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?
- Izzy ( @IzzyData@lemmy.ml ) 20•11 months ago
I’d love to see the last 3 books of The Expanse series made into a trilogy of movies.
- AmosBurton_ThatGuy ( @AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca ) 14•11 months ago
I would prefer at least 10 episode seasons, but I’d take anything at this point. The last 3 books were the best of them all, and that’s with the first 6 being absolutely amazing as well.
Greatest series ever, I will die on that hill.
- Izzy ( @IzzyData@lemmy.ml ) 6•11 months ago
There are a couple really spectacular scenes that I really want to see visualized. In my head I extrapolated what the last 3 books would look like based on the series visualizations which made them like watching the show. That last scene with Draper though… that would be a sight to behold.
- AmosBurton_ThatGuy ( @AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca ) 4•11 months ago
!Like a fuckin Valkyrie!< 😭
- cheesymoonshadow ( @cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world ) 3•11 months ago
This whole thread is making me want to listen to the audiobooks all over again.
- AmosBurton_ThatGuy ( @AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca ) 3•11 months ago
Let the
dark sideExpanse flow through you
- Pons_Aelius ( @Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ) 19•11 months ago
The Culture series by Iain M Banks.
Though I am not sure how you would translate some of them (Excession…) into a visual story.
- Lophostemon ( @Lophostemon@aussie.zone ) 8•11 months ago
I honestly think that would ruin it for all the Culture fans. Much as I love Banks’ work, I like the movie of the books that I’ve produced in MY head more than what anyone else could make.
- los_chill ( @los_chill@programming.dev ) English4•11 months ago
I’m kinda in this boat too. I’m glad Banks’ estate didn’t let the Amazon series go through. Something about a guy like Bezos hailing the books while being a billionaire capitalist egomaniac just makes me uneasy with the whole idea.
- Pons_Aelius ( @Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ) 2•11 months ago
I understand your point but feel it is a bit selfish.
I honestly think that would ruin it for all the Culture fans.
But it would also create a lot more Culture fans. Just as the LOTR movies got a huge number of people to read Tolkien.
I would love to see more people read Banks.
I like the movie of the books that I’ve produced in MY head more than what anyone else could make.
If they are ever adapted no one is going to force you to watch and you can reread them when ever you want.
- CybranM ( @CybranM@feddit.nu ) 1•11 months ago
Totally agree with you, many people said the same about Lord of the rings before Peter Jackson made an amazing adaptation. That doesn’t mean every adaptation is good, far from it, but that shouldn’t stop people from trying.
- Encromion ( @Encromion@beehaw.org ) 3•11 months ago
They turned the inside the suit moments of Iron Man into pop culture. They could figure it out, I bet!
- tfw_no_toiletpaper ( @tfw_no_toiletpaper@feddit.de ) 17•11 months ago
Bit of a normie but the Dark Tower series would be awesome. Mixing tons of genres, having very different locations to film in. It would be extremely expensive to produce.
The gunslinging of Idris Elba in the movie was nice but everything else wasn’t.
Yeah. That movie was a disappointment. I love Idris Elba in everything he does, but that movie should not have been made lol
- ColeSloth ( @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ) 4•11 months ago
Mike Flanagan is making the TV series. It’s been in the works for a year or so and has King’s nod of approval on it. No casting has been solidified yet and stuff is of course currently halted due to the strikes, but it’s currently a high priority project after Hollywood can start up again.
- funkajunk ( @funkajunk@lemm.ee ) English15•11 months ago
Redwall.
Do it in full photo realistic CGI; I want to see the beautiful castles and countryside, all the delicious food, and the gruesome battles in all their glory.
- shiveyarbles ( @shiveyarbles@beehaw.org ) 2•11 months ago
Or they could hire furries
- funkajunk ( @funkajunk@lemm.ee ) English3•11 months ago
No thanks
- pinkdrunkenelephants ( @pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe ) English1•11 months ago
That would either be fire or a smoldering pile of shit.
- funkajunk ( @funkajunk@lemm.ee ) English1•11 months ago
There’s so much source material that I think it could work.
- jaicon ( @jaicon@lemmy.ml ) 14•11 months ago
Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
- GrayBackgroundMusic ( @GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee ) English1•11 months ago
Maybe? It’s been decades since I read it, but I remember enjoying Hyperion and fucking hating Fall of Hyperion. It felt like Hyperion was amazing and well thought ought but then Fall was just mailed in.
- jaicon ( @jaicon@lemmy.ml ) 1•11 months ago
Because Fall rushed the story with a fuck ton of plotlines. It really should have focused on continuing the story and have a third book conclude the major plotlines. That way a lot of things that happened wouldn’t feel like they were pulled out of left field.
- Thisfox ( @Thisfox@sopuli.xyz ) 13•11 months ago
Ursula le Guin anyone?
The Left Hand of Darkness might be interesting. The Word for Tree is Forest would likely get thought of as an odd Avatar clone. But The Dispossessed would probably never get made, people would find worth in the politics and abandon the megacorp making it.
