I am now a Marvel Comics fan, apparently

[regshoe]

It's NTS Kidnapped's second anniversary tomorrow, and in a nice coincidence it was Erasure's 40th anniversary yesterday, so time for some music :D

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PyshechkaPushkova recently very kindly sent me some more information on Kidnapped adaptations, which I have added to the Adaptations page on the website, along with a couple of other bits and pieces. Particularly notable:

• I am slightly surprised to learn that there exists only one adapted version of the song Alan composes after the battle in the round-house—and it's not even in an adaptation as such, but this 1970s Soviet documentary about Stevenson. Er, not exactly the musical style I'd have expected, but there you go. :D But then I wonder, if the song is universally cut from adaptations, are there any unofficial fan-made versions? I've not found any, but it feels like they ought to exist.
• Three more comic/graphic novel adaptations, including two different ones made by Marvel Comics in 1978 and 2009. I didn't know they did adaptations of otherwise-unrelated stuff, and I am amused to learn of this.

Because a) a cursory search on Ebay suggests that copies of those comics are fairly reasonably available, b) Puskha also supplied a link to another of the animated adaptations on Youtube and c) I was already planning to do an anniversary rewatch of the play, I'm thinking of restarting my vague project of watching/reading various adaptations and comparing them. I will not watch anything that includes het romance, and a saddening number of adaptations are just not available, but applying those two criteria I think I've got that animated film, the 1960 Disney film, the three comics, the dramatised audiobook of mysterious provenance, a range of shorter bits and pieces (some of which I've already looked at and never got round to writing up) and maybe the 1994 radio adaptation if I can find a copy???

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[garonne]

Particular favourites are the Lenfilm series from the 80s with Livanov and Solomin (Livanov's portrayal is probably the closest to my own mental image of Holmes, and his alternating aloofness and dynamism). And a funny and rather melancholic film called 'My Dearly Beloved Detective'--this one is gender-swapped and very femslashy. And in third place probably 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'.

How is your Kidnapped adaptations project going? Did you watch/listen to/read any yet?

[regshoe]

I've not watched any of those, but I have heard of Livanov's name as a particularly good Holmes! And I think I've heard of 'My Dearly Beloved Detective' as well—a femslashy genderswapped version sounds amazing, I really must watch that at some point :D

Good timing, I just watched the 1960 Kidnapped film yesterday :D It was flawed but enjoyable on the whole—I'll write up a review at some point soon.