I'm still disappointed they botched the Wheel of Time. Like, right from the very beginning, that started making really questionable choices. I wish they'd do it animated because one, that'd make the magic way cheaper, and two, it'd make it feasible to grapple with the sheer size of the series.
I kind of cant even agree with that. I tried to enjoy it as a WOT adaptation, I tried to enjoy it as just high budget fantasy TV. for me, the writing was a disaster, it was very clear they were ther to tell the BIG story over 10 episodes but really over many many seasons, they were fully committed to this grand fantasy but they forgot that an episode of TV needs to stand on its own. Each episode was just like a 1 hour clip of a 10 hour movie, there was no narrative or structure to individual epsodes.
Outside of that, the CGI is bad, the effects in general were very bad. Set design and costumes were pretty decent mainly but the show looked cheap despite being the most expensive ever made.
There are a lot of other criticisms I have of the show but I don't think ther is a lot of point going on.
For what its worth, I thought season 3 was actually somehow decently made and written, it was just so late at that point that it meant nothing.
I kinda get it, but this one should have been animated from the start. The length and magic make live action really difficult to pull off, and I'm not surprised Amazon didn't manage it.
I honestly don't think it was this bad (coming from someone that has read it three times). Some decisions were weird. The focus on Alanna was a bit high. I also unserstood from the beginning that it can't possibly be 1:1, so I went in with the mindset that it was a new turning of the wheel, which might've helped.
The first season was thoroughly fucked by covid, ans the second season had to handle the fallout of that. By the third season I thought it really was starting to come together, and I was actually getting excited for its future. I was really bummed out by the cancelation.
The 3rd season actually was good and true to the source material as much as possible given where we were at that point.
But like, the first 2 seasons were completely baffling, I find it hard to find much redeeming quality in them at all. The dark one and the final scene of season 1 are both high points that I thought were well executed. But then you have stuff like Perrin being married at the beginning of the series to a random woman, who he then immediately accidentally kills. Insane direction to take that character. You have a decision that the dragon could be male or female, ok, I'm not entirely sure who or how that works if we're maintaining that it's strictly the male half of the power that is tainted but I was actually willing to see it through, the only problem was they did all that just for the next episode to say "actually the dragon is just rand, just like you all knew, were not doing anything different, the dragon is a male, were never addressing this again"
It didn't even own its own decisions, you can make changes to source material but you should have a good reason why and own it. I don't have to love what you do with it artistically or intellectually but you should stand behind your work
Personally I found the final scene of the first season rather lacking. But I also get it because of the covid restrictions.
Perrin's wife was probably a good move imo. It's hard to convey his complex feelings for the axe in a show where we can't hear the character's thoughts. This is a quick fix for that.
Mat's parents is a bit more off for me. I'm not really sure what was gained from that change.
Ikr. Now we know that the surviving works and stories from the old world, only survived because they were good enough to be remembered. Too bad we have audio books, none of the bad books will be forgotten.
This is a pretty basic answer but The Dark Elf Trilogy could be incredible on film if done properly. Drizzt's early life is one of my favorite character arcs in fiction and Menzoberranzan is an exceptionally interesting society. It could even just be a series mostly focused on the first book and then ends when he leaves the city or when he goes topside so they could really flesh out just how fucked the dark elves are.
Agreed. The underdark portion of his life would make for and excellent TV adaption.
HOWEVER
I don't trust the current climate of TV production to pull it off properly. In all likelihood, if produced today, it'd end up as a Netflix series (or similar series) where the streaming format would throw off pacing, and after completing a season of sticking to the story, any subsequent seasons would stray far away from Salvatores stories in an effort to have mass appeal.
I think it would have worked 15-20 years ago. Not before, as the CGI necessary wasn't there yet. Not later because formulaic streamability would ruin it (along with Netflix-lighting, ugh).
Maybe it would work again at some point in the future once the current trend of algorithmic slop has gone away.
it will be a horrid 8 episode season, with stuff omitted, and peoples changed based on how the execs perceive the audience. and multi year wait in between seasons.
I feel like most of the people with money would just play it up to be super cool instead of a dystopia. And given the Epstein stuff, not lightly edit it so the girl is of appropriate age.
The dystopia bit is what I’m worried about with the Neuromancer series coming out. It looks way too clean. Even the parts where streets are jam-packed look like clean jam-packed streets.
