The Sword of Truth series. My favorite series of all time. It had an attempt at a show, but I refuse to accept it. They took a story that’s 10x more adult than Game of Thrones and made a CW show that had events from the 5th book in episode one.
No hate, but you’re the first person I’ve heard say it was their favourite. I enjoyed the first few books, but dude went off the deep end in later books. Became damn near unreadable for me. And I think majority of readers have similar views. I doubt any attempt would survive the hate and t would receive.
That’s fair, I get it’s not for everyone but I truly did enjoy it and the little book club my with my friends liked it. Granted I like those types of worlds. Mistborn, Wheel of Time, etc. But book 5 was by far my favorite entry, I’ve reread it by itself. I’m honestly curious what you started to dislike about them, just to understand that take on em, if you’re willing to take the time.
No offense taken if it’s not for you, or hell even most people, but man I would love to see it done justice in cinema, I just see so much potential there.
It’s been a long while since I read it, but each book got a little bit more pretentious with the author shoe horning his own world view into the readers face. That was annoying, but even more so because I recall disagreeing with his view quite a bit.
Also, each book was essentially the same plot. Universe works to keep the two protagonists apart, a bunch of fucked up shit happens, and at the end of the books they’re back together having learned nothing.
But the real issue I had with the later works was the very real Mary Sue of the two protagonists. Those characters just could do everything. It got boring and stale after a couple books of it.
I still hold Sword of Truth to be a good book by itself. And I do recall liking the next two books at least. But as a whole, I do not think it’s good storytelling.
Wow, thanks for taking the time and sharing all that!
The only thing I could think of is The Order and their concept that if you have and others don’t you should be forced to give to them. I think it’s an interesting political view, but I took at as the way the Dream Walker built and consolidated power, not a remark on the real world at all. But I could just be naive about it.
I would disagree about the second paragraph. I mean one book doesn’t even have any of the main chars in it till the very end. Then you have a lot of content around multiple groups or people they are going after.
I can %100 understand the issue with the plot armor and ability to handle anything that comes up. Richard is made out to be this mega character that is essentially God, which does make some of the conflict feel weak. I can totally appreciate that.
Well thanks for typing all that out and talking the time to break down your feelings on it. I’m always curious about how others see things I’ve built an attachment to that can blind you a little sometimes. I still stand by loving them, warts and all, but I’d never cast shade on anyone who doesn’t.
Ringworld :)
Apparently in the woks by Amazon
No shit. I’m very suprised. Some of it gets rather technical for the masses.
Don’t worry, they’ll cut that
Announced over 3 years ago (2021) in this article that mentions Amazon Prime optioned it in 2017: Tech Advisor article about “Ringworld” on Amazon Prime
So…
So, it’s still not here :P
Deserves? Not sure, but I feel like Gideon will get one. It seems pretty popular.
Maybe? So much of the story is wrapped up in perspective. It would definitely lose a lot in any adaptation.
I have a vision that I think would be really cool for this type of adaptation but the only one I really care about is way too good to just put it up on the internet so that my idea can get stolen without credit.
So why say anything at all?
The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny
It needs to be a show, not movies. One book per season would allow enough detail to be included.
Yes! I came here to see if anyone had mentioned this. My favorite fantasy series when I was a teenager. I also wouldn’t mind his Incarnations of Immortality series turned into a show either, but Amber would work better due to the humor and settings
These books changed how I read books and understood books. They were a gateway into other worlds I never knew could exist.
Stranger in a strange land
For the chaos
Gotta be HBO though. For reasons. Otherwise I can’t grok it.
I would love to see a sword of truth series, but not done as an action thriller with shallow characters, because that’s just not what it is, damnit.
Any of the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
There are a couple animated adaptations of some of the books, and the live-action adaptation of Hogfather is pretty good!
There’s also a (BBC?) Live action of Color of Magic and Going Postal that are pretty solid.
Sky One, not BBC.
They need to do a good Dark Tower series. Make it a mini-series or a series of films.
The question was what hasn’t been made. Dark Tower was attempted.
That movie had very little to do with the actual story aside from a few references. And without Eddie, Susannah, and a well-danced Commala I’ll never be satisfied.
Yes but the question was about books rhat haven’t been made into movies should be, NOT what movies failed to do the book justice. If that was the question there would be a long, LONG list of movies that failed their source.
Yes, and as I suggest below, no adaptation has been made for all the books in the series. A movie named after the last book but seemingly not based on any of them was made. It shares a name with one of several books but that is all the is shared. So there are several books in the series to adapt.
Ok, but…
Okay smarty pants… then I’ll happily point out the “Dark Tower” book is the final book, which wasn’t even really covered at all except for tertiary references to breakers. So, an adaptation for each of those that precede it? Does that pass muster?
Dredd could be a whole franchise
A good version of “Riverworld” by Philip Jose Farmer would be awesome. “Borne” or “The Strange Bird” by Jeff Vandermeer. “Dance, Dance, Dance” by Murakmi. The Maddaddam Trilogy by Atwood.
As a deep cut, “The Woman in the Dunes” by Kobo Abe. Totally surreal.
The entire 2001: A Space Odyssey series should be a TV show.
Dresden files would be a fantastic HBO style series. They tried a TV adaption in the past but it was trash
I have so much of this fancasted in my head
Clancy Brown as Morgan
Ray Wise as Nicodemus
Mia Goth as Aurora
Naveen Andrews as The Gatekeeper
Young Ray Wise as Marcone (just let me have this lmao)
There’s a book called Robopocalypse where an AI gains sentience and then takes control of basically all robotics/anything connected to the internet to take over the world and I’d love to see that as a mini series.
I’ve lost faith in adaptations of books
I don’t mind it if it’s a labour of misguided love, like Stephen King’s many many many hit-or-miss film adaptations pre-2020.
I do mind being told repeatedly that I should like it by viral media, it being overhyped to the point of ridiculousness, it being given the full red carpet treatment by one of the two main studios, and then when I actually watch it it’s been changed to suit some audience mass appeal (e.g. make the clown scarier / less scary / not like that) .
I guess what I’m saying is, I like it when books are adapted into films where the director can do whatever the hell they want, for good or for worse, without the studio whipping them to appeal to the mass audience, many who weren’t even fans until they were told to be 5 minutes ago.
