There's a "Master of Ballantrae" comic adaptation here in France, and I've read several "Treasure Island" and "Dr Jekyll and Mister Hyde" adaptations, but most of them are totally uninteresting because they don't add anything to the story and instead they are leaving things out... Stevenson isn't actually very easy to adapt.
It's a nonfiction account of part of his own life after leaving home as a young man. I think it'd be a great thing to adapt--it has adventure, a little romance, history, interesting scenery, a variety of peculiar characters, and some beautifully poetic descriptions that could be included as-is. At first balked at doing it myself because of the amount of visual research I'd have to do, but now... I really do think I'll make it a personal project, once I'm feeling perkier. I want to be the first person to get at it (that I know of!).
I recently found out RLS liked to doodle, himself :)
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Re: Pirate talk
Date: 2007-09-19 09:25 pm (UTC)There's a "Master of Ballantrae" comic adaptation here in France, and I've read several "Treasure Island" and "Dr Jekyll and Mister Hyde" adaptations, but most of them are totally uninteresting because they don't add anything to the story and instead they are leaving things out... Stevenson isn't actually very easy to adapt.
Re: Pirate talk
Date: 2007-09-20 03:46 am (UTC)I recently found out RLS liked to doodle, himself :)