Does anyone know if there are plans to turn Tandia into a movie? Im reading it now, just as awesome as the Power of One :) be great to see it come to life on screen.
shareI sort of didn't really like Tandia. I'm not 100% sure why not though. Perhaps it just seems to try too hard to be an epic follow-up. A perfect PK as a child is one thing, but an adult PK still being totally pure and incorruptible just seems too contrived.
Err so my point is that I hope they DON'T make a Tandia movie.
I always pictured Halle Berry as Tandia, but she's probably a bit too old for the part were it to be made now.
The irony is, Bryce didn't want a romantic love interest for the film, but the producers insisted on it. When he tried to make her an african girl, they very racistly told him that people wouldn't want to watch an interracial couple. The irony id that statement goes against every that the book stands for, not to mention that in Tandia PK indeed falls for a mixed race girl.
"Yeah, you know what happens to muthaf-ckas who carry knives. They get shot!"
I didn't like Tandia either while I love the Power of One. If you read Bryce's book April Fool's Day (about his son who had HIV) you'll find that at the time he was trying to write Tandia his son was extremely sick and Bryce had difficulty writing it and yes did have to infact rush to complete it.
By the way, Bryce has a horrible habit of killing off his main character and one of the reasons why I dislike Tandia so much is that I thought PK was far too noble and likeable to be killed off. I cried a lot when I got to the end of Tandia and I've never read it since. Sounds silly I guess but I suppose it was like being told that Santa doesn't exist. I wanted to believe that someone who was as good and courageous as PK couldn't die. Thats my thoery anyway.
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I prefer happy endings too, and the way he died was really devastating. Sometimes in fiction heroes have tragic deaths but it kind of retroactively reduces my joy of the first book POWER OF ONE because you know he will die horribly in the next one.
Kind of like how my enjoyment of the original Jean Claude Van Damme movie KICKBOXER is diminished by him and his fiancee and his brother getting killed with a gun in the sequel. Hard to see it as a "happy" ending when you know the guy and his family will be brutally murdered inside of 3 weeks from the final scene.
He got Tandia pregnant before he died. A GREAT idea for a 3rd novel to make this a trilogy if we could get another author (maybe his son?) to write it would be for the story to be centered around PeeKay's son Omikanda (I think that was the name he chose? might not have spelled it right). And throw REINCARNATION into the mix. PeeKay's soul is not finished with his task on this Earth so my idea is his spirit possesses the fetus thus becoming his own son. Only later in life (maybe teen years) do the memories of his previous life come back in dreams and blurry flashbacks. He learns about his father through his mother and Gideon and other surviving friends and family of PeeKay and puts that together with his blurry flashbacks and dreams and realizes at some point that he IS PeeKay reincarnated. He at first is going to go on a quest to regain the boxing skills of his previous life and continue to fight injustice but in order to keep this from being too much like the first book he expands his repertoire of fighting ability and instead of just being a boxer becomes a more well rounded martial artist who studies Karate and Judo and wrestling and kickboxing in order to become a more complete fighter.
I don't know if that is possible now. Bryce died in 2012 and his son Damon who had HIV died in 1991. Bryce had other surviving sons and as far as I know, they don't have their father's literary talent. Saying that, I think that you have a good premise there, why not try to make something of it?
shareI had a general idea for a story but I am not an author I could not write a book. I know a different author wrote a sequel to Gone With the Wind.
My idea would not require retroactive continuity or create any continuity errors because Tandia ended with PeeKays spirit floating away into the sky as he died, so that spirit could easily (as far as plot devicing is concerned) reincarnate into the fetus of his own son.
I plan to read some of his other books but I sure hope all of his books do not end with the main protagonist (and often his family, I know his two childhood babysitters were brutally murdered too) dying a horrible death while still very young and full of promise. The way Tandia ended really left a bad taste in my mouth.
I can assure you that is the case with all his other books, Tandia and Jessica are the most devastating, I was heartbroken after reading Jessica. Great book and so sad, it is why I stopped reading them. Good luck though, Bryce was an amazing author.
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