What books should be turned into the next high fantasy blockbuster franchise?
idk but are any of these worth reading senpai?
>the dark tower
>the black company
>wheel of time
Silk and Steel
>>63363785
warhammer 40k books
>>63363785
wasn't there another movie that had a scene like this?
>>63363785
The Belgariad.
>>63363900
Wheel of time is not
>>63363785
>stop, my invincible companions
>>63363785
Ready Player One
>already happening
>>63363993
don't you mean fellowship ;)
>>63363938
The Drive In
>>63363785
None.
Fantasy garbage doesn't deserve to be adapted
Read real literature
riftwar saga
Malaga book of the Fallen so I don't have to read it.
>>63363999
I'm not even going to give you the satisfaction. Hello faggot.
Anything Gene Wolfe
>>63363999
It'll be Tron, but shit (yea Legacy had a weak story, but at least it held the aesthetics properly.)
Piers Anthony's Xanth series.
His Dark Materials. After burning all copies of The Golden Compass and slitting the throats of all who were involved in its production.
>>63364169
I was just thinking this. If done right it would blow the minds of normalfaggots forever and if done wrong it would give me something to feel superior about.
>>63363951
I'd like this but I'm pretty much certain it would turn out to be Hobbit-tier CG battles with JJ Abrams writing on top.
>>63363785
That's easily one of the greatest shots in the history of fantasy films.
>>63363785
The Witcher
>>63364767
They're doing a Witcher film series.
Wheel of Time, mostly because of the unfathomable amount of debate it would create about gender roles and shit on the internet. This assumes they would stay true to the source material.
>>63363900
Genre fiction isn't worth reading in general desu
>>63364846
Yeah, made by the same people who made the Mummy movies. Not sure how I feel about that.
>>63364216
http://www.bbc co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/his-dark-materials
>>63364216
Just let it rest in peace my family. It's better this way.
I'm surprised it hasn't been done already.
>>63364928
The guy who is directing the movie directs all of the cinematics for the games though.
Be cautiously optimistic.
>>63364981
I have some news for you ...
https://youtu.be/rCr3z_sTSNU
ez money
"The Kingkiller Chronicle" by Patrick Rothfuss just got optioned by Lionsgate. It's a cool series, not without problems (the protagonist is near-perfect and can get pretty annoying) but very good overall. I don't have a ton of hope for any films or TV shows that come out of the deal, but it has potential to hit big.
>>63365143
>the protagonist is near-perfect
Which is weird since Rothfuss has studied the genre so closely and avoided most of the traps. Seems odd he missed perhaps the biggest one there is
>>63363900
The first Black Company books aren't too bad, they aren't very consistent in the righting style but I enjoyed them..
The sequels are kind of abstract though, I had to stop cause I was having trouble imagining..
Also I really really like how Wizards are portrayed in this book, also why am i say desu
>>63365034
>MTV
so it's going to be fucking terrible.
>>63365209
>righting style
lol from the way I type you prolly understand why I failed to finish them 8)
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>>63365247
They've spent a lot of money on it so the cast and sfx look good.Yeah, it'll be terrible.
>>63365378
Way too much backstory is required for a Children of Turin movie.
>>63365648
*Hurin
![latest[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/TXs5kEh.jpg "latest[1].jpg")
its been 10 years, when are they going to attempt a new reboot
>>63366374
>its been 10 years
>>63363900
The Dark Tower for sure. My favorite series.
>>63366374
they did prince caspian, and voyage of the dawn treader, they're doing all the movies dudeexcept the horse and his boy becuz DAS RACISmainstream cinema ain't that huge on em, they're too christian for hollywood
>>63364130
This
>>63363938
>her pubes was a field
*were
>>63366510
lol i read all these books as a kid and never understood any of the Christian undertones
must be a pleb
>>63366510
Silver chair is in production but they havent said anything about it at all. There was a studio/licensing switch before they started production in 2013 too.
Im surprised disney didnt try to buy the rights yet Tbh. Youd think they would want to grab a big medieval fantasy genre. Maybe they wanted to wait until hobbit was done or have something else in developement
Norse Sagas when?
>>63364177
Remake when?
>>63363999
I kinda hope they keep the WarGames and Monty Python playthrough. I figure they'll Forrest Gump the actor into the parts.
>>63364100
>Atlas Shrugged
>anywhere but Shit Tier
>>63366510
Let's face it. Aside from The Magician's Nephew, they have done all the good books.
>>63366762
>Let's face it. Aside from The Magician's Nephew, they have done all the good books.
