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    Michael Morecocks Eternal Champion saga. Great candidate for a Netflix animation

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      I think diamond dogs would make a really interesting animation short or maybe full-length movie.

      But any of the books from the main series would require the kind of love and effort that the Expanse got early on.

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        But any of the books from the main series would require the kind of love and effort that the Expanse got early on.

        I don’t know that any series would ever get that kind of love ever again. What The Expanse got was rare and amazing.

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          That’s kind of my fear and given how kind of hard science fiction Rev space is. I think it would really suffer if it got the generic space treatment that most of Hollywood considers adequate for science fiction.

          Knowing Hollywood they would skip over the entire relativistic aspect of the universe. Or like altered carbon miss some of the depth and nuance of the social commentary.

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    I mentioned Daemon and FreedomTM by Daniel Suarez in another thread recently. I’ve often thought they’d make good Techno Thrillers. They got optioned once but I think it expired.

    I think part of the problem is that the second book is a conclusion to the first. One falls flat without the other. So I think they’d be best suited to a single mini-series of 6 or 8 hour long episodes. And studios want franchises.

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      His more recent series starting with Delta V would be excellent too. Even Kill Decision would make a great techno-thriller series.

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      Similarly, I’m reading through the Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks and I think it would be a great candidate for an adaptation. It’s a really good story and the magic is all based on the colour of light which I think would make the special effects pretty easy to create and should also look nice.

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        I know I recognise the name Brent Weeks, and I know I remember a magic system based around colour. Does that book start with someone who brings his cloak to life with colour magic? And as you get more magically powerful, you can see more and richer colours?

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          No, that’s another Brandon Sanderson book called Warbreaker.

          Lightbringer has people who can do magic, but you have to see the colour in order to start using it. And all the colours do slightly different things as well as affect your emotions.

          Lots of great world building too.

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            Thanks.

            I’ve read Night Angel series, that’s where I know the name from. Not the sort of book I’d usually enjoy but I remember good things. I think I’ll add Lightbringer to my list of books to read :)

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      The graphic audiobooks are pretty great already. Would love some visuals to go with it. Would need a big budget though…

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    Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy deserves a good adaptation, rather than that trash movie and that too short BBC series.

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      I would love that, I dont think the movie is terrible, its just that everything after Ford and Arthur get thrown out the airlock isnt as funny or absurd as the books. The main issue is the first 2ish books are unadaptable because there is no central conflict (or arleast the main cast dosent care or know there was supposed to be one).

      Zaphod is the only person with motivation to do anything other than to continue existing, and he is unaware (or dosen’t care) he is being hunted until they meet those suprisingly progessive law enforcment officers on Magrathea and when he visits the guides publishing offices.

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        The BBC series does up to them being on >!prehistoric hairdresser and middle management earth!< Iirc

        Which I’m pretty sure is the third book. But I haven’t read it in a loooooong time.

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          Wha… really? I’ve seen the BBC HHGTTG, but I’ve never even heard they did the sequels!

          Book 2 was Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and book 3 was Life, the Universe, and Everything.

          Two books followed… So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish and Mostly Harmless constituted Books 4 & 5, but were detached from the main characters and plot.

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    Old Man’s War by John Scalzi was made for this, I swear. His latest books also read a lot like movie scripts are contained therein.

    Charles Stross’ Laundry series has a ton of potential too, if less Chtullu is required, I wouldn’t mind a Merchant Princes series either.

    I heard rumours about Forever War being optioned at some point, but nothing came of it.

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        An anthology-like mini series where each episode deals with one pilgrim and is written and directed by different people. As many different styles as there are pilgrims, just like how the book is written. Would translate very well to screen IMO.

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      For being what I would consider one of the founding fathers of cyberpunk, I’m surprised there hasn’t been a Neuromancer film yet. Especially when so many of the tropes we know from the cyberpunk genre originated from Neuromancer, to begin with.

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      Neuromancer has been optioned before but no one did anything with it. I think it was in play again but recently but haven’t heard much lately.

      Hyperion Cantos would be great.

      Gormanghast might also be cool.

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      Watch Inception and think of Neuromancer and you will find that its probably the best closest match for the way the story is told. So many things made me realize there are so many little “I loved that story but I cant make that movie so I will just give you clues”. The throwing star is the top.

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      Agreed, fantastic story but I’ll be damned if I wasn’t moved to tears.

      Hey, Robin! I know you have to vent sometimes into your works, but give the poor guy a break, won’t you?

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      What’s your ideal cast lineup? I want this live action so bad but it would have to be a mini series to get all of it in, and then can never think of anyone who could bring the Judge to life.

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          if he had the body of a WWE wrestler like The Big Show. The Judge is suppose to be a monster of a man, 6’7 and 270, with no hair and a baby like face

          The Kiefer Sutherland from The Young Guns era as the Kid

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      Oh shit. The Baroque Cycle getting the Game of Thrones treatment… minus the executive meddling.

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        You wouldn’t even have to obsess over the history, alchemy, etc., just don’t fuck it up. People get too wrapped around an axle thinking every single infodump has to be there. Stephenson’s got issues (coughendingscough), but the stories are informed by the same research as the infodumps, and they’ll hold up well.

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      Seveneves would be the bomb (eta : they could even do the last part as a separate animated short)

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      Seveneves is coming as a series. Not sure if they could pull off Baroque, but I’m game. I’d love a Snow Crash film.

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        Typing that comment made me do my semi-annual check for adaptations, and I just saw that announcement came out a couple of weeks ago. Hope it comes along better than the movie that got stuck in development hell.

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    Not a book exactly, but East of West would make for some great narrative and world building.

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    I would have loved Name of the Wind, but that lazy fuck Rothfuss is going the way of George Reorge Reorge Martin: he’s been promising book 3 for a decade and can’t finish it.