Seconded, although Mark ruined the concept of the Metaverse. And that sex scene with a 15 year old might need some rewriting. I love the book for its storyline and world building, but certain developments of the past 20 years stains the book.
Speaking of Stephenson, I wonder if Cryptonomicon could work as a TV series. Filming the two time periods without them seeming completely disconnected would be challenging, though.
I used to reread Wheel of Time frequently. I've probably completed the series more than 13 times, because I started reading it in the mid 90s and would reread from the beginning every time a new book was released.
After that Amazon slop, I haven't touched the series since. It was so, so bad. And it had the potential to be so, so good. All the material was right there. All the money was there.
Such a wasted opportunity to have made something amazing.
As a pallet cleanser, here's a fan made version made 10 years ago that is so much more authentic and watchable than Rafe's disaster:
I wish they could finish the Expanse. That was a pretty good adaptation as far as they got, and the books really tie everything very nicely together toward the end (as well as get kind of crazy)
I'd absolutely love it if Star Trek (not Alex Kurtzmen) adapted the Corp of Engineers books.
The original ebook series would slot in perfectly with a 20ish episode a year release cycle, and the plots/characters are already developed, you just need to script them out.
Each book is a "problem of the week" style story, with that classic Star Trek (not Alex Kurtzmen) style character development, based on the main problem of the episode.
But, until Kurtzmen, or the mouth-breathers that keep him employed, get hit by a bus we'll never know how well it could be adapted...
They're never going back to 20 plus episodes and people need to get over it. The work life balance people endured producing those seasons was unconscionable.
he has plaigarized some novels but dint give them credit. borg alliance, rogue changelings all came from various books(although its fan made), and the obvious super-massive cube was from a book.
STD, where michelle yeohs characther used words only known from the memory wiki sites.
No way. There's not enough material in the books to go one episode per chapter.
I will admit it's been a while since I've read them, but I remember it being a very fast read. Like, I think it only took me two days to read all of them.
Quick update. When I talk about having read all of them, I'm talking about the two book club series books that contained apparently the first five novels in approximately 600 pages.
I have the books that followed that, and I've not read them yet, so maybe make it a three season mini series.
Agreed, but we almost had a Rings of Power/Wheel of Time type version. Fortunately Anne McCaffrey was still alive and in control and told the network fuck off and pulled the rights. I don't recall which network, doesn't matter much, they're all the same. They wanted to turn it into a teen YA romance thingy (which some of them have that a bit, but it's part of the whole thing). The good thing is the CGI then wouldn't have been great, it would have been like the Dune TV series. But if they had mutilated the actual lore and story, that would have been terrible.
I'm a fan, but I don't see how they could really make thread scary on screen. In the books it is portrayed as almost some kind of inate fear that can not be denied. But movies can't really pull that off.
The Dark Tower. There is a film of the same name, but it has literally nothing to do with the masterpiece of literature that is the book series. A series would be how it should be done.
Seriously, fuck that movie. I know Stephen King always gets screwed by film adaptations, but even Ender’s Game was a more accurate telling of the books. Not even the Ender’s Game books, I mean Ender’s Game was a better film adaptation of The Dark Tower books than The Dark Tower movie was. I was in seat 19, that was the closest I got to seeing any material from the books in that piece of shit movie. They even had my ideal casting for Roland and The Man In Black, what a gods damned waste.
Saying this as a fan, I really don’t think the DT novels really can be translated into a show or movie series. It’s too contradictory from book to book. King just kept going in different directions with each book. Maybe someone could harmonize it all but I’m not sure that’s really possible. I think it works for books but not to film.
That said, I think a tv series that focused just on young Roland, Gilead, and Midworld-that-was could potentially be fantastic (I am admittedly biased as I that’s the part of the series I love the most - The Gunsligner and Wizard & Glass are my two favorites in the series). I think the graphic novels already provide a solid framework for this. If the show could capture the “post-apocalyptic horror meets spaghetti western meets Lord of the Rings” aesthetic I think it could be a huge hit.
The Little Engine that Could. It will be a big budget 10 hour (12 hour extended cut) long epic spanning across three movies, directed by Peter Jackson.
I think Adrien Tchaikovsky’s book series The Tyrant Philosophers would be awesome. The first book has an insane amount of characters including nearly forgotten gods, monsters, criminals, heroes, and villains.
