I didn’t read this series when I was a kid, but I finally got around to reading Roger Zelazny’s Chronicles of Amber.

Given it’s an older series, I wasn’t sure how much I’d like it (some of those older series age horribly), but it was actually REALLY good still, and the few minor things that’d aged too much wouldn’t be hard to update for a modern audience.

But the concept of Amber is fantastic, Corwin’s behavior and arc perfect, and I think a TV series could do it justice nowadays. Man, some CGI artists could do some beautiful work depicting a hellride through shadow.

I also would really, really love to see Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern adapted…but there’s a few parts that have aged pretty badly, so it’d need careful handling of things like Lessa and F’lar’s relationship and such. And maybe, you know, keep Jaxom the hell away from Corana.

But I think the whole idea of threadfall, and Impressing dragons, could be done beautifully on the screen. I think a run from Dragonflight to All The Weyrs of Pern (including the Harper Hall Trilogy) could be done. (Then leave the later books out, they don’t really add much, lol.)

The series would need a top-notch composer scoring it, though. I’d vote for Natalie Holt. She did wonderfully with Loki, and it’d be a nice touch having a woman score the series that’d have the Harper Hall Trilogy included in it.

  • @spuncertv@iusearchlinux.fyi
    1•1 year ago

    Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld. You’d need a massive budget to make the darwinists look convincing though so it’ll probably never happen.

  • @Pirasp@lemmy.world
    5•1 year ago

    Barrayar. Giant SciFi world, tons of cool characters, politics, action, romance and intrigue. All in all it probably would make for a pretty great series.

    • @IonAddis@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      I suspect the big thing that’s always held Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan series back from being made into a movie or television show is Miles being disabled. Peter Dinklage could’ve played him, but he’s too old at this point for young Miles. And there’s probably not a lot of acting talent with dwarfism AND the manic charisma that playing a proper Miles needs.

      I wonder if it’d work as an anime though? Lois McMaster Bujold reviews a lot of manga on Goodreads so I imagine she might at least entertain the idea if anyone ever approached her.

      I think her Chalion series would work as an excellent series of shows, either live action or animated. Penric is, personality-wise, a lot like Miles, but easier to cast.

      • @Pirasp@lemmy.world
        1•1 year ago

        Maybe, or any animation really. Still live action would be the thing I would look forward to the most.

  • Rikudou_Sage
    -7•1 year ago

    Witcher without all the Netflix bullshit. Like, give it to someone who loves the IP, not someone who wants to push some agenda.

    I’ve loved the book series for close to 20 years, it deserves a LOTR or GoT level movie/series.

      • Rikudou_Sage
        -4•1 year ago

        Not Netflix’s, the director’s.

        Edit: No need to “bite”, if you want to argue with someone online, I’m afraid you’ll have to find your fix somewhere else.

    • Bleeping LobsterEnglish
      8•1 year ago

      I reckon you’ve been downvoted for the agenda comment, but you’re absolutely right about it being bullshit. They fucking ruined it. Imo it’s less about ‘agenda’ and more about the arrogance of the directing team.

      Literally all they had to do was replicate the stories for the screen, but they couldn’t resist putting ‘their stamp on it’. What a missed open goal.

      • Rikudou_Sage
        -1•1 year ago

        Don’t really care, if people can’t see that the director is pushing her agenda into the thing and kinda forgets about actually adapting the source material, it’s their problem, not mine.

        The Witcher books talk about a lot of issues that are relevant today (like racism, the price of being neutral, colonialism and many more), I personally also love the medieval politics bit (you can see that Sapkowski really loves history in those parts) and I think it deserves a proper adaptation, not this hacked together bullshit that just likes to push every modern agenda in there.

        You (the general you) can dislike my opinion as much as you want, that’s really up to you, but IMO one of those things lines pretending it works with societal issues, while the other one truly presents them as such.

        • Bleeping LobsterEnglish
          4•1 year ago

          I’ve never read the books, huge fan of the game series. I love reading, but what’s put me off is Sapkowski’s reputation for being an arsehole. I dunno, I’ve always been a bit resistant to consuming media if I don’t like the creator.

          Like, I can enjoy Michael Jackson songs, but if I discovered him today with all the baggage attached I might never have formed an attachment to his music. Think I’ll see if I can find any Witcher books in the library and then if I don’t enjoy, I’ve not wasted any money.

          • Rikudou_SageEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            Well, he is an arsehole a bit, but not on the level I’d consider turning away from his books. I probably wouldn’t want to be friends with him, but he’s not such a big arsehole that I would lose sleep over supporting him financially. I truly recommend the books, though I’ve heard that the English translations leave a lot to be desired.

  • Vaggumon
    10•1 year ago

    I’d absolutely love a faithful adaptation of SnowCrash by Neil Stephonson to a TV series, don’t think a movie would be doable, unless they did a trilogy or something.

  • Vaggumon
    6•1 year ago

    A real adaptation of the Foundation Series. Not the abomination we are getting from Apple.

    • Bleeping LobsterEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      I didn’t watch it until second season was out, I just didn’t see how they could possibly do it justice… look at how Altered Carbon floundered, I expected (and was proven right) the same problems.

      People need to attach to characters and plot. It’s very hard to do that when the characters (or actor in the case of AC) change every chapter, and the plot arches over 10s of 1000s of years!

      I have to say once I was able to let go of preconceptions based on the books and just enjoy it for what it is, I really enjoyed Foundation series.

    • eu
      1•1 year ago

      I love the books and would like to see a 1:1 adaptation so I have no interest in the Apple show, but I’ve been told the show is good if you pretend the books do not exist.

    • @redballooon@lemm.ee
      1•1 year ago

      I loved the books, and I loved season one on Apple TV. But then it lost me. I didn’t recognize any storyline anymore

  • @GenesisJones@lemmy.world
    8•1 year ago

    Project hail Mary is my favorite literature I’ve read in the last few years.

    I would love to see it done justice with a movie done right.

  • TechyDad
    3•1 year ago

    For the longest time, I wanted to see the Percy Jackson series adapted. (I’m not counting those movies!) Thankfully, it is and the first book/first season will be coming out in December. I hope they are able to expand to the entire universe that Riordan made. There are so many stories that would be great to see.