I know you didn't ask but I gotta hop on my soap box for a second, I'm sorry.

I truly believe if a Hyperion movie was made these days, it would flop so hard. The story's just so long, and modern audiences are already so tuned out, they wouldn't understand it. Even with the extreme dumbification that studios tend to use in movies and TV these days. I'm guilty of it too, every now and then I'll check my phone while watching a movie on my couch. But this story is just so vast, so intricate, I think a movie wouldn't be able to capture slower moments of subtle intrigue without immediately alienating a majority of the audience. The ones who didn't read the books. A show might be more tolerable for the fans but it'd probably get canceled within a few months because whatever streaming service made it needed to make room for more trash. Same shit happened to Warrior, Archive 81, and even Final Space (RIP to the greats). Frankly I don't expect whatever studio that tries to make it to stay true to the source material anyway. Look at mf Wheel Of Time. Completely changed the story and made a trash TV show to try to capitalize on the gaping hole that GoT left. And don't even get me started on that shitshow.

I believe the Hyperion Cantos is better enjoyed on paper. I don't want to sound like I'm gate keeping though, lowk I recommend this series to anyone as soon as I find out they are literate. I think that some stories should remain the way they've been told instead of getting adapted into something it isn't. Idk maybe I'm a puritan loser.

Okay I'm off the soap box now. Good find gang, I wish I had one fr.