It's crazy how badly they fucked up everything about that show from top to bottom.

I'm so happy I didn't ruin my childhood memories watching it. It was a tough call at the beginning but I feel thoroughly justified in hindsight.

So tired of animated reboots.

I honestly don't think it was this bad (coming from someone that has read it three times). Some decisions were weird. The focus on Alanna was a bit high. I also unserstood from the beginning that it can't possibly be 1:1, so I went in with the mindset that it was a new turning of the wheel, which might've helped. The first season was thoroughly fucked by covid, ans the second season had to handle the fallout of that. By the third season I thought it really was starting to come together, and I was actually getting excited for its future. I was really bummed out by the cancelation.

You're in luck!
Series.. Short film.

they had problems with one of the actors being DV/Sa-er and they wanted to wait a while since the latest books is a time jump.

They're never going back to 20 plus episodes and people need to get over it. The work life balance people endured producing those seasons was unconscionable.

he has plaigarized some novels but dint give them credit. borg alliance, rogue changelings all came from various books(although its fan made), and the obvious super-massive cube was from a book.

STD, where michelle yeohs characther used words only known from the memory wiki sites.

Strong agree! Done right it could run multiple seasons.

Agreed. The underdark portion of his life would make for and excellent TV adaption.

HOWEVER

I don't trust the current climate of TV production to pull it off properly. In all likelihood, if produced today, it'd end up as a Netflix series (or similar series) where the streaming format would throw off pacing, and after completing a season of sticking to the story, any subsequent seasons would stray far away from Salvatores stories in an effort to have mass appeal.

I think it would have worked 15-20 years ago. Not before, as the CGI necessary wasn't there yet. Not later because formulaic streamability would ruin it (along with Netflix-lighting, ugh).

Maybe it would work again at some point in the future once the current trend of algorithmic slop has gone away.

My first choice as well

With a special appearance by Señor Chang

Beat me to it.

I demand more Rincewind content.

I read a lot of books. I don't know that I agree most are well written, lol.

i would watch the shit out of that

I feel like most of the people with money would just play it up to be super cool instead of a dystopia. And given the Epstein stuff, not lightly edit it so the girl is of appropriate age.

Seconded, although Mark ruined the concept of the Metaverse. And that sex scene with a 15 year old might need some rewriting. I love the book for its storyline and world building, but certain developments of the past 20 years stains the book.

Speaking of Stephenson, I wonder if Cryptonomicon could work as a TV series. Filming the two time periods without them seeming completely disconnected would be challenging, though.

Came here to say that. The last movie had a happy ending for Arthur Dent. They clearly missed the point as there are no happy endings for Arthur Dent.

I used to reread Wheel of Time frequently. I've probably completed the series more than 13 times, because I started reading it in the mid 90s and would reread from the beginning every time a new book was released.

After that Amazon slop, I haven't touched the series since. It was so, so bad. And it had the potential to be so, so good. All the material was right there. All the money was there.

Such a wasted opportunity to have made something amazing.

As a pallet cleanser, here's a fan made version made 10 years ago that is so much more authentic and watchable than Rafe's disaster:

https://youtu.be/myFCGun_c-8

Should have just given them the millions.

Wild Cards was last seen being passed on by Peacock.

An episode exists out there somewhere in some studio vault. Almost had west coast avengers.

https://youtu.be/eOPYsSP272M

There is a sequence in Dumbo that is a retelling of the Little Engine That Could

I'm surprised how that hasn't been a thing yet considering how big the story is.

From what I've read Mistborn is being adapted as a film trilogy, while Stormlight Archives will be a series with Sanderson being the primary screenwriter. Think it was announced a month or two ago.

Warbreaker and Elantris could be standalone movies. I don't see how even Stormlight 1 could be compressed down into one movie, given how detailed the world is and how much those details matter.

We saw with Wheel of Time that it's not enough to just throw money at a stack of books.

But occasionally it can stray far enough away to become its own different great thing like Resident Alien

In black and white, French, Subtitled.

Agreed, but we almost had a Rings of Power/Wheel of Time type version. Fortunately Anne McCaffrey was still alive and in control and told the network fuck off and pulled the rights. I don't recall which network, doesn't matter much, they're all the same. They wanted to turn it into a teen YA romance thingy (which some of them have that a bit, but it's part of the whole thing). The good thing is the CGI then wouldn't have been great, it would have been like the Dune TV series. But if they had mutilated the actual lore and story, that would have been terrible.

Oh, if only.

I'm a fan, but I don't see how they could really make thread scary on screen. In the books it is portrayed as almost some kind of inate fear that can not be denied. But movies can't really pull that off.

I feel like the Chronicles of Amber would do better as a two season mini series.

Stephen Colbert was going to produce the series a couple years ago, but he seems to have moved on since then :(

I bought this recently and was unimpressed, it might have been oversold but it seemed just ok to me. Nothing stayed and exhalation was om the lower end of the lot.

YES. I got into the young wizard series when I was a kid and cannot believe how long it’s been around without getting any screen time. SO underrated.

+1 for Bobiverse. Almost done with Book 1 and surprised it has been done already.

The series 'Invasion' did something similar.

Saying this as a fan, I really don’t think the DT novels really can be translated into a show or movie series. It’s too contradictory from book to book. King just kept going in different directions with each book. Maybe someone could harmonize it all but I’m not sure that’s really possible. I think it works for books but not to film.

That said, I think a tv series that focused just on young Roland, Gilead, and Midworld-that-was could potentially be fantastic (I am admittedly biased as I that’s the part of the series I love the most - The Gunsligner and Wizard & Glass are my two favorites in the series). I think the graphic novels already provide a solid framework for this. If the show could capture the “post-apocalyptic horror meets spaghetti western meets Lord of the Rings” aesthetic I think it could be a huge hit.

Mike Flannigan is adapting it to TV series.