I’ve often wanted a movie/series based on the Dragonlance books or the Dark Elf trilogy. What would you all like to see done if you had the ability to do it?
Bolo. They’d have to do it in the *Love, Death, and Robots" format, since they’re all short stories and no recurring characters, but it’d be great like that.
The Riftwar Cycle from Feist. Each series is a season. And even side-series, like The Empire trilogy.
It seemed like it was finally going to happen - someone even acquired the rights, after Feist knocked back offers over and over due to them not being a “good fit”.
But, a year later, it fell apart.
Ender’s Game.
Hate the author, love the series. I’ve never been more angry with a movie, and a TV series with someone that’s actually read the books BUT has also largely disassociated from OSC would go a long way towards repairing things.
I absolutely hated the Thomas Covenant novels. I hated the character, and I hated the plot devices. But I read them at a point in my life before I learned that you could put down books you didn’t like; that you didn’t have to finish something you started.
However: I do think they’d make a great miniseries. His internal, eternally whining self-pity would be minimized, making the character less loathsome. I mean, we’re supposed to hate the character, but Donaldson sandblasted that soup cracker, leaving a hollow characature it was impossible to sympathize with on any level. In the media format translation process of distilling to imagery, Covenant might, like the anti-heros on The Boys, become less repellant. And the premise is interesting. It’s become a trite trope, but it was more novel when it was introduced, and I think it’d fit the TV format well. I’d watch it.
I absolutely hated the Thomas Covenant novels. I hated the character, and I hated the plot devices. But I read them at a point in my life before I learned that you could put down books you didn’t like; that you didn’t have to finish something you started.
However: I do think they’d make a great miniseries. His internal, eternally whining self-pity would be minimized, making the character less loathsome. I mean, we’re supposed to hate the character, but Donaldson sandblasted that soup cracker, leaving a hollow characature it was impossible to sympathize with on any level. In the media format translation process of distilling to imagery, Covenant might, like the anti-heros on The Boys, become less repellant. And the premise is interesting. It’s become a trite trope, but it was more novel when it was introduced, and I think it’d fit the TV format well. I’d watch it.
There actually was a 2008 animated Dragonlance movie with a good voice cast. But I hear it was terrible and I haven’t forced myself to watch it.
Yeah, it is. Out of boredom, I watched it one Sunday when I had nothing to do and could only make like 20 minutes into it before I shut it off. It is not good at all lol.Here it is in its horrible glory
bobiverse by dennis e taylor
I really don’t know about this one. I love the books, and with their success they’ve genome a bit more compatible with a screen adaptation, but a lot of it, and especially the first one, is a lot of internal monologue. In addition, the space physics and combat are amazing, but don’t translate into visuals easily either. Like I said, love the story, and pains me to say it. Some stories are just not made for the screen, and I think this is one.
- Lord Valentine’s Castle, et al, by Robert Silverberg
- The Silicon Mage series by Barbara Hambly
- The Time of the Dark series by Barbara Hambly
- The Cliff Hardy series by Peter Corris
he GONE series by Michael Grant. Ive wished for a series based on the books since I first touched them.
A game of thrones style epic based on the Battletech universe. It’s been around since the 80s and there is a ton of books and lore to build from.
Jhereg series by Steven Brust
Alastair Reynolds “Revelation Space” universe.
They’d only screw it up though.
The visuals would be amazing. I’d also like to see a depiction of the scene in the beginning of “Revelation Space” where Ilia gets pushed into a kilometers-high elevator shaft, and she belatedly remembers that she can just stop the ship accelerating to save herself.
Mistborn by Brandan Sanderson.
Give me animated cosmere over films any day, it’s so expansive and only growing. A well done animated series would be incredible and easy to maintain.
I can’t even imagine who might do them justice, but some of the books in Iain Banks’ Culture series could be a real treat.
