I’ve often wanted a movie/series based on the Dragonlance books or the Dark Elf trilogy. What would you all like to see done if you had the ability to do it?

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I want to see some Brandon Sanderson novels made into movies or TV shows. Preferably animated as I don’t think a live action would work.

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Word is that it’s coming. And he’s probably the most well known speculative fiction author without an adaptation.

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Yes! The graphic audiobooks have been awesome.

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The Culture series by Iain M Banks.

Though I am not sure how you would translate some of them (Excession…) into a visual story.

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I honestly think that would ruin it for all the Culture fans. Much as I love Banks’ work, I like the movie of the books that I’ve produced in MY head more than what anyone else could make.

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I’m kinda in this boat too. I’m glad Banks’ estate didn’t let the Amazon series go through. Something about a guy like Bezos hailing the books while being a billionaire capitalist egomaniac just makes me uneasy with the whole idea.

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Post-scarcity communism is fine. I’d actually consider the culture just lib, not even left or right. It’s a totally voluntary society. Except maybe for some special circumstances.

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I understand your point but feel it is a bit selfish.

I honestly think that would ruin it for all the Culture fans.

But it would also create a lot more Culture fans. Just as the LOTR movies got a huge number of people to read Tolkien.

I would love to see more people read Banks.

I like the movie of the books that I’ve produced in MY head more than what anyone else could make.

If they are ever adapted no one is going to force you to watch and you can reread them when ever you want.

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Totally agree with you, many people said the same about Lord of the rings before Peter Jackson made an amazing adaptation. That doesn’t mean every adaptation is good, far from it, but that shouldn’t stop people from trying.

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My first thought. Though you could do Use of Weapons, Inversions, and The State of the Art. The Algebraist, Feersum Endjinn, The Player of Games, could all be their own trilogy. Use of Weapons, Look to Windward, Surface Detail etc.

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They turned the inside the suit moments of Iron Man into pop culture. They could figure it out, I bet!

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I always thought the drone scenes would be so interesting on film like a mix between bullet time and 10000fps. Also weird storytelling seeing the other scenes pop up in drone time.

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Redwall.

Do it in full photo realistic CGI; I want to see the beautiful castles and countryside, all the delicious food, and the gruesome battles in all their glory.

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Instead of cgi I want it done with traditional cell animation on a huge budget. Like princess Mononoke or spirited away.

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There already was a traditionally animated show though…

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That would either be fire or a smoldering pile of shit.

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There’s so much source material that I think it could work.

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Or they could hire furries

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No thanks

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Bit of a normie but the Dark Tower series would be awesome. Mixing tons of genres, having very different locations to film in. It would be extremely expensive to produce.

The gunslinging of Idris Elba in the movie was nice but everything else wasn’t.

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Yeah. That movie was a disappointment. I love Idris Elba in everything he does, but that movie should not have been made lol

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When I first saw the casting I thought Elba was going to play the man in black and McConaughey was going to be Roland which I thought was great casting but then they flipped it around.

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Came here to say this. But tbf It will always be a horrible adaptation for a movie, even the first book, the shortest one, is to much for a movie.

Also I don’t think they would ever adapt Odetta the way she is and she is awesome

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Mike Flanagan is making the TV series. It’s been in the works for a year or so and has King’s nod of approval on it. No casting has been solidified yet and stuff is of course currently halted due to the strikes, but it’s currently a high priority project after Hollywood can start up again.

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I’d love to see the last 3 books of The Expanse series made into a trilogy of movies.

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I would prefer at least 10 episode seasons, but I’d take anything at this point. The last 3 books were the best of them all, and that’s with the first 6 being absolutely amazing as well.

Greatest series ever, I will die on that hill.

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There are a couple really spectacular scenes that I really want to see visualized. In my head I extrapolated what the last 3 books would look like based on the series visualizations which made them like watching the show. That last scene with Draper though… that would be a sight to behold.

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!Like a fuckin Valkyrie!< 😭

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This whole thread is making me want to listen to the audiobooks all over again.

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Let the dark side Expanse flow through you

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