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I didn't read this series when I was a kid, but I finally got around to reading Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber.

Given it's an older series, I wasn't sure how much I'd like it (some of those older series age horribly), but it was actually REALLY good still, and the few minor things that'd aged too much wouldn't be hard to update for a modern audience.

But the concept of Amber is fantastic, Corwin's behavior and arc perfect, and I think a TV series could do it justice nowadays. Man, some CGI artists could do some beautiful work depicting a hellride through shadow.

I also would really, really love to see Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern adapted...but there's a few parts that have aged pretty badly, so it'd need careful handling of things like Lessa and F'lar's relationship and such. And maybe, you know, keep Jaxom the hell away from Corana.

But I think the whole idea of threadfall, and Impressing dragons, could be done beautifully on the screen. I think a run from Dragonflight to All The Weyrs of Pern (including the Harper Hall Trilogy) could be done. (Then leave the later books out, they don't really add much, lol.)

The series would need a top-notch composer scoring it, though. I'd vote for Natalie Holt. She did wonderfully with Loki, and it'd be a nice touch having a woman score the series that'd have the Harper Hall Trilogy included in it.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Old Man's War! Pretty green people fighting aliens! What's not to like?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm honestly surprised none of Scalzi's works have ended up movies or television series or anything.

But yeah, Old Man's War would be awesome. It's such a fun concept.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was supposed to be a 'Redshirts' movie, but it never happened.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That seems common--books are optioned, then the project never gets out of the ground. Then the options are sold again for X number of years, and rinse and repeat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

May be urban legend, but the story is that 'Stranger In A Strange Land,' by Robert Heinlein has been optioned more than any other book, and earned the writer more from options than from book sales. It came out in 1961, and was last optioned by SyFy network in 2016. David Bowie tried to make it, and ended up taking elements of it in 'The Man Who Fell To earth.'

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Stranger in a Strange Land was popular enough and written late enough in Heinlein's career that I'd be somewhat surprised if movie options truly earned him more than book sales (I mean, "stranger in a strange land" and "grok" both entered common parlance)--then again, it's possible Heinlein got a shit contract for that book, or there were some heavy-hitters optioning the movie for tons of money even if it never got made. He was savvy enough too that he might have jacked up the cost of optioning the book a lot if it was getting a lot of Hollywood nibbles. So maybe it's not urban legend.

I bet some sci-fi author out there knows if it's true or not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

To be fair the first book is so much better than the rest that I think it should be a movie, not a show.