SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

Recently I finished playing Zelda BOTW and I was made aware that the area is a re-imagination of the original NES map. This was then going to be used in a live adaption of a film but was recently cancelled by Nintendo...
Cowboy bebop has now come from cartoon to real life as many others...
The wheel of time and ASOIAF are both adaptions from books...


Lets pretend Netflix hosts a contest which you happen to win. If you could... which book, cartoon or video game would you bring to life? In what archive of your mind does the coolest idea for a movie live?

I would love to direct a movie from Metriod. Taking the story of a young woman who lost everything to space pirates. She joins the federation with blood lust and vengeance creating a ferocity unseen in their ranks then embarks on a space journey hunting Ridley on other planets.

Taking an actress like Kathryn Winnick and placing her inside of an exo-suit where she docks her famous hunter class gunship on a new world. Think Avatar type world introduction but more hostile. Slowly she makes her way through alien technology to try and locate the space pirate base. Similar to 1980s aliens where they locate the queen.

I'd use similar techniques as were used in Ironman for Robert Downey Jr. I'd base my environment design from the SNES version of Super Metriod. Instead of finding alien tech that fuses with her suit, I think she could take DNA samples from the fauna there and use it to create her morphball, super jump/super speed abilities.

Anyway in my mind it would be super cool.

Another one that would be really awesome is the Lost boys. Actually come to think of it, I don't remember what that movie was about but I do remember loving it as a kid.

Does anyone remember the cartoon C.O.P.S. ?

Sebastian de Castell's Greatcoats series would be fun to see.

Mistborn would be fun to see on film.

Gotta say Pern - we now gave the tech to make dragon riders awesome

Rachel wrote: "Gotta say Pern - we now gave the tech to make dragon riders awesome"

Ooh, yes!

Warhanner 40K / Horus Heresy would be awesome. If you had a billion dollar budget.

David Eddings Belgariad or Elenium series would be cool.

David Weber 's Honor Harrington series
or his Safehold series Off Armageddon Reef

Let's see...

Kings of the Wyld would be really cool as an ensemble film with maybe Christopher Walken, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Downey Jr., Christoph Waltz and Matthew McConaughey.

I think Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia would work really well as one of those short series with longer but few episodes, targeted at a mostly YA audience. I imagine it in a style similar to "Diableros" on Netflix (which is a great show).

Potiki is good stuff for a dramatisation, maybe intertwined with real-world documentary pieces or accompanied by one.

Soulless and the other books in the series would jump right on the Bridgerton-Hypetrain, but target an urban fantasy audience.

The Devil in Silver is also perfect for a short series, with its loveable cast, surreality and societal commentary.

Oh, I get only one? Well...

I'd love to see the Fables series by Buckingham and Willigham brought to the screen as a series, but it would need to be done in a way that doesn't come across as cheezy. Netflix recently did Sweet Tooth and it was fantastic, so there's hope!

Rachel wrote: "Gotta say Pern - we now gave the tech to make dragon riders awesome"

The Dragon Riders of Pern has been bandied about as a movie for at least a decade now. You see it mentioned occasionally in lists that talk about upcoming sci-fi projects. Of course, you also see that the new Ice and Fire novel will come out soon...so

A series of the Stormlight Archive would be awesome.

Ines wrote: "Let's see...

Kings of the Wyld would be really cool as an ensemble film with maybe Christopher Walken, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Downey Jr., Christoph Waltz and Matthew McConaughe..."

I love your Kings of the Wyld cast.

I really like The Belgariad, Vol. 1: Pawn of Prophecy / Queen of Sorcery / Magician's Gambit idea!

Something I would really like to see on the bis screen is the Dragonlance-Saga. Not like the animation version they tried many years ago, but as a real fantasy epos - no matter if as movie or series, I would like to see it!

Dune! Uh … no … wait.

War Against the Chtorr by David Gerrold would be a great series.
Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe could be a cool movie.
Fahfrd and the Grey Mouser, Fritz Lieber would be a good series.