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funkajunk ,
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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.

Bye ,

Instead of cgi I want it done with traditional cell animation on a huge budget. Like princess Mononoke or spirited away.

funkajunk ,
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There already was a traditionally animated show though…

Piecemakers3Dprints ,
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The Redwall video game is actually a lot of fun, so there’s that at least 🤩

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

That would either be fire or a smoldering pile of shit.

funkajunk ,
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There’s so much source material that I think it could work.

shiveyarbles ,

Or they could hire furries

funkajunk ,
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No thanks

Algaroth ,

A game of thrones style epic based on the Battletech universe. It’s been around since the 80s and there is a ton of books and lore to build from.

deadh34d ,

Fuckin this. I’ve been dreaming of a Warrior trilogy adaptation for years.

TheButtonJustSpins ,

I would love to see Feist’s sagas on screen.

That said, I only chose those because I’m already lucky enough to be seeing Wheel of Time come to the small screen, and it’s a joy.

craigevil ,
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Laurell Hamilton’s Anita Blake series Kim Harrison’s Hollows series Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire Piers Anthony Xanth

CitizenKong ,

Mistborn by Brandan Sanderson.

Xyre ,

If done right, he could probably pull off the entire Cosmere.

K3zi4 ,

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.

JillyB ,

I think Neuromancer would work well as a heavily stylized animation.

TheGreenGolem ,

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

DeltaTangoLima ,
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It seemed like it was finally going to happen - someone even acquired the rights, after Feist knocked back offers over and over due to them not being a “good fit”.

But, a year later, it fell apart.

imgprojts ,

Calculus…early transcendentals.

Spasmolytic ,

I can’t even imagine who might do them justice, but some of the books in Iain Banks’ Culture series could be a real treat.

PonyOfWar ,

Robin Hobb’s fantasy books would be interesting. Probably quite hard to adapt well though.

StenSaksTapir ,

There’s been talk multiple times of turning the Matthew Corbett series by Robert R. McCammon into a series.

I could see every book being turned into a maybe 10 episode season.

Encromion ,

Dragonlance is a good one.

  • Wheel of Time
  • Mistborn
  • The Uplift Saga
  • The Alex Benedict Series
GrayBackgroundMusic ,

Wheel of Time

en.wikipedia.org/…/The_Wheel_of_Time_(TV_series)

I’ve heard it’s bad. I can’t personally say, never watched it.

theskyisfalling ,

None.

I don’t see what making a film or TV series adds to any book, all they ever seem to do is a disservice to the original story in the attempt to squeeze as much money from it as possible.

I’d rather more fully voice acted audiobooks were made staying more true to the original texts but adding that extra element to draw you in than just one narrator trying to differentiate characters with different voices.

TransplantedSconie OP ,

I see your point. But if done right, the movie/show can be almost as good as the books (Fellowship of the Ring and One Piece). It just takes someone who loves the material being used or (in the case of One Piece) the creator watching over every step.

theskyisfalling ,

Maybe so but they are so few and far between, for me personally I can’t think of an adaptation that I have really liked. I don’t like The Lord of the Rings films that much but I actually dislike the books more in that case but I realise that I am an outlier with that opinion.

people_are_cute ,
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Yep. I wanted to mention Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn series but it already has a stellar GraphicAudio adaptation.

theskyisfalling ,

Yup, I love Graphic Audio and am currently listening to Stormlight Archives by Sanderson produced by them. It is great!

CannedTuna ,

I love Sanderson novels and especially the Stormlight Archives. I know if Amazon or someone picked it up, they’d absolutely ruin it. Probably the only way we’d see a faithful adaptation would be in animated form.

GrayBackgroundMusic ,

I don’t see what making a film or TV series adds to any book, all they ever seem to do is a disservice to the original story in the attempt to squeeze as much money from it as possible.

It’s that last part that effs it up. For example, I really liked Luhrman’s Romeo+Juliet. That was a creative interpretation. I enjoyed Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I thought the books were decent, but the movie captured the best bits, IMO. Early seasons of Game of Thrones were good. I like some of the changes made to move the internal dialog to conversations. It gave the side characters more life.

It’s when the artistic vision is cast aside in the name of profit, then the work of art suffers.

Marin_Rider ,

The Mars trilogy by KSR. I think 3 8 hour long episode seasons could work

Encromion ,

And we were teased about it on the SciFi channel a bunch of years ago before they instituted cost savings measures.

Starglasses ,

I first read that as three 8-hour long episodes. Like, damn, the books are great but I’m not sitting for that long–oh-- 3 seasons each with 8 hour-long episodes… that makes sense lol

Thisfox ,

Was going to say the same. They would make an amazing series of series.

GrayBackgroundMusic ,

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.

CADmonkey ,

I would love to see a movie or miniseries based on the “Bas-Lag” novels by China Mieville, which are “Perdido Street Station”, “The Scar”, and “Iron Council”

I think the best description of these books would be “Gritty Steampunk Fantasy” with a very generous dose of Weird. The writing is very descriptive, even when you really would rather not know about what’s being described.

Some things that are mentioned in these three books:

  • Mosquito people. The males are quiet and studious, the females are strong, dangerous, and driven mad by hunger
  • Punishment factories. Criminals are sentenced to “Remaking”. The Remade are people who have had either machinery or animal parts grafted onto them. Most Remakings are cruel and useless.
  • Smokestone. Rock that will change unpredictably into smoke - and back into stone.
  • Frog people who can make water hold a shape for a short time. A longshoreman’s strike in one of the books involved a bunch of these guys forming a large gap in a river.
  • Sentient steam powered constructs

*Drugs that let you experience other people’s dreams.

There is a lot I have to leave out due to spoilers, but it would be an awesome series.

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