Horse and His Boy is GOAT, nigger. Fuck outta of here.
>>63364100
just because you like lobster doesnt mean you cant eat some skittles every now and then
>>63364100
>read war a peace every day
>look at page number
>literally 1/4 of the way in
IT'S SO LONG MY PUNY BRAIN CAN'T HANDLE
>>63363785
>holing a sword
I literally stood up in the middle of the theater, trampled my way over a dozen people, and walked right out.
>>63366510
>they're too christian for hollywood
Ironically the author was an atheist while his buddy Tolkien was a hardcore catholic.
>>63366663
Disney wanted it to be their Harry Potter or LOTR, it never came close to those levels so they abandoned the franchise.
>>63365065
>>63365065
>reading that book in elementary school
>>63367184
which makes sense seeing as the content in the Chronicles of Narnia isn't really something kids would go mental towards these days..
>>63367152
C.S. Lewis was not an atheist, you ginormous faggotron.
>>63367263
He WAS, until Tolkien converted him. Then he became more of a raging Christfag than Tolkien was.
>>63363785
Death Gate Cycle
Though it might be better as a high budget TV or mini series.
>>63363785
The Sprawl Trilogy!
Napoleonic Wars, but each country has an air force made of dragons
>>63365034
>MTV
Why this....
>>63364100
>Atlast Shrugged even "middle-tier"
![LeviathanGrandMapBIG[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/m7wxA96.jpg "LeviathanGrandMapBIG[1].jpg")
>>63367401
reminds me of leviathan, I like it!
Bring back Lensman
CS Lewis Space Trilogy
The other two Space Odyssey books
The Runaway Robot, a '50s sci-fi book that I always loved and could see as a movie.
Clearly the obvious answer isDune
>>63363785
I'd like to see the Myst novels turned into a series. It would be gr8.
A budget film series of the The Dwarves would be a pretty awesome start. Each book would probably have to be two films a piece though...
Knowing Hollywood though, they'll probably have CGI out the fucking ass for every little/big thing that doesn't need it.
The Way Series by Greg Bear
(also called The Thistledown Series)
Eon (1985)
Eternity (1988)
Legacy (1995)
>>63367579
>A budget film series
Oh shit, I meant a high budget
>>63366661
>never understood any of the Christian undertones
>Aslan literally says he's Jesus in the last book
Well I would say pic related but Disney effectively killed any hope of that happening.
The Soul Rider Series
Jack L Chalker
Spirits of Flux and Anchor, 1984
Empires of Flux and Anchor, 1984
Masters of Flux and Anchor, 1985
The Birth of Flux and Anchor, 1985
Children of Flux and Anchor, 1986
>>63367692
I didn't really understand the stories in those books.. I was a fast reader and I kinda just demolished them without a thought.. You have to understand that as a kid I really didn't give a fuck about all the religious bullshit, it's not part of my life.
I had this issue with the Matrix as well, Neo - the One totally went over my head.
Maybe i'm just a fool
>>63367760
You don't sound very smart.
>>63364023
Consider yourself lucky. It was like catching your parents fucking
>>63363938
Who writes this shit?
>>63367784
You could be right..
Or I just didn't know enough about Christianity to make the connections, to be completely honest at no point in my life have I ever even had the slightest belief that god exists and Jesus existed and the stories in the bible happened, so I didn't bother making those connections, I was just there for the story, just like I watch the matrix for the bullet time.
>>63367839
Well it's not too late to accept Him and be saved.
>>63367859
I guess you're the retard not me :(
I like stories, but I know they're stories man.
The Chronicles of Prydain.
So far all we really have is a forgotten Disney movie from the 80s.
The Way of Kings
Holy shit, what an incredible book.You do have to read 8 other Sanderson books to really understand some of the crazy Shard stuff happening in the background though
I'm telling you straight up
High budget serious drama Stephen King books carrying on the legacy of stuff like the Shining and Shawshank will be the next big thing if they ever get off the ground. Dropping Fukunaga from It was a huge mistake. But It, The Stand, Dark Tower, Salems Lot, Tommyknockers will all be back
>>63367471
>Italy a bunch of snakes
>Nords a bunch of big nosed Jews.
heh
>>63367935
The Stand has a chance to be good with the casting they are talking about. IT I'm not so sure about.
The Dark Tower is just weird enough I don't think it'll have a wider appeal.
