I’ve often wanted a movie/series based on the Dragonlance books or the Dark Elf trilogy. What would you all like to see done if you had the ability to do it?
I want to see some Brandon Sanderson novels made into movies or TV shows. Preferably animated as I don’t think a live action would work.
Word is that it’s coming. And he’s probably the most well known speculative fiction author without an adaptation.
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Yes! The graphic audiobooks have been awesome.
The Culture series by Iain M Banks.
Though I am not sure how you would translate some of them (Excession…) into a visual story.
I honestly think that would ruin it for all the Culture fans. Much as I love Banks’ work, I like the movie of the books that I’ve produced in MY head more than what anyone else could make.
I’m kinda in this boat too. I’m glad Banks’ estate didn’t let the Amazon series go through. Something about a guy like Bezos hailing the books while being a billionaire capitalist egomaniac just makes me uneasy with the whole idea.
Post-scarcity communism is fine. I’d actually consider the culture just lib, not even left or right. It’s a totally voluntary society. Except maybe for some special circumstances.
Post-scarcity communism is fine.
Post scarcity makes labels like communism/capitalism meaningless. They are both systems to deal with the scarcity of resources.
One of the best lines in Bank’s work to describe this is from LTW:
“Money is a sign of poverty”
Ie: A society that needs money to apportion scarce resources is always poor as there is never enough to go around.
It certainly has shaped my own ethics and ideas.
My first thought. Though you could do Use of Weapons, Inversions, and The State of the Art. The Algebraist, Feersum Endjinn, The Player of Games, could all be their own trilogy. Use of Weapons, Look to Windward, Surface Detail etc.
They turned the inside the suit moments of Iron Man into pop culture. They could figure it out, I bet!
Bit of a normie but the Dark Tower series would be awesome. Mixing tons of genres, having very different locations to film in. It would be extremely expensive to produce.
The gunslinging of Idris Elba in the movie was nice but everything else wasn’t.
Yeah. That movie was a disappointment. I love Idris Elba in everything he does, but that movie should not have been made lol
When I first saw the casting I thought Elba was going to play the man in black and McConaughey was going to be Roland which I thought was great casting but then they flipped it around.
Came here to say this. But tbf It will always be a horrible adaptation for a movie, even the first book, the shortest one, is to much for a movie.
Also I don’t think they would ever adapt Odetta the way she is and she is awesome
Mike Flanagan is making the TV series. It’s been in the works for a year or so and has King’s nod of approval on it. No casting has been solidified yet and stuff is of course currently halted due to the strikes, but it’s currently a high priority project after Hollywood can start up again.
Redwall.
Do it in full photo realistic CGI; I want to see the beautiful castles and countryside, all the delicious food, and the gruesome battles in all their glory.
Instead of cgi I want it done with traditional cell animation on a huge budget. Like princess Mononoke or spirited away.
There already was a traditionally animated show though…
Or they could hire furries
No thanks
That would either be fire or a smoldering pile of shit.
There’s so much source material that I think it could work.
The Redwall video game is actually a lot of fun, so there’s that at least 🤩
I’d love to see the last 3 books of The Expanse series made into a trilogy of movies.
I would prefer at least 10 episode seasons, but I’d take anything at this point. The last 3 books were the best of them all, and that’s with the first 6 being absolutely amazing as well.
Greatest series ever, I will die on that hill.
There are a couple really spectacular scenes that I really want to see visualized. In my head I extrapolated what the last 3 books would look like based on the series visualizations which made them like watching the show. That last scene with Draper though… that would be a sight to behold.
!Like a fuckin Valkyrie!< 😭
This whole thread is making me want to listen to the audiobooks all over again.
Let the dark sideExpanse flow through you
Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
Came here for this comment, wasn’t disappointed.
Maybe? It’s been decades since I read it, but I remember enjoying Hyperion and fucking hating Fall of Hyperion. It felt like Hyperion was amazing and well thought ought but then Fall was just mailed in.
The Witcher but they actually follow the source material.
It does exist actually, it’s just Polish media.
Not really, what you’re referencing is like a half-remembered retelling of a few of the stories from The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny.
I have only played The Witcher 3 and its DLCs and watched The Netflix show up until S02, so far I like it (especially the game).
I’m slowly introducing in the books/reading field, and just started with classics like Dracula (so far liking it) are the books of The Witcher stand on their own as a good entry point for my “current phase”?
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The Mars trilogy by KSR. I think 3 8 hour long episode seasons could work
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As long as they edit it a bit. IMO, it felt like Robinson was paid by the word and padded the crap out of the novels.
And we were teased about it on the SciFi channel a bunch of years ago before they instituted cost savings measures.
Was going to say the same. They would make an amazing series of series.
Ursula le Guin anyone?
The Left Hand of Darkness might be interesting. The Word for Tree is Forest would likely get thought of as an odd Avatar clone. But The Dispossessed would probably never get made, people would find worth in the politics and abandon the megacorp making it.
Le Guin prose is exceptional and would be nearly impossible to bring to screen well. I’m sure it will be tried at some point. Maybe a dark horse, but I actually think The Lathe of Heaven might be the most adaptable. It’s the simplest story and has plenty of room for exciting changes and visuals in a film.
And… the 1980 adaption of Lathe of Heaven is fantastic. (There’s also a remake I refuse to acknowledge.)
Her Earthsea book was actually adapted. By Studio Ghibli no less. It was so bad that the dad of the director left the theater halfway through to have a smoke. Said dad was no other than Hayao Miyazaki (Director of Spirited Away, Howl’s Miving Castle, Castle in the Sky, etc)
I just finished The Disposessed and found it critiqued both the capitalist and anarchist society. The people of Annares have simple happiness, but they starve and strive to keep the society alive. It’s also very explicit that it only works because they don’t uphold their anarchist ideals and coerce everyone into work through social pressure.
I think a film would work and would present a “you could have a different society, but it would never be a paradise” type idea.
The Nights Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. Not as a trilogy, though, this would have to be series, maybe three seasons per book.
I came here to say this - Night’s Dawn (or his other massive series the Commonwealth Saga) would make excellent TV. But it would have to be skilfully made, probably animated (like Sonnie’s Edge in Love + Robots), and cover many, many seasons.
Worm
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My attention span makes reading really hard. I read this from start to finish. It’s well worth the read if you’re into stories like it
this would make an incredible adult animated series. I think doing skitter’s bugs would be difficult as a live action
Mistborn by Brandan Sanderson.
If done right, he could probably pull off the entire Cosmere.
Give me animated cosmere over films any day, it’s so expansive and only growing. A well done animated series would be incredible and easy to maintain.
Murderbot, but I don’t think it could make the transition to film.
I thought that while reading it, so good but first person narrations can never really get adapted well.
It isn’t that they can never get adapted well, it’s just much harder to do. I think Fate/Stay Night has examples of terrible and great adaptations. Studio Deen’s adaptation of the Fate route was awful, their adaptation of Unlimited Blade Works was even worse. Ufotable’s adaptation of Unlimited Blade Works was pretty good, and their adaptation of Heaven’s Feel was great.
Mushoku Tensei was adapted amazingly, and while many details were left out, the adaptation is a masterclass of how to do it well.
If we’re talking about ordinary books, Andy Weir’s The Martian had a pretty good adaptation, and I am expecting Project Hail Mary to be good as well.
The Dying Earth series by Jack Vance.
It’s an old series, but the imagination and world building put into it should make for some great stories.The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie. I think it actually might become a movie.
