What book would you like seen made into a movie?

>>86895333
sneed's fucks sucks: a chucklefuck

>>86895333
>>86895799
checked and solid answers.. no big budget director could capture the eeriness or sense of wonder though. would need to be shown in imax. maybe nolan. i dont know.

The Dragon Never Sleeps.

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Any of them. They'd all be fantastic.

Hell, i'd even love a movie of Wasp Factory.

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It would be the perfect horror film.

>>86895333
My diary, desu

>>86898007
Already is

>>86895333
>>86895799
It would need a lot of changing. There's not much of a story there and the characters are typical Clarkean professionals.

I guess it could be kino if the movie ends with everyone leaving and just letting Rama go, knowing that it's a mystery that they will never know the answer to.

Like the other guy said, Nolan could do it, even if he's a meme director.
If Blompkamp ever comes back to Hollywood he could do it too, if he could manage not shoving in politics

>>86897352
>tfw no massive Culture miniseries with a book per season

Jim Hougan´s The Magdalene Cipher

much much better than Code Davinci

>>86899183
Oh fuck yes

>>86899384
What's it called?

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>>86900283

>>86895333
>>86895799

Love Rama but deathly afraid to touch the sequels because Ive heard they are dogshit and yes Id love a competently made movie adaptation.

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Staring Clint and Scott Eastwood.

>>86900732
the sequels a shit
dont bother

>>86895333
Anything Pynchon.

>>86900915

>the most conservative actor in hollywood starring in an adaptation of a book by sjw: the person

Really great book though and Ghost Brigades is solid, books three and four however are legitimately some of the worst things I have ever read in my life, what the actual fuck was Scalzi thinking?

>>86895354

Hilarious.

>>86895333
A good movie or a bad movie?

An animated Have Space Suit—Will Travel for the kids

>>86899183

tried reading this but it was pure jibberish bullshit

>>86901489
Yeah
Lost Colony and Zoe's War were really bad

I hear there's another two after but I haven't read them yet.
Old Man's War was really really fucking good

>>86900643
Looks pretty good.

>>86902583
How would you capture the tediousness of the prose?

>>86903082
How is that?
I just finished Starfish and I though it good enough to be worth reading the rest of the series

>>86898007
Do you live under a rock?

>>86903296
If you liked Starfish you'll love Blindsight. It's Lovecraftian in a non-memey way.

>>86903466
Nice.
What do you think of Alastair Reynolds btw? He also does the sci-fi Lovecraftian thing

What precisely was Arthur Clarke up to in Sri Lanka?

>>86903523
We all know what he was up to

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>>86895333

>>86903296
It starts off slower but when it gets going it's amazing. The Rifters trilogy is fantastic too. Peter Watts can do no wrong in my book. I think you can download the epubs for the Rifters trilogy for free on his website.

>>86903296
I'd like to see a Ken Lubin series on HBO. Dude's one BAMF.

>>86903407
I don't really deepen myself in horror.

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This would be a really cool HBO series

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they'd have to give the narrator more of a storyline though and a love interest, maybe a hot woman who doesn't understand his obsession with peregrines and wants him to spend more time with her

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This was going to be on HBO with James Gandolfini but it appears to have stalled it. The book is definitely worth a read.

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I'm not sure what budgets for a boat set are like nowdays, but this could be done on TV

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All that sweet sweet Inter-Species ayy lmao fucking.

>>86904894
Yeah, Niven had a bit of a fetish didn't he?

>>86904894
Why does this remind me of Halo?

>>86905733
Because it was the inspiration for Halo?
Though the Halo ring is much much much smaller

>>86904894
Seems unstable

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Stretching the topic a bit but I'd love to see a series.

Hand it off to a competent network and rework it to be a little more mature and gritty (but not edgy).

Keep it set in the Pacific Northwest of the 90s.

>>86906038
>rework it to be a little more mature and gritty (but not edgy).
>more mature and gritty
Did you not finish the series?

And yeah, it'd be a great series. I think it'd have to be animated/CGI and not live action because you know, animal actors and stuff, but it'd be really good if they stick to the plot and don't cut out all the hard shit

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>>86906115
only 90's kids will remember this

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This would make a great movie if Depp starred. Hunter S Thompson nearly getting killed after getting his face kicked in by a dozen drunken bikers.

>>86906151
I remember it existing, but I never watched it.
Was it any good?
How did they deal with the animal shit?

>>86895333

Just bought on Audible, I'll give a listen.

