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.
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Word is that it's coming. And he's probably the most well known speculative fiction author without an adaptation.
The Culture series by Iain M Banks.
Though I am not sure how you would translate some of them (Excession...) into a visual story.
I honestly think that would ruin it for all the Culture fans. Much as I love Banksβ work, I like the movie of the books that Iβve produced in MY head more than what anyone else could make.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah. That movie was a disappointment. I love Idris Elba in everything he does, but that movie should not have been made lol
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.
Instead of cgi I want it done with traditional cell animation on a huge budget. Like princess Mononoke or spirited away.
I'd love to see the last 3 books of The Expanse series made into a trilogy of movies.
I would prefer at least 10 episode seasons, but I'd take anything at this point. The last 3 books were the best of them all, and that's with the first 6 being absolutely amazing as well.
Greatest series ever, I will die on that hill.
There are a couple really spectacular scenes that I really want to see visualized. In my head I extrapolated what the last 3 books would look like based on the series visualizations which made them like watching the show. That last scene with Draper though.. that would be a sight to behold.
The Mars trilogy by KSR. I think 3 8 hour long episode seasons could work
Ursula le Guin anyone?
The Left Hand of Darkness might be interesting. The Word for Tree is Forest would likely get thought of as an odd Avatar clone. But The Dispossessed would probably never get made, people would find worth in the politics and abandon the megacorp making it.
The Nights Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. Not as a trilogy, though, this would have to be series, maybe three seasons per book.
Pretty much any Brandon Sanderson book series. Mistborn, Steelheart, Way of King's, Skyward.... Etc
Worm
https://parahumans.wordpress.com/
My attention span makes reading really hard. I read this from start to finish. It's well worth the read if you're into stories like it
Mistborn by Brandan Sanderson.
If done right, he could probably pull off the entire Cosmere.
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.
The Dying Earth series by Jack Vance.
Itβs an old series, but the imagination and world building put into it should make for some great stories.
Discworld - preferably the City Watch novels. Books have been adapted a few times, but usually as lone events, and even the ones with a serious cast are just... okay.
Looking from one beloved dead author to another, Douglas Adams mercilessly chopped up the Hitchhiker's Guide between mediums. There was no "original version." It was all the same story, but sometimes with different events. That is the attitude necessary for capturing why Discworld is so good. Don't film a book, page-for-page. That's not how moving images work. Keep the characterization clear and fill in a storyboard from the Wikipedia description.
Anyway the real reason to go for a series would be consistent casting. Have the same guy play Vimes across a bunch of stories. Get cameos for Vetenari from the same wizened thespian. Call-forward future stories by turning bit-part scammers into Moist appearances, throw Gaspode in any scene with dogs, that sort of thing. Make Ankh-Morpork feel connected. Lived-in. Real, for a reality where wizards sometimes where fake glasses so people think they're badly disguised as wizards.
World war Z made a pretty bad movie. However, it would do a gneat TV show, in the style of these 1990's show with in dependant episodes despite some metaplot
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.
Robin Hobb's fantasy books would be interesting. Probably quite hard to adapt well though.
The name of the wind.
A Name of the Wind adaptation would either be incredible or fucking awful, no in between.
Anything to do with Pern. Some good high fantasy and tech mixed. Might be a harder sell to the general public. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonriders_of_Pern
The Brainship series (The ship who sang). This would go over well with the Star Trek, Star Wars fansbase, I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ship_Who_Sang
The Vorkosigan saga. This would also go well with the Star Trek/Wars fanbases. More political than Brainship series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorkosigan_Saga
The Dragearan books about Vlad Taltos by Steven Brust. Especially the first few. High fantasy mystery novels. This would be an easy sell, IMO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Brust#Vlad_Taltos
This made me realize I haven't read any new books in a while.
Asimov's Foundation series. It hasn't been done yet. By anyone.
Pretty sure you're just being a silly goose. Is the series on apple tv that bad?
It's not actually bad as a sci-fi series, if it was its own thing it would be very acceptable. It's just bad as an adaptation of Foundation.
The only thing it takes from Asimov is jargon. The books are about society and civilization. The show is about the emperor, Hari Seldon, and his magic. They're hardly related.
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:
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Mosquito people. The males are quiet and studious, the females are strong, dangerous, and driven mad by hunger
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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.
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Smokestone. Rock that will change unpredictably into smoke - and back into stone.
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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.
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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.
The Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick OβBrien. 21.3 books of amazing naval adventures, spy stuff, and survival. They made a movie with Russell Crowe but it doesnβt nearly capture the scope of the novels.
I have a couple. Iβd love to see Prydain done right but I donβt 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 itβs been too long; I think heβs probably too old now.
They announced an Illuminatus! series back in 2019 that I haven't heard any news of since.
The Monster at the end of this Book. Itβs the one with Grover from Sesame Street. They made a second one where Elmo fucking ruins it by being all annoyingβ¦ Another Monster at the end of this Book. Maybe in the third one Grover kills Elmo?
The Riftwar Cycle from Feist. Each series is a season. And even side-series, like The Empire trilogy.