What fantasy book series should be adapted to TV next?
discworld
I want a watch tv series
>>70230304
Your mothers bleeding rectum
>>70230304
Wheel of Time or Gentleman Bastards, Wheel of Time would be better animated I think.
Shadowrun
Tbqh I'd love an XCOM style series in the same vein as band of brothers. I know it's not a book series but whatever.
Joe Abercrombie's First Law with Stephen Dillane as Sand dan Glokta
>>70230304
they won't
producers will develop artistic and professional integrity, pay reasonable wages to creatives and industry workers to produce quality, original and internally consistent content and produce the show in moderation, with talented but affordable actors suited to their roles and modest but charming and convincing sets, so that they can make a handsome profit that will go appropriately to the staff working on the show, a fund for further quality content, and a suitable amount to a charitable cause so that they increase the public's opinion of them
You mean after Wheel of Time? Haven't been browsing /tv/ much lately have you?
Dunken Egg
>>70230304
The Warlord Chronicles.
Where's my Dune TV show, /tv/?
>>70230304
they should finally do some lovecraft books.
ASOIAF again, but animated
and they should be completely true to the source material
They need to hire an autist like Preston who knows the books inside and out to write the script
First Law Trilogy
Michael Wincott as Glokta.
>>70230304
the foundation trilogy
>>70231559
>Why am I doing this?
>>70231668
shit book
The Black Company
I honestly don't know why one of HBO's rivals haven't snapped up the rights to this and tried to make a series of it yet, it feels like a pretty good show to contend with Game of Thrones. I don't think it could compete directly with GoT (wouldn't recommend airing it at the same time) but it could easily pull in the same audience.
My only concern is that the Raven character has been copied so many times since it might end up looking like a cheap parody of other characters.
The Witcher ofcourse
look no further
>>70231668
it was made few years back
>>70231781
too expensive, but an animation would be nice
>>70230347
there are british tv movies about discworld you dumb fuck
>>70231781
what year?
where?
centered around what faction?
who specifically within that faction?
>>70230347
discworld with bri'ish actors innit, pls
Prince of Nothing series by R Scott Bakker.
GOT is childsplay compared.
It's like GOT and LOTR on meth and acid.
>>70231887
It's Hollywood so it has to be Terra during the End Times
I think Redemption Falls would make a good book. It's action-y and there's a lot of cool diesel-punk airships. Maybe not diesel pink but I know it's not exactly steampunk. Pls no bully
>>70231933
>It's like GOT and LOTR on meth and acid.
Sounds like shit.
give me a good fantasy that isn't about a peasant boy who starts out in Shitriver town and urns out to be the prophesied Chad Thundercock slinging spells and increasing his powerlevel for 3 books
>>70230304
The Belgariad by David Eddings.
Basically a series of people walking through forest roads, digging holes for camp fires and eating and eating and eating and eating and eating. Oh yeah there's some magic stone somewhere and prophecies, but let's have some cheese and bread before that.
It would be comfy as fuck.
either this by pre-hobbit passion Hackson or a the Witcher series with actual budget unlike the Hexer
>>70231997
40k, anyone who isnt a guardsman.
First Law trilogy is based.
>>70232072
forgot pic
Gotta be The Witcher
>>70232113
I said fantasy, not sci fi
and 40k is DBZ shit
>>70231976
It's terrifying and amazing.
Imagine hordes of goblins but with elfin faces who will gut you and then fuck your wounds before eating you.
Elves who got mad from collecting millenia of memories.
Magic is literally speaking with the voice of god and breaks the fabric of reality.
Cosmic horrors who are utterly remorseless and devoid of any human morales.
>>70231559
>>70231704
>>70232118
Based Cosca
>>70231869
>there are british tv movies about discworld you dumb fuck
Movies aren't TV series, you dumb fuck.
Having a lot more time dedicated to how they adapt each novel would be potentially worlds above the schlocky TV movies.
>>70231781
I think they could pull this off with a Chronicles of Riddick budget. Which if you made today with pure CG you could probably get away with 30 million / 13 episodes is just about 2.3 M per ep.
Yes its a huge risk but I think it would be a success and there are plenty of companies with 30 million to throw away like AMC who probably made that much on just one season of Mad Men DVD's.
>>70232194
too high fantasy
the magic is the worst part of Game of Thrones
Terry Goodkind
>>70231781
Doubt they can get Idris Elba to play the Emperor
>>70232355
It's also full of politics and intruiges.
And it's actually amazingly well written. Characters are very multi-facetted with relatable motivations.
Setting is reminiscent of early crusades era.
>>70230304
Berserk
![grid-cell-5069-1374249542-29[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/kR2VCaL.jpg "grid-cell-5069-1374249542-29[1].jpg")
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
Easy fantasy with accessible story and characters
less complicated than GoT, hence more adaptable for a show
>>70230304
Any fantasy book series with a high quip level? My criteria for an enjoyable fiction story is to have quips everywhere.
