House of leaves.
MZD wrote some spec screenplays for a television series and sells them for $11.
https://www.markzdanielewski.com/digital-downloads/p/markzdanielewskihouseofleavesscripts
Haven’t read them yet but intend to.
Hard to imagine it being done well, given not only the plot(s) but the…unique narrative structure.
Any advice on how to actually get through this book? I love it but it’s very challenging.
Take as long as you feel like, and try not to focus on “getting through” the book. On my first read, I was lucky enough to feel like I couldn’t put it down. I tried a second time years later and didn’t get very far, I think because I was focused on finishing it.
Hyperion series. That thing’s gonna be hard to adapt though.
It’d probably make a better TV series with a Star Trek The Next Generation feel to it
Any of the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
There are a couple animated adaptations of some of the books, and the live-action adaptation of Hogfather is pretty good!
There’s also a Sky One live action of Color of Magic and Going Postal that are pretty solid.
Edit: Thanks Madjo!
Sky One, not BBC.
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Always felt like that Eragon series could have been good. Too bad they never made a movie for it. Never once. I’m sure it would have been solid if they had. But they didn’t.
Ah, it appears you have forgotten or have simply Mandela’d in from a different timeline. Allow me to refresh your memory for you in the kindest way possible:
Eragon was a 2006 dance film featuring Jeremy Irons and Ed Speeler on a ship. Some fighting is involved. And I dunno, a dragon maybe.
I think they are making an Eragon adaptation (for the first time, of course). I think Disney+ is making a series, similar to them restarting Percy Jackson.
Oh boy. Disney adaptation track record is very hit or miss. I hope they don’t mess this one up like the last adaptation.
I feel the same way about Avatar: The Last Airbender. It would have been such an amazing movie, or perhaps even a series. But alas, they’ve never attempted it once.
The Lies of Locke Lamora is just begging for an Ocean’s Eleven-type treatment.
I was about to post the same thing. That series is fucking awesome
Is the rest of the series good? I read the first one and thought it was pretty good but a reasonably well wrapped up story by the end
I really liked it, the three are pretty different. There’s supposed to be a fourth and more but it’s kinda in the r.r. Martin situation
Good to know! I’ll add it to the ever growing list
Yeah that would be the perfect vibe for that.
The Iliad. Not a “take” or an “adaptation” or a “re-imagining”. Just play it straight as it is, cut out some of the monologues and replace the “throwing spears at each other” parts with swordfights.
I want to see the gods descend from Olympus to fight on the battlefield.
The Dark Tower.
Whatever that monstrosity they released a few years ago was doesn’t count.
Just the first book
Make it like Blood Meridian level creepy and violent
There’s a book called Robopocalypse where an AI gains sentience and then takes control of basically all robotics/anything connected to the internet to take over the world and I’d love to see that as a mini series.
Infinite Jest. Just for the sheer impossibility of any attempt to do so :-)
The Red Rising series would be an awesome TV show. Each of the 6 (so far) books would be excellent as long seasons.
Yes and I want the people who did The Expanse to make it.
Who (actors) do you think would be Darrow or Goblin?
Benedict Cumberbatch and Judge Reinhold
I kinda fell off after book 3.
Book 4 is a bit slow but it picks up a lot after that.
That said don’t feel obligated to read something that Doesn’t interest you of course
4 is the weakest of the series imo, it does pick back up
Ringworld :)
Announced over 3 years ago (2021) in this article that mentions Amazon Prime optioned it in 2017: Tech Advisor article about “Ringworld” on Amazon Prime
So…
So, it’s still not here :P
Apparently in the woks by Amazon
No shit. I’m very suprised. Some of it gets rather technical for the masses.
Don’t worry, they’ll cut that
Prolly true. Maybe we can get an extended cut for us nerds.
Would love to see (and probably be disappointed by) a Revelation Space adaptation.
Although I love the books, I’d never want to see them as a film. I expect it would be so gory it would take away from the story. Kind of how Game of Thrones was just so focused on boobs that it was honestly embarrassing to watch sometimes.
I think diamond dogs would make a really interesting animation short or maybe full-length movie.
But any of the books from the main series would require the kind of love and effort that the Expanse got early on.
But any of the books from the main series would require the kind of love and effort that the Expanse got early on.
I don’t know that any series would ever get that kind of love ever again. What The Expanse got was rare and amazing.
That’s kind of my fear and given how kind of hard science fiction Rev space is. I think it would really suffer if it got the generic space treatment that most of Hollywood considers adequate for science fiction.
Knowing Hollywood they would skip over the entire relativistic aspect of the universe. Or like altered carbon miss some of the depth and nuance of the social commentary.
The Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee.
*Not until the books, plural, and the She-Wolves of Winterfell are published. Please grrm.
ha, well, wild cards is kinda ancient and has enough volumes out to not require him in really any capacity
Have you read the Tuf stuff? I think that would translate well to a Scavengers Reign-esque animated series. The older I get, the more I realize that animation is the perfect medium for sci-fi adaptation.
i have not… but it does look interesting. thanks!
