Please. Please.
The peerless and transcendent art of Simon Stålenhag is to become a TV series. Mark Romanek will direct the pilot episode of Tales from the Loop for Amazon.
Please…do not. Mess. This. Up. pic.twitter.com/zBONSJnUli— Last Exit To Nowhere (@LASTEXITshirts) July 17, 2018
Tales From the Loop is a pretty cool art project (and later, RPG setting) that got Kickstarted a while back; I’d love to see them make it as sort of a… we need a good “-punk” term to describe the 1980s. “Synthpunk?” “Reaganpunk?” “Headroompunk?” Lemme think about it. — Anyway, if it’s on Amazon, they can market it as an answer to Stranger Things and it’ll be OK: Stranger Things and Tales From the Loop are drawing from the same well, after all.
So: please, Lord, don’t let it suck.
I like ‘synthpunk’, though I’m not sure I feel good about -punk as the suffix for intentionally zeerusty scifi. That ship obviously sailed ages ago, of course.