The Next Game of Thrones

[Breakdown]

So which fantasy epic book series should be adapted for the television?

I'd personally like to see Bernard Cornwell's Warlord series or David Gemmell's Rigante books. Although they both start with the protagonist starting off as a young boy and follow them throughout their lives, which might be difficult to carry off in a TV series.

 

[Asclepion]

I'll kiss the feet of whoever adapts Iain M. Banks's Culture series. The Culture is, as far as I am aware, the most fully-realized and convincing utopia in fiction.

"It's More Fun in the Culture."

 

[Nimzabaat]

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser? I'd like to see that. Otherwise the R.A. Salvatore's books on Drizzt Do'urden would probably work as a TV series.

 

[Willinium]

Glen Cook's "the Black Company" I think that the public at large will greatly enjoy it.

 

[Cowabungaa]

I want to say The Wheel Of Time, but I know that that shit is unadaptable. Seriously, the magic is invisible for like 99.9% of all people with shit just happening as a result otherwise two people staring angrily at each other. Not to mention that the first 3000-ish pages of the series...are introduction.

Man, honestly I'd just be happy with a Discworld Ankh-Morpork Watch series. Oh wait... [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watch_(TV_series)]

Maybe the Kingkiller Chronicles, but hell there'd be a shitton of filler in any hypothetical TV show based on that.

How about Sanderson's Mistborn books? We'll even end up with it spanning genres, as after the first trilogy the world moves to a Western settings, and three books after that it turns to a sci-fi series. Though the last two trilogies still have to be written. Yeah, in the end I'm going for Mistborn. If only for the amazingly cool magic system. High-level shit is basically seeing Magneto's fight, governed however by physics, each other. The only disadvantage is that the world is bleak as shit. As in "everything outside of noble houses is coloured freakin' brown" levels of bleak, doesn't really look rad visually.

 

[FPLOON]

I want to see the Remnants series get the HBO treatment... It has about "80 characters", people die, and despite the series mainly focusing on only a handful of said "80 characters", the adaptation could explore deeper into what these other characters are reacting to what's going on throughout the series... Basically, it could be a teen equivalent to Game of Thrones right down to the potential amount of seasons to cover...

Other than that, there's the Artemis Fowl series, but after taking a glimpse at the graphic novel, I would not mind this one be adapted into something animated instead of live-action...

 

[Fox12]

I want to say Berserk, but I'm not sure how anyone could capture the Eclipse without it being animated. Even if the series were made into a hollywood film. Also, Billy-bob and Bubba may be less then flattered with Berserks depiction of religion

Spoiler

Pictured: not fans of Berserk

 

[The Madman]

The Gentlemen Bastards books and setting would make for a brilliant tv show if done properly. Do it Sherlock style with few episodes but those episodes being of greater length, each focused on one of Locke's crimes with the overarching plot leading up the the events of the first book: The Lies of Locke Lamora.

Hell, I'm not even the only person to think so, others have even gone so far as to make mock-up intros for the theoretical series:


Now that would be amazing. I've always found that series deserves more attention than it received.

 

[rdaleric]

It could have been Sandman, I just can't see how that will work as a one off film. I think the Kingkiller Chronicle could be good, it lends itself to an episodic series due to the framing device of the story being dictated to a scribe.

 

[Tiger King]

I'll kiss the feet of whoever adapts Iain M. Banks's Culture series. The Culture is, as far as I am aware, the most fully-realized and convincing utopia in fiction.

"It's More Fun in the Culture."

as much as I want to agree with you I just don't think it is possible to describe the culture within a tv show

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

With the layers of depth and consistency of story David Weber brings to the table the Honor Harrington books are probably the best series to bring to television.

Aside from that Peter F Hamilton's Commonwealth would be amazing.

Another good possibility is the Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell.

Larry Niven's Known Space series would be absolutely amazing in the context of a TV series.

Finally for pure fantasy? Well David Eddings' series of The Belgariad and Malloreon, along with the The Elenium and The Tamuli would both make for fantastic series of their own on TV.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

Stephen King's the Dark Tower. If only to see all the surreal and absolutely batshit stuff in it. It'd be a hard thing to adapt, since the series is inconsistent as hell, but at least they'd have the full story right from the outset.