I’d really love to see the Wild Cards (compilation series edited by George RR Martin) get something too. It’s a top-tier take on the supe genre.
most dont even stay true to the source material, unless the original writer is on board, even then they can be influenced by executives, like with sandman. with the obvious thing happened with lucifer and death.(not true to the source, only the words were)
invincible is another, with tech jacket, even with the creator on board.
on one hand, series like nutrek just straight up plagiarizes fan novels without giving credit.
Warbreaker and Elantris could be standalone movies. I don't see how even Stormlight 1 could be compressed down into one movie, given how detailed the world is and how much those details matter.
We saw with Wheel of Time that it's not enough to just throw money at a stack of books.
From what I've read Mistborn is being adapted as a film trilogy, while Stormlight Archives will be a series with Sanderson being the primary screenwriter. Think it was announced a month or two ago.
John Scalzi's Old Man's War book series. Apparently it's been optioned for 15+ years now, but nobody's actually gotten around to making the damned thing yet.
Diane Duane's young wizard series as an animated movie could be great.
Although I wish Amazon instead of making that stupid rings of power or whatever the fuck it was, I wish they had adapted Stephen R. Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.
The Bobiverse books by Dennis E. Taylor, and The Shadow of the Leviathan series by Robert Jackson Bennett. These are two series I would love to see rendered as animated or live action stories.
Ted Chiang - The Stories of Your Life and Exhalation (minus Story of Your Life, since Denis Villeneuve knocked that out of the park, IMO). The other short stories in those collections are great and could make a great mini series.
I bought this recently and was unimpressed, it might have been oversold but it seemed just ok to me. Nothing stayed and exhalation was om the lower end of the lot.
After watching Foundation and then reading Foundation… Foundation. It could easily be done as an anthology. And as a recently
Rekindled weeb, it would be fantastic as a well done anime. Really cannot understand what the Apple TV pus thing was going for other than “let’s just tell a copletely different story and co-opt the name. (Man that’s never been done before right?)
I’d love to see The Dispossessd in film but only if it was made by people who share the same anarchist/communist ideological commitment. If Hollywood tries it you know that part will be taken out, which would take the entire heart and soul out of it.
I don't think you could take out the anarchist stuff and keep any cohesion to the story. Unless Hollywood wants to make a movie about how an anarchist learned the true value of capitalism and power of friendship.
It would make for an amazing series, but you are right in that it needs to be made by not Hollywood. Perhaps find someone to make it a web series?
I would kill to watch Asimov's work being adapted by Christopher Nolan. Personally Nolan has been a hit or a miss for me, but Asimov and him are a match made in heaven.
i think Against a dark background by Banks could make a fucking amazing series but them I'm 99% sure they would fuck it up and I wouldn't enjoy it.
I really liked The Wool but didn't like Silo at all. Loved HHGTTG and TV series was good but it's just a fairly accurate adaptation, nothing great. The movie was weak. The first Dirk Gently show was mediocre, the second was fairly good but was only loosely based on the books.
I don't get the obsession some people have with specific lores. Good lore alone doesn't make a good show. Many shit shows were based on The Witcher. I would love to see good, deep, layered, hard Sci-Fi show and I don't care what it's based on. Good lore is like 10% of a good show. At the same time good book is good enough in itself, I don't have see it rehashed in a different format.
I'd like to see The Player of Games adapted. I think it'd work pretty well. Or consider phlebas. The nonlinearity of the other books can make for challenging TV narrative.
Use of Weapons, State of the Art and Inversions would also make great movies. The rest relies on AI too much.
But I still think there's only about 10% chance that someone who actually gets those books would be tasked with adapting them to the screen and wouldn't fuck it up.
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch would make an excellent movie. Maybe a bit too on the nose for these times. His novel Grace could also be amazing as a film or limited series.
Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey-Maturin series should get a big budget event television maxi-series on the order of Game of Thrones. They made the movie Master And Commander, what? A couple decades ago? And it's got one glaring problem: They only made one movie.
The Cradle series by Will Wight would be pretty cool. It's 12 books long but tightly paced and doesn't mire itself in a bunch of tiny details like The Wheel of Time would. It's set in an ancient Chinese fantasy world that's part of a greater struggle in the multiverse and reads like a shonen. Its protagonist, Wei Shi Lindon starts off as a pariah with no powers before being rescued by a demigod who gives him a way to alter the fate of him and his home from an apocalyptic ending.