- Lumun ( @Lumun@lemmy.zip ) English5•11 months ago
Le Guin prose is exceptional and would be nearly impossible to bring to screen well. I’m sure it will be tried at some point. Maybe a dark horse, but I actually think The Lathe of Heaven might be the most adaptable. It’s the simplest story and has plenty of room for exciting changes and visuals in a film.
- davefischer ( @davefischer@beehaw.org ) English1•11 months ago
And… the 1980 adaption of Lathe of Heaven is fantastic. (There’s also a remake I refuse to acknowledge.)
- jmbmkn ( @jmbmkn@beehaw.org ) 1•11 months ago
I just finished The Disposessed and found it critiqued both the capitalist and anarchist society. The people of Annares have simple happiness, but they starve and strive to keep the society alive. It’s also very explicit that it only works because they don’t uphold their anarchist ideals and coerce everyone into work through social pressure.
I think a film would work and would present a “you could have a different society, but it would never be a paradise” type idea.
- Marin_Rider ( @Marin_Rider@aussie.zone ) 12•11 months ago
The Mars trilogy by KSR. I think 3 8 hour long episode seasons could work
- Encromion ( @Encromion@beehaw.org ) 3•11 months ago
And we were teased about it on the SciFi channel a bunch of years ago before they instituted cost savings measures.
- GrayBackgroundMusic ( @GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee ) English2•11 months ago
As long as they edit it a bit. IMO, it felt like Robinson was paid by the word and padded the crap out of the novels.
- Thisfox ( @Thisfox@sopuli.xyz ) 2•11 months ago
Was going to say the same. They would make an amazing series of series.
- Frater Mus ( @fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org ) English9•11 months ago
Murderbot, but I don’t think it could make the transition to film.
- aserraric ( @aserraric@discuss.tchncs.de ) English9•11 months ago
The Nights Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. Not as a trilogy, though, this would have to be series, maybe three seasons per book.
- theskyisfalling ( @theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 7•11 months ago
None.
I don’t see what making a film or TV series adds to any book, all they ever seem to do is a disservice to the original story in the attempt to squeeze as much money from it as possible.
I’d rather more fully voice acted audiobooks were made staying more true to the original texts but adding that extra element to draw you in than just one narrator trying to differentiate characters with different voices.
I see your point. But if done right, the movie/show can be almost as good as the books (Fellowship of the Ring and One Piece). It just takes someone who loves the material being used or (in the case of One Piece) the creator watching over every step.
- theskyisfalling ( @theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 3•11 months ago
Maybe so but they are so few and far between, for me personally I can’t think of an adaptation that I have really liked. I don’t like The Lord of the Rings films that much but I actually dislike the books more in that case but I realise that I am an outlier with that opinion.
- people_are_cute ( @people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org ) 3•11 months ago
Yep. I wanted to mention Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn series but it already has a stellar GraphicAudio adaptation.
- theskyisfalling ( @theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•11 months ago
Yup, I love Graphic Audio and am currently listening to Stormlight Archives by Sanderson produced by them. It is great!
- GrayBackgroundMusic ( @GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee ) English2•11 months ago
I don’t see what making a film or TV series adds to any book, all they ever seem to do is a disservice to the original story in the attempt to squeeze as much money from it as possible.
It’s that last part that effs it up. For example, I really liked Luhrman’s Romeo+Juliet. That was a creative interpretation. I enjoyed Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I thought the books were decent, but the movie captured the best bits, IMO. Early seasons of Game of Thrones were good. I like some of the changes made to move the internal dialog to conversations. It gave the side characters more life.
It’s when the artistic vision is cast aside in the name of profit, then the work of art suffers.
- PonyOfWar ( @PonyOfWar@pawb.social ) 7•11 months ago
Robin Hobb’s fantasy books would be interesting. Probably quite hard to adapt well though.
- Semi-Hemi-Demigod ( @Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ) 6•11 months ago
The Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O’Brien. 21.3 books of amazing naval adventures, spy stuff, and survival. They made a movie with Russell Crowe but it doesn’t nearly capture the scope of the novels.
- GrayBackgroundMusic ( @GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee ) English6•11 months ago
Anything to do with Pern. Some good high fantasy and tech mixed. Might be a harder sell to the general public. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonriders_of_Pern
The Brainship series (The ship who sang). This would go over well with the Star Trek, Star Wars fansbase, I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ship_Who_Sang
The Vorkosigan saga. This would also go well with the Star Trek/Wars fanbases. More political than Brainship series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorkosigan_Saga
The Dragearan books about Vlad Taltos by Steven Brust. Especially the first few. High fantasy mystery novels. This would be an easy sell, IMO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Brust#Vlad_Taltos
This made me realize I haven’t read any new books in a while.
- rothaine ( @rothaine@lemm.ee ) 2•11 months ago
Holy crap I forgot about Pern. I read a few of those in middle school and remember liking them a lot
- Zaphernious ( @Zaphernious@lemm.ee ) 5•11 months ago
Worm
https://parahumans.wordpress.com/
My attention span makes reading really hard. I read this from start to finish. It’s well worth the read if you’re into stories like it
- TheGreenGolem ( @TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee ) 5•11 months ago
The Riftwar Cycle from Feist. Each series is a season. And even side-series, like The Empire trilogy.
- DeltaTangoLima ( @DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ) English3•11 months ago
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.