A well-done Brothers Karamazov could put your Downton Abbeys and Bridgertons to shame.
Maybe call it “Three Brothers…”
The original TSR Dragonlance D&D series from the '80s by Weis and Hickman.
At least we finally seem to be beyond people wondering why Drizzt isn’t around.
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.
The bone comic book series by Jeff Smith completely deserves a movie or show or something. The series is like Tolkien + Disney +metaphysics and is aimed at a younger audience but has enough deep ideas to keep adults actively interested. It has a rich history of the 90s-00s comic book era as well as some history in acholastic book fairs as well as some early internet meme culture contribution. It was solely owned by one dude who eventually got some help from someone who added color to the series that really made it a next level up. If anyone decides to read it from my comment here, check out the omnibus version and if you can find a 20th anniversary version, that has some nice history and behind the scenes type stuff included. There was a Netflix series that was in the works for like a year or so until Netflix decided to cancel it, so it already has some kind of an interest that I hope keeps building up and eventually makes someone do something about this forgotten gem. Here’s a explainer video about bone Bone comic series explainer video
I thought the telltale video game adaptation was interesting!
But yeah, a full epic series would be something else
Occult and esoteric books in general, such as “The Kybalion” (Hermeticism), “The Book of the Dead” (Egyptian), “Liber AL vel Legis” (by Aleister Crowley, Thelema), as well as grimoires (such as the “Book of Saint Cyprian”). While there are tons of movies and TV Series that directly adapts biblical stories, I feel that there are so few (if there’s any) cinematographic works adapting esoteric, occult, pagan books (from belief systems such as Gnosticism, Wicca, Rosicrucianism, Hermeticism, Luciferianism, Thelema, Goëtia, and so on). I even tried to ask AIs to list movies and TV series adapting such books, and every single listed movie (such as The Matrix) is not a direct adaptation. They don’t even mention these books (in best cases, The Matrix merely alludes to hermetic principles such as “the Universe is Mental” (i.e. the scene between Neo and the kid that says that “the spoon doesn’t exist”).
Otherland.
I would love to see a sword of truth series, but not done as an action thriller with shallow characters, because that’s just not what it is, damnit.
I have a vision that I think would be really cool for this type of adaptation but the only one I really care about is way too good to just put it up on the internet so that my idea can get stolen without credit.
So why say anything at all?
Where’s is waldo
The Girl from Earths End By Tara Dairman
It’s like Harry Potter if you replace magic with botany, and JK Rowling’s shittiest values with the opposite of that.
Also fair warning it will make you cry
The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny
It needs to be a show, not movies. One book per season would allow enough detail to be included.
These books changed how I read books and understood books. They were a gateway into other worlds I never knew could exist.
Yes! I came here to see if anyone had mentioned this. My favorite fantasy series when I was a teenager. I also wouldn’t mind his Incarnations of Immortality series turned into a show either, but Amber would work better due to the humor and settings
Stranger in a strange land
For the chaos
Gotta be HBO though. For reasons. Otherwise I can’t grok it.
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
All the Muderbot series
Old Man’s War series
All the Muderbot series
Best RoboCop sequels tbh
I would love a faithful adaptation of Worm, but I don’t think it could ever do the series justice.
A good version of “Riverworld” by Philip Jose Farmer would be awesome. “Borne” or “The Strange Bird” by Jeff Vandermeer. “Dance, Dance, Dance” by Murakmi. The Maddaddam Trilogy by Atwood.
As a deep cut, “The Woman in the Dunes” by Kobo Abe. Totally surreal.
First Law series by Joe Abercrombie
Hell. Yes.
I’m as hard as a certain wizard gets thinking about murdering people who oppose him