>>63368035
please
>>63367458
the quality of writing wasnt that great but it wasn't what I was expecting given the libertarian hysteria surrounding it, it was more even than those kooks (and republicans) led me to believe
>>63365034
>MTV...........fuck
The HeeChee Series
Frederik Pohl
Gateway, 1977
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, 1980
Heechee Rendezvous, 1984
The Annals of the Heechee, 1987
The Boy Who Would Live Forever, 2004
Are the Shanara books actually any good? So many people seem to love them.
The first one is such trash. They would have to improve a lot to be even mid-tier fantasy.
>>63365326
This
>>63363785
Heroes Die without a doubt.
Anything by Guy Gavriel Kay pretty much.
Dune
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>>63364749
Yeah but it's stupid. It was based on an illustration by some Tolkien artist, probably Alan Lee or John Howe, but the artist badly misinterpreted Tolkien's description. Tolkien said their arms were raised but surely he did not mean some kind of gravity-defying sculpture like this.
>>63368521
>Gravity defying
Hardly.
>>63363900
General consensus I've seen seems to be DT is enjoyable, BC is meh to good range, depending on how pleb you are.
I know from personal experience that WoT is fucking trash, though.
>>63368550
I don't care if it was made by Numenoreans, those arms would have crumbled away hundreds of years earlier.
Everybody Poops
>>63363785
Pic related. Pre-Tolkien so not influenced by him. Would be a great basis for a comic book too, for that matter.
>>63365326
>>63368151
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>>63368658
>pre-tolkien
"an epic fantasy to compare with tolkiens lord of the rings
![riftwar-saga[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/BQ2caMh.jpg "riftwar-saga[1].jpg")
Kushiel's Dart. Think about it: GoT audience for fantasypolitics + 50shades audience for shitty BDSM = license to print dollaz.
>>63368109
I agree. First one is basically considered a page by page plagerism of LOTR. The second one is often considered the best of the original trilogy. The second SERIES after the OT was my personal favorite and the one I have the most fond memories reading. Never got around to the rest of them, but I hear they maintain quality for at least one more trilogy after that. Also I hear that the Word/Void prequel trilogy set in modern times is good too.
The Black Company HBO series when?
>>63367839
To be fair... The Matrix was more about Plato and Aristotle than it was about Christianity.
>>63368832
Book of the New Sun first. They can do it in 4 seasons. Black Company would be like 9.
>>63367401
Yeah but the protag is a girl. Dropped.
>>63364100
Have you seen any of the film adaptations of 'real literature'?
>>63368625
But the Pyramids are still standing.
>>63366374
Just a matter of time before it gets a dark and gritty reboot with some minority kids fighting the white witch
CIA Rises
>>63368731
It was published in 1922.
Google is your friend.
>>63369076
The pyramids have the little bits on top of the big bits.
Those statues are worse than the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
>>63369294
Gandalf is holding them up with magic you jabroni.
>>63368353
This would be better. Two movies per book.
>>63368625
Do you have any idea how fucking huge Barad-dûr is? WAY bigger than those and has been there longer. The world is full of impossibly huge shit due to magic.
>>63369316
i stopped halfway through book one its just so fucking bleak and upsetting how much the humies are getting there shit pushed in and meanwhile oscar is off doing the 2001 lights show
>>63364884
The Wheel of Time series is way to long for anything like a movie or TV series unless they cut a bunch of crap out of it.
Odd Thomas
>>63366510
i don't think they'll ever make The Last Battle.
>>63367895
nice
>>63370063
yup they should keep making them
I think The Lies of Locke Lamora would make a pretty good movie.
With Fire and Sword could be interesting.
>>63364213
Hey alright, I thought I was the only one who had read those.
Gonna be sad when Anthony finally dies the old codger.
shadows of the apt would make a great tv-series I think
>>63364035
A knock off of Crossed?
Lame.
>>63370144
I've read most of the books. With a good director those books could make some good and suspenseful movies. Didn't they have some weird problems with the first one though? Me and my dad were pumped to go see it in theaters then we waited and waited and thought the whole movie was cancelled, next thing I know its on netflix.
>>63370506
Not sure about the exact details, but there was some fuckery or other. I've read almost everything Koontz has written and liked most of what Sommers did with the movie. The tone felt right in most places.
>>63368878
>Book of the New Sun
I don't think those books are adaptable as a film or series at all.
>>63370299
would be a CGI shitfest with the color magic.
>>63371120
That's a good point.
>>63364846
oh god, please no, not again...
>>63370198
me too
one book per movie would work out well
don't think it'd work as a tv series, maybe a miniseries per book
>>63370198
The Author posts on /tg/ apparently.
