THE MISTS OF AVALON

I watched The Mists Of Avalon not once but twice this weekend and was wondering why they have never bothered to make the Sequels to the rest of Marion Zimmer Bradley's books in the series? I really love The Mists Of Avalon and am reading the book right now. I wish someone would go ahead and make the rest of the movies so we can have a complete set just like there will be a complete set of movies for JK Rowling's Harry Potter

Librarianwannabe

Are you referring to this miniseries?

Yes I am. I was wondering why haven't they bothered to continue with the rest of the series in he books. Just like I felt they should have continued making more Conan The Barbarian movies too. After I finish reading the book I plan to continue on reading the rest of the series.

Librarianwannabe

I don't remember the reviews of the movie, but my opinion of it was that it didn't live up to the book. Sure, there were one-dimensional charecters in the book, but it seemed that most of the charecters in the movie were written flat in the teleplay. If TNT had allotted more running time -- this was, after all, a miniseries, and running to four or five episodes would be reasonable -- much more of the texture of the book would have come through.

The other aspect of such a decision would be the books themselves. I've read The Forest House and Lady of Avalon, and neither of them quite live up to The Mists of Avalon. Not that they were bad books or anything; they just didn't measure up to the yardstick established by the original. In the case of Lady of Avalon in particular, the story moves around between time periods, covering three different Ladies of the Lake in some 300 pages; the result is something that probably wouldn't translate well to either screen, as we don't really stay with anyone long enough to get a full picture of them.