A 2 hour long animatic was released a few months ago and covers the first 2 books fairly well. A fully animated trailer was also released showing the promise of how well it would look if it took off.
There’s a pulp sci-fi series that I’ve been reading, “Backyard Starship”. Basically good-guy Space Sherrif takes on big and small problems in known space with a big variety of aliens. Fun stories and plenty of action. IMO it definitely needs an anime-style version.
The writing style can put people off but the concept itself and the world building done in the first couple books are just so damn interesting I would love to see a visual interpretation of it.
It's a kid-becomes-wizard story sort of in the Harry Potter vein, but darker, much better written, and much more complex. Also Henry Neff is a wonderful human being.
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I'm still disappointed they botched the Wheel of Time. Like, right from the very beginning, that started making really questionable choices. I wish they'd do it animated because one, that'd make the magic way cheaper, and two, it'd make it feasible to grapple with the sheer size of the series.
It's crazy how badly they fucked up everything about that show from top to bottom.
Yeah... If you can decouple it from the books, it's a fairly entertaining show, but as a Wheel of Time adaptation, it was just not very good.
I kind of cant even agree with that. I tried to enjoy it as a WOT adaptation, I tried to enjoy it as just high budget fantasy TV. for me, the writing was a disaster, it was very clear they were ther to tell the BIG story over 10 episodes but really over many many seasons, they were fully committed to this grand fantasy but they forgot that an episode of TV needs to stand on its own. Each episode was just like a 1 hour clip of a 10 hour movie, there was no narrative or structure to individual epsodes.
Outside of that, the CGI is bad, the effects in general were very bad. Set design and costumes were pretty decent mainly but the show looked cheap despite being the most expensive ever made.
There are a lot of other criticisms I have of the show but I don't think ther is a lot of point going on.
For what its worth, I thought season 3 was actually somehow decently made and written, it was just so late at that point that it meant nothing.
I'm so happy I didn't ruin my childhood memories watching it. It was a tough call at the beginning but I feel thoroughly justified in hindsight.
So tired of animated reboots.
I kinda get it, but this one should have been animated from the start. The length and magic make live action really difficult to pull off, and I'm not surprised Amazon didn't manage it.
I honestly don't think it was this bad (coming from someone that has read it three times). Some decisions were weird. The focus on Alanna was a bit high. I also unserstood from the beginning that it can't possibly be 1:1, so I went in with the mindset that it was a new turning of the wheel, which might've helped. The first season was thoroughly fucked by covid, ans the second season had to handle the fallout of that. By the third season I thought it really was starting to come together, and I was actually getting excited for its future. I was really bummed out by the cancelation.
The 3rd season actually was good and true to the source material as much as possible given where we were at that point.
But like, the first 2 seasons were completely baffling, I find it hard to find much redeeming quality in them at all. The dark one and the final scene of season 1 are both high points that I thought were well executed. But then you have stuff like Perrin being married at the beginning of the series to a random woman, who he then immediately accidentally kills. Insane direction to take that character. You have a decision that the dragon could be male or female, ok, I'm not entirely sure who or how that works if we're maintaining that it's strictly the male half of the power that is tainted but I was actually willing to see it through, the only problem was they did all that just for the next episode to say "actually the dragon is just rand, just like you all knew, were not doing anything different, the dragon is a male, were never addressing this again"
It didn't even own its own decisions, you can make changes to source material but you should have a good reason why and own it. I don't have to love what you do with it artistically or intellectually but you should stand behind your work
Personally I found the final scene of the first season rather lacking. But I also get it because of the covid restrictions.
Perrin's wife was probably a good move imo. It's hard to convey his complex feelings for the axe in a show where we can't hear the character's thoughts. This is a quick fix for that.
Mat's parents is a bit more off for me. I'm not really sure what was gained from that change.
The whole bobiverse series.
Anyways, almost any book could be made into a fun series, because most books are well-written.
I read a lot of books. I don't know that I agree most are well written, lol.
Ikr. Now we know that the surviving works and stories from the old world, only survived because they were good enough to be remembered. Too bad we have audio books, none of the bad books will be forgotten.
i would watch the shit out of that
This is a pretty basic answer but The Dark Elf Trilogy could be incredible on film if done properly. Drizzt's early life is one of my favorite character arcs in fiction and Menzoberranzan is an exceptionally interesting society. It could even just be a series mostly focused on the first book and then ends when he leaves the city or when he goes topside so they could really flesh out just how fucked the dark elves are.