>>86906290
Do yourself a favour and listen to the Culture series by Iain M Banks as read by Peter Kenny.
Audible should have them.

Big fan of audiobooks myself and those are my favourites

>>86906151
This looks interesting, is it worth watching?

>>86906115

>Did you not finish the series?

I just think it would need a stronger, more mature start in the beginning to get to that point.

>>86906151

>only 90's kids will try to forget this happened
>ftfy

Although the intro was great, the budget/interest/technology just wasn't there for a full series.

That and the merch at the time was awful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IfboJUVBI8

>>86906642
Probably the most filmable of Vonnegut's books
Would be a cool short miniseries

You could even get Peter "memedwarf" Dinklage as the brother

>>86906394

Ok, I will. Putting it on the list now.

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in the style of a monty python film

Chronicles of Ancient Darkness aka Wolf brothers.

Read it when it came out 12 yrs Ago. Apparently they were planning to make a film about it. But nothing ever came out of it

>>86906619
>I just think it would need a stronger, more mature start in the beginning to get to that point.
I actually like that
They're just kids after all
The beginning is just kids playing rebels and fucking around with their new powers.

It takes a little time for them to go full "I only feel alive when I'm killing" and "I don't have a problem using cripples as disposable shocktroops"

>>86895333
The Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker.

Would prefer it to be a Kino TV show.

>>86903860
you can get blindsight there too
http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

>>86906642
Noah Hawley is doing it as a mini-series

>>86895333
>we will never get a Blood Meridian movie with young Ed Harris as the Judge, young Leo as the kid, or Daniel Day Lewis as Glanton

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I just want to see a live action Charlie Manx

>>86906753
And I thought women were passive agressive, I wouldn't want to meet the guy that made this.

>>86895333
>>86895799
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY2Yt1ATm4c

>>86902583
"The City and The City" would make a much better film.

I'd like to see a live action Mistborn

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It could surpass 2001.

>>86907633
Are you from North Korea or something?

>>86907633
They already did a miniseries.
I think it's one of his worse works anyway.

>>86895333
>Nothing happens the book

(I still enjoyed it)

>>86899563
>It would need a lot of changing. There's not much of a story there and the characters are typical Clarkean professionals.
I respectfully disagree.
The story is about the wonders in progression: first the discovery, then the dark environment, the lights on, the arrival of the bots, their explorations, the adventures in the sea and in the south pole.
There is plenty for a movie.
What is definitely avoidable is the genetically modified apes and stories about double wives, for a variety of reasons.
But they add nothing to the story.

>>86907633
The miniseries was actually pretty good and didn't shy away from the crazy bits

>>86908981
But that's not a story
That's a diorama.

>>86903523
>>86903617
What WAS Sir Clarke doing in Sri Lanka that you're both concerned with? Please explain in detail

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>>86907316
Isn't that Stephen King's kid?
Is he any good?

>>86904894
The inter-species sex was all between different flavors of humans, albeit some were pretty alien looking. You never saw Speaker stick his dick in Teela, for example. Sadly.

>>86911592
Do you think there's a Mates with Animals?

>>86911638
Given there are Kdaptists who think God favors humans, it'd surprise me if there weren't some kzinti who wanted to bone humans to be closer to God.

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why in god's name would you ever try to adapt rama

>dude wheres the aliens bro
>he has two wives this is the jewish agenda!!!11
>why is this staircase so long
>wtf is that a robot crab lmao

>>86911972
Nolan could do it and make normies love it

>>86909995
A movie is also about the visuals.
If you need social interactions you may as well watch a romantic drama.
At least now I know why some authors want to force that everywhere, because some people can't live without it.

>>86903860
>Peter Watts can do no wrong in my book.
you obviously haven't read his crysis book
it was so bad that watts was literally banned from america

>>86912728
A movie cannot be visuals only. It needs to tell a story. With an arc. And progression.
Just images leaves you with shit like Samsara and that other unspellable movie.

>>86912765
Man, B/C tier sci-fi writers must be really hard up on cash.
Greg Bear did some Halo books too

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>>86906642
Id like to see someone do a faithful adaptation of Slaughterhouse 5. The one movie is decent but it's nothing like the book. That or Sirens of Titans

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>>86895799
>>86911972
>>86895333
PC game was the shit when I was a kid

>>86914267
Muh nigga

The Sirens of Titan is my absolutely favourite book

>>86914439
It's stuck with me more than his other books for some reason. The mental images I had while reading it are really memorable.

