 John the OFM  | 14 Mar 2025 9:17 a.m. PST |
Hopefully, for a book or series of short stories that haven't been done yet. If you think a remake is in order, OK. But please give reasons. Let's not nominate Seasons 6-8 of Game of Thrones, shall we? 🙄 Martin can't even be bothered to finish the books. I'll start off with Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Next? |
| Wackmole9 | 14 Mar 2025 9:42 a.m. PST |
Doomfarers of Coramonde by Brian Daley Guardians of the Flame series by Joel Rosenberg |
| farnox | 14 Mar 2025 9:43 a.m. PST |
The Dying Earth Jack Vance |
| Eumelus | 14 Mar 2025 9:55 a.m. PST |
+1 for Coramonde – I mean, a Vietnam-era M113-equipped armored infantry squad versus a great red dragon?!!! That scene alone is worth the price of admission. "Dying Earth" is probably my second-favorite fantasy work (after "The Book of the New Sun"), but I fear that Vance's elegant, ironic language would not translate to the screen. |
| TimePortal | 14 Mar 2025 10:17 a.m. PST |
Star gate universe, the next season. |
| DisasterWargamer | 14 Mar 2025 10:42 a.m. PST |
Lots of thoughts – but would start with these Marion Zimmer Bradleys Darkover series Le Guin The Word for World is Forest – though Avatar gets to part of this Moon – Gird and Paksenarrion books |
 Aurochs | 14 Mar 2025 11:11 a.m. PST |
The Neustrian Cycle by Leslie Barringer |
| RittervonBek | 14 Mar 2025 11:41 a.m. PST |
Joe Haldeman's Forever War. H Beam Piper Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen. Mary Gentle's Grunts. |
 Parzival | 14 Mar 2025 12:00 p.m. PST |
Three Hearts and Three Lions Edward Eager's Half Magic would be a great kid's flick. (I'm surprised Walt never pursued it— it would have fit right in with the Disney family films of the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s.) Andre Norton's Steel Magic would be another idea "classic Disney" style flick— but it also lends itself to moodier approaches like Del Toro's stuff (there is a super-creepy decaying swamp sequence which has his style all over it). A fun series could be made of J. Eric Holmes's Boinger and Zereth stories and characters. |
| Parzival | 14 Mar 2025 12:02 p.m. PST |
I assume that this is meant to be fantasy only, with SF as a different poll suggestion? (Though we've probably already covered that, anyway.) |
| KevinV | 14 Mar 2025 12:24 p.m. PST |
Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen. |
| Shagnasty | 14 Mar 2025 12:27 p.m. PST |
"A Midsummer's Eve Nightmare" by Poul Anderson. |
 20thmaine | 14 Mar 2025 12:50 p.m. PST |
Earthsea series (live action). Elric. Hawkmoon series. The books of Corum. Von Beck series. Erekose. Oswald Bastable. |
| John the OFM | 14 Mar 2025 12:51 p.m. PST |
I assume that this is meant to be fantasy only, with SF as a different poll suggestion? (Though we've probably already covered that, anyway.) I wanted to do both, so I suggest that sci-fi not be considered. I just sat back while my cellphone upgraded. That almost always gives wonky results that means poll suggestions are hard to implement.
I'll try later today with Science Fiction. I had the darn thing written out, and it had a "time delay" bug. Then it vanished into the gaping maw of the Void. |
| Gear Pilot | 14 Mar 2025 1:13 p.m. PST |
+1 20th Maine, although Earthsea had a made for TV movie. I don't remember it very well, but I don't think it was very good. |
| John the OFM | 14 Mar 2025 1:22 p.m. PST |
Update. I failed to start a Poll Suggestion for Science Fiction books
Perhaps someone else can pick up the baton and try, same premise. Just don't wack anyone in the head with it. |
| Giles the Zog | 14 Mar 2025 1:24 p.m. PST |
Fritz Lieber's Lankmar series. |
 Flashman14 | 14 Mar 2025 1:38 p.m. PST |
Redhill? I've never found time to start those but a show would be fine to get a sense of it. |
| Callsign 21 | 14 Mar 2025 2:00 p.m. PST |
Great classic choices above. For something more recent I propose Mark Lawrence's Red Sister series, or the first book in Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb series (the rest get a bit odd and might be hard to adapt). |
| DisasterWargamer | 14 Mar 2025 3:00 p.m. PST |
Gemmell – Druss series
Gemmell – Waylander series |
| John the OFM | 14 Mar 2025 3:12 p.m. PST |
I must have evaded the gaping maw of the Void.
The companion Science Fiction thread is up! Anyone who posted sci-fi suggestions here, please go to appropriate thread.
Theng queue! |
| 20thmaine | 14 Mar 2025 4:17 p.m. PST |
I'd love Lankhmar movies…but who could play Ffahrd and the gray mouser…? Sounds like a poll…. |
 miniMo | 14 Mar 2025 4:18 p.m. PST |
Glenn Cook's The Black Company would make good TV. |
| John the OFM | 14 Mar 2025 7:03 p.m. PST |
Back to Poul Anderson.
The Broken Sword
Hrolf Kraki's Saga Everyone and his uncle are doing grim depressing Viking movies. Let's throw in some fantasy! Game of Thrones has hardened us to incest, so… Do it on HBO. They're used to it.
Throw in Anya Taylor-Joy, and I'll even pay up for a streaming service! Avram Davidson's masterful 2 part trilogies.
