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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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[-] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks that was a great analysis. Once you started in I did recall about half those details, but mostly I guess it needs to go on my reread pile since I've forgotten so much.

As a tangentially related side - one of the first emails I ever sent when I first started to use email in about 1996 was to Anne McCaffrey.

I was in the "everything you can imagine is on the internet" phase of just looking up random things, and somehow I found her email address.

I sent her a short note about how much I'd loved her books, and she sent me a brief, nice note back.

That email is long lost to the twists and turns of life - I didn't even understand the concept of keeping backups back then (Edit - that's not true, it would be more accurate to say I just never bothered) - but it was a cool little interaction that I always remember fondly. 🙂

[-] IonAddis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks that was a great analysis. Once you started in I did recall about half those details, but mostly I guess it needs to go on my reread pile since I’ve forgotten so much.

I find, when I re-read, one thing that stays with me is how vibrant and beautiful her narration is. I think the books are still worth reading, but that modern audiences who've been participating in more modern discussions around storytelling would recoil at some of the bits we sort of just accepted as being "normal", as standards for what is "normal" have shifted. The spirit of the books always was forward-thinking, even if she got some stuff wrong.

When Anne McCaffrey did a signing in Chicago when she won her Grand Master award, I had a battered copy of Damia (from her Talents series), and she told me Afra Lyon was her own 2nd favorite character, behind Robinton.

I was on "The New Kitchen Table", which is where her online fandom ended up in the late 90s for a while, but her fandom was HUGE and had already been around for nigh 20 years with Weyrfest and all at Dragon*Con so aside from the one in-person comment (after I waited hours in a line that twined around the bookstore--the only time since that I've seen a bookstore event line that long was for a Harry Potter release), I was very much on the periphery of the fandom vs. those who'd been in it for 20 years already.

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