11/13/2022 0 Comments The magicians land chaptersAnd now, five years later, Julia is still so fascinating that she’s being fleshed out in all sorts of new and unexpected ways. Back when The Magician King was released in paperback in 2012, Grossman said that the “Julia’s story took me by surprise a little bit.” Meaning, he wasn’t aware the character would play such a large role until he found himself basing a good deal of her backstory on his own experiences. “They throw everything into email and run it past me for feedback.”īut certain plot elements and characters are easier to control than others. “As John and Sera and the writers hash out the stories, they generate a lot of documents - season outlines, episode treatments, script drafts, and so on,” he said. He described the changes made from his trilogy of three books to be a “pretty transparent,” process between himself and the Syfy Channel. Seemingly, the author is totally cool with ceding a huge amount of creative control to the team at Syfy. Ostensibly, Executive Producers John McNamara and Sera Gamble have creative control over the show, but Grossman revealed that the powers-that-be of the show consult him “more than you’d probably think.” And though the thematic stakes are loosely the same as the Grossman novels, the plots have unfolded differently. In the books, Julia’s journey was told (via several chapters of flashback) in the second book, The Magician King, while the Syfy series had her machinations run concurrently with the other characters. While the show’s plot has diverged from the books, certain elements have also been grafted on top of one another. In the show, Quentin is joined in his adventures and misadventures by fellow students Alice, Penny, Eliot, and Margo, but also his childhood friend Julia, a magically inclined woman who did not get admitted into Brakebills. That’s the case until it turns out that Fillory is real too. When he grows up, he discovers an elite secret magical school called Brakebills where real magicians think fantasy crap like the Fillory books is a joke. “Even I get shocked by what happens,” he told Inverse, “and I wrote the damn books.”īoth the show and the books focus on Quentin Coldwater, a young man obsessed with a series of fantasy books collectively called Fillory and Further. But thanks to magic and a shifting medium, that’s not always the case. The characters he originally dreamed up in his Magicians books are about to embark on their second television season, meaning Grossman theoretically has all the answers as to what lies ahead. When author Lev Grossman watches Syfy’s The Magicians, he’s sometimes surprised by what he sees.
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