>>86914537
I agree.
I love everything Vonnegut wrote. Sirens is my favourite.
Though, I have to give a small bit of credit to Time Quake. The repeated mantra of "You were sick, now you're better, there's work to be done" really stayed with me.

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Why so many sci fi books?

>>86914707
This just in, 4chan full of nerds

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There are a few Redwall books that would unironically make for great serious adaptations, Mossflower probably being the best.

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Time Wars

I'd love a new animated Redwall serious
And not fucking Flash animated
Like real lovingly animated

>>86914707
I'm working on something that's loosely based on this. but it's in a different settingbut it's still based on a real gang, who in fact might have probably been closer to Glanton's gang as depicted in the book than the real Glanton gang

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A little obvious but this was practically made to be directed by David Lynch

>>86906210
The morphing was really bad. The technology just wasnt there yet.

Any scene with Visser 3 is gloriously cheesy and over the top, which I think makes it worth watching. Unfortunately, with the exception of Ashmore, the child actors are all pretty weak.

Had a massive crush on the one who played Rachel, tho.

>>86914707
I don't know if this would be considered "problematic" or "woke af" if this came out today.

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>>86914793
>mfw transformers UK was better than the american comic

those were the days

>>86914707
I don't think a visual medium can portray such a bleakness

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>>86895333

>>86905786
top fucking kek you faggot

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>>86914930
The end of the world part of Hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world was pretty much ripped for an anime. Its really good too

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With the right director it could be a modern day Stalker

>>86905786
>>86915181
This is some fucking vintage ass meming

How old are you faggots?

>>86915220
It's being made already, iirc

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>>86914990
It all stands or falls with the actors.

>>86915202
I've been meaning to watch that for a long time

>>86899183
Book reads like a fever dream. I loved it

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>>86915223
That's why i called him a faggot.
Also the three body problem trilogy. Or the moon is a harsh mistress.

>>86915262
it's bretty good, check it out. the soundtrack is the best part.

>>86895333
arthur c clarke is for c-list memers from shitfag street. come on step up my dudes. you can do better than this. i believe in you


-jake

>>86915324
>the moon is a harsh mistress.
Never will be a movie
But it's really fucking good

>>86915253
I hadn't heard anything about that
>directed/written by Alex Garland director/writer of Ex Machina
It could work
>starring Natalie Portman
Uhhhhh

>>86915411
She'd be good as the Psychologist

>>86915324
The Dark Forest is the best by far. But I'd like to see Thomas Wade from the last one. Even though he's described as looking like Hugh Jackman at one point, I'm convinced he was based on James Woods in Contact.

>I have no mouth and I must scream

>>86915262
>>86915326 <---This. Even if you don't watch it get the OST. God tier.
https://youtu.be/VDQGeuSH8KE
https://youtu.be/sMKya-9samc
https://youtu.be/36DgAT5jWMY

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How about some fantasy in this thread? This could make for an fantasy epic trilogy, it's got everything: a powerful wizard, pirates, flaming swords, a witch, a badass edgy shapeshifter, a little bit of romance, and lets not forget the treasure map adventure itself.

>>86915324
>>86915528
How is Three Body Problem?
All I've seen from native Chinese work is that it's awfully cheesy and cliched.
Like they're 70 years behind the times.

>>86915769
The first two books are amazing. The third is OK but a bit dry and overlong.

I certainly wouldn't call it cliche.

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This would be tremendous kino

>>86915832
Is the translation obvious?

>>86895333
Trips checked.

ACC's 'A fall of moondust'. It's got everything: a diverse cast, not that strange a setting, a race against time, women in their underwear -- why hasn't it been filmed already? Maybe not enough explosions.

>>86915769
There is some cheesy shit as far as i remember, but it's rare. Kind of like a good checky chan movie.

>>86897352
Fuck do i hate those utopia tropes.

>>86915947
The Culture series subverts a lot of those tropes
That's part of why it's so very very good

>>86915893
I didn't have a problem with it, although I tend to take things at face value anyway.

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I can't believe Hollywood hasn't jumped all over this yet.

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>>86916345
Watched this a lot as a kid. Didn't know it was part of a series.

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>>86914267
Reading Slaughterhouse 5 for the first time a few weeks ago I was struck by the thought "this is impossible to film." Every couple of paragraphs jumps to a different time period. I tried to see it in my head, but the movie would have to be 5 hours.

On the plus side, I think it gave me a better appreciation of what books can do that movies can't.

