Temeraire maybe… well, there’s a lot of gritty action, but probably not enough in the naked wench department.
No, wait, The Magicians, by Lev Grossman’s which is basically a grown up Harry Potter with sex and drugs.
Or maybe Neil Gaiman’s Sandman finally.
I’m waiting for the time when some brave fool tries to make a film adaptation of The Silmarilion. Imagine the pitch meeting- “It’s Tolkien with enough blood and sex to outshine Game of Thrones!”
I don’t know which would be more comical- seeing it launch and then tank after the first script is actually read, or seeing it flout my objections, succeed roundly, and prompt a film adaptation of Finnegans Wake.
I was always hoping for something like that, even a crappy, low-budget, over-dramatic SCYFY channel one. But I think will all GoT has done with dragons and the odd climate, Pern will seem too derivative to people not up on the books.
The Laundry Files by Charles Stross could be cool.
See post 32.
Thomas Covenant? Kind of a third-rate Lord of the Rings in a low magic universe.
Not only is there not a huge fan base, the books were out of print for quite a while. The last time I looked back in 2011 (having heard of the series due to discussions about Terra Nova) my local library system only had the first two books and it seemed like there were fewer cheap used copies available online. With the series now being available on Kindle and the first two books in the series being available through Kindle Unlimited there might be some new interest.
You know, I’ve always disliked that comparison. In any case, it’ll be interesting to see if it can be done well.
I’ve heard a lot of things said about Covenant, but “low magic” has never been one of them. It’s one of the most high-magic series ever written.
Yeah, I’d say that a world where every village has multiple people who can magically shape stone or wood, where faerie outnumber humans, where the cosmological Big Bad actually LIVES IN THE WORLD…definitely high magic, if not high fantasy. Magic permeates everything in The Land.
another incarnation of the legend of King Arthur just wouldn’t be exciting. compare that to the relatively unknown Outlander or a first adaptation of the Foundation series on the screen. imho, because of the baggage they carry, reboots need to be twice as good just to be on par.
I hope so. (Certainly ebooks have the potential to bring back many hard-to-obtain books and series. In decades past, what went out of print was sometimes some pretty good stuff.)
eta: Julian May’s follow-up series to the Pliocene Saga (Intervention and the Milieu Trilogy) are also exciting fare that could be translated to the screen, now that CGI is relatively inexpensive.
Well, I was more thinking about it in terms of casting spells, which is rarely done in The Land. You won’t see a lot of “Gandalf vs the Balrog” battles with two magic wielders trading fireballs to the face.
EDIT: But fair point; I think I misused the term.
Conleth Hill would make a great Haviland. While the budget would be stretched, the nature of the book would easily allow for the story to be expanded into a full series, as only a few of Tuf’s voyages were told. Good call.
I guess we’ll never return to Barsoom :mad:
How about the Gentleman Bastards series?
If sex is an important element of “The Magicians” it won’t be well done on SyFy Channel. They get a lot of their money from overseas sales. Since many countries have strict limits wrt sex, they keep things in their original productions squeaky clean. It’s one reason SyFy channel productions suck so hard, though I’d say lack of budget is a bigger reason.
Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth would work. It is already full of sex and magic. It was already adapted once as a lighter tone syndicated show (a pretty good one actually). But I don’t think that is what they will do. What they will do is find a Sci fi series to turn into the next Game of Thrones and I as I wrote in a different thread, I think they will try to make the upcoming Foundation series just that.
Eh, there’s sex in The Magicians, mostly because it’s a bunch of people in their late teens or early twenties at a very small, isolated college but it never seemed to be very plot important to me. The relationships and to some degree how they’re affected, yes, but I think implied would generally be enough.