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Legend of Earthsea
2004 · TV series · 90 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Ursula K. Le Guin, Gavin Scott, Robert H. Lieberman
A reckless young man learns that he is destined to be the greatest sorcerer the mythical world of Earthsea has ever known. But before he can fulfill his destiny and save his world from the evil king, he must master the powers he has been given.
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A decent Le Guin movie would be nice. There was some sort of Earthsea Syfy series but it was execrably unwatchable.
> I won't be able to ever understand why historical persons in the movies should be black even if they couldn't be black in that position at that point of history. There're even more crazier examples.
Ooh, I got a crazy example for you: https://slate.com/culture/2004/12/ursula-k-le-guin-on-the-tv-earthsea.html
A Whitewashed Earthsea How the Sci Fi Channel wrecked my books. By Ursula K. Le Guin On Tuesday night, the Sci Fi Channel aired its final installment of Legend of Earthsea, the miniseries based—loosely, as it turns out—on my Earthsea books. The books, A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan, which were published more than 30 years ago, are about two young people finding out what their power, their freedom, and their responsibilities are. I don’t know what the film is about. It’s full of scenes from the story, arranged differently, in an entirely different plot, so that they make no sense. My protagonist is Ged, a boy with red-brown skin. In the film, he’s a petulant white kid.
Maybe when things like this stop happening we'll understand what you mean by "storm of political correctness", but until then, it's too little, too late.