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?

  • Demographics (She/Her)
    1•2 years ago

    The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zealazny is ripe for CGI heavy HBO treatment. I think it would be very well received at this day and age.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•2 years ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
        1•2 years ago

        Because Fall rushed the story with a fuck ton of plotlines. It really should have focused on continuing the story and have a third book conclude the major plotlines. That way a lot of things that happened wouldn’t feel like they were pulled out of left field.

      • @[email protected]
        4•2 years ago

        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.

    • kratoz29English
      1•2 years ago

      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”?

      • @[email protected]
        2•2 years ago

        I also had only played the witcher III when I started the books. The games are all set after the events of the witcher saga (books), and are honestly just really really good fan fiction based on the characters (like, really the best fan fiction you could think of), so you can feel free to just read the books.

        If you’re not a big reader (if I understand the note about dracula correctly) the witcher audio books are really well done, and the stories lend themselves very well to being listened to.

        Finally, I could write a treatise on the failures of the netflix show, but it would all be old news—about 10% of the show is accurate to the stories told in the text (and the text is so much better), the rest is a bunch of made-up nonsense that serves nothing other than to muddy the narrative.

        In short, yes, read the books (also why do people need to ask advice about reading books these days. just read books).

        • kratoz29English
          1•2 years ago

          Thank you for the explanation! If they are a prequel of The Witcher III then that’ll make it better for me!

          (also why do people need to ask advice about reading books these days. just read books).

          About this, well, there is a reason why book communities exist right? I am not asking for validation in this matter but definitely like to hear all opinions and personal experience before setting off on this kind of time consuming activity.

          • @[email protected]
            1•2 years ago

            I will only say this: reading a book takes no more time than it does to read a bunch of bullshit on the internet. Why would one need to consult with people prior to opening a book and reading 5, 10 or, 500 pages? I would argue that opening a book and reading it first is better than asking for peoples’ opinion and permission prior to reading anything.

            To paraphrase Kamina: “Don’t believe in the text, believe in the text that believes in you!”

    • @[email protected]
      1•2 years ago

      The visuals would be amazing. I’d also like to see a depiction of the scene in the beginning of “Revelation Space” where Ilia gets pushed into a kilometers-high elevator shaft, and she belatedly remembers that she can just stop the ship accelerating to save herself.

  • @[email protected]
    2•2 years ago

    The Webnovel “Mother of Learning” It has four arcs. Each arc is long enough to be made into two seasons, each containing 8 episodes.

  • Izzy
    21•2 years ago

    I’d love to see the last 3 books of The Expanse series made into a trilogy of movies.

    • @[email protected]
      14•2 years ago

      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.

      • Izzy
        6•2 years ago

        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.

  • @[email protected]
    5•2 years ago

    The Riftwar Cycle from Feist. Each series is a season. And even side-series, like The Empire trilogy.

  • funkajunkEnglish
    21•2 years ago

    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.