Agreed. The underdark portion of his life would make for and excellent TV adaption.
HOWEVER
I don't trust the current climate of TV production to pull it off properly. In all likelihood, if produced today, it'd end up as a Netflix series (or similar series) where the streaming format would throw off pacing, and after completing a season of sticking to the story, any subsequent seasons would stray far away from Salvatores stories in an effort to have mass appeal.
I think it would have worked 15-20 years ago. Not before, as the CGI necessary wasn't there yet. Not later because formulaic streamability would ruin it (along with Netflix-lighting, ugh).
Maybe it would work again at some point in the future once the current trend of algorithmic slop has gone away.
it will be a horrid 8 episode season, with stuff omitted, and peoples changed based on how the execs perceive the audience. and multi year wait in between seasons.
With a special appearance by Señor Chang
My first choice as well
Neil Stephenson's snowcrash would be interesting.
I feel like most of the people with money would just play it up to be super cool instead of a dystopia. And given the Epstein stuff, not lightly edit it so the girl is of appropriate age.
True it could go really wrong but if done right it would be a really good satire.
The dystopia bit is what I’m worried about with the Neuromancer series coming out. It looks way too clean. Even the parts where streets are jam-packed look like clean jam-packed streets.
Seconded, although Mark ruined the concept of the Metaverse. And that sex scene with a 15 year old might need some rewriting. I love the book for its storyline and world building, but certain developments of the past 20 years stains the book.
Speaking of Stephenson, I wonder if Cryptonomicon could work as a TV series. Filming the two time periods without them seeming completely disconnected would be challenging, though.
Cryptonomicon would be cool, I could see it working on HBO or some other cable company.
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Hyperion.
Wheel of time. No, that garbage they tried at Amazon doesn't count.
I used to reread Wheel of Time frequently. I've probably completed the series more than 13 times, because I started reading it in the mid 90s and would reread from the beginning every time a new book was released.
After that Amazon slop, I haven't touched the series since. It was so, so bad. And it had the potential to be so, so good. All the material was right there. All the money was there.
Such a wasted opportunity to have made something amazing.
As a pallet cleanser, here's a fan made version made 10 years ago that is so much more authentic and watchable than Rafe's disaster:
https://youtu.be/myFCGun_c-8
Should have just given them the millions.
#fuckrafejudkins
amazon shouldnt have sucked all the money budget from other shows to make ROP they did fans a disservice from all the shows on amazon.
I hadn't heard of this! Thank you so much I'm excited.
I wish they could finish the Expanse. That was a pretty good adaptation as far as they got, and the books really tie everything very nicely together toward the end (as well as get kind of crazy)
they had problems with one of the actors being DV/Sa-er and they wanted to wait a while since the latest books is a time jump.
that's interesting, I thought they just weren't popular enough to justify more seasons
i heard it was the time jump in the other novels, so maybe that?
I'd absolutely love it if Star Trek (not Alex Kurtzmen) adapted the Corp of Engineers books.
The original ebook series would slot in perfectly with a 20ish episode a year release cycle, and the plots/characters are already developed, you just need to script them out.
Each book is a "problem of the week" style story, with that classic Star Trek (not Alex Kurtzmen) style character development, based on the main problem of the episode.
But, until Kurtzmen, or the mouth-breathers that keep him employed, get hit by a bus we'll never know how well it could be adapted...
They're never going back to 20 plus episodes and people need to get over it. The work life balance people endured producing those seasons was unconscionable.
he has plaigarized some novels but dint give them credit. borg alliance, rogue changelings all came from various books(although its fan made), and the obvious super-massive cube was from a book.
STD, where michelle yeohs characther used words only known from the memory wiki sites.
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Strong agree! Done right it could run multiple seasons.
For me it's the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown.
I'm surprised how that hasn't been a thing yet considering how big the story is.
They made a board game, and it bombed.
None. No more.
Beat me to it.
diskworld series have some, but need more imo
I demand more Rincewind content.
the Amber books
Stephen Colbert was going to produce the series a couple years ago, but he seems to have moved on since then :(
It was always going to be a tough ask. I just finished reading the Corwin series again.
It would be difficult to adapt for a mainstream TV audience. A lot would probably need to change and that could lead to alienating the book lovers.
Yes, I would love to see a TV series. But only if it was done well with a budget large enough to do it justice.
