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What's a sci-fi or fantasy book or series that you want to see adapted as a movie/television series? (lemmy.world)

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I didn't read this series when I was a kid, but I finally got around to reading Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber.

Given it's an older series, I wasn't sure how much I'd like it (some of those older series age horribly), but it was actually REALLY good still, and the few minor things that'd aged too much wouldn't be hard to update for a modern audience.

But the concept of Amber is fantastic, Corwin's behavior and arc perfect, and I think a TV series could do it justice nowadays. Man, some CGI artists could do some beautiful work depicting a hellride through shadow.

I also would really, really love to see Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern adapted...but there's a few parts that have aged pretty badly, so it'd need careful handling of things like Lessa and F'lar's relationship and such. And maybe, you know, keep Jaxom the hell away from Corana.

But I think the whole idea of threadfall, and Impressing dragons, could be done beautifully on the screen. I think a run from Dragonflight to All The Weyrs of Pern (including the Harper Hall Trilogy) could be done. (Then leave the later books out, they don't really add much, lol.)

The series would need a top-notch composer scoring it, though. I'd vote for Natalie Holt. She did wonderfully with Loki, and it'd be a nice touch having a woman score the series that'd have the Harper Hall Trilogy included in it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I feel like the Destroyermen series would fit a tv show format pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I just finished the Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee, and that would work great as a gangster/martial arts show.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Realm of the Elderlings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fitz, Althea, or the entire series as a whole with all the casts?

I feel like it'd be hard to adapt Robin Hobb's work, mostly because it'd be so easy to get the wrong tone. She has a very specific tone with her work, and I have no idea how one would work it for TV without making the entire series too light or too dark.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Technically a book series, warhammer 40k. It's being made too and I'm as excited as I'm afraid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

For the longest time, I wanted to see the Percy Jackson series adapted. (I'm not counting those movies!) Thankfully, it is and the first book/first season will be coming out in December. I hope they are able to expand to the entire universe that Riordan made. There are so many stories that would be great to see.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Becky chambers wayfinders

Locked tomb

Mark Lawrence's book of the ancestor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For a stranger kind of fantasy: Gormenghast books by Mervyn Peake

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They already made a mini series.
edit: spelling error because I don't proofread :P

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The polity series would be really cool. It's a great universe with lots of options for storytelling (which the diversity of the books demonstrates). Starting with prador moon and then following the war with the prador for a while would be amazing to see.

If I had another choice I'd pick the Children of Time series.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The uplift war by David Brin

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Dresden Files 10000% and iron druid.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

seveneves would make a banger series.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The Honor Harrington series. Would have to be 3d animated IMHO- One major component of the books is humans have received lifespan extension treatments which greatly slows down human aging. So you would need a ton of 18 to 25 year-old actors who can pull off playing 50 and 100-year-old characters.

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