What fantasy book series should be adapted to TV next?

What fantasy book series should be adapted to TV next?

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discworld

I want a watch tv series

Your mothers bleeding rectum

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

they won't

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You mean after Wheel of Time? Haven't been browsing Sup Forums much lately have you?

Dunken Egg

The Warlord Chronicles.

Where's my Dune TV show, Sup Forums?

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.

the foundation trilogy

>Why am I doing this?

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

it was made few years back

too expensive, but an animation would be nice
there are british tv movies about discworld you dumb fuck

what year?
where?
centered around what faction?
who specifically within that faction?

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.

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

>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

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

40k, anyone who isnt a guardsman.

Anne Frank's diary

First Law trilogy is based.

forgot pic

Gotta be The Witcher

I said fantasy, not sci fi

and 40k is DBZ shit

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.

Based Cosca

>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.

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.

too high fantasy

the magic is the worst part of Game of Thrones

Terry Goodkind

Doubt they can get Idris Elba to play the Emperor

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.

Berserk

The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
Easy fantasy with accessible story and characters
less complicated than GoT, hence more adaptable for a show

Any fantasy book series with a high quip level? My criteria for an enjoyable fiction story is to have quips everywhere.

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

nah. it won"t bite.
average viewer won't enjoy it probably

>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’

The Bible

>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.

Charlie bone

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.

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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.

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

>tfw the magic shit is my favorite part

I would love something like Long War Series.
Ancient Greece tv-series.

I didn't even finish the second book.

Besg musician, best ninja, best magician, best artificier, best everything.

Twilight for teenage boys

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
by far the worst part

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>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.

there already is

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

As much as I love Stephen isn't he too old for Glokta who is supposed to be like 35?

Leviathan would make a cool YA movie.

isnt brandon sanderson really popular? adapt his stuff

Mistborn might be better movies

the holocaust

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.

1) How the fuck is that fantasy?
2) HBO is already in the process of making it.

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.

BLOODY NINE

Emma stone is a god awful choice

If comics are okay: Chew.

Otherwise Perdido Street Station or The First Law Trilogy.

>Michael Wincott as Glokta.

I can dig it.

The Black Company

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.

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.

>That part when Wojac Feels cries in rage as he fucks a hole in the ground.

Would be amazing. But yeah script, cost, everything would be too difficult for screen

Came here for this. Must be my favourite fantasy series.

None. Fantasy is shit tier. No more medieval fantasy please. Need more history based shows.

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.

Yeah this would be great to see.

It's one series that I would say is literally impossible to adapt.

This. No idea who should play him though. Mads character in the age of uprising looked kinda close

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.

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

>gang-raped to the point where she dies of exhaustion
Welp, another book on my reading list.

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

it would have to be a different story in the malazan world. something way more linear

a Witcher movie is happening

slashfilm.com/the-witcher-movie/