Unfilmable books?
All of them.
>>215443275stop spamming this shit or someone is going to get the bright idea to adapt it
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>>215443275i never really understood what that spiky metal sonic guy's purpose was
>>215443275Pic related is my favorite book but I can't imagine watching a film adaptation considering it'd mostly consist of the protagonist doing menial bullshit with a thousand yard stare with only the murder of the Arab to break up the monotony
>>215443460Forgot pic
>>215443475Definitely filmable
Ayoooo this nigga read books
>>215443475It's been adapted multiple times.
>>215443460There is a french adaptation incoming in a month or so.
Make it happen, AI.
>>215443275why?this would be an extremely easy tv show to make and obviously it would be complete garbage that nobody would watch.
Gay thread ruined by tv shitters
It's not that it couldn't be filmed, acted, directed, etc. (though not well nowadays, of course). It's unfilmable because it is cursed.
>>215443475It was a pretty good adaptation
>>215443743Hyperion is the best science fiction book ever written. FACT!!!
>>215443438Halfway through book 3 and I still don’t understand his purpose
>>215443980He's supposed to torture people to annoy the space gods or something
>>215443275>>215443383
>>215444089Disco Elysium on this pic reminder me there was an Amazon Prime series in the worksThank God that didn't happen
>>215443967can't wait for NETFLIX(tm) to make an amazing and very faithful adaptation of Hyperion(tm)!with Millie Bobby Brown as Lamia and Caleb McLaughlin as the consul!
I'd like to see an adaptation of Blind Sight. Space vampire kino
>>215443980>>>215444062>reading after the first two booksOh no no no NgMi>>215444139I’d put Miranda Cosgroce as Brawne Lamia, Gillian Anderson as Gladstone, Michael Fassbender as Consul, Timothy Spall as the poet
Does this book series advocate technates and/or transhumanism?
>>215444089A shadow of the torturer film would be pretty badass, if they get Cronenberg to do it
>>215444089Why is LOGH on here? The book WAS adapted twice. The old OVA in the picture and the new anime. Everybody loves the original and nobody really says shit about the new one. If anything, throw in Usogui instead since the fans have been clamoring for another adaptation.
>>215444181What do those words mean? It features celestial space horror, family drama, military sci fi, satire on publishing, detective neuromancer techno core and dolphin nature oneness in Hawaii. It’s pure phonographic kinographique
>>215444181it's modern writing so a woman is in charge of the big space republic. also AI = bad
>>215444219AI is bad, Saaaar. And Gladstone is capable. In the future there will be women leaders. What’s your problem?
>>215444204It’s referring to people asking for live action adaptations.
>>215444241of course my lady, all men are bad and/or retarded while all women are strong and super competent.just like in 99% of all modern sci-fi and fantasy literature
braindead zoomies would endlessly bitch about unnecessary nudity and be saying it stole grok from Elon
>>215444335MC would be black
>>215444335That and all nuance or discussion on Christianity as anything other than evil would be STRICTLY FORBIDDEN, but the muslim dude who joins his cult would be a hero. Also, Juble would be mad a fool of by his assistants frequently.
>>215444130Inland empire would have been cool to hear more of.
>>215444324The book doesn’t suggest that at all
>>215444184The only way to adapt it would be if a non-pozzed anime studio did it.
>>215444719i think the only way to make a disco elysium series would be a prequel focusing on the war - which could be a cool steampunk war movie if played straight
>>215443275Catch 22Infinite JestIdkanything by PG Wodehouse except Fry and Laurie as Jeeves and Bertie
>>215445003Fuck anime
>>215445094If you like BotNS and don't like anime you're crazy because they are the same thing. It's basically a harem alt-iseaki.
>>215443275>wot if your jewish girlfriend was aging in reverse>wot if she's underage now woah dude lmao that's crazy>wot if she's fucking a palestinian across time and space>wot if she's an infant>wot if Endymion is essentially more od the same with AeneaGet help Dan.
>>215443475Why would someone make their coffee tasty at their mothers funeral?
>>215445175I like the first book until he leaves the city.
>>215443275>>215443383it could work as a streaming series
>>215445472*daufhter sging in reverse
>>215443275Best thread
>>215444089Touché.
>>215445840>the 0-g 69 sceneI've read enough
This would be pure book kino kino
>>215446095Goddamn it!!!!!!!!
Hollywood doesnt have the balls to make good books into good movies..
>>215445092>PG WodehouseBill Murray would crush it tho
>>215443949Why did they make him a med Chad? I thought Mersault was supposed to be a french incel.
>>215444089>Moorcock, and Bakker aren't on the chartGlad normgroids haven't ruined them yet.
