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Donaldson's Covenant series. Perhaps only the initial trilogy. Stone and sea would I ever like to see that done well!

I'd like to see American Gods made into a mini-series.

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Well it would appeal to the mouth breathers that liked Stargate, but hate Caprica, Doll House, Stargate Universe, and Terra Nova.

I guess it depends. As long as the TV shows are done more Game of Thrones and less Sword of Truth...

I would freaking LOVE to see Amber done right. But I don't know if the audience could handle a large ensemble cast with all the shifting allegiances and double/triple/quadruple-cross back-stabbing.

/and no love for Pern?

Blues_X: Quasar: and it is a bit bloated and overlong


That's like saying that Amy Winehouse had a bit of a substance abuse problem.

It would make a great MMO though.

Voting for

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

Mister-E: Donaldson's Covenant series. Perhaps only the initial trilogy. Stone and sea would I ever like to see that done well!

They're my favorite books in the whole world but I hope they're NEVER adapted to the screen.

gopher321: That list fails SO BADLY that I think I heard the impact and saw it ricochet off into space.

They've got the nerve to put that hack David Eddings on that list? I've read tax returns with more story depth.

Anyway, list fails without Tad Williams Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series. Even George RR Martin says that's the best ever and wants a sequel.

*shrug* Eddings was formulaic, but the formula works. I liked them, especially as a teenager.

Agreed on Tad Williams. I know it's new, but I'd also add the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. It's a bit laggy, but I think it'd look REALLY good on the TV - even better than it read.

Discworld.

Damn, I would actually subscribe to HBO for a decent Necroscope series.

Quasar: Brooks as well; almost every Shannara book is basically a rip off of a previous Shannara book which is a rip off of LOTR. I've enjoyed their work, but still. I wouldn't mind seeing Elfstones of Shannara, though. It's the most different of the bunch and has a lot of fantastic battles.

personally, i'd prefer his running with the demon series or his landover novels. both of them were fun without being nearly so derivative.

plus come on, chicago lawyer buys a real magic kingdom and then has to fix it up with the help of an incompetant wizard, snarky dog, hot tree chick and a couple of comic relief gnomes? tell me that script doesn't write itself!

tlchwi02: Quasar: Brooks as well; almost every Shannara book is basically a rip off of a previous Shannara book which is a rip off of LOTR. I've enjoyed their work, but still. I wouldn't mind seeing Elfstones of Shannara, though. It's the most different of the bunch and has a lot of fantastic battles.

personally, i'd prefer his running with the demon series or his landover novels. both of them were fun without being nearly so derivative.

plus come on, chicago lawyer buys a real magic kingdom and then has to fix it up with the help of an incompetant wizard, snarky dog, hot tree chick and a couple of comic relief gnomes? tell me that script doesn't write itself!

*laugh* True that.

Also would like to see a series set in Alastair Reynolds' universe, particularly if set primarily in Chasm City.

Blues_X: LL316: Blues_X: Quasar: and it is a bit bloated and overlong


That's like saying that Amy Winehouse had a bit of a substance abuse problem.

It would make a great MMO though.


Would braid tugging be a character skill?

An emote, at the very least.

I for one agree the Necroscope series is begging to be adapted to another medium.
I hate the pussies vampires have become in modern TV and movies.
The Necroscope vampires bring the EVIL, and FSM bless them for it.

I want more science fiction adaptations. Isaac Asimov's Foundation series would be interesting.

10. Necroscope - Well Vampire Porn is popular so yeah, probably would work.

9. Night Angel Trilogy - Can't imagine it being done well without a good CGI budget and modifications made to the story. Don't do it..

7. Sword of Shannara - They show re-runs of LOTR on TV already, don't they?

6. Chronicles of Amber - Not a chance in hell they could do this well, and I don't know who they think the audience would be for it.

5. The Belgariad - I would like to know exactly how the author thinks the books have 'a lot in common' with The Song of Fire and Ice books. Possibly could pull this one off though, and if it doesn't match the source material it might even be an improvement.

Oh, cool, another Fark book thread. I've about finished with my current one and usually find another good one to move on to because of them.

The Temeraire Series, although I'm quite happy to settle for Peter Jackson making it into a movie.

Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea books would make a good series.
Fritz Lieber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser books would make a good series.

I have no idea how you could make a good series out of Zelazny's Amber series. The special effects budget would have to be enormous. And you'd have to find people who could turn it into a script that had characters and stories that people would actually want to watch, which Zelazny himself didn't achieve.

I believe the market is getting over saturated with fantasy and horror stories, films, video games. NTTAWWT, but it seems like there may be an opportunity window for something fresh, that doesn't feature zombies or vampires.

Gods Behaving Badly sounds fun...is it worth the effort?

Okay, first of all, they already made a Sword of Shannara movie series. Here's a poster for it:




Second, the list totally fails without Guardians of the Flame, which would be a totally bad-ass HBO series if they played it without pulling any punches. This is a story where people from our world enter a fantasy world, and end up getting their asses kicked, their women kidnapped and gang-raped, and their equipment lost on the first day.