Peregrine Primus. My DnD magic user was named Appledore. 👍
Season 2 shall be Peregrine Secundus. No Season 3, because Davidson kind of wandered off. Like some contemporary author, naming no names. 🙄 |
| John the OFM | 14 Mar 2025 7:06 p.m. PST |
Lord Kalvan was popular in the Penn State Science Fiction Society, because we were right in the middle of the fighting in the Nittany Valley. No battle artifacts to be found, because, you know, … alternate universe? 🙄 |
 gamertom | 14 Mar 2025 9:59 p.m. PST |
Naomi Novik's Temeraire series starting with "His Majesty's Dragon."
Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen |
| John the OFM | 14 Mar 2025 11:01 p.m. PST |
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| Martin Rapier | 15 Mar 2025 12:05 a.m. PST |
Elric would be an obvious one, but I really can't imagine they'd approach it. When I was younger I enjoyed the Thomas Covenant series, and they would be self contained enough to make a couple of TV series, plus they have that modern/ancient world crossover thing going on. |
| 20thmaine | 15 Mar 2025 10:57 a.m. PST |
Apparently there have been attempts to make an Elric movie – every time fantasy is riding high in the box office… |
| Gear Pilot | 15 Mar 2025 1:13 p.m. PST |
The one Michael Moorcock movie that was actually made. I've never seen it, but I've read that it wasn't very good. 5.4/10 on IMDB. imdb.com/title/tt0070289 |
| khanscom | 15 Mar 2025 4:06 p.m. PST |
Another vote for "Lest Darkness Fall". "The Return of She": visuals of the battle episodes should be tailor- made for CGI. |
| robert piepenbrink | 16 Mar 2025 2:25 p.m. PST |
Avram Davidson's "Doctor Eszerhazy" and "Limekiller" stories. Separate short stories, a season or so of TV each. And some "historical fantasy" if you will-Lois McMaster Bujold's The Spirit Ring. Scott & Barnett's The Armor of Light, and Judith Merkle Riley's The Master of All Desires, The Serpent Garden and The oracle Glass. Each title good for one movie. But it would be a lot of fun to see an actual Robert E. Howard Conan story on the big screen. My candidates are "People of the Black Circle" and "Red Nails." And Andre Norton's "Witch World" books, which I nominated under SF, too. They walk the line. Actually, I suppose the East Continent stuff--first five books--leans more to SF and the West Continent--later volumes--runs more to fantasy. I would pay good money to read one story in Norton's style with a Kolder hero. There has to be at least one decent man trapped in a bad cause. |
| robert piepenbrink | 16 Mar 2025 2:55 p.m. PST |
And how could I have forgotten Barbara Hambly? Bride of the Rat God--my personal favorite--movie or mini-series. And her Antryg Windrose books--three movies, a spinoff (Stranger at the Wedding) and the short stories on TV afterward. Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo might be fun, done right. And--long shot--Caroline Stevermer's A College of Magics. A season or two of TV would be the best format. |
| robert piepenbrink | 17 Mar 2025 1:34 p.m. PST |
Getting sloppy. Juenger's "On the Marble Cliffs" as a single season or so, or a mini-series. |
| Deucey | 17 Mar 2025 4:37 p.m. PST |
Are you crazy? If you truly love a work of literature, why would you want Hollywood to "fix" it? |
| robert piepenbrink | 18 Mar 2025 11:21 a.m. PST |
Deucey, if I can imagine Hollywood spending hundreds of millions on any one of my "impossible dream" picks, I can imagine a sane, well-read Hollywood, respectful of the source material. It isn't really that much more of a stretch. If you're old enough, you can remember when Hollywood did some decent adaptations. And if you're young enough, you might see it again. And the books will still be there whatever Hollywood does. I can only think of one instance in which they tried to get the story taken off the market: otherwise they simply don't care. Actually, the most inspiring thing I've seen lately is that a videogame company claims to have a plan to make theatrical-level films for $500,000 USD using about 20 real people. If you could actually pull that off, we could pass the hat and pay for some of these movies and TV shows. The present of mass entertainment--CGI, video on demand and 100 channels or equivalent--is not even the recent past. The future of entertainment may not look much like the present. |
 piper909 | 19 Mar 2025 9:33 p.m. PST |
Did they already do a "Gor" series? Hah!!! |
| piper909 | 19 Mar 2025 9:34 p.m. PST |
Seriously -- I think the ERB novel "Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar" could be the best Tarzan film never yet made. It's almost Indiana Jones. And it can stand on its own, no more dreary attempts to remake the "origin" of Tarzan. Plus, of course, La! High Priestess of Opar.
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| Shagnasty | 20 Mar 2025 9:28 a.m. PST |
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| Dn Jackson | 20 Mar 2025 9:08 p.m. PST |
The Drawing of the Dark
Can't remember the author. Merlin is still around trying to protect Vienna as Ottoman armies besiege it. A reincarnated Arthur is helping. I like the depth behind the setting and find it very evocative. |
| John the OFM | 22 Mar 2025 12:29 a.m. PST |
The Drawing of the Dark is by Tim Powers. His "On Stranger Tides" was adapted by the Pirates of the Caribbean folks. Knowing how the sausage is made, he cashed the check, and he and his wife got dressed up real fine to attend the premiere. Another fine novel by him that's fine for a movie is "Declare!" It combines djinns and Kim Philby. 😄 |