>>86916345
Same. They must be really scared about that abortive Black Cauldron disney cartoon. Or, more likely, the execs say "Lloyd who?" Given how the Narnia movies turned out (and the Hobbit), I would be happy to see no one touch this series.

That being said, thinking of fantasy, I remember reading this back in high school thinking how insane a movie it would make. This might be the most deliriously out-there fantasy novel I've read, but for the "normal" reasons. It is just this ridiculous progression of one-upmanship from the most masculine dudes in all the kingdom. An early highlight being one of the dudes telling a sorceress "I'll prove to you that your spells can't hurt me!" and he does it by fucking her. This was written in like the 30s, mind you.

>>86916710
>I was struck by the thought "this is impossible to film."
And yet Slaughterhouse 5 is the only Vonnegut book with a film adaption

Good space westerns?

>>86907350
Has a Youtube channel called emptyhero. Was mildly known on /v/ when gg was a thing

>>86916767
outland
cowboy bebop
firefly
dark matter (?)

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pic related or Survivor

>>86910015
heard he found an underwater temple

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has there ever been a live action movie without a single human character?

>>86917181
Star Wars, I guess technically

I'm sure there's been some movie with "LOL they're all robots!"

>>86917234
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Human

>>86917273
That's EU stuff

A "Galaxy far far away" cannot have Earth humans in it

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>>86917301
>Earth humans

>>86917394
>impyling there is another kind

>>86917429
clearly the implication was that the descendants of the people in Star Wars colonized Earth somehow

>>86898007
Wasn't Snake Pliskin the hero?

'The Mote in God's Eye"

>>86917625
Love this story
But never could be made into a film/tv series unless you get people with wrinkley foreheads to be moties

>>86917662
CGI, just like Golum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eon_(novel)

i would love to this on the scree, but it would cost as much as Valerian and make even less money back.

>>86917699
Technology just isn't there yet for that
Avatar got by by having the Na'vi just be blue Indians.
Moties are truly alien

>>86899323
Fuck it sucks that Naomi's so bad at raising children. If it weren't for that I'd never pull out of her.

>>86917734
I think this is Greg Bear's best novel, by a large margin.
Or maybe I just think this because it was the first of his I read and I didn't clue into his repetitive and formulaic writing style

>>86899183
I see this mentioned but I know nothing at all about it. What am I in for? Is it like a Brass Eye style parody where I'll feel like I'm reading Dianetics or is it just a traditional narrative?

>Greg Bear's Blood Music
>directed by David Cronenberg

>>86918030
How's the novel?
I only read the short story

>>86918081
>I only read the short story
Me too.
I just thought the ending was brilliant and chilling, and that if anyone could pull it off it would be Cronenberg.

>>86918165
Not enough sex for Cronenberg
He'd have to make the sentient bacteria into an STD and make sex out to be the means of the apocalypse or something

>>86918210
touche

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Give me your (you)s. Im sure most brainlets wouldnt understand why this book is probably the best sci-fi since Asimov.

>>86919495

Can we get the speaker trilogy as detached as possible from the rest of the ender books plz

>>86919495
Speaker is absolutely amazing.
Xenocide is really good too
But Children of the Mind goes a little off the deep end.

I'd love a miniseries based on the world of Speaker, but maybe not following Andrew Wiggin.

The idea of a Speaker is such a great one and has a lot of room for profundity

>>86919495
Going back and breaking down the events of just Ender's Game chapter by chapter with /tv/ a few months ago was fucking hilarious enough, never mind the sequels
There's something really impressive about what Card can sell you as you're reading admittedly. When you're into the book you never once stop and think 'Did these two genius super children, one of which is pointlessly, comically evil and the other retardedly kind just use internet debates to make themselves world leaders?' or 'Did that talking pig alien just die and turn into a tree?' It's when you go back and look at each event in isolation you realise how much batshit nonsense you just read

>>86919644
Peter wasn't comically evil
You missed the entire point

Peter and Valentine were just two different means of control.
Violence and love.
It was through Ender we saw the enactment of both kinds of control.

>>86919733
OK but he did become president of Earth by having the best internet arguments

>>86919872
No, he became Hegemon because Valentine had the best "Internet" arguments

And it's understating the point to call them "internet" arguments
They were the equivalent of voting and town house meetings.
It was government shit they were shitposting on.
Not a Laosian bone carving symposium

>>86919644
>'Did these two genius super children, one of which is pointlessly, comically evil and the other retardedly kind just use internet debates to make themselves world leaders?'

