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[-] GarboDog@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Alex Rider 100%

[-] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

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

[-] Xyre@lemmus.org 4 points 21 hours ago

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.

[-] Sylence@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago

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.

[-] historicaldocuments@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours 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.

[-] psion1369@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stevenson. But keep it the modern stuff as part of the ninties at the Dawn of the Information Age.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

That was written like they hoped it would be made into a movie. I found it one of the drawbacks to the book.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

There’s a pulp sci-fi series that I’ve been reading, “Backyard Starship”. Basically good-guy Space Sherrif takes on big and small problems in known space with a big variety of aliens. Fun stories and plenty of action. IMO it definitely needs an anime-style version.

[-] dudleyflippendoodle@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 hours ago

The Game is Life series by Terry Schott.

The writing style can put people off but the concept itself and the world building done in the first couple books are just so damn interesting I would love to see a visual interpretation of it.

[-] PodPerson@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

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.

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

The encyclopedia

Prequel series: the dictionary

Sequel series: thesaurus

[-] SourDragon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

My therapist's notes on our sessions

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

In black and white, French, Subtitled.

[-] ceiphas@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

"Malazan book of the Fallen" by Steven Erikson. An Epos that dwarfs the whole of LotR.

Or an animated series of all Discworld novels...

[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

diskworld series have some, but need more imo

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

I demand more Rincewind content.

[-] augustus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

The Bobiverse books by Dennis E. Taylor, and The Shadow of the Leviathan series by Robert Jackson Bennett. These are two series I would love to see rendered as animated or live action stories.

[-] dudleyflippendoodle@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 hours ago

+1 for Bobiverse. Almost done with Book 1 and surprised it has been done already.

[-] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 30 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] Cavemanfreak@programming.dev 1 points 11 hours ago

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.

[-] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 5 points 1 day ago

It's crazy how badly they fucked up everything about that show from top to bottom.

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[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

most dont even stay true to the source material, unless the original writer is on board, even then they can be influenced by executives, like with sandman. with the obvious thing happened with lucifer and death.(not true to the source, only the words were)

invincible is another, with tech jacket, even with the creator on board.

on one hand, series like nutrek just straight up plagiarizes fan novels without giving credit.

[-] moondoggie@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

But occasionally it can stray far enough away to become its own different great thing like Resident Alien

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 20 hours ago

resident alien seems good, except for the 3rd one i think. they had to cancel that show.

[-] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago
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[-] Pratai@piefed.ca 7 points 1 day ago

I will always say that HHGttG needs a well done remake as a TV series’s that leaves out nothing.

[-] jode@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago

Came here to say that. The last movie had a happy ending for Arthur Dent. They clearly missed the point as there are no happy endings for Arthur Dent.

[-] STUNT_GRANNY@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

John Scalzi's Old Man's War book series. Apparently it's been optioned for 15+ years now, but nobody's actually gotten around to making the damned thing yet.

[-] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 24 points 2 days ago

The whole bobiverse series.

Anyways, almost any book could be made into a fun series, because most books are well-written.

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[-] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 13 points 2 days ago

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)

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

that's interesting, I thought they just weren't popular enough to justify more seasons

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 19 hours ago

i heard it was the time jump in the other novels, so maybe that?

[-] Malica@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago

Wheel of time. No, that garbage they tried at Amazon doesn't count.

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[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Dictionary (Based on the Book by Merriam Webster)

The epic sequel will be simply, THESAURUS.

[-] ThePrimitive@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago
[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The Cradle series by Will Wight would be pretty cool. It's 12 books long but tightly paced and doesn't mire itself in a bunch of tiny details like The Wheel of Time would. It's set in an ancient Chinese fantasy world that's part of a greater struggle in the multiverse and reads like a shonen. Its protagonist, Wei Shi Lindon starts off as a pariah with no powers before being rescued by a demigod who gives him a way to alter the fate of him and his home from an apocalyptic ending.

A 2 hour long animatic was released a few months ago and covers the first 2 books fairly well. A fully animated trailer was also released showing the promise of how well it would look if it took off.

Animatic:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JJMuJCLsYeQ

Trailer:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9FEayZdH-nk

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