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What will be the next Game of Thrones? A list of candidates from the fantasy genre
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GungHo
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They did an animated Autumn Twilight movie a few years ago and it was a farce and they abandoned all plans to do the rest of the series. They had a pretty good voice cast (Kiefer Sutherland was Raistlin), but the animation was horrible and a mix of pseudo-hand drawn stuff for the main characters and some of the worst CGI I've ever seen for dragons and draconians.
umberhulk2
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This applies to the first book, but I've heard the others are different.
Metallix87
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Out of these? I'll pick Perdido Street Station, I guess.
Is the best choice, but i was hoping for a movie trilogy instead of a TV show.
I love Abercrombie. I'd also prefer a movie trilogy, but only if they had the courage to actually make them R.
umberhulk2
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I think a good mistborn series would pretty much have to be animated. You cant do the battles any ounce of justice in live action.
chicagocubsfan
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No Berserk? Well I guess it would pretty hard to film the
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Eclipse
I definitely agree tha Sanderson will have movies based on his books at some point. Maybe TV shows as well. Whether they're very successful is a different matter.
slade
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Guy Kay's Sarantium Mosaic seems the best bet IMO. It has politics over fantasy which was a big attractor for fans of both the ASoIaF books and the show. With proper restructuring you could even set it up as a historical drama. Then do a lead in to a standalone season of Lions of Al Rasan.
What's wrong with the writing in Malazan? I'm reading Gardens of the Moon at the moment and I'm loving it.
A Stormlight Archives film would be awesome. That world deserves the biggest budget it can get.
Honestly, I'm just glad The Kingkiller Chronicles isn't on that list.
His books are basically a popcorn action flick already depending on the title. The narratives are easy enough to follow and the worlds are fleshed out enough to build on. It feels like the easiest transitions.
Mistborn already has a videogame in the works btw and Stormlight has some animated short planned apparently.
Bruh, bruh.. come one. I love Malazan but Erikson writes his books like a historical narrative that's easily lost on readers who can't follow along with the darting plot points. Timeframes are fuzzy, stories leap arcs of time, places and characters so fast that I have a hard time believing a show would keep up with it much less viewers.
TheFightingFish
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I feel like this series could adapt to TV pretty well.
You stole my exact post word-for-word. GET OUT IF MY HEAD
Morrigan Stark
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Who the fuck wrote this insipid tripe? I notice you didn't link to the original article, but that's probably a good thing since it's like clickbait garbage.
Also:
(That's where I stopped reading, I think. What a dumb article.)
First Law would definitely need to be on HBO or Showtime, though. Neutering it for cable or worse, Fox and the likes by making it PG-13 would be quite tragic.
Uhhh no. Like Famassu said, GoT is not heroic fantasy at all, and it actually stood out among the fantasy genre as being more mature and intelligent than the usual fireball-throwing wizards and goblins and elves stuff.
Yeah, that's like, totally an accurate description of those novels, amirite lawl. What a clueless twit.
...And then he proceeds to list a bunch of high fantasy series that are heavy on magic and fantastical elements. Derp?
Also:
...........Whaaaaaaat
(That's where I stopped reading, I think. What a dumb article.)
Yeah, dude's a moron, no doubt about it. But to answer the actual question of what could succeed GoT, I'd say, maybe an adaptation of Gentlemen Bastards or The First Law could come close. Maybe Robin Hobb's Farseer?
First Law would definitely need to be on HBO or Showtime, though. Neutering it for cable or worse, Fox and the likes by making it PG-13 would be quite tragic.
Yeah. But the problem would be in adapting the flashbacks. They're quite important to the plot, but they'd have to be recurring from season to season, and with child actors that'd be difficult to pull off.I feel like this series could adapt to TV pretty well.
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I'd like to see something not European based esthetically for a change
cuz anything alike will be branded(right or not) as a "GoT wanna be"
cuz anything alike will be branded(right or not) as a "GoT wanna be"
I could see people calling a The Blade Itself adaptation a grittier Game of Thrones.
Like for real. Low fantasty is great, but I agree the general audience not in the know would probably lump a lot of them together pretty quick.
Well, this is my first encounter with his writing, and while it took some getting used to, I'm having zero problems following everything by now. I keep hearing how it's supposed to be hard to follow and confusing etc, but I having experienced that at all.
Mind you, like I said, this is my first time reading Erikson, so maybe that's still to come.
Rug Monkey
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Malazan could so so easily be spoiled ...
now ...
The Black Company begs for adaptation ... it's perfect for it ...
now ...
The Black Company begs for adaptation ... it's perfect for it ...
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Eragon: The Series
More to the point is that he never focuses on a central narrative for long enough to catch anything more than a glimpse of the full scale. When you piece things together, it works beautifully, but in the sense of an adaptation to the big screen it'd simply be butchered. I can't see any medium but in writing that could accommodate his style in a way that would do it justice.
Hyperborean
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Can someone post the link to the article, its not in the OP.
sooperkool
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Hell I'd take a one-shot movie of Best Served Cold.
Yeah, I could see that.
One episode per color ending?
Yes please!!
That would be too costly and too long, but I want it regardless.
GungHo
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That would actually be a pretty good adaptation. It never goes off the rails with the fantasy and it retains some very film-able drama and action.
I liked the 2010 series, but I don't know if they've done a translation or even a fansub. It was soapy, but it was basically a "Hey It's That Guy" tour de force if you watch modern Chinese TV or cinema at all.
CapNBritain
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You just reminded me that this existed. I'm sad now.
I really think that the passionate and outspoken fanbase is what gave GoT its initial thrust into the mainstream and then the amazing acting and direction carried it off. Dragonlance fans have had their spirits broken ages ago.
RatskyWatsky
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An animated Princess of Mars series with a Frazetta art style. Please!
Finn of Ooo
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Hopefully not malazan, what a terrible fucking series.
RatskyWatsky
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Lord of Castamere
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Fuck that first sentence, the books are amazing and the first season was an almost straight adaptation. It succeeded because both the show and the source material are great.
Finally someone agrees that Malazan books are great if you are into world building, but the writing itself is atrocious.
Yeah, it is worthless clickbait.
GoT is essentially a grimdark Middle Ages period piece with some magic sprinkled on top, Sopranos with Swords, etc, this is why it is so successful.
All the titles listed above will fail utterly and horribly at attracting mass audience.
Wait a second. A series full of ancient necromancers, sky whales, tree gods, and were-jaguars never goes off the rail with fantasy?
indigo-cyclops
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The Witcher, let's do it HBO. Just fucking do it already.
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David Incorporated Esq.
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Yeah the great Houses are more or less mafia families.
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