GEE I WONDER IF A MAN COULD GET ELECTED TO PRESIDENT BY SHITPOSTERS...

THAT IS ABSURD

>>86911270
He's not too bad, but that book sucked complete ass. I'm all for the occasional unlikable protag, but that bitch was a fucking cunt.

>>86906642
*tips fedora*

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>>86919495
>tfw no one will Speak for your death

>>86919495
> Ender's Game
The book you like most as a child.

> Speaker For The Dead
The book you like most as an adult.

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>>86920390
Literally unfilmable
I love Hyperion so very much.
The first book is absolutely amazing.
The Canterbury Tales narrative is truly kino
It loses a bit when it goes full space opera, but it's a good series.

But the budget required to show so many different worlds... Unless in 20 years we have full photo-real CGI, it ain't happening.

Dan Simmons is really good when he's on top of his game.

>>86920422
I like both a lot, but I think people underestimate Ender's Game because of the child protagonist.
It's ultimately about violence.
It's an agreeing response to Starship Troopers.
Violence is the vehicle from which we derive all authority. Ender's Game takes it one stage further and says that violence is the means in which we derive all life.

Speaker is about how violence and death aren't so bad after all.
The other two books kinda fall apart and say violence is bad and goes into souls and shit.

>>86920390
>>86920455
Like with Dune there's too much for a movie but the first book is perfect for a maybe 10 episode series with a pretty decent budget
Problem being after GoT, TWD etc. everybody wants a guaranteed franchise so when you present them with something that A. is not a franchise and B. is not guaranteed you're shit out of luck

>>86920521
I don't think anyone underestimates Ender's Game, it's a true sci-fi classic, but I do think a lot of people don't appreciate Speakers at all.

>>86906642
I'd rather see Sirens of Titan, but that would be impossible without drastically altering its structure.

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>>86895333
Pic related would make a better movie imo.

>>86920602
I guess I should say is that I think plebs underestimate Ender's Game

Casual readers gloss over it as "Kid with chosen destiny saves the world".
But it's so much more than that

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>>86906753
>that pesky white population, what with their inadequate butt-cheeks, straight hair, and insistence on being able to read

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>>86899563
>Blompkamp
>Not shoving in politics
Pick one

>>86910015
Sexing a twink in da butt

>>86920605
Would it?
Sirens is a linear story.

I think a really great director could adapt it today.
Like if the follow accept the schlocky special effects. The UFO that Constant takes from Mars to Mercury and then Earth is literally a pie plate on a string.

And the robot on Titan is literally a puppet on strings.

It'd work. Plebs would hate it. But it'd be so fucking good

>>86912916
>A movie can't be visuals only
visual medium my dude, maybe it wouldn't get shown in all theaters but in an imaginary world where visual pieces of art have high budgets this could easily happen.

>>86904830
I have very good news for you son

>>86920799
Go on.

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Where the FUCK is it Hollywood? I don't even care about these books anymore but my inner-tween won't let the dream die.

>>86916758
cat's cradle is getting a TV adaption with the director of Legion (FX) and Fargo (the TV series)

>>86920853
This could be really good

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It is an interesting series because the author is a literal psychopath trying to do philosophy and writes a series with a psychopath anti-hero.

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I have no idea how they could ever get away with abstract, shape-less inter-dimensional energy beings and a nudist colony on the moon, but oh god would I love it.

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>>86919872
And?

>>86920851
I for one would love a Mission Impossible style thriller series like this, mixed with a little bit of detective procedural of course.
Tight scenes, great OST, and some okay acting would make for a pretty good franchise.

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I'm not talking that fucking Will Smith shoe ad.

A miniseries about the rise of AI.
It'd be really good

>>86920928
The author has stated many times that Achamian is the self insert not Kelhus.

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>>86921003
>A miniseries about the rise of AI
Anon...

>>86921064
That was shit though
And more about teenage antics

>>86921003
A series of short films by different famous sci-fi directors, sort of like Black Mirror?

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>>86921101
>A series of short films by different famous sci-fi directors, sort of like Black Mirror?

Black Mirror is the perfect medium style for sci-fi
We need more of it

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>>86921124
One of the worst books ever written

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Only the first two books though.

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>>86917560
Nah, Snake Plisken was the Hero of Overboard

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Honestly I would love to see this as a movie by a competent director, it could be absolute kino. Would probably have to be made multiple movies though, no? Who should direct it? Lead roles?