>>63367551
my nigga
Dune would have so much potential with today's CGI, and it has very strong characters and plot development ("feints within feints within feints").
>>63365648
not necessarily.
it could be done as tolkien wrote the lord of the rings and the hobbit.
he just drops in names of heroes, places and events from the mythical past.
that gives the feel of there is some deeper story behind the world.
want to know it? then read nigger read.
worm to be honest family
>>63368297
>>63372207
Only if the entire movie takes place in infrared
>>63364100
"Read a math textbook to become more mathematical.
Read philosophy to become more existential.
Read "Gatsby" to become more of a faggot."
-Anon
Shadow of the torturer desu
>>63368812
>Also I hear that the Word/Void prequel trilogy set in modern times is good too.
it's shit
>>63367336
muh nigga
>7 books/7 seasons
>Halpo traveling between the gates, starting war and shit
My only concern would be the Sartan magic, and how fucking gay it would look on screen.
They're literally dancing and singing and drawing runes with thier hands and feet at the same time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_Singer
I really enjoyed this as a kid. With the right director cutting out some of the nuttier parts, it could be really great.
>>63364100
>Bell Jar
>low tier
u wot m8?
>>63372699
They chant a lot too. Maybe something more akin to an indian war dance would work, or cutting out most of the footwork.
>>63363938
>fragrance of a gibbous moon
This is either God-Tier satire or the worst thing ever written.
>>63367894
When you are turning forever in pitch black fire for rejecting the revealed word of God himself, I am certain your terrible taste in films will be of some small comfort to you.
>>63365326
this needs to be made a gritty anime
impossible as movie/series
>>63363785
>>63367401
gay.
>>63368998
what? The protag is Captain laurance.
Deltora Quest
>>63364100
>le liberal arts freshman from /lit/ face
fuck off to your obscure shithole, cunt
>>63364987
3 minutes long cinematics =/= 2 hours long movie
My biggest gripe is that it will have to be americanized what automatically means it will be shit. Plus Sapkowski doesn't give a shit about anything besides his books. He doesn't even know the plot of games.
>>63367401
actually Hollywood has rights for it and it was supposed to be Jackson's next big project after King Kong, but there hasn't been no new info in years.
>>63365326
I think Malazan would have to be animated to hope to do it justice
I just want a Warhammer movie with fat budget and shitton of extras and practical effects
>>63363785
First Law seems taylor made for films.
Wheel of Time is easily adaptable, you just need to trim a lot of the fat.
>>63364169
Wouldn't be filmable.
>>63365143
This books have seemed like fishing for a movie deal since they were written.
>>63365326
Would not work as a TV show or movie series, would make a great video game setting, though.
>>63376281
Mah nigga
Also did anyone else read these as a kid?Amazing heroic fantasy full of slice of life parables. I'd love to see a real live action franchise, not the poor Disney adaptation which has suffered essentially a damnatio memoriae
>>63370198
As long as they just film the first book.
>>63376365
Forgot image Fugg
Prydain though people let's do it, Celtic myths for the first time in a while
>>63375943
They already made a 50 episode anime of that.It was okay.
> I was a thousand times more evil than thou
>>63363785
Nothing that was inspired by Tolkien.
Dragonlance
>>63376470
Elric, fuck yeah.
>>63367579
This.but please ignore the fourth book
>>63367966
>>Nords a bunch of big nosed Jews.
They're trolls, you mong.
>>63363785
The Animorphs Chronicles books.
>>63372301
So... grayscale?
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>>63375310
just me?
>>63376281
Mah nigga
>>63363938
>Her
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fuck you spam filter btw
>>63363785
Mistborn series from Brandon Sanderson, I just wanna see that Inquisitor fight at the end of book one.
>>63363975
it is
The Mote in God's Eye
>>63377274
Frankly Book 1 is the only good one, the rest of the series just drags on.
Yurope: Hillary's Invasion and Yurope 2: Barack's Apocalypse
The dark tower
Just cut all shit that King put there while being on drugs
>>63363938
This has a lot of potential to be good
but it aint
>>63377846
The Dark Tower seems like it'll be next. Though I'd like some pre-Tolkien fantasy to make it big.
Enema Punished: At the Country Club - - Spanking Domestic Discipline Enema Punishment
Spice & Wolf by HBO
Edge Chronicles would be fun
>>63363966
Middle school level writing and a bad series in general. Let's hope for Nine Princes In Amber or The Riddle - Master of Hed instead.
>>63368035
>>63368035
I suppose you could do Redwall and Mattimeo as their own set but the other books don't really "sync up" time wise. Still a fantastic series.
