Just started relistening to galaxies edge and it made me sad that while we can have an amazing narrator like RC bray, we will never actually in any real capacity get an adaptation of it. Even if it was adapted it would be a schlock reduction of a great story. Other books like gilded needles, fear nothing, and many, many others that would make great media adaptations also escape that convoluted cesspit we call Hollywood. So I was wondering what books/stories that captivated you would be your top picks for a true adaptation.
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I'm too terrified to say anything, Hollywood is adapting ANYTHING right now and they're all shit adaptations.
I can't stand it if they do another Eragon or Artemis Fowl...
Calvin and Hobbes.
Bill Watterson's commitment to his principles in regards to monetizing his masterpiece is genuinely inspirational. For those who don't know, he refused to create any spin off products and stuck to collected volumes of his work as the only Calvin and Hobbes products. No coffee mugs, no Hobbes stuffed animals, no Calvin and Hobbes the flamethrower...just the collections of his comics. There was a lot of pressure from publishers and other monied interests for him to branch out in the way that say Garfield had, but he was resolute.
The guy who make Pearls Before Swine worked with Watterson once and said that he's very private and it felt like meeting bigfoot.
This is 100% Correct. The only recent monetization I've seen is a the four volume Hard-Cover set.
Frankly, it should go on a mantel or be placed as the center piece in a podium.
“Wheel of Time has never gotten an adaptation,” I say with my eyes shut and my hands over my ears….
The showleads bragged about having never read the source material. So yeah, it never did get an adaptation, instead there's some new random tale that happens to share a name because naming things is hard.
Hyperion, Old Man's War, pretty much anything by Neil Asher or Hamilton so Nights Dawn or the Penny Royal or Spatterjay arcs.
The Forever War or a actual loyal recreation of Starship Trooper would also be good.
Oh and Blood Meridian.
Scalzi's a hack.
It wasn't quite as obvious when it was his debut novel. If you basically wanted a slightly-different take on Starship Troopers you got it.
Okay, don't care.
The first space opera: The Lensman series. If a faithful adaptation were to be created, it would make heads explode.
I can't imagine a faithful adaptation (in $CURRENT_YEAR + 10) that keeps the speech about government "being reduced to its proper place", or portray the giant coup to take over the planet in Triplanetary heroically.
Or the fact that Heroes are allowed to genocide their enemies.
NOTHING.
While there are works that have improved in the transition from print to screen, they are VERY few, and VERY far between.
If the illiterate mongoloids can't read a great work, too bad, they're left out. There's tens of thousands of amazing works of literature in languages I cannot read, I accept that, if I really wanted to access them, I could learn those languages.
Honestly yea. People who can't read don't deserve to have good things dumbed down to their level
Any David Weber books, they are just too dialog dense.
Eh, first Honorverse novel could make a good movie. Universe rapidly gets too complicated to fit in one script, though.
I didn't care for Final Fantasy VI's gameplay, but the story had a bunch of great character moments. I really wish we could see it as an animated series.
Lord Haupfenn by Alfred Haus. He wrote a character specifically impossible to adapt to the screen since it's a nightmarish creature that is also a teacher. I mean full Cosmic Horror.
Red Storm Rising or Rainbow Six as actual period pieces and not generic bullshit.