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Semi-Hemi-Demigod ,
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The Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O’Brien. 21.3 books of amazing naval adventures, spy stuff, and survival. They made a movie with Russell Crowe but it doesn’t nearly capture the scope of the novels.

skybreaker ,
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I want to see some Brandon Sanderson novels made into movies or TV shows. Preferably animated as I don’t think a live action would work.

maegul ,
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Word is that it’s coming. And he’s probably the most well known speculative fiction author without an adaptation.

kambusha ,

Yes! The graphic audiobooks have been awesome.

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.

Drewfro66 ,
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Warrior Cats. Talked about it with a friend the other day, I think an animated show would work best

agentshags ,
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TransplantedSconie OP ,

Damn. Went from wanting to write a short story to making a world spanning 16 novels, lol.

That’s insane

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.

tfw_no_toiletpaper ,

Bit of a normie but the Dark Tower series would be awesome. Mixing tons of genres, having very different locations to film in. It would be extremely expensive to produce.

The gunslinging of Idris Elba in the movie was nice but everything else wasn’t.

TransplantedSconie OP , (edited )

Yeah. That movie was a disappointment. I love Idris Elba in everything he does, but that movie should not have been made lol

Algaroth ,

When I first saw the casting I thought Elba was going to play the man in black and McConaughey was going to be Roland which I thought was great casting but then they flipped it around.

MissJinx ,
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Came here to say this. But tbf It will always be a horrible adaptation for a movie, even the first book, the shortest one, is to much for a movie.

Also I don’t think they would ever adapt Odetta the way she is and she is awesome

ColeSloth ,

Mike Flanagan is making the TV series. It’s been in the works for a year or so and has King’s nod of approval on it. No casting has been solidified yet and stuff is of course currently halted due to the strikes, but it’s currently a high priority project after Hollywood can start up again.

XEAL ,

The Preston & Child “Diogenes trilogy” books.

Or just everything around Agent Pendergast

Pons_Aelius ,

The Culture series by Iain M Banks.

Though I am not sure how you would translate some of them (Excession...) into a visual story.

Encromion ,

They turned the inside the suit moments of Iron Man into pop culture. They could figure it out, I bet!

Lophostemon ,

I honestly think that would ruin it for all the Culture fans. Much as I love Banks’ work, I like the movie of the books that I’ve produced in MY head more than what anyone else could make.

los_chill ,

I’m kinda in this boat too. I’m glad Banks’ estate didn’t let the Amazon series go through. Something about a guy like Bezos hailing the books while being a billionaire capitalist egomaniac just makes me uneasy with the whole idea.

PsychedSy ,

Post-scarcity communism is fine. I’d actually consider the culture just lib, not even left or right. It’s a totally voluntary society. Except maybe for some special circumstances.

Pons_Aelius ,

Post-scarcity communism is fine.

Post scarcity makes labels like communism/capitalism meaningless. They are both systems to deal with the scarcity of resources.

One of the best lines in Bank's work to describe this is from LTW:

"Money is a sign of poverty"

Ie: A society that needs money to apportion scarce resources is always poor as there is never enough to go around.

PsychedSy ,

It certainly has shaped my own ethics and ideas.

Pons_Aelius ,

I understand your point but feel it is a bit selfish.

I honestly think that would ruin it for all the Culture fans.

But it would also create a lot more Culture fans. Just as the LOTR movies got a huge number of people to read Tolkien.

I would love to see more people read Banks.

I like the movie of the books that I’ve produced in MY head more than what anyone else could make.

If they are ever adapted no one is going to force you to watch and you can reread them when ever you want.

CybranM ,

Totally agree with you, many people said the same about Lord of the rings before Peter Jackson made an amazing adaptation. That doesn’t mean every adaptation is good, far from it, but that shouldn’t stop people from trying.

Cheradenine ,

My first thought. Though you could do Use of Weapons, Inversions, and The State of the Art. The Algebraist, Feersum Endjinn, The Player of Games, could all be their own trilogy. Use of Weapons, Look to Windward, Surface Detail etc.

Hackerman_uwu ,

I always thought the drone scenes would be so interesting on film like a mix between bullet time and 10000fps. Also weird storytelling seeing the other scenes pop up in drone time.

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