>>70232688
please, the first one was ok but the 2nd one is dogshit
the only good parts are being a beggar in the city and then in that castle where they use rings to communicate
>>70232273
nah. it won"t bite.
average viewer won't enjoy it probably
>>70232688
>Shitty Mary Sue self Insert The Book
Name of the Wind is trash.
This is the blurb. Tell me this isn't like it was written by an edgy high schooler:
‘I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. My name is Kvothe. You may have heard of me’
>>70230304
The Bible
>>70232688
>The Name of the Wind
First part is ok but then he turns into a total Gary Stu. He's the best at evrything and all women want to fuck him.
>>70230304
Charlie bone
>>70230304
Already started , bro. They're working on season 2 of the shannara chronicles. It's on MTV but it was pretty enjoyable aside from the romance
Kushiel's Legacy series by Jacqueline Carey
People who get off on the sex of Game of Thrones would have a field day with this one. Its this dope story about a woman named Phèdre who was fated to experience pain as if it were pleasure, based on that she has the legendary "mote in her eye" and therefore gets sold off into sex slavery to the nobility at an early age and gets trained as one of them. So its pretty feminist because although she gets sold into sex slavery and training, she uses politics and cunning to move past it and control her life.
Its a lot like the Dany shit on GoT but imagine if it were good.
Besides all the kinky whipping and chains stuff, there is a great deal of manuevering and manipulation, intrigues between all the houses, its this alternative history version of Europe so there is a lot of delicious allegory and some pretty cool characters.
Its Enders Game with kinky sex kinda.
Anyway check that out.
ctrl + f
No book of the malazan? High fantasy with everything we want? Children of the dead seed etc. They can edit out some of the long bla bla and if they do it correct no fantasy series could come close.
>>70232772
>>70232809
>>70232839
remember that part where he fucks that forest fairy for like 10 chapters, the same one who's supposed to kill every other man
and then he goes to that inn and the fatso whores get wet for him because they see in his eyes the power of the cock
>>70232355
>tfw the magic shit is my favorite part
I would love something like Long War Series.
Ancient Greece tv-series.
>>70232922
I didn't even finish the second book.
Besg musician, best ninja, best magician, best artificier, best everything.
Twilight for teenage boys
>>70232809
>>70232772
>>70232839
Yes, agreed on all point
I enjoyed it, though...
but like I said, easy fantasy
better they turn an okay book into a good show, than the other way around like in GoT
>>70232922
by far the worst part
>>70230304
>>70231869
>there are british tv movies about discworld you dumb fuck
I ain't asking for some bullshit made-for-tv movie. I'm asking for a quality tv show with a good budget and effort.
>>70232643
there already is
>>70232688
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/kingkiller-chronicle-movie-tv-show-lionsgate-1201607468/
>Netflix big budget TV series of The Witcher
>Mads Mikkelsen as Geralt
>Eva Green as Yennefer of Vengeberg
>Emma Stone as Triss
>mfw
>>70231559
>>70231736
As much as I love Stephen isn't he too old for Glokta who is supposed to be like 35?
>>70230304
Leviathan would make a cool YA movie.
isnt brandon sanderson really popular? adapt his stuff
Mistborn might be better movies
the holocaust
>>70237832
I fucking hate those gay ass anime swords
The Farseer Trilogy would be pretty good.
It reminds me a lot of GoT, with all kinds of shitty things happening. It's like a marathon of people kicking the main character in the balls, for three books straight. :)
the witcher, with uncle benjen as geralt
Anything by Robin Hobb.
>>70231705
1) How the fuck is that fantasy?
2) HBO is already in the process of making it.
>>70230304
Dune, but honestly I don't want it at the same time because I have a feeling it will get raped to death with contemporary nonsense.
>>70231559
>>70231704
>>70231736
>>70237806
BLOODY NINE
>>70237751
Emma stone is a god awful choice
If comics are okay: Chew.
Otherwise Perdido Street Station or The First Law Trilogy.
>>70231704
>Michael Wincott as Glokta.
I can dig it.
The Black Company
>>70237832
Mistborn could make great movies as long as Sanderson doesn't come anywhere near the script. He has good ideas but can't write for shit.
>>70230304
everything from Tolkien
The Witcher
The Accursed King (properly this time)
The Warded Man
The Ranger's Apprentice
the rest of The Sword of Truth
Broken Empire
Night Angel could work too.
they will never do it justice, but a man can dream.
>>70232194
>That part when Wojac Feels cries in rage as he fucks a hole in the ground.
>>70238467
Would be amazing. But yeah script, cost, everything would be too difficult for screen
>>70237923
Came here for this. Must be my favourite fantasy series.
>>70230304
None. Fantasy is shit tier. No more medieval fantasy please. Need more history based shows.
>>70230304
I'd really love to see the Bas-Lag Trilogy by China Mieville hit the mainstream. I guess it would involve too much special effects though.
>>70237828
Yeah this would be great to see.
>>70238467
It's one series that I would say is literally impossible to adapt.
>>70232149
This. No idea who should play him though. Mads character in the age of uprising looked kinda close
>>70232884
They could never do Malazan. At fucking best they could get through Gardens of the Moon (which originally was a screenplay). If I was fucking high as a kite I could even fathom them making it to Memories of Ice if they change a shitload of stuff. There is no chance in hell they would ever do anything from House of Chains and beyond. Can you really picture HBO having a series that features a main character getting her feet graphically chopped off and gang-raped to the point where she dies of exhaustion?
