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⌈ Secret Post #5169 ⌋

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Inspired by #1 - dream adaptations

[(Anonymous)]

What books or stories would you most want to see adapted to TV or movie? Any ideal actors, directors, channels, formats?

Re: Inspired by #1 - dream adaptations

[(Anonymous)]

I’ve always wanted a movie or miniseries for The Blue Castle. I dunno enough about directors or actors to say who I’d want involved in it.

Re: Inspired by #1 - dream adaptations

[(Anonymous)]

:ive action feature length film version of Muramasa: The Demon Blade would be sweet. Bonus points if it features puppetry instead of CGI for the monsters.

Re: Inspired by #1 - dream adaptations

[greghousesgf]

I really want an Alice in Wonderland that does the books justice. I've seen zillions of them and wasn't satisfied with any of them. I have many, many ideas for this.

Re: Inspired by #1 - dream adaptations

[philstar22]

I totally get that feeling of a book not being done justice. I hope for your sake they do a version worthy of Alice.

Re: Inspired by #1 - dream adaptations

[philstar22]

1. Second Age of Middle Earth in tv show format. I don't have a huge ton of dream cast.

Cody Fern as Annatar and/or Tar-Mairon versions of Sauron would be cool, but there are other actors that could pull it off too. I just want him too look elvish (so young), seductive, and believable as someone who could convince Celebrimbor to forge rings and Numenor to follow a Melkor-worshipping, human-sacrificing religion and take to ships to attack the Valar and Valinor.

And please, it better not be based on Shadow of Mordor/Shadow of War. Make it based on canon. There is still plenty of room to work with.

2. Wizard of Oz adaption actually faithful to the book.

3. TV show based on The Invisible Library series.

4. Either movies or tv shows set in the Cosmere of Brandon Sanderson. The Mistborn books would make good movies. The Stormlight Archive books would be better as a tv show. So either way could work.

Re: Inspired by #1 - dream adaptations

[(Anonymous)]

I would love a Wizard of Oz adaptation that was faithful to the book. With all the weirdness.

Re: Inspired by #1 - dream adaptations

[philstar22]

Yup. And no "this is all a dream." No making the gifts of the wizard not real, even though he's not really a wizard. And no changing of who the Wicked Witch of the West is. Keep all its fantasy weirdness intact because that's why it is fun.

Re: Inspired by #1 - dream adaptations

[(Anonymous)]

I'd like to see some of Terry Pratchett's work adapted by someone who actually likes the books. I think maybe one of the Watch books could work, despite the recent abomination. I could imagine Wee Free Men working too, maybe?

Bit more niche - The Goblin Emperor as a miniseries. Fantasy, court intrigue, murder mystery, and a protagonist who's not a shithead!

Re: Inspired by #1 - dream adaptations

[(Anonymous)]

This Pratchett adaptation seems to be the exact opposite of that American abomination.
https://discworld.com/the-amazing-maurice-coming-in-2022-cast-annouced/

It has the full support of Pratchett's daughter and the official production company he launched before his death.

Re: Inspired by #1 - dream adaptations

[(Anonymous)]

I know that there was a movie of The Chocolate War (by Robert Cormier) which is one of my fave movies, but I'd like a Netflix show of both the books.

Re: Inspired by #1 - dream adaptations

[(Anonymous)]

I'll never shut up about wanting an animated adaption of The Dark is Rising by Cartoon Saloon, the studio that did Secret of Kells etc.

Re: Inspired by #1 - dream adaptations

[rudehannibal]

Oh, things I didn't know I needed until I needed them.

The Dark is Rising Sequence was my entire childhood and I will never stop wishing for an adaptation. (That rot they made before was NOT an adaptation.)

Re: Inspired by #1 - dream adaptations

[(Anonymous)]

There is no adaption. There is no movie. I don't know what you're talking about. /sails bissfully down de nile

But yeah, I think the only way an adaption could work would be in animated format and since Cartoon Saloon have proven several times that they can really work with this particular mix of realistic and mythological topics I'd be carefully optimistic about this. But I don't feel like Susan Cooper would trust anyone to try their hands at an adaption again... I'm mainly scared of what might happen in terms of adaptions once she dies. Like, crappy grimdark Netflix shows or something. I mean, I'm not sure anything could beat the adaption-that-wasn't in terms of suck but I hope I'd never find out...

Re: Inspired by #1 - dream adaptations

[rudehannibal]

I wish she'd held tightly to her IP until it fell into the hands of her estate tbh. At least she would have been spared the indignity of what (never, never, ever) happened with it before. I mean, I feel like it could work as a Live Action series adaptation (it's far too complex for films, I mean WHAT)? But they would have to be very balanced since... it's not grimdark and is a children's story at heart.

I want my eleven-year-old nephew to read them because he loves fantasy but he never got much into King Arthur so I worry SO VERY MUCH would be lost on him, sadface.

Re: Inspired by #1 - dream adaptations

[(Anonymous)]

See, I personally would prefer a low-budget, old-school(or similar) TV adaptation. Like 70s BBC vibes. Because one of my favorite parts about the Dark Is Rising series is the way that all of this mythological, fantastical stuff gets embedded in contemporary England and Wales. And I think a low-budget TV series would capture that much better in a way - the feeling of tangible reality. A cartoon series would be really good for the fantastical elements as well though and Cartoon Saloon's work is amazingly beautiful.