"Fantasy Books/Shorts That Deserve a Movie or TV Series (Final Round)" Topic
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 John the OFM  | 03 Oct 2026 1:14 a.m. PST |
Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser.
With Kristoffer Hivju and Tom Cruise. (Nobody tell Tom that he's supposed to be the short one… 🙄) |
| x42brown | 03 Oct 2026 4:06 a.m. PST |
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| Raynman | 03 Oct 2026 7:01 a.m. PST |
Also agree. Not liking Tom Cruise though. |
| robert piepenbrink | 03 Oct 2026 7:26 a.m. PST |
Barsoom for me. Ancient drying Mars is home to a thousand stories--Ruritanian adventure and romance, lost cities for satire, and enough McGuffins to provide a thousand Indiana Jonses with fortune and glory. Mind you, if they could find sane scriptwriters and directors and reasonably sane producers, I'd happl watch F&GM. And in the absense of such, all of this is building castles in the air. |
| John the OFM | 03 Oct 2026 8:02 a.m. PST |
Try to watch Rings of Power to see what "updating for today's audience" means in reality. I'll admit that Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic were my muses on this. My Vergils. 🙄
The same woman who greenlit RoP also cancelled a Conan project for toxic masculinity. She has since been "future endeavored" as the wrestling business when firing an individual. Star Wars? 🙄 So, the relevant phrase here is "if done right". Peter Jackson addressed this issue. He said in interview that nobody felt they had a RIGHT to do LOTR contrary to Tolkien's original viewpoint. Today we have showrunners who have open contempt for source material. My nomination of Tom Cruise was a joke. He refuses to consider himself short. |
| Dave Crowell | 07 Oct 2026 6:23 a.m. PST |
We had one Barsoom movie. Sadly the studio decided to kill it so we never got another. Other than leaving the ears off the green Martians, a handy "spot the influence" tell when looking at art work, it was good fun. |
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