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OT: The Crossfire Saga, Sylvia Day

posted 8 years ago by digitaldiva
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Guess it won't be happening soon, per Ms. Day;

Lionsgate optioned the rights to the Crossfire saga in 2013 and renewed the option twice. After three years of development, Sylvia declined to option again and she presently retains the adaptation rights. She eventually expects to find the right partner, but for now, the Crossfire series is no longer in development.

By the way, I normally don't care for dark haired women going blond, but Sylvia Day made it work.

[–] isundling 8 years ago

Dang..I was looking forward to Gideon and Ava...

[–] digitaldiva 8 years ago

Sorry, isundling, looks like it isn't happening. Oh well.

[–] archer6749 8 years ago

Maybe things might change. I just don't understand how they would be able to make it into a TV show. One of the most important parts of the third book is very sexually explicit and they wouldn't be able to do.

[–] digitaldiva 8 years ago

Hi archer6749, Day insisted on bringing her work to premium cable television. HBO or Starz feature scenes of a far more explicit nature than an R-rated film and push the envelop on erotic content. A show like Outlander is much steamier than the Fifty Shades of Grey movie. Day wanted that sexuality presented to her audience.

[–] CobblersAwls 8 years ago

I read the books and only knew about them because of kind posters here.

It's interesting, though. Wonder if Ms. Day watched what happened to the Fifty Shades adaptations and all that went with that and just thought, gah. haha

It did strike me when it was first discussed that the only venue remotely workable for a tv series on these books (or any like them) would be HBO or a like-minded cable outlet.

Otherwise, why bother? If a writer sells a series like this to network tv then you know it's only about the money and they could care less what happens to their project.

I recently groaned out loud when hearing that Nelson DeMille sold the John Corey novel(s) to one of the Big Three networks.

So the worst DOES often happen with beloved characters and novels. John Corey is brash, profane, funny in often a crude way and generally the most un-PC on steroids ex-NYC homicide detective now Federal investigator ever created.

John Corey on...prime time g-rated?

As a tv critic I once worked with used to say: "Oh please DO remind me to un-watch that won't you?"

Thank GAWD Ms. Day held her ground. It always hurts to see faves show up in the wrong places that aren't made for them.

Yea, Ms. Day!

[–] digitaldiva 8 years ago

Hi CobblersAwls. Lionsgate, the company that owns Starz, the channel that broadcast Outlander, had optioned the rights. Critics often compared the adult sexuality of Outlander to the tepid sex of the Fifty Shades of Grey movie with Outlander the winner. I have a feeling Day wanted more control than Lionsgate was willing to give her.

[–] CobblersAwls 8 years ago

I could understand that--Lionsgate is such a big dog on the block!

Can't imagine them letting the writer have a lot of control which, typically, they don't as I understand the process. Once you sell the rights....yikes.

It would have been nice to see it on screen. Though that series was always tricky for me, compared to FSx3.

Gideon was very interesting. But there was one action I never got over in terms of squaring him as a sympathetic character. I think you probably know what I mean.

The series lost me after one particular event. Leila may have said "Master is Dark," ha. But Gideon was a frightening psycho and using the excuse he was protecting her just didn't work for me to keep him a "romantic" figure. :-)

But then, Ms. Day may not have wanted to portray him that way and knew what she was doing when she took him "there." And the fans apparently didn't mind, not find him any less appealing for it. But it lost something for me after that event, especially when comparing him to Christian.

Horses for courses though....

[–] digitaldiva 8 years ago

Hi CobblersAwls - Although I think Day is a far superior writer than E.L. James will ever be, she lost me too. I agree after that one sequence, I no longer like Gideon. I also didn't understand her insistence on dragging the story out into five books. The action became repetitious and angst-ridden. After the umpteenth sex scene and tear-filled recrimination, I gave up.

[–] isundling 8 years ago

The last book was awful...not sure why she went that way?...big disappointment.

[–] digitaldiva 8 years ago

I couldn't get through book 3. The last three books were ripped apart by fans for the sloppy plotting and I have a feeling that Lionsgate wanted to wrap it up in three books, not stretching it into a five year series.

[–] CobblersAwls 8 years ago

Gosh, so I'm not alone? ha.

It's hard to bring up any negatives in a beloved character series, especially romantic genre. But, Gideon? Wow. How he continued to be a "romantic" figure after that, is difficult to buy.

Even grasping at "the things we do for love" dismissal Day did for him, didn't work for me anyway.

For those who are unfamiliar with Gideon and discuss Christian's faults of character and behaviors, to me it makes Christian look like Mother Teresa! :-)

Yes, Day is the far superior word smith to E.L.'s juvenile prose that especially peppered the first book. EL seemed to get a bit better as she went along with the trilogy, though maybe an editor finally got ahold of the manuscript and did some tweaks.

The Gideon series might work, if some serious tv series professional, as they have in some of the production companies that create BBC dramas, could get ahold of it and decide how long a series would work (like the BBC does when they decide if an adapted story is good for 3,4,6, or the rare 10 eps).

But a five year series of one year per book could be really tiresome (and I'm not even sure they would have the text to support it), even for a story people love.

It might have worked as a well-crafted 8-10 parter one-off series...

Because, after all, if you just remove most of the endless multi-page sex scenes that are repetitive and deal with the plot with certain sex scenes as needed to specifically drive the story, it thins considerably!

;-)))

[–] digitaldiva 8 years ago

Hi Cobblers, I liked the ethnic diversity of the Crossfire series, something sorely missing from the Fifty Shades books. Day knows New York, described it beautifully and filled her manuscript with some interesting characters. Still, her female villains were a bit over-the-top and the male villain was one step from Snidely Whiplash. I think the producers weren't too happy with her later books and wanted to change the plot, but Day wasn't having it. I agree it might have worked as an 8-10 part one-off, but Ms. Day would have objected.