Rider Knowledge

[Ren Nakamura]

Ok everyone, I have something I must ask all of you.

I've started to come up with plans (ignoring Black, RX, Shin, J and ZO) on how to do The First/Next style movies of the Heisei years (well, for most of them), and in case I would do this, I need advice on some series, considering I never finished every series.

If anyone has a wealth of knowledge on the following, can you post that here so I have you as a resource?

Kuuga
Agito
Faiz
Den-O (though I really don't want to write that)

And anyone with information on other seasons is welcome to let me know as well, but I've finished those other ones. It would still be nice to have someone to bounce stuff off of.

Again, may never happen, but it would be nice to know.

[Kase]

Well, I have finished Faiz, Agito and Kuuga...Den-O as well, if you need any ideas or someone to bounce ideas off of, throw me a PM.

[[Kaisu] Elizabeth Clarke]

Agito, devoured it. Faiz, devoured it. Den-O, devoured it.

Kuuga, gave up searching when I head the opening.

[Ren Nakamura]

I'll talk to Rei about Kuuga, both of you on Agito and Faiz, and if I get to Den-O...well, not going to happen, since Kiva is next to impossible to adapt, I figure, due to the two sided story (80's and 2000's).

[Ziggy]

Kiva could be done with a few changes. Drop the 80s IXA, just have Otoya fighting fangires with the box cutter/flail weapon and have him only shown in a few flashbacks as opposed to telling his story parallel to Wataru's which really didn't work in the original anyways.

[Kiriha Kyuuseishu]

You know, it could work. I'd have to think on that a bit, but cutting most of the 80's works. My problem was trying to keep Ixa, but scrap the 80's Ixa, just show the end result (Dark Kiva is Otoya's), and that leads into the final villain.

Now that first requires actually doing a Den-O movie...shit...

[Dillon and Tenaya]

Den-O is actually a pretty dark concept when you think about it. You got monsters from beyond what we understand as time and space breaching our time in order to destroy everything before it even existed and worst of all these beings once were humans who have been shaped by the anomalies of time into psychic entities that can only physically exist if they feed upon human will.

Looking at it like that it is almost Dr. Who meets Donny Darko.

[[Kaisu] Elizabeth Clarke]

That's one overdramatic way to put it. But yeah, I would love to watch a less comic version of Den-O ;3

[Rei Fuyu and Basco ta Jolokia]

The comedy is what couldn't get me to even finish the second episode.

The Taros would be the hard part to adapt, making sure they all get development and stuff in one movie.

[Jessica Jane]

Yeah, Den-O was one of those series that had to be lighthearted or else it would be too depressive to think about. (Much like OOO's in that regard, hmmm....) The series did have some really dark moments, especially at the end, and a few of the movies have had a few of the most mature Rider moments in recent history.

In spite of that, though, my personal opinion is that Den-O is like coffee. It takes a while to acquire the taste, but once you've got that it becomes pretty enjoyable in a Dr. Who Mind-Screw sort of way.

I'd agree that the large cast would make a movie adaption a pretty hefty challenge, so some Pragmatic Adaption might be required... Or just do a Batman Cold Open and work the origin story into flashback and dialogue the same way it was done in Batman Begins?

EDIT: To actually answer the OP, I've seen all of Faiz, all of Den-O (including the last several movies), W, and I've got the last of OOO's on its way.

[Kiriha Kyuuseishu]

W and OOO are impossible to do; I don't know if I said that or not, but they're off the list.

I do have a Faiz one planned, I could PM it to anyone interested, because I need some advice on the subject, having only seen a dozen episodes before I quit (I should restart after Hibiki...), and I have a very rough idea for everything else (minus Den-O).

And as of last night, I finished writing up the plot for The Last; the movie that includes ZX, so all ten original Riders.

[[Kaisu] Elizabeth Clarke]

PM me, then?

[Thoma Hirako]

As soon as I can.

[Simon]

So, since this is for writing movie adaptations to follow The First/The Next:

The Third is over halfway done, and should hopefully be done around Monday, as long as my keyboard doesn't act up when I sit down to write.

I'm currently working on planning the Black/Black RX adaptation. I have the Kuuga adaptation ready to be planned, the 555 adaptation already planned in writing (rough draft), and am ready to work on the Ryuki plans.

I'm going to need to skip Agito for now, because I need to discuss it with someone who has seen the series, or possibly just wait until Kuuga is done before even planning it.

[[Kaisu] Elizabeth Clarke]

*Raises hand again*

I've seen most of it, missed the last few 'cause they got taken down but I more or less know everything that's happened.