>>86921720
Is this a good read?
I've only heard negative memes about Pynchon

>>86921747
I think it's fantastic but there's a reason it's a meme. I don't think it was that hard a read but it is 900 pages of Pynchon so maybe some people can't stomach it.

>>86921791
Compare it to Infinite Jest.
Is it that bad?
I read like 200 pages of that and couldn't stomach another

>>86921865
I've not read it (yet) but it's probably similar in style, some other anon should probably fill this in but I doubt you'd like it. Maybe check out something shorter by Pynchon then, Inherent Vice maybe (it has a movie made out of it recently but I've not seen that one) or maybe the Crying of Lot 49 which is only about 150 pages and I think most people are told to start reading Pynchon with that.

>>86921805
damn I forgot about Garth Nix. I fukken loeved Shade's Children.

>>86922000
I don't mind non-linear or confusing timelines.
I don't even mind confusing prose.
I just hate the fucking arrogance of Infinite Jest and the purposeful obfuscation.

I'll try the other babby versions of Pynchon.
But I have no tolerance for the level of arrogance that DFW has

>>86922078
Well, I don't think Pynchon has that arrogant quality.

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>>86895333
>What book would you like seen made into a movie?

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>>86922117

I’d like to see pic related made into a tv series, even though Hollywood would fuck it up.

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An instant classic

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>>86922199

>>86922199
I've seen S. M. Sterling around in the sci-fi community

What series of his would you recommend?

>>86922277
This shit is fucking kino as fuck
I love this series

We aren't there yet to make this based ass series right.
We need cheap and not fake looking Martian sets.

What a great fucking series

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>>86922297

He used to be a regular over on soc.history.what-if back in the day but in addition to his Nantucket series already posted, the first three Emberverse books (he’s just milking the story after that) and Conquistador would make for a cool movie.

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Would /tv/ like this one?

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>>86922329

Supposedly SyFy was going to adapt it but that didn't work out (luckily...) but I'll agree that the SFX needs to be top-notch if it were to be brought to tv.

Unfortunately as we can see from GoT, Hollywood is all about cost cutting and playing to the marketing research, so it would inevitably suck.

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It would be kino in the proper hands.

>>86922461
Haven't read it
How would you rank it in the rest of Stephenson's works?

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>>86922277
>>86922468

Years of Rice And Salt would also make for a cool mini-series but as the story doesn't have any White European characters and the cast would be all Muslims, Chinese, Hindus and such, it would never happen in today's world.

>>86922468
Even with shitty effects, I could watch a Mars series about the characters
That's what Robinson did real good.
I could forgive a red sound stage for people trying to walk in fake walkers.
If they just get the characters right

>>86922567
I think I'm gonna throw up

>>86922636
>>86922567

The cover designer had one job.

One job.

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>>86922595

The whole thing would have to be green-screened, as there's no way to do it otherwise.

I personally think an Avatar-tier animated series would be best but again, Hollywood would just cut costs and turn it into a cheep Clone Wars garbage.

>>86922537
No idea. I think /a/ (if it was animu) and /tv/ would like this more than Snow Crash.

>>86922702
Wrong Clone Wars

GenndyWars was amazing and worth every dollar

>>86914990
The Judge spends the whole story raping children and doesn't get his comeuppance so it would be problematic.

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Swann's way would be comfy

>>86922831
>lad complaining for 40 minutes about how his mother didn't kiss him goodnight when he was a little boy
Unironically potential KINO.

>>86915761
With lotr, and then hobbit, itd be tough to sell a high budget when the bar is that high

>>86922831
>Proust
No one deserves 10, 000 hours of whiny "Mommy didn't love me enough" bullshit

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>>86922748

I have no idea what that is but the point being, Hollywood is clearly incapable of actually _adapting_ a novel or book series anymore, everything get mangled and homogenized by the studio/network marketing dept. to appeal to the widest market (i.e. lowest common denominator) and is turned into garbage as a result.

If you’ve read The Godfather or Shogun, you’ll know what I’m talking about; both the movies and mini-series followed the original story with very few deviations but nowadays, that’s just not the case, as the executives aren’t there long enough to care and need to “make their mark” by changing the story but if they had any actual talent, they’d be actual writers and not Hollywood hack producers.

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>>86922985
>Hollywood is clearly incapable of actually _adapting_ a novel or book series anymore, everything get mangled and homogenized by the studio/network marketing dept. to appeal to the widest market

This is so fucking true
All I want to see is honest adaptations of my favourite books

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>>86895333
Staring Fassbender and Woody Harrelson

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>>86915761
>How about some fantasy in this thread?

