Jonathan Lethem’s Gun, with Occasional Music could work as a Roger Rabbit-style live-action film with animation for the “evolved animals” and “babyheads.”
An animated One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest featuring the narrator Bromden’s hallucinations is something I’ve long waited for. One day I will have it.
Just having the hallucinations themselves would be cheaper.
That seems interesting, I’ll pick it up because I have a number of Amazon digital credits. Plus my 13 going on 30 niece might enjoy it, she’s into “Fantasy/Faerie Smut”. And yes, that’s the term my sister-in-law used to describe her habits and approval.
Ask her if she follows Jaysea’s “Hell’s Belles” series on the interwebs, where Jaysea plays all the characters herself. The book is a sort of sequel.
Well, it’s not like replying to her Uncle 'Lines is a big priority, so I’ll have to wait until she gets around to it. I’m always waiting on a follow up about the new cat (pics!) introduced into their previously dog-only household. My mother (her grandmother) ratted her out.
I must confess that one reason I’d like to see a FWTBT movie is curiosity about the “weird space fish” in Invaders (as well as the game itself).
All I’ve got is Slaughterhouse 5. It didn’t really work for me in narrative form, it’s weird and surreal and jumps around in time. I could see animation leaning into that, making it more experiential. I’d seriously watch that.
Larry Niven’s Gil Hamilton stories, done in the style of the “Harry Canyon” sequence of Heavy Metal.
“The Eye of Argon”, done in the style of Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mars, Venus, and Earth’s Core series.
Two YA series=
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede. And the Crestomanci series by Diana Wynn-Jones.
And the Dark is Rising film (The Seeker) was bad, maybe better as a TV series. Done by the same people who did Good Omens?
My first thoughts also go to SF, and the are many contenders, but something not SF to go against the grain: George Saunders Lincoln in the Bardo. Ghosts and liminality … animation would serve it much better than live action.
There is always Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator…
I liked both the book and the movie but I’d also like to see this.
Steins Gate, an anime, is my favorite time travel story. I think it’s the plucky group using what is comparatively technological garbage to try to save everyone from the most advanced corporation in the history of the world. I can’t imagine it being half as good as a live action series.
The Malazan book of the fallen would only ever work as an animated show.
Incarnations of Immortality is an eight-book fantasy series by Piers Anthony. That would be a good 8 season animated series. Or even live action in the style of Sandman.