I feel like the Chronicles of Amber would do better as a two season mini series.
I’d like one season per book, one episode per chapter.
No way. There's not enough material in the books to go one episode per chapter.
I will admit it's been a while since I've read them, but I remember it being a very fast read. Like, I think it only took me two days to read all of them.
Quick update. When I talk about having read all of them, I'm talking about the two book club series books that contained apparently the first five novels in approximately 600 pages.
I have the books that followed that, and I've not read them yet, so maybe make it a three season mini series.
that could be right
I haven’t read the books in a long time
I’d still enjoy ten seasons in a fictional universe I love
The Dragonriders of Pern books need adapted.
Agreed, but we almost had a Rings of Power/Wheel of Time type version. Fortunately Anne McCaffrey was still alive and in control and told the network fuck off and pulled the rights. I don't recall which network, doesn't matter much, they're all the same. They wanted to turn it into a teen YA romance thingy (which some of them have that a bit, but it's part of the whole thing). The good thing is the CGI then wouldn't have been great, it would have been like the Dune TV series. But if they had mutilated the actual lore and story, that would have been terrible.
Oh, if only.
I'm a fan, but I don't see how they could really make thread scary on screen. In the books it is portrayed as almost some kind of inate fear that can not be denied. But movies can't really pull that off.
I will always say that HHGttG needs a well done remake as a TV series’s that leaves out nothing.
Came here to say that. The last movie had a happy ending for Arthur Dent. They clearly missed the point as there are no happy endings for Arthur Dent.
The Dark Tower. There is a film of the same name, but it has literally nothing to do with the masterpiece of literature that is the book series. A series would be how it should be done.
Seriously, fuck that movie. I know Stephen King always gets screwed by film adaptations, but even Ender’s Game was a more accurate telling of the books. Not even the Ender’s Game books, I mean Ender’s Game was a better film adaptation of The Dark Tower books than The Dark Tower movie was. I was in seat 19, that was the closest I got to seeing any material from the books in that piece of shit movie. They even had my ideal casting for Roland and The Man In Black, what a gods damned waste.
Saying this as a fan, I really don’t think the DT novels really can be translated into a show or movie series. It’s too contradictory from book to book. King just kept going in different directions with each book. Maybe someone could harmonize it all but I’m not sure that’s really possible. I think it works for books but not to film.
That said, I think a tv series that focused just on young Roland, Gilead, and Midworld-that-was could potentially be fantastic (I am admittedly biased as I that’s the part of the series I love the most - The Gunsligner and Wizard & Glass are my two favorites in the series). I think the graphic novels already provide a solid framework for this. If the show could capture the “post-apocalyptic horror meets spaghetti western meets Lord of the Rings” aesthetic I think it could be a huge hit.
Mike Flannigan is adapting it to TV series.
World War Z - needs to be done properly tied closely to the book as a short TV series.
The series 'Invasion' did something similar.
Thanks, I'll look into that one!
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The Little Engine that Could. It will be a big budget 10 hour (12 hour extended cut) long epic spanning across three movies, directed by Peter Jackson.
There is a sequence in Dumbo that is a retelling of the Little Engine That Could
Squirrel Girl could be good.
I think Adrien Tchaikovsky’s book series The Tyrant Philosophers would be awesome. The first book has an insane amount of characters including nearly forgotten gods, monsters, criminals, heroes, and villains.
I’d really love to see the Wild Cards (compilation series edited by George RR Martin) get something too. It’s a top-tier take on the supe genre.
Wild Cards was last seen being passed on by Peacock.
An episode exists out there somewhere in some studio vault. Almost had west coast avengers.
https://youtu.be/eOPYsSP272M
That’s crazy! I would have loved to see Speedball. And the AT&T lady would be an amazing Doreen.
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Best Served Cold is getting a series!
Wait where can I get more info on this? A cursory search shows nothing.
Last I heard it was a film, not a series unless that has changed in the last year or two?
I have been disapointed by so many im not sure I want any at this point.
most dont even stay true to the source material, unless the original writer is on board, even then they can be influenced by executives, like with sandman. with the obvious thing happened with lucifer and death.(not true to the source, only the words were)
invincible is another, with tech jacket, even with the creator on board.
on one hand, series like nutrek just straight up plagiarizes fan novels without giving credit.
