Picking fantasy books for movie adaptions

[Knight Rise]

Oh! i think actually remember the teacher reading us that back in elementary school.

Yeah it was a 5th or 6th grade level. Interesting story

 

[Paroxysm]

I've always wanted Dragonlance to get a proper interpretation. A series would be great. SyFy or Premium Cable. But a long movie would be great.



Raistlin and Tasslehoff are screaming to get famous.

Kender rule!!!!

 

[Moridin]

The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. Red Eagle Entertainment & Universal are currently trying to adapt the first book (The Eye of The World) into a film. I think it'll stay stuck in development hell.

IMO the series is quite unfilmalbe. A major movie would have the budget but not the running time, a TV series would have the running time but not the budget.

Pity, it would be f****** epic, seeing all that brought to life.

 

[Paroxysm]

True, it's just too epic lol

I hope one day we'll be able to see Rand weave with the one power.

 

[stickboltman]

What I am really hoping for is some kind of adaptation of Zelazny's Amber Chronicles (or at least the ones starring Corwin). That right there would be unlike anything ever put on film. I can only imagine how walking through Shadow would be presented...


... Knowing Hollywood, these books will never be attempted to be adapted which is a darn right shame (But also, knowing Hollywood, this will preserve their legacy). One of the greatest series I've ever read.

 

[8wid]

Ender's Game.

The Neverending Story needs to desperately be remade and to be more close to the source. A couple of Indiana Jones junior novels could be made into film.

It might be closer to horror, but many of R.L. Stine's new novels could look nice as TV films.

 

[AndThePickles]

I wish they would make a proper version of The Golden Compass so we could get all three movies, and I also wish that Percy Jackson could be erased from memory and re-done right away

I would love to see a good Wrinkle in Time movie made...I vaguely recall a really terrible tv one.

 

[Mrh7448]

The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. Red Eagle Entertainment & Universal are currently trying to adapt the first book (The Eye of The World) into a film. I think it'll stay stuck in development hell.

IMO the series is quite unfilmalbe. A major movie would have the budget but not the running time, a TV series would have the running time but not the budget.

Pity, it would be f****** epic, seeing all that brought to life.

Needs to be animated. You're right I don't think you'd be able to do a 13 book series justice in movies and a series with the channeling the effects would be pretty expensive to do.

That was the advantage of adapting the Song of Ice and Fire to TV. While magic was a part it was a small part and not as ingrained as in The Wheel of Time.

 

[hopefuldreamer]

I've always wanted to see the airships from the Voyage of the Jerle Shannara. In fact there is a lot in that triology that I think would look visually awesome.

Ender's Game.

The Neverending Story needs to desperately be remade and to be more close to the source. A couple of Indiana Jones junior novels could be made into film.

It might be closer to horror, but many of R.L. Stine's new novels could look nice as TV films.

They did that with the TV show Goosebumps. It was a bit cheesy tho, would love to see a more adult adaption of a few of those.

 

[SuperBatman]

Eragon done right.

 

[AndThePickles]

Eragon done right.

Yes!

 

[Rez]

Twilight was huge before the first film. It made a ton of sense to do it. It was literally chasing Harry Potter and every girl in a middle school that had read HP was now reading Twilight and talking to all her friends about how Edward was the perfect boyfriend and how Tommy Conklin from down the street just wasn't holding up because all he wanted was blowjobs and wouldn't die for her.

Percy Jackson was also pretty big in that you can't go into a book section or store without seeing it on the shelves, next up we have The Hunger Games which has been steadily gaining momentum for years.

You have to look at sales and public perception. Reading is out of style except for word of mouth books. The masses don't read for themselves, they read for eachother. How a publisher handles a book also has huge implications for whether or not they could be tracked to a film. Don't think they don't think about these things.

If someone high up decides a new book should be a movie, expect a huge marketing push and a huge printing run. No one will get noticed if they have a single book on a single shelf, but if the publisher has faith in it expect to see 200 copies in a big cardboard cutout with flashing lights on the end of it.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Eragon done right.

Already done it is called Lord of the Rings and StarWars

 

[Arc-Light]

Magician by Raymond E. Feist

With the right director this would be epic.....

