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    Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy deserves a good adaptation, rather than that trash movie and that too short BBC series.

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      I would love that, I dont think the movie is terrible, its just that everything after Ford and Arthur get thrown out the airlock isnt as funny or absurd as the books. The main issue is the first 2ish books are unadaptable because there is no central conflict (or arleast the main cast dosent care or know there was supposed to be one).

      Zaphod is the only person with motivation to do anything other than to continue existing, and he is unaware (or dosen’t care) he is being hunted until they meet those suprisingly progessive law enforcment officers on Magrathea and when he visits the guides publishing offices.

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        The BBC series does up to them being on >!prehistoric hairdresser and middle management earth!< Iirc

        Which I’m pretty sure is the third book. But I haven’t read it in a loooooong time.

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          Wha… really? I’ve seen the BBC HHGTTG, but I’ve never even heard they did the sequels!

          Book 2 was Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and book 3 was Life, the Universe, and Everything.

          Two books followed… So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish and Mostly Harmless constituted Books 4 & 5, but were detached from the main characters and plot.

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      The graphic audiobooks are pretty great already. Would love some visuals to go with it. Would need a big budget though…

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      Similarly, I’m reading through the Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks and I think it would be a great candidate for an adaptation. It’s a really good story and the magic is all based on the colour of light which I think would make the special effects pretty easy to create and should also look nice.

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    Always felt like that Eragon series could have been good. Too bad they never made a movie for it. Never once. I’m sure it would have been solid if they had. But they didn’t.

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      I think they are making an Eragon adaptation (for the first time, of course). I think Disney+ is making a series, similar to them restarting Percy Jackson.

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        Oh boy. Disney adaptation track record is very hit or miss. I hope they don’t mess this one up like the last adaptation.

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      Ah, it appears you have forgotten or have simply Mandela’d in from a different timeline. Allow me to refresh your memory for you in the kindest way possible:

      Eragon was a 2006 dance film featuring Jeremy Irons and Ed Speeler on a ship. Some fighting is involved. And I dunno, a dragon maybe.

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      I feel the same way about Avatar: The Last Airbender. It would have been such an amazing movie, or perhaps even a series. But alas, they’ve never attempted it once.

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    The Iliad. Not a “take” or an “adaptation” or a “re-imagining”. Just play it straight as it is, cut out some of the monologues and replace the “throwing spears at each other” parts with swordfights.

    I want to see the gods descend from Olympus to fight on the battlefield.

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      For being what I would consider one of the founding fathers of cyberpunk, I’m surprised there hasn’t been a Neuromancer film yet. Especially when so many of the tropes we know from the cyberpunk genre originated from Neuromancer, to begin with.

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        The question is do they stick with the existing Johnny Mnemonic movie as the prequel story, recap it in an intro scene, or ignore it completely?

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        An anthology-like mini series where each episode deals with one pilgrim and is written and directed by different people. As many different styles as there are pilgrims, just like how the book is written. Would translate very well to screen IMO.

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      Neuromancer has been optioned before but no one did anything with it. I think it was in play again but recently but haven’t heard much lately.

      Hyperion Cantos would be great.

      Gormanghast might also be cool.

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      Watch Inception and think of Neuromancer and you will find that its probably the best closest match for the way the story is told. So many things made me realize there are so many little “I loved that story but I cant make that movie so I will just give you clues”. The throwing star is the top.

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    Old Man’s War by John Scalzi was made for this, I swear. His latest books also read a lot like movie scripts are contained therein.

    Charles Stross’ Laundry series has a ton of potential too, if less Chtullu is required, I wouldn’t mind a Merchant Princes series either.

    I heard rumours about Forever War being optioned at some point, but nothing came of it.

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    Sanderson’s Mistborn series could make some good film or TV. Honestly they could probably even pull off a whole cosmere MC universesque type thing… Although I think deals keep falling through because the author wants full creative control.

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      Although I think deals keep falling through because the author wants full creative control.

      I mean looking at the ruins of the Game of Thrones franchise that David Benioff and D. B. Weiss left behind, maybe that’s not such a bad idea.

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    I would have loved Name of the Wind, but that lazy fuck Rothfuss is going the way of George Reorge Reorge Martin: he’s been promising book 3 for a decade and can’t finish it.

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    I would love a true to the book series of World War Z. I’m not even sure anyone involved with that movie read the book. It should be a 3 season HBO series with an episode for each persons vignette. Intros and outros of each episode has the recurring reporter meeting the person and starting his recording as they launch into their narrative of what happened. If you need more episodes, just write additional vignettes. Season 1 is the events that lead up to the outbreak, season 2 is the war itself, season 3 is the aftermath. I’m pretty sure this is what Max Brooks was writing towards. It could be amazing.

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      I’ve been saying this for years. It’s ideal for a series. Was terribly disappointed with that zombie movie that borrowed the name.

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      Oh shit. The Baroque Cycle getting the Game of Thrones treatment… minus the executive meddling.

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        You wouldn’t even have to obsess over the history, alchemy, etc., just don’t fuck it up. People get too wrapped around an axle thinking every single infodump has to be there. Stephenson’s got issues (coughendingscough), but the stories are informed by the same research as the infodumps, and they’ll hold up well.

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      Seveneves is coming as a series. Not sure if they could pull off Baroque, but I’m game. I’d love a Snow Crash film.

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        Typing that comment made me do my semi-annual check for adaptations, and I just saw that announcement came out a couple of weeks ago. Hope it comes along better than the movie that got stuck in development hell.

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    The Red Rising series would be an awesome TV show. Each of the 6 (so far) books would be excellent as long seasons.