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What book that hasn't been adapted into a TV show or movie do you think deserves an adaptation? (lemmy.world)

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[-] Masamune@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Call me crazy, but I want a 14 hour epic of The Silmarillion...one movie, not a trilogy plz.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

14 hours is way way way too long of a movie. Multiple movies or a series makes much more sense.

But yeah, that would be really cool.

[-] Masamune@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Oh absolutely, no one will sit through an actual movie that long. A series of some would be the way to go for sure.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

silmarillion is tv series material. every episode a mythic story, with some two-parters.

[-] steeznson@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

As an aside I found it surprisingly readable and I'm not a huge LotR fan. Maybe I just like short story anthologies.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I thought it was pretty terrible tbh, and I read history books for fun. I think that was my problem with it tbh, I just kept looking at the timelines and going "no, bullshit, the kingdom would have been bankrupted by a five hundred year war, and how tf are elves replacing their combat losses?"

[-] steeznson@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Different strokes for different folks I guess

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

and how tf are elves replacing their combat losses?"

Maybe they are horny

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