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I feel like the Cosmere is pretty well structured for a series. Each season could be a different world, eventually tying things together.
From what I’ve heard, something is in the works. Hopefully optimistic it turns out well.
From what I’ve read Mistborn is being adapted as a film trilogy, while Stormlight Archives will be a series with Sanderson being the primary screenwriter. Think it was announced a month or two ago.
Warbreaker and Elantris could be standalone movies. I don’t see how even Stormlight 1 could be compressed down into one movie, given how detailed the world is and how much those details matter.
We saw with Wheel of Time that it’s not enough to just throw money at a stack of books.
The first two Hyperion books
Once you read it you realize it’s influenced SO MUCH and it would be pretty epic now that’s e have the tech to do something at that scale
Ted Chiang - The Stories of Your Life and Exhalation (minus Story of Your Life, since Denis Villeneuve knocked that out of the park, IMO). The other short stories in those collections are great and could make a great mini series.
I bought this recently and was unimpressed, it might have been oversold but it seemed just ok to me. Nothing stayed and exhalation was om the lower end of the lot.
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
Personally I found the final scene of the first season rather lacking. But I also get it because of the covid restrictions.
Perrin’s wife was probably a good move imo. It’s hard to convey his complex feelings for the axe in a show where we can’t hear the character’s thoughts. This is a quick fix for that.
Mat’s parents is a bit more off for me. I’m not really sure what was gained from that change.
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.
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.
Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stevenson. But keep it the modern stuff as part of the ninties at the Dawn of the Information Age.
That was written like they hoped it would be made into a movie. I found it one of the drawbacks to the book.
diskworld series have some, but need more imo
I demand more Rincewind content.
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.
Ikr. Now we know that the surviving works and stories from the old world, only survived because they were good enough to be remembered. Too bad we have audio books, none of the bad books will be forgotten.
i would watch the shit out of that
My therapist’s notes on our sessions
In black and white, French, Subtitled.
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.
With a special appearance by Señor Chang
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.
My first choice as well
Alex Rider 100%
Neil Stephenson’s snowcrash would be interesting.
I feel like most of the people with money would just play it up to be super cool instead of a dystopia. And given the Epstein stuff, not lightly edit it so the girl is of appropriate age.
The dystopia bit is what I’m worried about with the Neuromancer series coming out. It looks way too clean. Even the parts where streets are jam-packed look like clean jam-packed streets.
True it could go really wrong but if done right it would be a really good satire.
Seconded, although Mark ruined the concept of the Metaverse. And that sex scene with a 15 year old might need some rewriting. I love the book for its storyline and world building, but certain developments of the past 20 years stains the book.
Speaking of Stephenson, I wonder if Cryptonomicon could work as a TV series. Filming the two time periods without them seeming completely disconnected would be challenging, though.
Cryptonomicon would be cool, I could see it working on HBO or some other cable company.
None. No more.
Beat me to it.
I wish they could finish the Expanse. That was a pretty good adaptation as far as they got, and the books really tie everything very nicely together toward the end (as well as get kind of crazy)
they had problems with one of the actors being DV/Sa-er and they wanted to wait a while since the latest books is a time jump.
that’s interesting, I thought they just weren’t popular enough to justify more seasons
i heard it was the time jump in the other novels, so maybe that?
Hyperion.
Wheel of time. No, that garbage they tried at Amazon doesn’t count.
I used to reread Wheel of Time frequently. I’ve probably completed the series more than 13 times, because I started reading it in the mid 90s and would reread from the beginning every time a new book was released.
After that Amazon slop, I haven’t touched the series since. It was so, so bad. And it had the potential to be so, so good. All the material was right there. All the money was there.
Such a wasted opportunity to have made something amazing.
As a pallet cleanser, here’s a fan made version made 10 years ago that is so much more authentic and watchable than Rafe’s disaster:
Should have just given them the millions.
#fuckrafejudkins
amazon shouldnt have sucked all the money budget from other shows to make ROP they did fans a disservice from all the shows on amazon.
I hadn’t heard of this! Thank you so much I’m excited.
