as if there's any fluff to be trimmed really, in fact you daren't, just in case that seemingly meaningless line you cut becomes the major plot point of a pre war flashback arc in Series 3, episode 8! Like Gaga says, it the action scenes that will benefit the most, they can be really fleshed out.

 

I always felt Shadowplay was a brilliant example of Roberts' writing style because it is so true to that format. That whole opening sequence, where they find the body, is so typical of procedural cop dramas.

 

I'll go and work on voice casts for if they were done by different talent pools and studios so like LA, Dallas, Vancouver.....

 

Rather than a true "series" on TV, I'd rather see a succession of direct to DVD animated movies, like DC is doing these days.

 

The first thing I'd change is the title, for obvious reasons.  

Cosign. Then we could bypass all the crappy networks that invariably cancel prematurely or mess things up anyway. It would also allow the series to be aimed at a slightly older demo.

 

Also highly agree. Comics can only do so much when it comes to fight scenes, especially one on the level of Overlord Vs the Lost Light.

 

You'd need to change a lot.

Long extended periods of characters talking to each other and nothing else don't work so well for action cartoons.

 

Doesn't necessarily have to be an action cartoon. I certainly wouldn't call MTMTE an action series to begin with, it's more of a drama.

 

Why would it be an action cartoon? I also ditto the DTV approach over TV series. Adapt each volume into a movie.

 

I'm the reverse, and just say adapt the comic as is. Sure make changes where necessary. Extend a plot here or there. Fix something that may not work for TV. Even have new stories that weren't in the comics. But otherwise keep the TV show the same as it is in the comic.

Put it on Adult Swim or be bold and see if ABC,Fox,NBC,or CBS would pick it up. TV is ripe for adult animated TV that can be taken seriously. Hell it may even fit better or FX or AMC.