 

[Cherry]

I wish they would make a proper version of The Golden Compass so we could get all three movies, and I also wish that Percy Jackson could be erased from memory and re-done right away
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Aww, reading this post yesterday made me dream last night that Subtle Knife and Amber Spyglass were being shot back to back for a year-apart release. *Sigh* If only...

Needs to be animated. You're right I don't think you'd be able to do a 13 book series justice in movies and a series with the channeling the effects would be pretty expensive to do.

That was the advantage of adapting the Song of Ice and Fire to TV. While magic was a part it was a small part and not as ingrained as in The Wheel of Time.

And also, I think completing the Game of Thrones story in seven seasons sounds a lot more feasible than Wheel of Time getting ~13 seasons on television. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see it happen, but alas, I don't see it happening.

 

[Evan Drew]

Terry Brooks' "The Wishsong of Shannara" had been optioned at one point by WB, but that ended recently. I would really enjoy seeing those books tackled Live Action...

The Wheel of Time series would HAVE to join books to even attempt theatrically, mini-series or a series. These books do not have any true endings like some the of Shannara books. Perhaps they might approach it like they are hoping to do with the Dark Tower books (movies and series)

 

[Airwings]

Rebooting both Percy Jackson and Golden Compass seem just... too much. We don't need that at all. They should focus on other books instead.
Doing the same thing over and over again, each time with new actors, directors, writers and visual styles doesn't come out as a solution.

Its seems that Angie Sage, G.P. Taylor, Michelle Paver and Eoin Colfer aren't popular writers anyway. Nobody's talking about or suggesting them. I guess it's the right way to go to NOT adapt their books to the big screen, as there are very few followers out there.
Perhaps fantasy is dead now. It has been popular for a decade, but sooner or later we all knew it was gonna happen. Now they are going to flesh out the genre with classic fairy tales like Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Hansel & Gretel, Jack & The Beanstalk, Sleeping Beauty etc. The last breaths, I guess.

 

[Vapor]

I know these are fairly fantasy-lite but thinking back to my childhood and with the Narnia and Potter - 'kids having adventures' kinda style franchises being very popular, I'm kinda surprised nothing has been done with the Famous Five books (you could probably take elements from 2 or 3 books and make one film). Or any of the Enid Blyton books for that matter... the '...of Adventure' series, Faraway Tree etc..

 

[Lord]

The Chronicles of Prydain
They are just awesome

 

[Evan Drew]

The Prydain books were a great read in elementary school...and they received Newbery recognition as well so they are respected as a modern children's classic. Disney tried to bring the series to 'life' with the animated 'Black Cauldron', but that was just before the Disney Renaissance so it was unwatchable.

The Shannara books are more for adults but children would not be excluded from enjoying them. Just depends on what audience is the target...

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

Brian Lumley's Necroscope and Blood Brothers.

 

[Airwings]

There was a rumour some years ago, about Fox buying the rights to Wolf Brother.
And I have heard something about an animated Airman adaption (a book by Eoin Colfer), or was it mo-cap?

We are getting Hunger Games next year. And a bunch of fairy tale film will be out soon. They are even doing Jack & the beanstalk (starring Nicholas Hoult). So I wonder what's keeping them from trying with the projects I mention?

 

[cherokeesam]

I'd luh-huv to see Michael Moorcock's Elric brought to life on the big screen. Also maybe the Thieves' World anthology.

 

[Victarion]

I'd luh-huv to see Michael Moorcock's Elric brought to life on the big screen. Also maybe the Thieves' World anthology.

Stormbringer on screen with the right budget =

They already did try this with Jerry Cornelius. It was an adaptation of The Final Programme. I believe the movie was given a different--and terribly cheeseball title--The Last Days of Man on Earth.

The Eternal Champion has already been adapted. Its called Avatar. :snicker:

Drizzt could be good. I think it would need to be tackled more like a comic adaption because of how many novels there are now.

 

[childeroland]

The NeverEnding Story
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell as a miniseries
Eyes of the Dragon
20th Century Boys as a miniseries
Little, Big
Islandia as a miniseries
the Mythago Woods series