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proudblond ,

I have a couple. I’d love to see Prydain done right but I don’t have much hope anymore.

Temeraire got optioned by Peter Jackson years and years ago. I remember thinking that Richard Armitage would be a perfect Lawrence, but it’s been too long; I think he’s probably too old now.

CynicRaven ,

Hell yes to Prydain but I’m not sure who would do it. I’m sure Disney associates it with their dark time in animation.

Bluebanrigh ,

I think the rights reverted back to the author.

I’d love for Temeraire to be a series, in my head I had Tom Hiddleston as Laurence but he might be aging out as well. Though Richard Armitage would also have been awesome.

All I can think is that it would cost a boatload of money. Boats, war and dragons.

I’d watch it as an animated series, then it wouldn’t matter how old Armitage or Hiddleston were.

proudblond ,

I’ll watch Hiddleston do anything, honestly.

Yeah, I really like live action but I think it has a better shot as animation. I don’t mind animation but I’m more drawn to live action. But it’s hard and costly to put a lot of fantasy to live-action screen.

agamemnonymous ,
@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works avatar

They announced an Illuminatus! series back in 2019 that I haven’t heard any news of since.

amio ,

I've always thought The Belgariad/Malloreon/prequels (David & Leigh Eddings) would make for an interesting anime. It's a very shonen kind of story and world.

Agent641 , (edited )

The Amtrak Wars.

Red Rising

The Very Hungry Caterpillar (starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson as the caterpillar)

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

Three Body Problem/ Liu Cixin’s Dark Forest goodness

Blackhole ,

Uh… it is being made into a series. I also don’t get the hype about three body problem. I thought that book was mediocre at best.

boogetyboo ,
@boogetyboo@aussie.zone avatar

It’s being made by Netflix I think. I’m 2/3rds of the way through the books. I think it lends itself well to TV because the characters are only devices to move the plot along, rather than specific identities that you can invest in/relate to etc. Interested to see how it goes.

DeusHircus ,

A Chinese show has already been released and an American one is releasing on Netflix soon. The Chinese version can be streamed on Viki. I’m about 1/3 of the way through (30 episodes) and I’m absolutely loving it. They don’t dumb down any of the details with the science and is staying very true to the books so far. You just have to be willing to watch a subtitled show

I’m happy to be surprised but I doubt I’ll like the US version as much. Nearly every US book adaptation I’ve watched has been dumbed down “for a wider audience” and changed quite substantially (looking at you, Silo and Beacon 23). This is also coming from D and D of GoT infamy, so we’ll see if they can turn their track record around. At least this book is finished so they have the entire source material to work with

craigevil ,
@craigevil@lemmy.ml avatar

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

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.

lightnsfw ,

Nothing. I don’t trust them to not try and make their own “vision” and fuck it up.

PonyOfWar ,

I don’t really get that mentality. If the show is bad, the books are still just as good and you’ll have lost nothing except maybe some wasted time.

lightnsfw ,

If the show is bad my memories of that thing will be forever tainted. I’d rather they not be.

dan1101 ,

There actually was a 2008 animated Dragonlance movie with a good voice cast. But I hear it was terrible and I haven’t forced myself to watch it.

TransplantedSconie OP , (edited )

Yeah, it is. Out of boredom, I watched it one Sunday when I had nothing to do and could only make like 20 minutes into it before I shut it off. It is not good at all lol.Here it is in its horrible glory

nueonetwo ,

Abhorsen series by Garth Nix.

UnculturedSwine ,

Didn’t realize he was pumping out more books since I read the first three in grade school. Excellent series!

nueonetwo ,

Yep, he’s got three more in the series.

Lophostemon ,

I’ve just realised perhaps the Pleistocene series by Julian May could probably be pulled off, especially if using the original (to me) cover illustrations as visual ‘canon’.

GrappleHat ,
@GrappleHat@lemmy.ml avatar

Early Mormon church history is about as bizzarre and dramatic as it gets. I think a well-produced & historically accurate dramaticization of the weird beginnings of the Mormon church would make for a good miniseries.

Bewilderbeast ,
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Any of the William Gibson trilogies. Even though The Peripheral didn’t work out.

HowMany ,

The “titan” series by John Varley. A good trilogy. Also a good five year series could be had with “ringworld” by Niven - the ongoing adventures that could feature six months of gathering the players and explaining their mission(s).

IF they’re done right, of course.

mindbleach ,

Consider starting Ringworld on the Ringworld. Louis recounting the story so far to some fascinated locals, as a framing device. Presumably in that village where he fucks a catgirl. A lot of the first book is kinda Lord Of The Rings for a different kind of ultranerd: they have to go from point A to point Z Z Plural Z Alpha, unfathomably far away, whilst dealing with obstacles that are occasionally hostile and universally just weird.

You still get the long scenes of Louis Wu’s 200th birthday party walking its way around the globe, and Nessus being so racist that eight-foot-tall murdercats feel the need to apologize. You still get the landing, such as it is, with Teela casually weaving through a minefield of molten glass. That’s just not tension, per se, because we already know they get to the Ringworld. It’s in the title. The question is, how will they ever leave? I think you can even keep the phwoar factor present when describing the ship, so long as that comes before showing the arrival. Otherwise the long list of cool shit that doesn’t matter is more of a joke.

HowMany ,

Nice!

mindbleach ,

Some time after writing that I realized Ringworld and LOTR are both about dragging an artifact up a mountain to drop it in.

HowMany ,

That’s funny! Good observation!

WanderingCrow ,

That Titan trilogy is such a trip, I’d watch that for sure, just to see if they fully went for it.

sxan ,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Bolo. They’d have to do it in the *Love, Death, and Robots" format, since they’re all short stories and no recurring characters, but it’d be great like that.

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