maladapted: Recent Episodes
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maladapted is a trans-led podcast about movie adaptations by book nerd lindsay and movie nerd robyn.
Sci-fi author Alex White (they/them) joins us to discuss the state of the Alien franchise: they would know, having written two of the best novels in the Alien universe! We get into Ridley Scott’s death grip over the direction of the franchise, the frustrating politics of queer visibility, and ask, just what WAS Burke’s plan in Aliens?
Find Alex’s latest: August Kitko And The Mechas from Space, at your local indie bookshop for your queer apocalyptic mecha fix!
The CIA is operating deniable death-squads abroad but they're composed of cisgender millenials with generalised anxiety disorder so who can say if they're bad.
Our Weird Science season begins with a deep dive into Michael Crichton's two novels, adapted into Jurassic Park (1993) and The Lost World (1997). Also discussed; Crichton's awful world views, clever scriptwriting by David Koepp to adapt the sauropod-sized books, the birth of CGI in tandem with production, and which dinosaurs we are.
This is our biggest and densest episode to date, and yet it's one of two parts, as we will be discussing every sequel beyond The Lost World in a later episode... Frankly we got so preoccupied with whether or not we could that we didn't stop to think if we should.
Christmas is time to celebrate the things we hold dear, like lesbian milfs. We discuss the wonderful Carol (2015) and it's thriller-esque source novel, Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt (1952). We learn about it's origins as elaborate fanfic from a real life encounter, and why we can't uncritically stan Highsmith...
Time is a flat circle as we look back on the adaptations and stories of our 70s Dystopian Futures season, seeing what can be learned in discussing each work in context and in conversation with the others. Also which movie has the best pantyhose shots.
Rollerdrome
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1294420/Rollerdrome/
Mystery Flesh Pit
https://www.mysteryfleshpitnationalpark.com/
We venture into The Zone to unpack the torturous process of bringing the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic to life under the direction of the legendary/terrifying Andrei Tarkovsky. Along the way we discuss dodgy translations, ruined film stock and a lowkey goated open world rpg shooter.
Art of the ‘boot’ aka ‘hoverboot’
https://i.imgur.com/yXuwzDp.jpg
pictures from the abandoned first production
https://cinephiliabeyond.org/unique-perspective-making-stalker-testimony-mechanic-toiling-away-tarkovskys-guidance/
Autumn Aurora 2 mod
https://www.moddb.com/mods/autumn-aurora-compilation-mod
Lindsay takes a road trip in an APC with proto-Duke Nukem in Roger Zelazny's book before we discuss it's ill-fated and banal film adaptation, Damnation Alley (1977) released just months before Star Wars...
We do donuts around some sick tragi-accs in Paul Bartel's Death Race 2000 (1975), and discuss its grimdark source story; Ib Melchior's The Racer (1956)
We strap on our spiked leather gloves to discuss the slow-burn dread of Norman Jewison's Rollerball (1975), and demonstrate our commitment to Truth, Journalism and the Transgender Way by watching hardcore porn parody Rollerbabies (1976). In a controlled environment. As friends. It was better than John McTiernan's insane 2002 effort by the way, and we talk about that too...
Justice - New Lands: https://youtu.be/Gxu248aD6PY
John Mctiernan interview: https://youtu.be/w5p99bhPnOQ
The CIA is operating deniable death-squads abroad but they're composed of cisgender millenials with generalised anxiety disorder so who can say if they're bad.
We take a break from dystopias to mark easter by going down the rabbit-hole on the po-faced Night of The Lepus (1972), and its surprisingly subversive source novel The Year Of The Angry Rabbit (1964)
We get dragged out of bed screaming to watch all the Paranormal Activity movies in not-quite order, while our demon-addled brains fail to remember which is The One With The Fan
We watch Richard Fleischer's Soylent Green (1973), a movie with a very different take on soyboy society compared to its source, Harry Harrison's Make Room! Make Room! (1966) resulting in some serious writer's beef. Delicious.
With our second episode on Logan's Run, maladapted explores an abandoned overgrown Washington DC, the sad story of two friends wrestling to deprogram each other and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
We then get a little into the attempts to remake the film.
Maladapted is a trans, lefty podcast hosted by Lindsay (she/her) and Robyn (they/them). One of us will read a book, we'll both watch its screen adaptation and then talk about what works and what gets lost in translation.
This week as part of our season on 70's dystopian visions, we're talking about the 1976 film Logans Run.