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trentpac
09/12/2025
05:45 PM
#1
For me it would have to be Arthur Clarke's sci-fi classic, Rendezvous with Rama. We need more of these types of science fiction stories in cinema.

This topic is also a super secret recommend me some good books topic.
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Hexenherz
09/12/2025
05:46 PM
#2
My favorite book of all time
Illuminatus! Trilogy
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HighSeraph
09/12/2025
05:46 PM
#3
I'd say World War Z but they already ruined that
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trentpac
09/12/2025
05:46 PM
#4
HighSeraph posted...
I'd say World War Z but they already ruined that

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Scardude
09/12/2025
05:49 PM
#5
HighSeraph posted...
I'd say World War Z but they already ruined that
They could have put all the political bits but then you would have less action. Bait and switch. They did the same to enders game.
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trentpac
09/12/2025
05:57 PM
#6
Hexenherz posted...
My favorite book of all time
Illuminatus! Trilogy
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These book covers kind of remind me of one of those which way/choose your own adventure types of books from back in the day.
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Tyranthraxus
09/12/2025
06:00 PM
#7
Jennifer Government
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Ryven
09/12/2025
06:05 PM
#8
They're already making Best Served Cold from The First Law universe, but if they could adapt every other book too, oh baby yes please.
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JoeDangIt
09/12/2025
06:05 PM
#9
Vermis.
Westernwolf4
09/12/2025
06:49 PM
#10
The Dark Tower, but good.
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vycebrand2
09/12/2025
06:49 PM
#11
Tv series

I was a huge fan of Brian Lumley's Necroscope series. With the exception of parts of books 5, and all of the VW Trilogy. It can be done on a TV budget. You could trim that Trilogy down to 2

His other series like Titus crow and that one with the psysic machine are good too.
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Arcanine2009
09/12/2025
06:50 PM
#12
The sequel to hitchhikers guide to the galaxy..

Animorphs reboot (or a proper tv series)
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bigtiggie23
09/12/2025
06:57 PM
#14
I'd love to see a movie of The Warriors that actually follows the book.
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archizzy
09/12/2025
06:58 PM
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Forgive my long reply in advance but I need to set up some backstory. I'm a voracious reader but my issue from a young age was I devoured books so much that I pretty much after high school almost completely abandoned single books unless they were a good size like the complete and uncut version of The Stand. I pretty much stick to long and epic series.

I will read stuff like R.A. Salvatore Forgotten Realms Drizzt Do'Urden books where there is like a ton of them or like Terry Goodkinds Sword of Truth series. Of course Stephen Kings Dark Tower series is what set me on this path when I was in high school, but as a side note that also started an unfortunate habit of starting unfinished series that haunts me to this day. Shout out to Patrick Rothfuss and George RR Martin on that front.

So anyway the stuff I read would have to be a season long series, not just a movie. Way way too much stuff to show and would mostly likely need multiple seasons to be done right.

With that being said my pick would probably surprise many of my closest friends. I don't like military stuff generally and avoid it. Even being in the military myself I just am not overly fond of war movies or books. However there is an exception to this. A series I started reading when I was in the Navy and got hooked on it because although it deals with some war stuff it is primarily about the lives of the people and how they all interconnect with each other and there are quite a few characters. It is one of the best series I have ever read and I reread it yearly and have been doing so for 25 years or so.

W.E.B. Griffin " Brotherhood of War " series. Absolutely amazing series about the careers of multiple Army officers from the 2nd World War to the Vietnam War. Covers the 40's, 50's and 60's and the development of Army Aviation and Special Forces. It is seriously really really good and I think it would make an excellent show series.
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ai123
09/12/2025
07:03 PM
#17
Asherlee10 posted...
I haven't actually read them yet (lack of time), but I would love to see something like The Culture series as a TV series.
The Iain Banks novels? I'd love that. They can also do more of his non sci fi too. The Wasp Factory, and The Bridge especially (The Crow Road was done really well).

I'd like to see some James Ellroy done right. American Tabloid would make a brilliant limited series.
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Sariana21
09/12/2025
07:05 PM
#18
Pamela Sargents Earthseed .
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Robot2600
09/12/2025
07:07 PM
#19
Animal Farm
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Bishop_Hastur
09/12/2025
07:11 PM
#20
Redwall
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furb
09/12/2025
07:21 PM
#21
The Red Book: Liber Novus

By Jung

This book is the prize of my collection. Just look at some the illustrations! Imagine them animated.

