For one second all I know, everything is made of snow

[sovay]

I was just informed that there will be a television adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness (1969).

If the Gethenian characters are not cast with genderqueer actors, I will feel someone is missing the point.

Comments

[thawrecka]

That's one of those stories where I don't even see how they could do a good TV adaptation, because so much of what I like about it is internal, and most of the rest is stuff that Hollywood tends to blunder up.

[conuly]

I'm not getting my hopes up. Remember what happened when they "adapted" Earthsea? Geez.

[kore]

According to Variety, Critical Content hopes that the strong response to Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale will create an appetite for Le Guin’s discussions about sexuality and power.

//drags hands down face

[desireearmfeldt]

In the department of chicken-and-egg, one thing I sometimes wonder is: how do genderqueer actors make it far enough in TV in the first place to be there to be cast when a show is actually looking for them? (My limited understanding of how TV acting works being that the casting and even the pre-casting is very very type-based.)

[ashlyme]

I'm somewhere between "hell yeah" and "fingers crossed". I'd like David Harewood or Colin Salmon for Genly Ai, though.

[chomiji]

I am so fucking nervous about even the IDEA of television doing anything with this important (both in terms of SF literature and in terms of emotional significance to me) property that the only way I am going to be able to deal with it is to pretend I never heard this news.