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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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[–] runblack@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] buzziebee@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] Minarble@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago

The uplift war by David Brin

[–] Freddyyeddy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Dresden Files 10000% and iron druid.

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[–] vivadanang@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

seveneves would make a banger series.

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] Dianoga@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

The Scholomance series by Naomi Novak could be great.

[–] Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Übel Blatt Manga as Anime

[–] Kallioapina@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series could be a fun series/world to adapt to a series, but also infuriating if they cut it short after two seasons.

[–] dynamojoe@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Hyperion books by Dan Simmons.

[–] dorron@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

An Endymion trilogy with bits of Hyperion sprinkled in for flavour would be perfect

[–] Spyral@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Would love to see an Otherland adaptation into a series. There was a film being planned but haven’t heard anything in a while. Tad Williams is a fantastic author.

[–] tmjaea@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Series: Ell Donsaii Movie: project hail Mary

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[–] XbSuper@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Melanie Rawn: The Dragon Prince

I didn't think special effects could do it justice in the past, but I think they've definitely advanced far enough now.

[–] spuncertv@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 2 years ago

Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld. You'd need a massive budget to make the darwinists look convincing though so it'll probably never happen.

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