Also just imagine how fucking awful their version of Tattersail/Silverfox would be.
>>70237923
The ship trilogy might translate better, with all the different strands. The assassin books are mainly the internal monologue of "mopey 15 year old is a bit of an idiot" that might be a bit shit
>>70238951
>gang-raped to the point where she dies of exhaustion
Welp, another book on my reading list.
>>70230304
Book Of The New Sun.
I'd love to see a full on LSD adaptation with a main character who rapes, tortures and let kids dying and still thinking about himseld as a good guy
>>70238467
>>70238793
it would have to be a different story in the malazan world. something way more linear
a Witcher movie is happening
http://www.slashfilm.com/the-witcher-movie/
>>70238875
Mads too old. Geralt is supposed to have the body of a man who looks like he is in his 20s while having a face in his 30's. Pic related would be better. Mads is 50. Dude is closer to being Vesemir than Geralt. Zach would be a better choice.
>>70239412
>Live action
It's going to be shit.
A full length movie looking like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF7kqc7th0A would be the only way to do a Witcher movie.
>>70239202
It occurs in book 9 (Dust of Dreams), so you've got a bit to get through. That said, if you're into that shit there's some pretty disturbing rape that occurs near the start of book 2 (Deadhouse Gates), and there's rape in book 3 (Memories of Ice), and in book 5 (Midnight Tides). Book 4 also has the first main character we meet raping a woman and her daughter (and this character becomes a sympathetic hero), and Book 7 (Reaper's Gale) has a character with a rape dungeon. There's a fair amount of rape in the series, is my point.
But seriously, what happens to the character I described in book 9 is pretty horrible. I'm usually okay at handling that sort of thing but Erikson did a good job of making it somewhat painful to read.
So yeah, if you guys like rape, read Malazan. Also if you like gigantic battles with cool magic shit, because the image I'm posting happens at the start of the first book.
>>70238951
>a main character getting her feet graphically chopped off and gang-raped to the point where she dies of exhaustion
Is there any point to it or is it just the author writing torture porn?
>>70239527
not really as geralt hardly ever fights monsters in the source material
live action would be fine
His Dark Materials
Cause the film was shit
>>70231400
Most of these shows would be better off animated. Just think about how much better GoT would be if it were animated
>>70239613
Nah, it's going to be shit I'm telling you.
You can't do the Witcher well in live action it's just not going to work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyDk3JwnpmM&t=6m
>>70230304
Promise of Blood
I need powder mages to be a thing
>>70231933
Came in to say this.
>>70231976
Sounds like you have a raging case of "I'm a faggot"
>>70239722
>hating on the greatest tv fantasy kino
pleb
what a shit show that shit all over the books with it's oc
Dark Elf trilogy
>>70238740
Not Bas Lag but The City and the City is getting a BBC series.
Also Book of the New Sun please.
>>70239611
No, actually it is handled really well. I think there are two instances where Erikson goes overboard on the I NEED TO SHOW HOW HORRIBLY CRUEL PEOPLE CAN BE AND THEREFORE I MUST INCLUDE RAPE, and that's in Reaper's Gale. Gets a little ridiculous there, but thankfully it is minor.
I mean, it's basically one of the most horrifically vile things in the series but its handled well enough, and it moves the plot and several characters forward.The events it triggers leads to complete extinction of the people that carry out the act, as a minor example.
I mean, I can spoil it more for you if you want, but it is handled pretty well. Doesn't feel tasteless, but it does have a lot of cruelty on displa.Children in the tribe tease her by shoving goat shit in her mouth as she mindlessly chews, for example.
>>70239521
Holy shit this, he even has the voice to pull it off.
>>70239976
>The City and the City
Awesome! I was trying to get my girlfriend to give it a read and introduce her to China Mieville, but maybe we'll wait for the TV series instead.
![TW3_WAMPIR.mp4_snapshot_01.11_[2016.05.30_18.25.53].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/OM2y8F2.jpg "TW3_WAMPIR.mp4_snapshot_01.11_[2016.05.30_18.25.53].jpg")
>>70239872
Times have changed Brzęczyszczykiewicz, this is the definitive Geralt and the only way to successfully make fantasy kino.
Drizzit trilogy pretty gud
>>70231591
>>70239611
Actually, there's a site that discussed that in detail:
http://www.tor.com/2014/03/26/malazan-reread-of-the-fallen-on-hetan-the-barghast-and-the-portrayal-of-torture-in-fantasy-fiction/
I think Erikson did a good job, as the sex is basically glossed over in favor of focusing on the characters reactions to the event occurring.Also Hetan isn't raped to death, she is just so broken by it that when people help her escape the tribe, she just lays down in the grasslands and dies. That said, shit gets moderately better in the next book.
I hope HBO goes back to westerns, make a spiritual successor to Deadwood.
>>70239529
why is that floating mountain shooting laser
