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Wishlist of SF/Fantasy series not yet being developed as TV/movies?

With the advancement in CGI I like to see two of the most fantastic non-planet alien worlds ever conceived, both by Larry Niven:
Ringworld
Integral Trees/Smoke Ring


Syfy announced a Ringworld miniseries several years ago but nothing came out of it. Then Amazon got the rights but there has been no news about it lately.
 
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Problem with a Honor Harrington movie (didn't watch the whole video) is how to not have it be just yet another repetitive space battle CGI "epic."

If a studio is going to fuck it up, I personally would prefer they didn't do it.
 
Animorphs. Although if it ends up being as dark as the series could get, I'm sure PETA would have a field day.
They did do a Animorphs TV series back at the height of the books popularity, and it even starred one of the Ashmore brothers.
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I'm a huge fan of the Sigma Force books, and I would love to see it as TV series. I know a while back there was talk of them doing one, but I don't know whatever became of it.

I haven't read them, but I've always been a bit surprised Neuromancer, and A Canticle For Leibowitz have never been adapted, they both seem to be a pretty big deal.
 
MZB has suffered a reputation collapse in recent years due to revelations from her kids, but back in the day, her Darkover books were instrumental in creating space for queer representation in SF & Fantasy. I’d love to see a 6- or 8-episode adaptation of The Heritage of Hastur, and a second season adapting Sharra’s Exile.

On a completely different tangent, I’d love to see the Fleming James Bond books adapted as period pieces — taking place in the ‘50’s, with a minimum of gadgetry, and authentically adapting the stories themselves. The books are kind of episodic, so dividing each one into 4-6 episodes shouldn’t be too complicated.
 
I'd like Robert Asprin's Phule's Company.

But I doubt they'd do a good job, I don't even like the new edition's covers.

Anyway, besides the humor, it has some nice action and at least the first few have a really positive attitude about making the best out of what you have and helping your friends to do the same, good teamwork and management. I'm sure that part would lost on the people that make show/movies.
 
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I'm a huge fan of the Sigma Force books, and I would love to see it as TV series. I know a while back there was talk of them doing one, but I don't know whatever became of it.

This is where I brag about writing an official Reader's Guide to the Sigma Force books years ago. That was a fun gig.
 
That Animorphs series was terrible. They changed stuff just for the hell out it and it made me mad as a kid.
They probably changed it because the budget was about $100.

Tobias was cool on it though, looked like what I pictured him as at least before getting trapped as a Red-tail Hawk. Tobias was my favorite, Ax was second.
 
Yep. It never happened, though.

I dimly recall that the sticking pint may have been of tone. CW wanted a more contemporary, teen-friendly feel, along the lines of BUFFY or ROSWELL, which the producers balked at.

Ah, here it is: Seems the CW project fell apart around 2002, several years ago:

https://observationdeck.kinja.com/the-dragonriders-of-pern-the-best-series-we-may-never-1590768190

That was an excellent article, I especially agree with the author's point that the series is "done" so there is no waiting for the next book to be written.

Back in the 90s after Jurassic Park came out, I had visions of a movie version of Morerta's ride coming out with Kate Hepburn as the elder Werywoman Leri, rider of Holth.

Sigh.
 
A retro aesthetic 1950s set Tom Swift tv show would be great.

Any new take on Ulysses 31 would make my cut as well.
 
Heinlein's Starship Troopers. The short lived animated series was pretty good, but the movies sucked.

Have another go at it, preferably a series, and be faithful to the source material.
This. A thousand times, this. I couldn't possibly loathe what Paul Verhoeven did to Starship Troopers anymore than I do already. Faithful adaptations of Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress would also be welcome.
 
My wish list:

1. Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser. Just don't waste time with the later tales as they lacked the magic (no pun intended) of the earlier tales.

2. The Amber series (which was supposedly in development, but I haven't heard anything on it in a while).

3. The Champion Eternal cycle. In my ideal world, you'd have four series featuring Elric, Corum, Erekose and Hawkmoon running mostly concurrently. The Erekose series would feature that character assuming his various identities in other realities, more than what his trilogy and one graphic novel showed (when Quantum Leap premiered, my first thought was of the Erekose stories). Naturally the whole thing would end with Hawkmoon and the Quest For Tanelorn.

4. The tales of Silver John. Love the shit out of these stories, especially the short stories in "Who Fears The Devil".

5. The Dying Earth. Crazy far flung magical adventures in the millionth or so century? Count me in.

6. Zothique cycle. The tales that inspired the Dying Earth, though more "Lovecraftian and macabre adventures in the millionth century" than the latter series.

7. The Silmarillion. I'd read all of the above before I'd read Tolkien, they were my introduction to fantasy. In the years since I've come to really appreciate Tolkien, especially the Silmarillion, my favorite of his works.

And of course.......

8. The Lensman series. Update it where needed, keep it retro where not. Full blown space opera at it's best by anyone not named Edmond Hamilton.
 
I just read the first collection of the comic series Curse Words, and I would love to see it as a TV show. It's an absolute blast, and so far there really hasn't been anything that couldn't be done on a channel like FX or Syfy.
 
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