I'd say an Eragon series by HBO could turn out great, it's definitely more suitable for a miniseries than movies.
>>63376393
Yeah those books were the shit.
>>63368035
You can keep your black and white morality, nature over nurture propaganda, thank you.
>>63372022
Please die.
>>63378559
Mah nigga
>ywn fall in love with a tsundere princess who thinks you're an idiot but has a huge crush on you anyways
>ywn lead the men of the free comets into battle against the dread forces of the Lord of death
JUST
On the upside those books do tell you to be a man and that greatness isn't from your birth or other people's perception but from what you can do so that's a bonus
;___;
>>63364100
>BNW
>low tier
Nigger what?
>>63378392
I'd completely forgotten about this series! It's got great potential to be a hit movie series if they don't fuck it up.
Bartimaeus trilogy.
Discworld pls
...& I detest Chuck Palnichuck, but Invisible Monsters needs to be made.
>>63364917
>>/lit/
>>63364100
>this is what your future will be if you have an english degree
>shitposting on non /lit/ boards about your patrician taste of books
You could've picked something more useful, like women's studies.
>>63363785
Fredy Perlman's Against His-story, Against Leviathan! could make for an interesting subversive take on the past 6,000 years of civilization.
>>63380557
it's a pretty good shitpost you have to admit, you'd almost believe it was someones actual opinion if it was slightly more subtle
>>63370299
Is this any good?
I read the night angel trilogy but the two thirds of the trilogy are so rushed and shit. Doesn't hold a candle to the atmosphere and tension of the first.
>>63376281
Mah nigger.
>>63376281
>ywn see LOTR-esque charge of the Bretonnian chivalry
>ywn see mighty clashes of High Elves and Dark Elves under the Eagle gate
>ywn see dwarven slayer in 1v1 duel against Orc boss
>ywn see Skaven being dicks
JDIMSA
I would be totally ok with Gotrek and Felix adaptation if we can't get dem monumental battles
Horus Heresy books
>>63364100
>Great Gatsby
>God Tier
Hello normie
>>63380959
>I would be totally ok with Gotrek and Felix adaptation if we can't get dem monumental battles
Wouldn't even have to be Gotrek and Felix for me to be hooked.
I'd be happy with each season following different characters true detective style.
>Dwarf trying to regain honor/lostmacguffin/land
>Brettonian questing knight seeking glory.
>Vikings style chaos marauder trying to become clan leader.
>Peasant trying to gain favour and survive vampire politics.
>Witch hunter trying to hunt down a serial killer.
>>63363785
Robert E Howard's Conan novelettes, except loyal to the source material, not the homoerotic Frazetta paintings or the dark horse comics that make the Irish reaver look like a brown neanderthal. The original work was a medieval western with intelligent observations of civilization thrown in.
>>63381161
>a miniseries about a Witch hunter and priest of Sigmar uncovering the corruption and decadency of nobility in Altdorf
MUH DICK
>>63382256
There's already a book series about that, With Hunter by CL Werner
>>63380247
Mah nigga tho this would be viewed as too politically incorrect because it's an actual grimdark world where the main character isn't an annoying Mary sue plus the lack of a love triangle of some sort nerfs it's female market
Still a superb fucking series
>>63376592
Probably jews are what inspired the paintings of trolls from the 1600's to present day desu dearest fåm
>>63376283
>Wheel of Time is easily adaptable, you just need to trim a lot of the fat
This, focus on Rand and relegate the rest of the cast to secondary characters, and it's about 4 - 5 seasons of a TV show.
>>63365143
>>63365195
I have to disagree with this, Kvothe is pretty clearly hubristic and lacking foresight, even at his best. And in the frame story, he's a depressed wreck literally "waiting to die." He's not perfect, we just haven't seen his downfall described yet.
>>63366883
>consuming shit eating water bugs
>>63383239
Plus it's worth noting broski, that the book is riddled with unreliable narrator.
And he just plain skips alot of the cool parts, and mentions that he's embellished alot.
>>63383406
>he just plain skips alot of the cool parts
I don't really understand this, Rothfuss wastes so much prose repeating himself in other areas, we couldn't get a description of the pirate attack or Kvothe's trial? I guess he's making a point about fantasy narratives, but you can only subvert so much before the story falls apart. 3rd book when.
>>63370350
Naw it's much more than that. http://horrornovelreviews.com/2012/12/10/joe-r-lansdale-the-drive-in-review/
>>63363785
Where's Wally/Waldo.
