I feel like the Cosmere is pretty well structured for a series. Each season could be a different world, eventually tying things together.
From what I've heard, something is in the works. Hopefully optimistic it turns out well.
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From what I've read Mistborn is being adapted as a film trilogy, while Stormlight Archives will be a series with Sanderson being the primary screenwriter. Think it was announced a month or two ago.
Warbreaker and Elantris could be standalone movies. I don't see how even Stormlight 1 could be compressed down into one movie, given how detailed the world is and how much those details matter.
We saw with Wheel of Time that it's not enough to just throw money at a stack of books.
I'm still disappointed they botched the Wheel of Time. Like, right from the very beginning, that started making really questionable choices. I wish they'd do it animated because one, that'd make the magic way cheaper, and two, it'd make it feasible to grapple with the sheer size of the series.
It's crazy how badly they fucked up everything about that show from top to bottom.
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I honestly don't think it was this bad (coming from someone that has read it three times). Some decisions were weird. The focus on Alanna was a bit high. I also unserstood from the beginning that it can't possibly be 1:1, so I went in with the mindset that it was a new turning of the wheel, which might've helped. The first season was thoroughly fucked by covid, ans the second season had to handle the fallout of that. By the third season I thought it really was starting to come together, and I was actually getting excited for its future. I was really bummed out by the cancelation.
The 3rd season actually was good and true to the source material as much as possible given where we were at that point.
But like, the first 2 seasons were completely baffling, I find it hard to find much redeeming quality in them at all. The dark one and the final scene of season 1 are both high points that I thought were well executed. But then you have stuff like Perrin being married at the beginning of the series to a random woman, who he then immediately accidentally kills. Insane direction to take that character. You have a decision that the dragon could be male or female, ok, I'm not entirely sure who or how that works if we're maintaining that it's strictly the male half of the power that is tainted but I was actually willing to see it through, the only problem was they did all that just for the next episode to say "actually the dragon is just rand, just like you all knew, were not doing anything different, the dragon is a male, were never addressing this again"
It didn't even own its own decisions, you can make changes to source material but you should have a good reason why and own it. I don't have to love what you do with it artistically or intellectually but you should stand behind your work
Personally I found the final scene of the first season rather lacking. But I also get it because of the covid restrictions.
Perrin's wife was probably a good move imo. It's hard to convey his complex feelings for the axe in a show where we can't hear the character's thoughts. This is a quick fix for that.
Mat's parents is a bit more off for me. I'm not really sure what was gained from that change.
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The first two Hyperion books
Once you read it you realize it’s influenced SO MUCH and it would be pretty epic now that’s e have the tech to do something at that scale
Ted Chiang - The Stories of Your Life and Exhalation (minus Story of Your Life, since Denis Villeneuve knocked that out of the park, IMO). The other short stories in those collections are great and could make a great mini series.
I bought this recently and was unimpressed, it might have been oversold but it seemed just ok to me. Nothing stayed and exhalation was om the lower end of the lot.
The whole bobiverse series.
Anyways, almost any book could be made into a fun series, because most books are well-written.
I read a lot of books. I don't know that I agree most are well written, lol.
Ikr. Now we know that the surviving works and stories from the old world, only survived because they were good enough to be remembered. Too bad we have audio books, none of the bad books will be forgotten.
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diskworld series have some, but need more imo
I demand more Rincewind content.
This is a pretty basic answer but The Dark Elf Trilogy could be incredible on film if done properly. Drizzt's early life is one of my favorite character arcs in fiction and Menzoberranzan is an exceptionally interesting society. It could even just be a series mostly focused on the first book and then ends when he leaves the city or when he goes topside so they could really flesh out just how fucked the dark elves are.
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My therapist's notes on our sessions
In black and white, French, Subtitled.
Neil Stephenson's snowcrash would be interesting.
I feel like most of the people with money would just play it up to be super cool instead of a dystopia. And given the Epstein stuff, not lightly edit it so the girl is of appropriate age.
The dystopia bit is what I’m worried about with the Neuromancer series coming out. It looks way too clean. Even the parts where streets are jam-packed look like clean jam-packed streets.
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Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stevenson. But keep it the modern stuff as part of the ninties at the Dawn of the Information Age.
That was written like they hoped it would be made into a movie. I found it one of the drawbacks to the book.
I wish they could finish the Expanse. That was a pretty good adaptation as far as they got, and the books really tie everything very nicely together toward the end (as well as get kind of crazy)
they had problems with one of the actors being DV/Sa-er and they wanted to wait a while since the latest books is a time jump.
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Hyperion.
Wheel of time. No, that garbage they tried at Amazon doesn't count.
I used to reread Wheel of Time frequently. I've probably completed the series more than 13 times, because I started reading it in the mid 90s and would reread from the beginning every time a new book was released.
After that Amazon slop, I haven't touched the series since. It was so, so bad. And it had the potential to be so, so good. All the material was right there. All the money was there.
Such a wasted opportunity to have made something amazing.
As a pallet cleanser, here's a fan made version made 10 years ago that is so much more authentic and watchable than Rafe's disaster:
Should have just given them the millions.
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"Malazan book of the Fallen" by Steven Erikson. An Epos that dwarfs the whole of LotR.
Or an animated series of all Discworld novels...
I will always say that HHGttG needs a well done remake as a TV series’s that leaves out nothing.
Came here to say that. The last movie had a happy ending for Arthur Dent. They clearly missed the point as there are no happy endings for Arthur Dent.
The Bobiverse books by Dennis E. Taylor, and The Shadow of the Leviathan series by Robert Jackson Bennett. These are two series I would love to see rendered as animated or live action stories.
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Alex Rider 100%
The encyclopedia
Prequel series: the dictionary
Sequel series: thesaurus
I'd absolutely love it if Star Trek (not Alex Kurtzmen) adapted the Corp of Engineers books.
The original ebook series would slot in perfectly with a 20ish episode a year release cycle, and the plots/characters are already developed, you just need to script them out.
Each book is a "problem of the week" style story, with that classic Star Trek (not Alex Kurtzmen) style character development, based on the main problem of the episode.
But, until Kurtzmen, or the mouth-breathers that keep him employed, get hit by a bus we'll never know how well it could be adapted...
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most dont even stay true to the source material, unless the original writer is on board, even then they can be influenced by executives, like with sandman. with the obvious thing happened with lucifer and death.(not true to the source, only the words were)
invincible is another, with tech jacket, even with the creator on board.
on one hand, series like nutrek just straight up plagiarizes fan novels without giving credit.
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John Scalzi's Old Man's War book series. Apparently it's been optioned for 15+ years now, but nobody's actually gotten around to making the damned thing yet.
Dictionary (Based on the Book by Merriam Webster)
The epic sequel will be simply, THESAURUS.
There’s a pulp sci-fi series that I’ve been reading, “Backyard Starship”. Basically good-guy Space Sherrif takes on big and small problems in known space with a big variety of aliens. Fun stories and plenty of action. IMO it definitely needs an anime-style version.
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