Dredd could be a whole franchise
Bring 👏 back👏 Karl 👏
Michael Morecocks Eternal Champion saga. Great candidate for a Netflix animation
The Iliad. Not a “take” or an “adaptation” or a “re-imagining”. Just play it straight as it is, cut out some of the monologues and replace the “throwing spears at each other” parts with swordfights.
I want to see the gods descend from Olympus to fight on the battlefield.
The Lies of Locke Lamora is just begging for an Ocean’s Eleven-type treatment.
I was about to post the same thing. That series is fucking awesome
Is the rest of the series good? I read the first one and thought it was pretty good but a reasonably well wrapped up story by the end
I really liked it, the three are pretty different. There’s supposed to be a fourth and more but it’s kinda in the r.r. Martin situation
I believe Foundation was made into a series already, by Amazon
“Foundation” is on Apple TV+ and the second season is or was about to drop!
According to those that read the book(s) it’s either utter trash or a decent adaptation of a rather nebulous story.
I’ve not read the books. The series is very well done! It’s a compelling story with good characters, and Lee Pace is in top form (both acting and nude)!
The first couple of books were originally published in sci-fi magazines, so they are more like collections of short stories than books. Usually each story covers one crises, and by the next story everyone from the first is dead and gone. So if Apple are trying to make a single cohesive narrative, I can see that it would either need to make a lot of changes or be set later in the Foundation timeline when the books were written as books
Dragonriders of Pern, by Anne McCaffrey. Currently doing my umpteenth read-through completely accidentally. I wanted to read one of the books then got sucked in. I’m nine books in and read several of them in one sitting, despite having read them all plenty of times.
And while I’m on the subject, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone taking about Pern online but I see mentions of Isaac Asimov every few weeks. They’re of a similar age and Pern is equally good as Isaac’s work, if not better. Grumble grumble…
Yup. Or it would lend itself to a 3-4 season show. The CGI time would seem prohibitive thanks to the dragons, Thread, and sci-fi aspects of the story.
I’m a lifelong pern fan, but… the immense fear of thread won’t come across well on the screen in my opinion. And thread fighting will be hard to make such that it has the same magnitude as it can in your imagination. All in all, thread is over played. It can’t be such a harrowing fight in the skies, and still be so devastating if one got through unnoticed. Cause if the fight in the skies was so hard, more would get by, and some would get missed over the years. And that is played off as the end of the world. In your imagination, that can work, but on screen, not so much. That means they would need to make some fundamental change to film it.
Canonically some gets by every time, which is why they need ground crews with flame throwers, right?
It changes based on the book and situation, honestly. Sometimes a weyr boasts than none has got through their wings for several years. Sometimes it’s just a couple of Threads. But often, whenever a character is caught outside, it’s taken to be certain death. For example
Spoiler
Menolly’s fire lizards die as they’re hatching and go out into thread
I can’t remember the book, but one punishment for murderers is to leave them outside in Threadfall to be killed
In Renegades of Pern, many of the traders die in the opening chapter despite there being dragonriders nearby
I feel like a lot of Anne McCaffrey’s writing is inconsistent and is more based on what’s good for the plot than anything else. And (at least in the early editions I own) could have done with a better proofreader. Couple of spelling mistakes, but a lot of people and dragon names changing and other consistency errors. But I still love the books, don’t get me wrong!
Yes, this. The assumption of certain death outside during threadfall, and the supposed inate fear humans have of Thread just doesn’t work. If only a few Thread get through for the ground crews, you could just run away. It falls slow enough. For books, you can get away with that. But film would need to rework Thread significantly.
You’re probably right, but I was trying to say it deserves more recognition. I don’t think it would be a good TV show either. And Eragon has put me off all dragon-related adaptations I think!
Magic Kingdom of Landover
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.
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
Snowcrash
Lot of good ones in here. Only idea I can think of is The Black Company. Not specifically to follow Croakers story either. Could be about battles and drama of the past from the annals.
Gets my vote.
Funny enough, came to say the Garrett P.I. series.
Goblin and One-Eye would be fucking awesome as the main characters, or Raven. Hell even a story about how the Silver Spike came to be would be a good movie.
No fuck that Croaker is the bad ass mofo and his story should be the first movie. Make it an unknown actor who can be humble but also a bad mofo who everyone is like JFC dude!
If you did a TV series it could be like True Detective. Each season being a different timeframe. The Taken being the few reoccurring characters. But even then a character like Shifter could be portrayed by multiple actors.
Elf Quest
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
The Gap Cycle series
LOL IDK how you would do the first book or even touch on that part of the books (because it makes them very very hard to suggest let alone reread) but once you got to the singularity bomb at the science space station deep in a dense asteroid field… I wanna see that part. The emotions that the story creates in the characters is pretty primal and believable. Its an interesting story how each of the main characters goes through the same level of violation but in different ways
The original TSR Dragonlance D&D series from the '80s by Weis and Hickman.
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This is what I was looking for. Sure, we have a crappy animated movie, but all I have ever wanted was to see the Heroes of the Lance in real life.
