Elf Quest
Discworld work make an incredible series of movies. I think D&D Honor Amongst Theives proves that modern comedy fantasies can work great in a movie format.
My other choice would be House of the Scorpion.
The Megastructure Compendium as an Anthology about life around these massive feats of engineering.
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
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
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.
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.
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 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.
Would love to see (and probably be disappointed by) a Revelation Space adaptation.
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.
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 bought it because I needed something to read on a flight, the cover looked cool for Black Sun Rising, and it blew me away.
I’ve been listening to Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds thanks to a recommendation I saw here on Lemmy. This is one that I’d like to see a movie or series adaptation.
The Bobiverse would be a fun series I think as well.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series by Fritz Leiber
Chung Kuo series by David Wingrove
Blood Meridian (decades of false starts not withstanding).
One of my faves. I’ve never understood why people say it’s impossible to adapt.
Because a huge chunk of the story is wandering the gorgeous, but empty desert with a bunch of psycho killers. Occasionally that group commits grisly large scale harvesting of passable scalps to sell off to bigger towns with a scalp trade. Sometimes one of them, usually the judge, will commit a little extra horrific crime against humanity as a treat for themselves. The “good guy” isn’t exactly someone to root for either. It’s a story with muddy, dark morals and an ending that’ll bum out a lot of folks. No happy days here.
I loved the story and would watch a well done movie about it. I highly doubt that’ll happen. To do it right is to include almost all of the horror of what these people are, which would be a lot of money on effects that will anger a ton of people due to what they portray. It’s not that it’s unadaptable. It’s that it would be a slow burn movie with brief, hyper violent hollowing out of small villages including baby smashing. It’s slow, mean, and ends in a way that’ll have you stare off into space feeling a little bad about the nature of humanity. Not a very profitable idea for a movie.
What’s your ideal cast lineup? I want this live action so bad but it would have to be a mini series to get all of it in, and then can never think of anyone who could bring the Judge to life.
Stellan Skarsgård as Judge would be terrifying. Not sure a out accent.
if he had the body of a WWE wrestler like The Big Show. The Judge is suppose to be a monster of a man, 6’7 and 270, with no hair and a baby like face
The Kiefer Sutherland from The Young Guns era as the Kid
Michael Morecocks Eternal Champion saga. Great candidate for a Netflix animation
Just don’t say Elric since we know how they screwed us over on his ripoff.
Peter Hamilton’s nights dawn trilogy, and his commonwealth saga. Both really good space opera, with varied characters and plot lines.
Yes, absolutely agree. The Commonwealth Saga was what got me into space operas big time
Although probably need to get someone in to handle the female characters - writing women is not his strong point…
Brutally evident on my recent re-read after a decade’s break
House of blades / travelers gate series by will wight.
Surprisingly cool YA / RPG ish without being gamey and too cringe.
Would be a very cool show if not done on CB
