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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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[-] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

A real adaptation of the Foundation Series. Not the abomination we are getting from Apple.

[-] Transcendant@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I didn't watch it until second season was out, I just didn't see how they could possibly do it justice... look at how Altered Carbon floundered, I expected (and was proven right) the same problems.

People need to attach to characters and plot. It's very hard to do that when the characters (or actor in the case of AC) change every chapter, and the plot arches over 10s of 1000s of years!

I have to say once I was able to let go of preconceptions based on the books and just enjoy it for what it is, I really enjoyed Foundation series.

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[-] Aermis@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Hyperion cantos

[-] LoganNineFingers@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Red Rising would be unreal
  • Anything Sanderson would be nice. Especially his fantasy stuff but his Cytonic series would be good.
  • The First Law Trilogy
  • Codex Alera
  • If Rothfuss wilould finish the friggin trilogy King killer Chronicles would be good
[-] leah@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastards series.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Joe Abercrombie's 'First Law.'

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[-] msbeta1421@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Red Rising would be a phenomenal TV show.

Mistborn and Stormlight Archive from Sanderson would also be incredible.

[-] lingh0e@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

World War Z. It needs to be adapted as an HBO limited series.

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[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The Quantum Thief trilogy. Mainly because part of it takes place in Oubliette, a city whose buildings, plazas and monuments are carried across the surface of Mars by giant robots. That ought to be quite a spectacle.

[-] IonAddis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I have to reread that series. I loved it, but it's not easy to digest in one sitting.

I kinda think it'd do better as a high-concept anime, like the original Ghost in the Shell anime. I think some of the concepts/cultures would be easier to render in animated form than live action.

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hyperion cantos. Ilium/Olympos. Lovecraft's dream cycle.

On one hand it's a risk that there would just be some terrible version that ruins all public things connected with the name, but on the other hand there could be something fantastic.

I guess sandman is already off the list. Haven't seen the results though.

Another big risk in adaptations is that, like Peter Jackson's Lott, it will make it very unlikely that someone else would come up and do it better after a big enough attempt.

[-] eu@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I'll come clean and say I haven't read Sandman (yet) but I thought the show was really damn good. I've seen a lot of readers and critics praising it too. It's definitely worth cheking out.

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[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

Ann Leckie's Ancillary series would make a fantastic space epic, if handled properly.

[-] Pirasp@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Barrayar. Giant SciFi world, tons of cool characters, politics, action, romance and intrigue. All in all it probably would make for a pretty great series.

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[-] nezbyte@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Demon Cycle series by Peter V. Brett. They had a film adaptation in the works a few years ago, but it fell through.

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[-] Geek_King@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The Expeditionary Force series! I loved the series and listened to the whole thing on audible! The great thing is, R.C. Bray could still voice one of the key characters who makes the whole series fun and addicting!

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[-] Borkingheck@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Old mans war. Come on they take OAP and turn them into super fighting soldiers to fight a whole galaxy of different races. We literally could have Morgan Freeman and Arnold err the terminator smashing aliens.

[-] vodkasolution@feddit.it 4 points 1 year ago

The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks!

[-] Transcendant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

We had a Shannara series! Despite the creative license taken with some characters / the lore (Manu Bennett is an awesome actor but Allanon, the tall rangey ancient wizard? Really?), I was gutted that it got cancelled.

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[-] WereCat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Cosmere - Mistborn, Stomlight Archives, etc...

[-] pan_troglodytes@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

the wandering inn. absolutely no way a movie would do it justice though

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[-] 257m@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Just started it but Deathworlders would be very cool.

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[-] Grayox@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

A Canticle for Lebowitz would be AMAZING!!

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The entire Sprawl trilogy. But if only one was to be made, I'd love to see Count Zero on the big screen as that one had the most action and visually appealing scenes to adapt.

But I also agree with Dragonriders of Pern! I loved those books when I was in high school.

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[-] redballooon@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

The Cosmere, or at least the Mistborn part thereof. While reading I often pictured movie scenes.

[-] kometes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Joe Abercrombie -- First Law Trilogy
Stephen R Donaldson -- The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

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

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.

I read the original two trilogies in the 80s so I've forgotten some bits, but what were the things that would be problematic today? I don't think I remember any details relating to the above. Lessa is always one of the first people I think of when someone says "so and so was the first strong woman in scifi" and it's a character that came 30+ years later.

I only just read the Amber books a couple of years ago myself; I don't know how I'd missed them. Very much unique stories in my experience, really unlike anything else I've ever read. I did enjoy them, but I think I respected what he did as a storyteller more than I enjoyed them, if that makes any sense.

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[-] ProfessorGumby@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

The Murderbot Diaries

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