Why has no-one adapted this into a movie/mini-series?

Why has no-one adapted this into a movie/mini-series?

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Half the novel has the main character complain to his gf that half the world has turned into raging faggots for population control thanks the juden--I mean military command. That would never fly today

Villenueve will do it once he's finished making the best film of all time - Dunc

Yas Forums wouldn’t be able to handle it. The gay shit would cause so much shitposting and anger.

The gay shit is mocked by the mc though, only /lgbt/ would reee.

shit was one of the best books I've ever read- got through it all in one flight. That being said, due to the themes, I don't think a film could do it justice, nor would they want to adapt it.

I think it'd be best in a big budget limited series.

Why?
Homesexuality was literally pushed by the authoritarian world government as a way of population control.

i think scorcese shopped it around but got no takers

That doesn’t matter user, the very appearance of gay people on screens will piss people off.

They'd turn in into pro-globohomo "huh what if the fags were right all along"
In fact I'm certain they will

the book is redpilled as fuck, which is ironic considering it was written to counter the 'fascist' starship troopers

ridley scott was trying to adapt it for like 25 years, and then he went senile about 10 years ago and started making garbage nobody asked for

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Yeah I'm glad he will never make it.
Also they should adapt the comic book instead of the novel imo.

This is correct. The Forever War is my favorite book, and for that reason I don't ever want to see it adapted.
It's odd that Hollywood now has the ability to make faithful adaptations of written source material, but chooses not to do so. Take Watchmen for instance. The movie was forced to take a 12 issue comic series and compress it into a 2 hour movie. No matter what you think of Snyder's creative decisions, he was forced to cut some things and change others due to a sheer lack of runtime. Nowadays, streaming service popularity and advances in special effects technology have made it possible to film a 12 episode mini series for Amazon, HBO, or Netflix that stays entirely faithful to the original. But take a look at Watchmen, or The Witcher, or The Boys, or any other modern adaptation, and they go out of their way to make creative changes despite there no longer being the need to do so in the interest of runtime or VFX.

Why? Because this syphulus rotted faggot decided hurr me do alien prequels instead of making the Forever War with Channing Tatum LIKE he was going to.
Faggot pos shoulda stuck to stuff outside of alien, series has been dead for decades and the forever war would have been much better

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>Also they should adapt the comic book instead of the novel imo.
Why?

too gay

Because it's the perfect storyboard supervised by the autor himself. If you give the novel to hollywood they will make their own fastfood shit.

nah I've reread the comic recently, and it doesn't hold up that well

t. hollywood
Haldeman says otherwise.

Ok Ive never read the comic so I don't know if its good or not

It’s not the right time. The npcs out there don’t understand the social isolation that comes from going to war. There are several generations that have never seen war. They’d see the state enforced homosexuality to reduce the population as a good thing. They’d see the sterile identical humans of the future as a good thing. They’d see the breeder colony at the end as a bad thing.

The main character goes from being alienated as one of the few that has known war to the last man alive who has ever known peace. He is seen as a dinosaur more and more every time he goes to fight and returns to see the shit that society gets itself into. All this will be lost on a modern audience

Leave it as a book for Christ sakes

I think it's been in the pipeworks for a long time. Ridley Scott has the rights to it or something and wanted to work on it since before Avatar or to compete with Avatar or something.

State enforced homosexuality.

See I saw the book as actually being pro-gay anyway. Sure, it's framed as a government push but the Mandela learns to get along with his future people and in a way it puts him in their shoes and how they must have felt when the book was written. Mandela only acts in a very real way as someone transported from the 70s to the future.

>There are several generations that have never seen war.
Are you retarded? There has been a constant war since the invasion of iraq in 03.

scott couldn't get forever war greenlit because it was a new property (and would have required a huge budget, i.e. high risk) and fox wanted him to rather make new alien flicks, which had an established fanbase. typical studio reasoning.

the part in the book where he comes home from his first or second tour and his mom has become a lesbian is probably the hardest I ever laughed while reading a book. it'd be the first thing to get cut from a movie version.

>being pro-gay
Yes, in a world where the economic situation and overpopulation has people working for vouchers worth a certain number of calories worth of food, and only until such time that the human race can become a communal cloned organism.

>muh vietnam war vets having trouble readjusting is too complicated
it's neither pro nor con, it's just change ostracizing the mc

>pro-gay
the book literally argues that you can just order people to become fags and they will go along with it. kind of goes against the whole "born this way!!!" narrative we got going now, doesn't it? the book makes it even less than a lifesyle choice, it makes it look like a convenience. that can only be seen as HIGHLY PROBLEMATIC nowadays.

They probably didn’t want it to end up like the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises. Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

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wut

Didn't the main character have sex with that woman when she was drunk?

no he explicitly didn't

everybody was constantly fucking everybody else in that book. I have long said I suspect that haldeman wrote it by whacking his typewriter with his dick.

This is a pasta but the rest of the Forever Wars books are indeed dull.
As a franchise it would be terrible.

>you can just order people to become fags and they will go along with it
No. The guy is gone for decades at a stretch for a short trip. Everyone didn't suddenly become a fag over night, it was a long slow process that took generations to become the norm and even then it was for pragmatic reasons not because being a homo is the optimal life choice.
The framing device of mandela being farther and farther removed is intentional to make the character even more stranded out of time and alienated from the earth he knew.

The government in the book only advertised gay and made it acceptable. Nobody is really forced into it. It's portrayed as something people of the future choose because it has suddenly become more acceptable. Sure there's an ulterior motive but I assume in the book the population aren't savvy to that.
I agree though with in that it is portrayed as just change.