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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.
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.
Hyperion.
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.
that’s interesting, I thought they just weren’t popular enough to justify more seasons
i heard it was the time jump in the other novels, so maybe that?
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.
#fuckrafejudkins
amazon shouldnt have sucked all the money budget from other shows to make ROP they did fans a disservice from all the shows on amazon.
I hadn’t heard of this! Thank you so much I’m excited.
diskworld series have some, but need more imo
I demand more Rincewind content.
None. No more.
Beat me to it.
My therapist’s notes on our sessions
In black and white, French, Subtitled.
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 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
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.
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.
But occasionally it can stray far enough away to become its own different great thing like Resident Alien
resident alien seems good, except for the 3rd one i think. they had to cancel that show.
The Dark Tower. There is a film of the same name, but it has literally nothing to do with the masterpiece of literature that is the book series. A series would be how it should be done.
Seriously, fuck that movie. I know Stephen King always gets screwed by film adaptations, but even Ender’s Game was a more accurate telling of the books. Not even the Ender’s Game books, I mean Ender’s Game was a better film adaptation of The Dark Tower books than The Dark Tower movie was. I was in seat 19, that was the closest I got to seeing any material from the books in that piece of shit movie. They even had my ideal casting for Roland and The Man In Black, what a gods damned waste.
Saying this as a fan, I really don’t think the DT novels really can be translated into a show or movie series. It’s too contradictory from book to book. King just kept going in different directions with each book. Maybe someone could harmonize it all but I’m not sure that’s really possible. I think it works for books but not to film.
That said, I think a tv series that focused just on young Roland, Gilead, and Midworld-that-was could potentially be fantastic (I am admittedly biased as I that’s the part of the series I love the most - The Gunsligner and Wizard & Glass are my two favorites in the series). I think the graphic novels already provide a solid framework for this. If the show could capture the “post-apocalyptic horror meets spaghetti western meets Lord of the Rings” aesthetic I think it could be a huge hit.
Mike Flannigan is adapting it to TV series.
“Malazan book of the Fallen” by Steven Erikson. An Epos that dwarfs the whole of LotR.
Or an animated series of all Discworld novels…
World War Z - needs to be done properly tied closely to the book as a short TV series.
The series ‘Invasion’ did something similar.
Thanks, I’ll look into that one!
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.
+1 for Bobiverse. Almost done with Book 1 and surprised it has been done already.
