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For me it’s the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown.
I’m surprised how that hasn’t been a thing yet considering how big the story is.
None ever did
I’d absolutely love it if Star Trek (not Alex Kurtzmen) adapted the Corp of Engineers books.
The original ebook series would slot in perfectly with a 20ish episode a year release cycle, and the plots/characters are already developed, you just need to script them out.
Each book is a “problem of the week” style story, with that classic Star Trek (not Alex Kurtzmen) style character development, based on the main problem of the episode.
But, until Kurtzmen, or the mouth-breathers that keep him employed, get hit by a bus we’ll never know how well it could be adapted…
They’re never going back to 20 plus episodes and people need to get over it. The work life balance people endured producing those seasons was unconscionable.
The whole bobiverse series.
Anyways, almost any book could be made into a fun series, because most books are well-written.
I read a lot of books. I don’t know that I agree most are well written, lol.
i would watch the shit out of that
the Amber books
Stephen Colbert was going to produce the series a couple years ago, but he seems to have moved on since then :(
It was always going to be a tough ask. I just finished reading the Corwin series again.
It would be difficult to adapt for a mainstream TV audience. A lot would probably need to change and that could lead to alienating the book lovers.
Yes, I would love to see a TV series. But only if it was done well with a budget large enough to do it justice.
I feel like the Chronicles of Amber would do better as a two season mini series.
I’d like one season per book, one episode per chapter.
No way. There’s not enough material in the books to go one episode per chapter.
I will admit it’s been a while since I’ve read them, but I remember it being a very fast read. Like, I think it only took me two days to read all of them.
that could be right
I haven’t read the books in a long time
I’d still enjoy ten seasons in a fictional universe I love
The Laundry by Charles Stross
Sandman Slim, it is stuck in development. If done correctly, it could awesome.
Diane Duane’s young wizard series as an animated movie could be great.
Although I wish Amazon instead of making that stupid rings of power or whatever the fuck it was, I wish they had adapted Stephen R. Donaldson’s The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.
YES. I got into the young wizard series when I was a kid and cannot believe how long it’s been around without getting any screen time. SO underrated.
I heartily recommend it to anyone that loved Harry Potter but can’t stand its author.
Diane Duane is a very unproblematic person with a brilliant mind and excellent storytelling capability.
This is a pretty basic answer but The Dark Elf Trilogy could be incredible on film if done properly. Drizzt’s early life is one of my favorite character arcs in fiction and Menzoberranzan is an exceptionally interesting society. It could even just be a series mostly focused on the first book and then ends when he leaves the city or when he goes topside so they could really flesh out just how fucked the dark elves are.
Agreed. The underdark portion of his life would make for and excellent TV adaption.
HOWEVER
I don’t trust the current climate of TV production to pull it off properly. In all likelihood, if produced today, it’d end up as a Netflix series (or similar series) where the streaming format would throw off pacing, and after completing a season of sticking to the story, any subsequent seasons would stray far away from Salvatores stories in an effort to have mass appeal.
I think it would have worked 15-20 years ago. Not before, as the CGI necessary wasn’t there yet. Not later because formulaic streamability would ruin it (along with Netflix-lighting, ugh).
Maybe it would work again at some point in the future once the current trend of algorithmic slop has gone away.
it will be a horrid 8 episode season, with stuff omitted, and peoples changed based on how the execs perceive the audience. and multi year wait in between seasons.
There Is No Antimemetics Division.
You’re in luck!
Series.. Short film.
The Dragonriders of Pern books need adapted.
Oh, if only.
Agreed, but we almost had a Rings of Power/Wheel of Time type version. Fortunately Anne McCaffrey was still alive and in control and told the network fuck off and pulled the rights. I don’t recall which network, doesn’t matter much, they’re all the same. They wanted to turn it into a teen YA romance thingy (which some of them have that a bit, but it’s part of the whole thing). The good thing is the CGI then wouldn’t have been great, it would have been like the Dune TV series. But if they had mutilated the actual lore and story, that would have been terrible.
Peter Watts “Starfish”and its sequels would be great TV.
https://newbookrecommendation.com/summary-of-starfish-by-peter-watts-a-detailed-synopsis/
I’ve always had a dream of watching Rendezvous with Rama but it’s been in development for a long time.
I think the Stephanie Plum novels would make a fun TV series.
I’d watch a series based on Joe Pickett novels
They tried making a Stephanie Plum movie. I wouldn’t blame you if you had no idea. I haven’t seen it but by all accounts it was a train wreck.
I’m still disappointed they botched the Wheel of Time. Like, right from the very beginning, that started making really questionable choices. I wish they’d do it animated because one, that’d make the magic way cheaper, and two, it’d make it feasible to grapple with the sheer size of the series.
It’s crazy how badly they fucked up everything about that show from top to bottom.
Yeah… If you can decouple it from the books, it’s a fairly entertaining show, but as a Wheel of Time adaptation, it was just not very good.
I kind of cant even agree with that. I tried to enjoy it as a WOT adaptation, I tried to enjoy it as just high budget fantasy TV. for me, the writing was a disaster, it was very clear they were ther to tell the BIG story over 10 episodes but really over many many seasons, they were fully committed to this grand fantasy but they forgot that an episode of TV needs to stand on its own. Each episode was just like a 1 hour clip of a 10 hour movie, there was no narrative or structure to individual epsodes.
Outside of that, the CGI is bad, the effects in general were very bad. Set design and costumes were pretty decent mainly but the show looked cheap despite being the most expensive ever made.
There are a lot of other criticisms I have of the show but I don’t think ther is a lot of point going on.
For what its worth, I thought season 3 was actually somehow decently made and written, it was just so late at that point that it meant nothing.
I honestly don’t think it was this bad (coming from someone that has read it three times). Some decisions were weird. The focus on Alanna was a bit high. I also unserstood from the beginning that it can’t possibly be 1:1, so I went in with the mindset that it was a new turning of the wheel, which might’ve helped. The first season was thoroughly fucked by covid, ans the second season had to handle the fallout of that. By the third season I thought it really was starting to come together, and I was actually getting excited for its future. I was really bummed out by the cancelation.
The 3rd season actually was good and true to the source material as much as possible given where we were at that point.
But like, the first 2 seasons were completely baffling, I find it hard to find much redeeming quality in them at all. The dark one and the final scene of season 1 are both high points that I thought were well executed. But then you have stuff like Perrin being married at the beginning of the series to a random woman, who he then immediately accidentally kills. Insane direction to take that character. You have a decision that the dragon could be male or female, ok, I’m not entirely sure who or how that works if we’re maintaining that it’s strictly the male half of the power that is tainted but I was actually willing to see it through, the only problem was they did all that just for the next episode to say “actually the dragon is just rand, just like you all knew, were not doing anything different, the dragon is a male, were never addressing this again”
It didn’t even own its own decisions, you can make changes to source material but you should have a good reason why and own it. I don’t have to love what you do with it artistically or intellectually but you should stand behind your work
I’m so happy I didn’t ruin my childhood memories watching it. It was a tough call at the beginning but I feel thoroughly justified in hindsight.
So tired of animated reboots.
I kinda get it, but this one should have been animated from the start. The length and magic make live action really difficult to pull off, and I’m not surprised Amazon didn’t manage it.
