Something from Iain M. Banks The culture. The best books, like Excession would probably be hard to adapt due to the protagonists being mostly ships, but others like Consider Phlebas or The player of Games could probably make great films or miniseries (and Use of Weapons would probably be great as the later).
Probably excessively expensive in the CGI department if done well, but one can dream.
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
The bone comic book series by Jeff Smith completely deserves a movie or show or something. The series is like Tolkien + Disney +metaphysics and is aimed at a younger audience but has enough deep ideas to keep adults actively interested. It has a rich history of the 90s-00s comic book era as well as some history in acholastic book fairs as well as some early internet meme culture contribution. It was solely owned by one dude who eventually got some help from someone who added color to the series that really made it a next level up. If anyone decides to read it from my comment here, check out the omnibus version and if you can find a 20th anniversary version, that has some nice history and behind the scenes type stuff included. There was a Netflix series that was in the works for like a year or so until Netflix decided to cancel it, so it already has some kind of an interest that I hope keeps building up and eventually makes someone do something about this forgotten gem. Here’s a explainer video about bone Bone comic series explainer video
I thought the telltale video game adaptation was interesting!
But yeah, a full epic series would be something else
The Gap Cycle series
LOL IDK how you would do the first book or even touch on that part of the books (because it makes them very very hard to suggest let alone reread) but once you got to the singularity bomb at the science space station deep in a dense asteroid field… I wanna see that part. The emotions that the story creates in the characters is pretty primal and believable. Its an interesting story how each of the main characters goes through the same level of violation but in different ways
The Dark Tower.
Whatever that monstrosity they released a few years ago was doesn’t count.
Just the first book
Make it like Blood Meridian level creepy and violent
The original TSR Dragonlance D&D series from the '80s by Weis and Hickman.
This is what I was looking for. Sure, we have a crappy animated movie, but all I have ever wanted was to see the Heroes of the Lance in real life.
At least we finally seem to be beyond people wondering why Drizzt isn’t around.
The Girl from Earths End By Tara Dairman
It’s like Harry Potter if you replace magic with botany, and JK Rowling’s shittiest values with the opposite of that.
Also fair warning it will make you cry
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.
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?
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.
First Law series by Joe Abercrombie
Hell. Yes.
I’m as hard as a certain wizard gets thinking about murdering people who oppose him
I would love a faithful adaptation of Worm, but I don’t think it could ever do the series justice.