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sabin017
09/12/2025
07:37 PM
#22
Slaughterhouse Five
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garan
09/12/2025
07:38 PM
#23
Hexenherz posted...
My favorite book of all time
Illuminatus! Trilogy


I love these books, and they're definitely way too weird to be done properly by Hollywood.
Tora_Sami
09/12/2025
07:38 PM
#24
The Darth Bane Trilogy, but then again, I don't trust star wars. Would make a good show though.
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Sariana21
09/12/2025
07:40 PM
#25
Bishop_Hastur posted...
Redwall
Have you seen the TV show?
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Evolician
09/12/2025
07:56 PM
#26
There has literally never been an accurate Frankenstein movie.
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Bishop_Hastur
09/12/2025
07:57 PM
#27
Sariana21 posted...
Have you seen the TV show?
I have not. How was it?
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ReturnOfDevsman
09/12/2025
07:58 PM
#28
Asimov's The Caves of Steel seems like it could be a great film tbh.

trentpac posted...
For me it would have to be Arthur Clarke's sci-fi classic, Rendezvous with Rama. We need more of these types of science fiction stories in cinema.
I actually don't think it's a great fit for the silver screen, but I'd be willing to give it a try in case I'm wrong. It was a nifty book that was more about an idea than a conventional story. A question instead of an answer, if you will. Good read for sure.
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SpawnShadow
09/12/2025
08:01 PM
#29
The Count of Monte Cristo
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Woeful_Nienna
09/12/2025
08:09 PM
#30
The Silmarillion

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SpawnShadow
09/12/2025
09:15 PM
#32
16-BITTER posted...
More cyberpunk shit like Ubik or Neuromancer. Pr oper Lovecraft adaptation would also be nice.

Well, I think there's some things from Lovecraft's work that can be left out. You know, like his extreme even-by-the-standards-of-his-time racism.
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Cory898
09/12/2025
09:20 PM
#33
I would love a tv miniseries based on either Elizabeth Chadwicks trilogy on Eleanor of Aquitaine or Sharon Kay Penmans 5 book Plantagenets series.
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Omega
09/12/2025
09:26 PM
#35
Lord of Light by Roger Zelanzy
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Hexenherz
09/12/2025
10:21 PM
#36
also I read two of Chuck Tingle's serious horror books this year (Camp Damascus and Bury Your Gays), both would make pretty good movies imo
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Charged151
09/12/2025
10:26 PM
#37
Tora_Sami posted...
The Darth Bane Trilogy, but then again, I don't trust star wars. Would make a good show though.
I think it would make for a great story, starting from Bane's younger years all the way till he dies to his apprentice Zannah in 980 BBY .

Woeful_Nienna posted...
The Silmarillion
Now that would be great if done right. Would love to see Morgoth on the big screen and the War of Wrath in particular. Just don't give it to the people making The Rings of Power show.
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Kajagogo
09/12/2025
11:19 PM
#38
The Forbidden Game trilogy by L.J. Smith.

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

and another remake of And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

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ConfusedTorchic
09/12/2025
11:26 PM
#39
the dresden files

all 20 of them currently out

tbh i'd like them to turn janet evanovichs stephanie plum series into either a tv show, or just more movies, with the same actors, exception being the ones that have died since the first movie, which i think is just debbie reynolds
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M1Astray
09/12/2025
11:29 PM
#40
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett would make a really fun good movie if done properly . *Death stares at that abomination of a mini-series from a few years ago*

I doubt the people who most need to understand the message would get it but I'd still love to see a good rendition of Vimes and co (and Vetinari! Love that magnificent bastard) on the big screen and I feel the book is just the right length for a strong 90-100 minute film (and the dragon parts would be best served by a film budget rather than a TV show. While plenty of the City Watch books can be handled by TV budgets this is the one that really can't if you want to do it faithfully).

Going Postal is another really good Discworld novel for the big screen too.

For more typical fiction I'd want something one-and-done rather than part 1 of a series. I'm a pretty massive Cosmere fan but I'd stick to something like The Emperors Soul or Tress of the Emerald Sea .Maybe Alloy of Law from MIstborn era 2, while it has connections to other novels it's also a really good standalone action novel that'd showcase the Mistborn magic systems well.
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gikos
09/12/2025
11:31 PM
#41
tv series
ender's game
the dark tower
i robot
neuromancer
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ProfessorKukui
09/12/2025
11:39 PM
#42
Need more Discworld books animated. Old school hand drawn not the cgi shit.
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sabin017
09/13/2025
12:41 AM
#43
Speaking of Discworld: Ringworld
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KJ_StErOiDs
09/13/2025
12:47 AM
#44
Patrick Rothfuss's Kingkiller Chronicle trilogy. Though it'd be nice to see the book version finish first.
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ROBBAN
09/13/2025
01:11 AM
#45
Mistborn could be good
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evilpresident
09/13/2025
01:22 AM
#46
Arcanine2009 posted...
Animorphs reboot (or a proper tv series)

This. Animorphs was my thing back in the day, though I only got up to book 12 cause then they stopped translating them for here.

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Zeeak4444
09/13/2025
01:33 AM
#48
dragonlance chronicles tbh, I feel strongly theyd rival greats like LOTRs if done right. Incredible cast of characters, some real stakes, huge world building, and relatively tight pacing.

but I see no way at all they do it without butchering it. Tasslehoff Burrfoot for instance is a GOAT character but without being inside his head theres no way youre pulling off that character in film.
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Sariana21
09/13/2025
11:24 AM
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Bishop_Hastur posted...
I have not. How was it?
I dont know; I didnt watch it either. I think it was on PBS back in the early 2000s, maybe?
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