>>86921865
It's pretty similar but Gravitys Rainbow is a little more focused. The rambling tangents read more like short stories than just straight rambling tangents

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This will be a movie
Just a matter of time

>>86922985
It's basically "Wow. What a great story." and then they say "Now, let's give this to the writers and see what they can come up with. We got already a few comedians attached..."
And you're like "wai-wait. You said..."
And they're like "Oh. Don't worry, they're wonderful talented writers, you'll see, you'll love it. You've given us great characters to work with, now it's just a question of how we make it. Ok! Gotta go now."

>>86923072
Does Pynchon force you to read 100 page of explanation of terms and structure at the back of the book?

I hate Infinite Jest and DFW because the book caused me to flip back and forth like I was 12 and reading a "Choose your own adventure" book.

If it's just a regular ass story that's non-linear and reveals shit as it goes on, I'm ok
But if you need 3 dozen fucking sheets of references to understand what every god damned stupid sentence means, then I'm out

>>86895333
yep, this is pretty much a major one. My only fear is that it would wind up being like the I, Robot adaptation, instead of like Blade Runner or FKA Twigs

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>>86923180
>Now, let's give this to the writers and see what they can come up with

Indeed, GRRM richly deserves a cock punch for simply handing over GoT without any authorial control over the tv series.

The guy worked in television for R'hllor's sake, he known how they operate....

>>86923301
Oh it seems pretty clear that he just wanted to sit on some good fat cash, so that he can say now "oh yeah...they're doing a wonderful job *coughs and dies before writing his last book"

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>>86923093
Book is just ok and westerns always run mediocre at the box office.

dis is what we need.

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>>86906642
Galapagos or Sirens of Titan.

Galpagos by Terry Gilliam. Or The Sirens of Titan by Gilliam.

>>86921720
Idris Elba as Tyrone Slothrop.
John Goodman as Duane Marvy.
Patrick Wilson as Roger Mexico.
Max von Sidow as Laszlo Jamf.
Samuel L. Jackson as Enzian.
Memes aside, I don't know who to cast as Katje and Pudding for the shit eating scene.

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>>86921747
It's fun.

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>>86923414

Odds are, GRRM’s contract stipulates he can’t talk shit about the shitty tv series but I think HBO just kept upping the money until he couldn’t refuse and I guess I can kinda understand.

He was already older by the time GoT became a hit book series and while the guy made a living as an author, you can see from his regular suburban house that he wasn’t rolling in money, so might as well live it up for the time you’ve got left.

Still, he could have insisted on some level of authorial control, as Kirkman did with The Walking Dead (which is still shit but at least he’s got a say in the matter).

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>>86915832
I just realized from reading this post there is a third book. Would you say it's even worth reading?

>>86923667
Yeah it's difficult, isn't it...i've written a sci-fi tv show pilot, and i don't even know if it's worth sending it. Even if they accept it, they might change it completely.
Might transform it into a book and see if it helps.

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>>86895333

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>>86921101
>>86921245
>tfw they are making an anthology series of Philip K Dick stories

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not amazingly written, but that premise is fucking tasty and would be great potential for visual kino with the dimension shifting

>>86915220
Aili Nhao Nitn?

>>86923829

Not that I know anything about it at all, but I’d think that have a published book gives the author far more leverage with a studio/network then just shilling a script.

>>86923829
money >>>>>>> creative control

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I know it's pretty much unfilmable, but it's my favorite book next to Hyperion, Uzumaki, and Battle Royale.

>>86923502
I can already clearly imagine the kid flying with the birds on Titan in his style

>>86924195
> money >>>>>>> creative control

Creative control = money.

Hollywood gets a bazillion scripts per day and odds are good that even if they pick up OP’s script, they’ll pay him jack shit for it and if he holds out for more money, they’ll just change some story elements around and produce it anyways, completely screwing him out of any money.

>>86924216
Id say it's impossible. It only works because it's a book. They could try and do like a TV series that's an analog to it but it would never capture the same pacing and feeling. I'd like to see someone smart take a stab at it though.

>>86924095
Yeah that's what i'm starting to realise.

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A younger Terry Gilliam could tackle it

>>86924095
Only if you have sold decent numbers, published by a big publishing house or have a fan base. Anyone can get a book published by some nobody publisher.

