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What other adventure fantasy books do you want live action film adapted?

posted 15 years ago by TNTB456
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Excluding anything by Tolkien (as long as JRR's kids who are in their 80s, are still alive, other film rights won't be sold, but when they all pass on,
JRR's grandchildren will probably be much more open minded), what other adult and/or children's action adventure fantasy or scifi adventure fantasy books, you've read and greatly admire (as much as, or even much more than Narnia
ones - it doesn't matter if anything menitioned, has or doesn't have any religious themes), would you love seeing get live action film adapted.

Please elaborate on the book's story, premise and characters and why you greatly admire it.

[–] erin_frances 15 years ago

I really loved the Dark is rising books by Susan Cooper, but when they made a movie, "The Seeker", of the 2nd one (this is the most well known book and the one with the same title as the series) it was awful! I was so upset at the plot changes and I HATE that producers had to add a romance theme in the movie. It totally ruined it!
The book is about a boy who is the last of the "old ones" and he has to collect all the "signs" made of different materials and reforge "the circle". The books are written geared more towards boys so the whole romance theme makes it weird. I hate that they try to make her his downfall blah blah blah...

[–] gdmcnaughton 15 years ago

The Pendragon Adventure Series by D.J. MacHale is deserving of a film series (there are ten installments, plus three prequals which each contain three characters' backstories). The plot revolves around this guy, Robert "Bobby" Pendragon, who is plucked from his nice, quiet, boring suburban home about a week or so after his 14th birthday in order to stop a shapeshifting nutcase named Saint Dane from destroying and remaking Halla, which is described as being "the past, present, and future of everyone, everywhere, and everything" but turns out to include only seven civilizations (including ours), six of which are exclusively human. Saint Dane is doing this by affecting ten key moments in time or turning points (one each for the worlds of Denduron, Cloral, Eelong, Zadaa (pronounced Za-dah), and Quillan; two for the world of Veelox; and three for Earth (the Hindenburg disaster in 1937, a massacre in an alternate version of March, 2006, and a battle in an alternate (from the viewpoint of the characters) 5014)). The time periods of these turning points are refered to as "territories". Each territory has an assigned guardian or "Traveler" (so-called because they travel from territory-to-territory through interdemensional wormholes that are called flumes). Bobby is the Traveler from Second Earth, which is Earth in the early 21st Century, as well as the Lead Traveler, or the Travelers' CO. Yeah, so before I start getting carried away, this series has pretty much everything, from dinosaur-like monsters to Cylonesque military robots to naturally ocurring high explosives. The main hindrence is the fact that you'd need to make ten films to do the books justice, but the pacing is similar to that of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, so it is possible to adapt the silver screen using the same method Peter Jackson used in filming that.

[–] joeldterrill 15 years ago

Lloyd Alexander's the Prydain Chronicles. Disney mixed up the story from a couple of the books and made The Black Cauldron animated feature. I'd like to see a live action interpretation of each book. The Disney cartoon was ok, but kind of boring.

[–] zandylovesRISK 15 years ago

Rildey Pearson's The Kingdom Keepers and all the other book series that i would want have been or are planning on being made(Percy Jackson & the Olympians and The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel)

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[–] Maxopoly 15 years ago

the Xanth series, well and basically anything made by piers anthony

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[–] jamasian_man 15 years ago

The Dark Tower by Stephen King. Love to see 7 movies, or more realistically a tv series with 5-7 seasons.

[–] blairk 15 years ago

The Dragon Riders of PERN series by Anne McCaffrey would make an excellent series of movies.

[–] Talory 14 years ago

I second that the Pern series would make a wonderful movie/series of movies. I'd suggest beginning with the original trilogy of Dragonflight/Dragonquest/The White Dragon and then perhaps branching out from there if the general public took interest.

These books would, I'd think, catch the eye of sci-fi and fantasy fans, and of couse there's already a huge base of fans who would rush to see the film(s).

The beginning books of this massive series introduce an impoverished heroine, her intrepid rescuer and a race of genetically-altered telepathic flying dragons. They are all joined in combating the destruction of their lives by the organic fallout of a rogue planet which paths periodically through their planet's orbit. There's drama, subterfuge, comedic elements, poignancy... and although a film's success would depend upon the skill of the screenplay's writers, the story may be able to be condensed in a cohesive manner.

[–] spoofrice11 14 years ago

I agree about Xanth. I think that these books would be a Huge success. I know for years WB had the rights for "A Spell for Chameleon" listed on this site, but unfortunately they never got to making the movie.

I would really enjoy those stories in movie form and would be better than a lot of the magical movies there are.

[–] red_rackham_77 15 years ago

The best fairy tales only more true to the story, like Bearskin, Cinderella, The little mermaid, Rumpelstiltskin and so on.

[–] bryanallen4 14 years ago

these are more science fiction and i personally think they'd be amazing as movies if people dont read too much into the Avatar comparisons, buttt John Scalzi's Old Man War series is amazing. The characters are so likable and the battles seem very real. Must read for sci fi fans!

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[–] jamasian_man 14 years ago

I would also like to see Bill Willingham's Fables. That is a very epic and original fantasy tale and I wonder how they would do that, especially on a network like ABC.

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[–] Live_Dream 12 years ago

There's too many.

Off the top of my head:

Elizabeth A. Lynn's Dragon's Winter/Dragon's Treasure books.
Basically about a feud between two brothers, both possessing magical powers, but in different ways.

Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic series.
Four very different young people are brought together by their magical gifts and the necessity to use them to escape disaster.
Immortals

Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series (forgetting the animated film).
Dragons! And other stuff.

The Animorphs books - loved the tv series.
Teenagers can turn into animals and there's also slug-like aliens who crawl into people's ears and take over their bodies. Sounds weird, but is great.

Monica Hughes's Isis series.
An alien girl lives almost completely alone until earth people arrive to cohabitate the planet.

Enid Blyton's The Magic Faraway Tree books.
Three kids discover a huge tree that leads to other worlds and upon which a wide range of strange, magical creatures live.

Any of the Roald Dahl books that haven't been adapted (as long as Tim Burton doesn't do them).

Also loved the Dark Tower books I read - only the first 3.

The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman, just the one book (sigh).
A boy's family is murdered, but he escapes and is raised by ghosts in a cemetery, where he inherits ghost powers and ultimately faces off against the murderer.