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What book series would you like to see made into a movie trilogy or a show with multiple seasons? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've often wanted a movie/series based on the Dragonlance books or the Dark Elf trilogy. What would you all like to see done if you had the ability to do it?

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[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I would love to see a movie or miniseries based on the "Bas-Lag" novels by China Mieville, which are "Perdido Street Station", "The Scar", and "Iron Council"

I think the best description of these books would be "Gritty Steampunk Fantasy" with a very generous dose of Weird. The writing is very descriptive, even when you really would rather not know about what's being described.

Some things that are mentioned in these three books:

Mosquito people. The males are quiet and studious, the females are strong, dangerous, and driven mad by hunger
Punishment factories. Criminals are sentenced to "Remaking". The Remade are people who have had either machinery or animal parts grafted onto them. Most Remakings are cruel and useless.
Smokestone. Rock that will change unpredictably into smoke - and back into stone.
Frog people who can make water hold a shape for a short time. A longshoreman's strike in one of the books involved a bunch of these guys forming a large gap in a river.
Sentient steam powered constructs

*Drugs that let you experience other people's dreams.

There is a lot I have to leave out due to spoilers, but it would be an awesome series.