The list also fails without The Dragonlance Saga (the first four books, anyway), which really deserves a live-action treatment with Christopher Lloyd as Fizban.

Two other things I'd love to see as a TV series: Harry Potter, with all the incredibly important parts they missed in the movies (seriously, the movies are like 10% of the books' total content), and The Dark Tower, because a movie will just not do it justice.

And while this steps into scifi instead of fantasy, I think Timothy Zhan's "Thrawn trilogy" needs to see the light of day, somehow; Even if they have to make Luke, Leia, Han, and other main Star Wars characters as CGI creations.

Aidan: Agreed on Tad Williams. I know it's new, but I'd also add the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. It's a bit laggy, but I think it'd look REALLY good on the TV - even better than it read

The special effects budget would be staggering, but if they had the right person to do the fight choreography it could rock. I think his standalone books like Elantris or Warbreaker could make good mini-series though.

JNowe: Also would like to see a series set in Alastair Reynolds' universe, particularly if set primarily in Chasm City.

That's be cool.

Does anyone else thing that Patrick Rothfuss seriously needs an editor with some balls? His books are 1/3 fantastic, 2/3 drudgery.

My vote would be Glen Cook's Black Company books. The special effects budget would have to be huge.

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Well it would appeal to the mouth breathers that liked Stargate, but hate Caprica, Doll House, Stargate Universe, and Terra Nova.

For one I loved Caprica. That said, I'm bailing out now because you're about 2 seconds away from linking your Buffy fan fic stories.

Aww.... Dammit. Stupid! Thanks Celebritywonder for your crappy hotlinking!

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Okay, first of all, they already made a Sword of Shannara movie series. Here's a poster for it:



/There.
//My other points all still stand.

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I doubt Stephen King wants the television treatment for what he probably considers his magnum opus.

red5ish: Fritz Lieber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser books would make a good series.

Oooooo.

Whilst not fantasy I have to wonder if Game of Thrones being such a huge hit means companies will be willing to revisit other properties. Like Dune for example... which if you take in to account all of the new books written pretty much could keep a large production company running for quite a while.

Relieved Malazan Book of the Fallen wasn't included. farking fantastic series of books, but it would lose SO MUCH in translation to live-action. There's possible potential for an animated series, but I doubt the pacing would work for that, either.

/now, a Chain of Dogs movie, on the other hand....

Quasar: I like Eddings, but he recycles his storylines and character interactions far too frequently. Brooks as well; almost every Shannara book is basically a rip off of a previous Shannara book which is a rip off of LOTR. I've enjoyed their work, but still. I wouldn't mind seeing Elfstones of Shannara, though. It's the most different of the bunch and has a lot of fantastic battles.

Terry Brooks got me started reading so I give him some leeway but i do agree he jumped the shark with the Shannara books long time ago. Elfstones remains my favorite of his as its the most original of the bunch.

/he is just phoning it in with his current Shannara series

Inaditch: Does anyone else thing that Patrick Rothfuss seriously needs an editor with some balls? His books are 1/3 fantastic, 2/3 drudgery.

My vote would be Glen Cook's Black Company books. The special effects budget would have to be huge.

I agree with you on the Black Company. Even if it was done in a cheesy SyFry way I'd still watch it.

bravian: /he is just phoning it in with his current Shannara series

There's a CURRENT one? Jesus...

red5ish: Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea books would make a good series.Fritz Lieber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser books would make a good series.

I have no idea how you could make a good series out of Zelazny's Amber series. The special effects budget would have to be enormous. And you'd have to find people who could turn it into a script that had characters and stories that people would actually want to watch, which Zelazny himself didn't achieve.

I believe the market is getting over saturated with fantasy and horror stories, films, video games. NTTAWWT, but it seems like there may be an opportunity window for something fresh, that doesn't feature zombies or vampires.

Wow, I must have read that series 50 times growing up. Havent read it in years though, I may need to reread them.

Aidan: I'd also add the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. It's a bit laggy, but I think it'd look REALLY good on the TV - even better than it read.

I've just started reading the third book. Sanderson needs an editor. It's a good story, but it seems he's being paid by the word, and not always very well chosen words at that. I know there's a trend to 700 page each trilogies, but the second novel was longer than War and Peace and could have been cut to 300 pages if properly crafted.
He should try writing some short stories and see if that doesn't help his self-discipline.

/just my opinion. It WOULD be better as a TV series.

Aidan: gopher321: That list fails SO BADLY that I think I heard the impact and saw it ricochet off into space.

They've got the nerve to put that hack David Eddings on that list? I've read tax returns with more story depth.

Anyway, list fails without Tad Williams Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series. Even George RR Martin says that's the best ever and wants a sequel.

*shrug* Eddings was formulaic, but the formula works. I liked them, especially as a teenager.

Agreed on Tad Williams. I know it's new, but I'd also add the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. It's a bit laggy, but I think it'd look REALLY good on the TV - even better than it read.

I agree. The new novel, "Alloy of Law," would be very impressive as a TV series.