But occasionally it can stray far enough away to become its own different great thing like Resident Alien
resident alien seems good, except for the 3rd one i think. they had to cancel that show.
I feel like the Cosmere is pretty well structured for a series. Each season could be a different world, eventually tying things together.
From what I've heard, something is in the works. Hopefully optimistic it turns out well.
Warbreaker and Elantris could be standalone movies. I don't see how even Stormlight 1 could be compressed down into one movie, given how detailed the world is and how much those details matter.
We saw with Wheel of Time that it's not enough to just throw money at a stack of books.
From what I've read Mistborn is being adapted as a film trilogy, while Stormlight Archives will be a series with Sanderson being the primary screenwriter. Think it was announced a month or two ago.
John Scalzi's Old Man's War book series. Apparently it's been optioned for 15+ years now, but nobody's actually gotten around to making the damned thing yet.
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The epic sequel will be simply, THESAURUS.
I wanna see a book accurate animated series based on Artemis Fowl. They did a movie but it wasn't true to the book
Neil Stephenson's The Diamond Age
Bruce Sterling's Involution Ocean
None ever did
Fucking thank you.
Diane Duane's young wizard series as an animated movie could be great.
Although I wish Amazon instead of making that stupid rings of power or whatever the fuck it was, I wish they had adapted Stephen R. Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.
YES. I got into the young wizard series when I was a kid and cannot believe how long it’s been around without getting any screen time. SO underrated.
I heartily recommend it to anyone that loved Harry Potter but can't stand its author.
Diane Duane is a very unproblematic person with a brilliant mind and excellent storytelling capability.
Apple, you've been doing a pretty good job but you need to do your own homework.
An adaptation, or an 'adaptation', that's a thinly veiled director's fanfic?
I'd watch Robert Asprin's MythAdventures as a show.
The Bobiverse books by Dennis E. Taylor, and The Shadow of the Leviathan series by Robert Jackson Bennett. These are two series I would love to see rendered as animated or live action stories.
+1 for Bobiverse. Almost done with Book 1 and surprised it has been done already.
"Malazan book of the Fallen" by Steven Erikson. An Epos that dwarfs the whole of LotR.
Or an animated series of all Discworld novels...
I'm so grateful that my favorite book series' (Elric Saga and Abhorsen) could actually never be adapted well
Pierce Brown's Red Rising
Ted Chiang - The Stories of Your Life and Exhalation (minus Story of Your Life, since Denis Villeneuve knocked that out of the park, IMO). The other short stories in those collections are great and could make a great mini series.
I bought this recently and was unimpressed, it might have been oversold but it seemed just ok to me. Nothing stayed and exhalation was om the lower end of the lot.
After watching Foundation and then reading Foundation… Foundation. It could easily be done as an anthology. And as a recently Rekindled weeb, it would be fantastic as a well done anime. Really cannot understand what the Apple TV pus thing was going for other than “let’s just tell a copletely different story and co-opt the name. (Man that’s never been done before right?)
The first two Hyperion books
Once you read it you realize it’s influenced SO MUCH and it would be pretty epic now that’s e have the tech to do something at that scale
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. But good luck getting any studio on board.
“So you have a fantasy TV show for me?”
“Yes sir, I do.”
“What happens?”
“Dude with leprosy gets run over, goes into a coma, wakes in a fantasy realm.”
“Cool, cool. Then what?”
“He rapes the first person he meets.”
“Oh. I do not like that at all!”
Sandman Slim, it is stuck in development. If done correctly, it could be awesome.
I’d love to see The Dispossessd in film but only if it was made by people who share the same anarchist/communist ideological commitment. If Hollywood tries it you know that part will be taken out, which would take the entire heart and soul out of it.
I don't think you could take out the anarchist stuff and keep any cohesion to the story. Unless Hollywood wants to make a movie about how an anarchist learned the true value of capitalism and power of friendship.
It would make for an amazing series, but you are right in that it needs to be made by not Hollywood. Perhaps find someone to make it a web series?
Peter Watts “Starfish”and its sequels would be great TV.
https://newbookrecommendation.com/summary-of-starfish-by-peter-watts-a-detailed-synopsis/
I’ve always had a dream of watching Rendezvous with Rama but it’s been in development for a long time.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134933/
The encyclopedia
Prequel series: the dictionary
Sequel series: thesaurus
The Riverworld books by Philip Jose Farmer. I think someone tried it before but it was a half-hearted, low budget, nothing of a show.
