They announced an Illuminatus! series back in 2019 that I haven't heard any news of since.
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Iβve just realised perhaps the Pleistocene series by Julian May could probably be pulled off, especially if using the original (to me) cover illustrations as visual βcanonβ.
The Amtrak Wars.
Red Rising
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson as the caterpillar)
There actually was a 2008 animated Dragonlance movie with a good voice cast. But I hear it was terrible and I haven't forced myself to watch it.
Yeah, it is. Out of boredom, I watched it one Sunday when I had nothing to do and could only make like 20 minutes into it before I shut it off. It is not good at all lol.Here it is in its horrible glory
Three Body Problem/ Liu Cixin's Dark Forest goodness
A Chinese show has already been released and an American one is releasing on Netflix soon. The Chinese version can be streamed on Viki. I'm about 1/3 of the way through (30 episodes) and I'm absolutely loving it. They don't dumb down any of the details with the science and is staying very true to the books so far. You just have to be willing to watch a subtitled show
I'm happy to be surprised but I doubt I'll like the US version as much. Nearly every US book adaptation I've watched has been dumbed down "for a wider audience" and changed quite substantially (looking at you, Silo and Beacon 23). This is also coming from D and D of GoT infamy, so we'll see if they can turn their track record around. At least this book is finished so they have the entire source material to work with
It's being made by Netflix I think. I'm 2/3rds of the way through the books. I think it lends itself well to TV because the characters are only devices to move the plot along, rather than specific identities that you can invest in/relate to etc. Interested to see how it goes.
Uh... it is being made into a series. I also don't get the hype about three body problem. I thought that book was mediocre at best.
The "titan" series by John Varley. A good trilogy. Also a good five year series could be had with "ringworld" by Niven - the ongoing adventures that could feature six months of gathering the players and explaining their mission(s).
IF they're done right, of course.
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Earthbound/Mother 3 live action and serialised (or pretty much anything nintendoβzelda type got thing would be cool)
The Red Rising series is worth it.
he GONE series by Michael Grant. Ive wished for a series based on the books since I first touched them.
There are some really great kids books I've read to my daughter that I think would work well in a visual medium.
In particular the work of Alastair Chisholm (Orion Lost, The Consequence Girl and Adam 2) would work well I think.
Also Jamie Littler's Frostheart series would be great.
I'd also like to see an adaptation of How To Train Your Dragon that's much closer to the books than the movie series of the same name. The books are so good but so different from those films, and their story and characters would make a great TV show IMO.
Early Mormon church history is about as bizzarre and dramatic as it gets. I think a well-produced & historically accurate dramaticization of the weird beginnings of the Mormon church would make for a good miniseries.
Any of the William Gibson trilogies. Even though The Peripheral didn't work out.
I can't even imagine who might do them justice, but some of the books in Iain Banks' Culture series could be a real treat.
Bolo. They'd have to do it in the *Love, Death, and Robots" format, since they're all short stories and no recurring characters, but it'd be great like that.
Laurell Hamilton's Anita Blake series Kim Harrison's Hollows series Eric Flint's Ring of Fire Piers Anthony Xanth
Nothing. I don't trust them to not try and make their own "vision" and fuck it up.
I don't really get that mentality. If the show is bad, the books are still just as good and you'll have lost nothing except maybe some wasted time.
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I would watch a well made series based on the Parker novels by Richard Stark.
This happened for me with wheel of Time. Be careful what you wish for.