>>86917845
More like Pynchon-lite. It jumps around the pov of half-dozen characters as they get involved in every conspiracy-theory known to man (as far as the cold war era goes). Fun stuff.

>>86903019
It's a bit of a meme film and very overrated, but still top 20 horrors of all time.

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>>86922117
>you'll never see Kirby's concept art fleshed out with 21 century cgi technology on the big screen

Why even live bros

>>86895799
honestly Nolan could do it

>>86907633
absolutely shit book

>>86895354
My fucking sides!!

>>86895333
Blade Runner

>>86922381
>soc.history.what-if
Now there's a blast from the past.
You used to hang out there too?

>>86923806
Did you miss everyone referring to it as a "trilogy"? But yes, it's worth reading. Some cool stuff in there.

>>86927889
I'd rather Hollywood didn't ruin this. I don't think it would translate to screen very well anyway.

>>86901489
>>86902609
OLD MAN'S WAR was originally supposed to be a movie at Paramount but they had issues with the whole "green photosynthesizing people" thing and let the option slip. now it'll be a TV series over at SyFy and they'll actually adapt all the books in the series.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/syfys-turning-john-scalzis-old-mans-war-books-into-a-tv-1616498760

>>86907407
>"The City and The City" would make a much better film.
they are currently filming CITY AND THE CITY for the BBC. I'm curious as hell how they intend to pull this one off. I'd have considered it unfilmable.

http://variety.com/2017/tv/global/david-morrissey-takes-residence-in-the-city-and-the-city-for-bbc-1202029772/

>>86922769
>The Judge spends the whole story raping children and doesn't get his comeuppance so it would be problematic.
did you forget that the judge is also a white male? of course all he does is rape and murder those that are weaker than him and is, possibly, quite literally Satan.

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this or the water knife. they'd better not wait until these books are outdated like cyberpunk is today. adapt them now and get them right.

>>86903146
>How would you capture the tediousness of the prose?
really long uninterrupted takes with comfy elevator music playing on the soundtrack?

>>86903082
too similar to ARRIVAL desu

>>86928987
I have had this book sitting on my shelf for years, my dad keeps asking if I have read it.

>>86920835
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2708480/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

>>86929105
So why don't you? A couple of pages should give you a clue.

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>>86895333
basically a bullet-time meets x-com
should have been made 10 years ago when it was all the rage

>>86929172
A few years ago I read the Books of the New Sun series and it really turned me off reading. I don't think I'll ever pick up reading like I did before...

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>>86895333
and prequels to dune, they're dumbed down, the world is bigger, more characters and more tv-series friendly

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>>86895333
love to see a series based on this
the idea that nothing matters any more and the last people at the end of all things are just really bored and want to experience sin

also i would love to see more terry Pratchett on the big screen, his stuff needs tot made in to movies

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The (((critics))) reaction would be priceless

>>86923806
Everybody dies and it's the fault of a woman and her fee fees.

>>86929274
Brian pls go.

>>86917740
have you seen any of the recent POTA flicks? tech is definitely there. you just have to spend some time on it and do it right instead of rushing to make some random release date.

>>86917734
>it would cost as much as Valerian and make even less money back
I think it's impossible to make less money than valerian

>>86919495
These books are legit some of the best sci-fi out there. I think many people don't give them the credit they deserve because they are often seen as children's books. Also Card wrote some really, really bad garbage later, which makes me worried about the final book that will wrap up the Ender and Shadow saga.

Can't wait for the ants to get BTFO, the queens are evil, always have been, always will be.
>hmmm, these space ships and complex structures must be natural, since there's no communication we can sense, let's destroy it all without further investigation
>hmm what do you mean mind raping workers into submission and letting those who can resist slowly starve to death is bad, I think you're being specicist, or worse, a communist

Good riddance.

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>In February 2014, Deadline.com reported that Marc Forster had been selected to direct a film adaptation of the book, with Joe Roth, Palak Patel and Renee Wolf producing and author Brown writing the screenplay.[9] A subsequent article reported that Universal Pictures outbid Sony Pictures for screen rights in a seven-figure deal.[10] As of February 2016, the film was still in development, with Brown having written the first two drafts.[11] Brown said in March 2016, "I have written the first two drafts of the film and now we're on the third. Hopefully it will be greenlit this year. The vision from the film makers is 'Lawrence of Arabia in space', which is terribly exciting for me as it's my favorite film."[8]

Please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit.

>>86931587
> Please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit.

It'll be shit.

>>86931587
see dark tower