It could really do with the full $millions per episode, proper actors treatment that Netflix, Amazon, or Apple could bring.
Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stevenson. But keep it the modern stuff as part of the ninties at the Dawn of the Information Age.
That was written like they hoped it would be made into a movie. I found it one of the drawbacks to the book.
I would kill to watch Asimov's work being adapted by Christopher Nolan. Personally Nolan has been a hit or a miss for me, but Asimov and him are a match made in heaven.
i think Against a dark background by Banks could make a fucking amazing series but them I'm 99% sure they would fuck it up and I wouldn't enjoy it.
I really liked The Wool but didn't like Silo at all. Loved HHGTTG and TV series was good but it's just a fairly accurate adaptation, nothing great. The movie was weak. The first Dirk Gently show was mediocre, the second was fairly good but was only loosely based on the books.
I don't get the obsession some people have with specific lores. Good lore alone doesn't make a good show. Many shit shows were based on The Witcher. I would love to see good, deep, layered, hard Sci-Fi show and I don't care what it's based on. Good lore is like 10% of a good show. At the same time good book is good enough in itself, I don't have see it rehashed in a different format.
I'd like to see The Player of Games adapted. I think it'd work pretty well. Or consider phlebas. The nonlinearity of the other books can make for challenging TV narrative.
Use of Weapons, State of the Art and Inversions would also make great movies. The rest relies on AI too much.
But I still think there's only about 10% chance that someone who actually gets those books would be tasked with adapting them to the screen and wouldn't fuck it up.
The Cliff Hardy series by Peter Corris. (We’ll just ignore the horrible movie of The Empty Beach).
fantastic land
Two Journeys by Clemens P. Suter. Definitely.
Alex Rider 100%
I think the Stephanie Plum novels would make a fun TV series.
I'd watch a series based on Joe Pickett novels
They tried making a Stephanie Plum movie. I wouldn’t blame you if you had no idea. I haven’t seen it but by all accounts it was a train wreck.
Really?
The stories are simple and the characters are great how do you screw that up?
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch would make an excellent movie. Maybe a bit too on the nose for these times. His novel Grace could also be amazing as a film or limited series.
Hivemind (the production company behind The Witcher) announced an Illuminatus Trilogy series back in 2019, but no updates since then.
The Sword of Shadows series. By J.V. Jones.
The best fantasy I have read in decades. It rivals, and in some ways, is better than A Song of Ice and Fire.
And after almost a 15 year wait the penultimate book is done and the author appears to be back in the saddle to finish the series.
It is grimdark fantasy at its finest. And Jones was one of the original genre-defining authors.
I wouldn't trust any of the current producers to do it, or any decent book, justice, though. Seems like LotR was the last really epic adaptation.
Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey-Maturin series should get a big budget event television maxi-series on the order of Game of Thrones. They made the movie Master And Commander, what? A couple decades ago? And it's got one glaring problem: They only made one movie.
Draw the rest of the owl.
The Cradle series by Will Wight would be pretty cool. It's 12 books long but tightly paced and doesn't mire itself in a bunch of tiny details like The Wheel of Time would. It's set in an ancient Chinese fantasy world that's part of a greater struggle in the multiverse and reads like a shonen. Its protagonist, Wei Shi Lindon starts off as a pariah with no powers before being rescued by a demigod who gives him a way to alter the fate of him and his home from an apocalyptic ending.
A 2 hour long animatic was released a few months ago and covers the first 2 books fairly well. A fully animated trailer was also released showing the promise of how well it would look if it took off.
Animatic:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JJMuJCLsYeQ
Trailer:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9FEayZdH-nk
Seveneves. I don’t like the last part but the story is cinematic and grandiose.
There’s a pulp sci-fi series that I’ve been reading, “Backyard Starship”. Basically good-guy Space Sherrif takes on big and small problems in known space with a big variety of aliens. Fun stories and plenty of action. IMO it definitely needs an anime-style version.
The Game is Life series by Terry Schott.
The writing style can put people off but the concept itself and the world building done in the first couple books are just so damn interesting I would love to see a visual interpretation of it.
The Tapestry Series, by Henry Neff.
It's a kid-becomes-wizard story sort of in the Harry Potter vein, but darker, much better written, and much more complex. Also Henry Neff is a wonderful human being.
I feel like my hero academia would have potential to be a cool tv series.