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I feel like the Cosmere is pretty well structured for a series. Each season could be a different world, eventually tying things together.
From what I’ve heard, something is in the works. Hopefully optimistic it turns out well.
The encyclopedia
Prequel series: the dictionary
Sequel series: thesaurus
Ted Chiang - The Stories of Your Life and Exhalation (minus Story of Your Life, since Denis Villeneuve knocked that out of the park, IMO). The other short stories in those collections are great and could make a great mini series.
“Malazan book of the Fallen” by Steven Erikson. An Epos that dwarfs the whole of LotR.
Or an animated series of all Discworld novels…
My therapist’s notes on our sessions
The Cradle series by Will Wight would be pretty cool. It’s 12 books long but tightly paced and doesn’t mire itself in a bunch of tiny details like The Wheel of Time would. It’s set in an ancient Chinese fantasy world that’s part of a greater struggle in the multiverse and reads like a shonen. Its protagonist, Wei Shi Lindon starts off as a pariah with no powers before being rescued by a demigod who gives him a way to alter the fate of him and his home from an apocalyptic ending.
A 2 hour long animatic was released a few months ago and covers the first 2 books fairly well. A fully animated trailer was also released showing the promise of how well it would look if it took off.
Animatic:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JJMuJCLsYeQ
Trailer:
The Bobiverse books by Dennis E. Taylor, and The Shadow of the Leviathan series by Robert Jackson Bennett. These are two series I would love to see rendered as animated or live action stories.
The Sword of Shadows series. By J.V. Jones.
The best fantasy I have read in decades. It rivals, and in some ways, is better than A Song of Ice and Fire.
And after almost a 15 year wait the penultimate book is done and the author appears to be back in the saddle to finish the series.
It is grimdark fantasy at its finest. And Jones was one of the original genre-defining authors.
I wouldn’t trust any of the current producers to do it, or any decent book, justice, though. Seems like LotR was the last really epic adaptation.
diskworld series have some, but need more imo
most dont even stay true to the source material, unless the original writer is on board, even then they can be influenced by executives, like with sandman. with the obvious thing happened with lucifer and death.(not true to the source, only the words were)
invincible is another, with tech jacket, even with the creator on board.
on one hand, series like nutrek just straight up plagiarizes fan novels without giving credit.
But occasionally it can stray far enough away to become its own different great thing like Resident Alien
John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War book series. Apparently it’s been optioned for 15+ years now, but nobody’s actually gotten around to making the damned thing yet.
None. No more.
Beat me to it.
I’m so grateful that my favorite book series’ (Elric Saga and Abhorsen) could actually never be adapted well
Dictionary (Based on the Book by Merriam Webster)
The epic sequel will be simply, THESAURUS.
Pierce Brown’s Red Rising
