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

eschaton

eschaton

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Hey all,

I was just wondering, given we seem to be in a bit of a "golden age" when it comes to upcoming speculative fiction adaptations...what haven't you heard a whiff about a serious adaptation of you'd still love to see?

My own thoughts.
  • David Brin's Uplift universe
  • Julian May's The Saga of Pliocene Exile
  • Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence
  • Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep
  • China Meiville's Bas-Lag novel series
  • Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis series
  • Peter Watts' Blindsight (and its sequels)
  • One of Peter Hamilton's series (probably the Commonwealth series)
I could go on from there, but those were the first things that sprang to mind.
 
The Gentlemen Bastard series by Scott Lynch. I think this would make for a fantastic series. I love the fantasy world it presents and the feel of it is unique enough to set itself apart from the many fantasy series out there. Locke Lamora's backstory alone would make for great moments on screen.
 
I would love, love, love to see the Kate Daniels books turned into a TV series.
For those unfamiliar with it, here's the series description from Goodreads.
The world has suffered a magic apocalypse. We pushed the technological progress too far, and now magic returned with a vengeance. It comes in waves, without warning, and vanishes as suddenly as it appears. When magic is up, planes drop out of the sky, cars stall, electricity dies. When magic is down, guns work and spells fail.

It’s a volatile, screwed-up world. Magic feeds on technology, gnawing down on skyscrapers until most of them topple and fall, leaving only skeletal husks behind. Monsters prowl the ruined streets, werebears and werehyenas stalk their prey; and the Masters of the Dead, necromancers driven by their thirst for knowledge and wealth, pilot blood-crazed vampires with their minds.

In this world lives Kate Daniels. Kate likes her sword a little too much and has a hard time controlling her mouth. The magic in her blood makes her a target, and she spent most of her life hiding in plain sight. But sometimes even trained killers make friends and fall in love, and when the universe tries to kick them in the face, they kick back.
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I'd love to see some of Larry Niven's Known Space series brought to the screen. If the Louis Wu/Ringworld timeframe is too scientifically advanced, maybe Beowulf Shaeffer's bad boy pilot would be fun, or Gil "The ARM" Hamilton solving organlegging crimes on a crowded Earth.

If you're a fan of animated fantasy, Wendy & Richard Pini's Elfquest might do well today.
 
Larry Niven's Draco Tavern stories would make a great basis for an anthology-type series.

Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth books would be a great back-drop for some kick-ass space opera TV..

Stephen Baxter's Voyage could be a great mini-series.

David Gerrold's Chtorr or Star Wolf series would make great TV series.
 
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A proper Conan series.

The Dream Park trilogy by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes (Dream Park, The Barsoom Project, The California Voodoo Game). Imagine a park, Disneyland crossed with a fully-immersive RPG physical environment, with practical as well as holographic effects, where players go in to create on the fly a story based on a setup by a Game Master, for points, which is then recoded and broadcast. It would be a perfect project for Spielberg, why someone hasn't pitched it to him is a mystery.

A Culture series.
 
Australis said:
A proper Conan series.

The Dream Park trilogy by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes (Dream Park, The Barsoom Project, The California Voodoo Game). Imagine a park, Disneyland crossed with a fully-immersive RPG physical environment, with practical as well as holographic effects, where players go in to create on the fly a story based on a setup by a Game Master, for points, which is then recoded and broadcast. It would be a perfect project for Spielberg, why someone hasn't pitched it to him is a mystery.

A Culture series.
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Ah, Dream Park. One the first books I read when I started working at a bookstore. Still my favorite job.
 
Six years later and I’m still so mad at FOX for cancelling Hieroglyph without even airing the pilot. As an obsessive Egyptophile I was beyond excited. Show me the damn pilot, FOX!

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Animorphs. Although if it ends up being as dark as the series could get, I'm sure PETA would have a field day.
 
Mysterion said:
David Weber's Honor Harrington series is something I'd really enjoy seeing on screen, if it was done faithfully to the source material.
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My concern would be that they'd screw it up somehow:(. If it was well done, then yes, it would be very high on my list. (Also possibly a Safehold series).
 
John Clark said:
My concern would be that they'd screw it up somehow:(. If it was well done, then yes, it would be very high on my list. (Also possibly a Safehold series).
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There were plans to do this but they fell apart.

Here's Weber's take on it:
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Even though projects have been announced for each of these, we haven't heard anything about them in several years (or more). They're high on my list and I hope they all get some traction sooner than later:
  • A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Ringworld by Larry Niven
  • Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Le Guin's Earthsea especially needs a proper adaptation after the trainwreck Sci-Fi Channel produced years ago that was condemned by the author and fans alike.
 
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