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I want to see some Brandon Sanderson novels made into movies or TV shows. Preferably animated as I don't think a live action would work.

The Culture series by Iain M Banks.

Though I am not sure how you would translate some of them (Excession...) into a visual story.

Redwall.

Do it in full photo realistic CGI; I want to see the beautiful castles and countryside, all the delicious food, and the gruesome battles in all their glory.

Bit of a normie but the Dark Tower series would be awesome. Mixing tons of genres, having very different locations to film in. It would be extremely expensive to produce.

The gunslinging of Idris Elba in the movie was nice but everything else wasn't.

I'd love to see the last 3 books of The Expanse series made into a trilogy of movies.

Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons

The Witcher but they actually follow the source material.

The Mars trilogy by KSR. I think 3 8 hour long episode seasons could work

Ursula le Guin anyone?

The Left Hand of Darkness might be interesting. The Word for Tree is Forest would likely get thought of as an odd Avatar clone. But The Dispossessed would probably never get made, people would find worth in the politics and abandon the megacorp making it.

The Nights Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. Not as a trilogy, though, this would have to be series, maybe three seasons per book.

Pretty much any Brandon Sanderson book series. Mistborn, Steelheart, Way of King's, Skyward.... Etc

Mistborn by Brandan Sanderson.

Worm

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My attention span makes reading really hard. I read this from start to finish. It's well worth the read if you're into stories like it

Murderbot, but I don't think it could make the transition to film.

The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie. I think it actually might become a movie.

Discworld - preferably the City Watch novels. Books have been adapted a few times, but usually as lone events, and even the ones with a serious cast are just... okay.

Looking from one beloved dead author to another, Douglas Adams mercilessly chopped up the Hitchhiker's Guide between mediums. There was no "original version." It was all the same story, but sometimes with different events. That is the attitude necessary for capturing why Discworld is so good. Don't film a book, page-for-page. That's not how moving images work. Keep the characterization clear and fill in a storyboard from the Wikipedia description.

Anyway the real reason to go for a series would be consistent casting. Have the same guy play Vimes across a bunch of stories. Get cameos for Vetenari from the same wizened thespian. Call-forward future stories by turning bit-part scammers into Moist appearances, throw Gaspode in any scene with dogs, that sort of thing. Make Ankh-Morpork feel connected. Lived-in. Real, for a reality where wizards sometimes where fake glasses so people think they're badly disguised as wizards.

The Dying Earth series by Jack Vance.
It’s an old series, but the imagination and world building put into it should make for some great stories.

A game of thrones style epic based on the Battletech universe. It's been around since the 80s and there is a ton of books and lore to build from.

World war Z made a pretty bad movie. However, it would do a gneat TV show, in the style of these 1990's show with in dependant episodes despite some metaplot

Robin Hobb's fantasy books would be interesting. Probably quite hard to adapt well though.

The Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O’Brien. 21.3 books of amazing naval adventures, spy stuff, and survival. They made a movie with Russell Crowe but it doesn’t nearly capture the scope of the novels.

The name of the wind.

I'd like to see some 40k movies. Start with the Horus Heresy.

I would love to see a movie or miniseries based on the "Bas-Lag" novels by China Mieville, which are "Perdido Street Station", "The Scar", and "Iron Council"

I think the best description of these books would be "Gritty Steampunk Fantasy" with a very generous dose of Weird. The writing is very descriptive, even when you really would rather not know about what's being described.

Some things that are mentioned in these three books:

• Mosquito people. The males are quiet and studious, the females are strong, dangerous, and driven mad by hunger

• Punishment factories. Criminals are sentenced to "Remaking". The Remade are people who have had either machinery or animal parts grafted onto them. Most Remakings are cruel and useless.

• Smokestone. Rock that will change unpredictably into smoke - and back into stone.

• Frog people who can make water hold a shape for a short time. A longshoreman's strike in one of the books involved a bunch of these guys forming a large gap in a river.

• Sentient steam powered constructs

*Drugs that let you experience other people's dreams.

There is a lot I have to leave out due to spoilers, but it would be an awesome series.

Anything to do with Pern. Some good high fantasy and tech mixed. Might be a harder sell to the general public. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonriders_of_Pern

The Brainship series (The ship who sang). This would go over well with the Star Trek, Star Wars fansbase, I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ship_Who_Sang

The Vorkosigan saga. This would also go well with the Star Trek/Wars fanbases. More political than Brainship series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorkosigan_Saga

The Dragearan books about Vlad Taltos by Steven Brust. Especially the first few. High fantasy mystery novels. This would be an easy sell, IMO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Brust#Vlad_Taltos

This made me realize I haven't read any new books in a while.

Asimov's Foundation series. It hasn't been done yet. By anyone.

I've always thought The Belgariad/Malloreon/prequels (David & Leigh Eddings) would make for an interesting anime. It's a very shonen kind of story and world.

They announced an Illuminatus! series back in 2019 that I haven't heard any news of since.

The Riftwar Cycle from Feist. Each series is a season. And even side-series, like The Empire trilogy.

I have a couple. I’d love to see Prydain done right but I don’t have much hope anymore.

Temeraire got optioned by Peter Jackson years and years ago. I remember thinking that Richard Armitage would be a perfect Lawrence, but it’s been too long; I think he’s probably too old now.

The Monster at the end of this Book. It’s the one with Grover from Sesame Street. They made a second one where Elmo fucking ruins it by being all annoying… Another Monster at the end of this Book. Maybe in the third one Grover kills Elmo?

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