>>215443275AI will be making perfect 1:1 adaptations of novels soon enough
a lot of stuff springs to mind but since OP started with hyperion I'll stick with unfilmable scifithere's this, Jeff Noon's stuff chiefly Vert and Pollen, and plenty of Iain M. Banks for narrative reasons but for the sake of brevity Use of Weapons would be the really unshootable one if for no other reason than that chair
>>215446215Mersault it's exactly that, a chad with an incel mindset
Could it be done?
>>215446363Arcane pushed more boundaries than PDSS did
>>215446283>BakkerNothing there to ruin :^)
>>215446381Yeah, that one could be. It's pretty much just Hunger Games in space. The sequels? Probably not. I didn't bother with them but they are apparently quite different.
>>215446381Who would win the lauriel?Not us. Never us.
>>215446534It only gets better after the first book and the sequel series especially.
>>215446427What’s Arcane?
>>215446794just some slop. slightly better than perdido street station, not quite as cool as the scar, way worse than iron council
half the books in this thread have anime adaptations
>>215446858I haven't read half these books as much as I should like; and I like less than half of those anime adaptations as well as they deserve.
hyperion cover dude reminds me of vid related.https://youtu.be/TCdOuSGplkU?t=43
>>215444718>nuanceThis is literally the least nuanced book I've ever read. To be fair, I unknowingly read the unabridged version and holy shit was it heavy handed.
>>215443275>>215443402>>215443475>>215443913i'd adapt all of these
>get movie studio to give you money to film a book>pocket it the budget and send them footage of the books having their pages turned start to finish And there’s legally nothing they could do about it
Pic rel. too much death, too racist, makes White men out to be the ultimate heroes and nons out to be monsters who all end up dead. Whites inherit the Earth
>>215447059Not if I do it first. But how are you going to adapt them without any money?
Infinite Jest
>>215443383Simmons has been trying to adapt it for decades.
>>2154463172 more weeks
They keep trying, but it never works out, apparently Yorgos Lanthimos in talks for it.
>>215443275There is but one ultimate answer.
>>215447247Bullshit, he would’ve adapted it by now.
>>215447517Fuck off, Gardner
>>215447175This is very adaptable
>>215446161The Beeb filmed it 20 years ago.
uhh...hyperion sisters?
>>215447730>filmIt needs to be six hours long or it won’t work
>>215447480It's a bunch of cowboys and one of them is a resident evil tyrant.
>>215443275Codex Seriphinianus
>>215448010
>>215448045
>>215448059
No book is filmable. You always lose nuance and key scenes no matter what. Film is an inferior medium. Book > TV Show > Film
>>215448097Holy shit this looks incredible
It’s not unfathomable to put to film because of technicalities that or anything but because it’s story or plot I’m 80% certain futurama ripped off from this novel. Bonus: all black people have been wiped out by a plague and replaced with electric negroes
>>215444184And Gary Busey to play Triskele
>>215448231
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>>215443275Yuki Nagato approved.
>>215448247God damn, lemme try that again>It’s not unfathomable to put to film because of technicalities regarding story or plot or anything but because it’s world I’m 80% certain s ripped off by the creators of futurama.
a damn shame if you ask me
>>215447688 Checked. It may be adaptable but it’ll never get made bc it’s so pro White male. Not unless they race swap all the characters
my favorite book is against a dark background and i think you could make a really good movie out of it, not that anyone ever will
>>215448567>improv parade scene for some thotand?
>>215443275I'm reading the Hannibal book right now. It's so much better than the trash movie. I mean, the movie had no chance given that Julianne Moore was a terrible casting choice, but when I read Hannibal I still just imagine my waifu Jodie. Great book though. Thomas Harris is genuinely one of the best American authors in my opinion.
>>215443275The Rings of Saturn Only read it because Osgood Perkins recommended it. Well written but halfway through I looked up the author, he's a Marxist, so DNF. Kinda guessed it from the Saturnalia)))
>>215443475my favorite book
>but it's already been adapted twicethere has never been a satisfactory adaptation and there never will be unless some autist is allowed to enslave the people needed to make it
>>215443275Too based for this world
>>215445175Oh shit a harm alt-isekai? That's sounds great baka sempai desu ne! Lmao dumbass weeb
>>215450704Severus is an edgelord who has like 30 hoes that throw himself at him for no reason + a few he rapes. It's straight up anime.
>>215450751>anime invented haremsYou're an idiot
>>215444089Thanks, these type of threads are cringe and the OPs are usually the biggest losers on this site
>>215450180There's never been a bad Dune adaptation and I'm tired of pretending otherwise.
I got Hyperion on audible after seeing these pop up on /tv/ all the time. Now I am convinced the video game SaGa Frontier must be some kind of homage. They both have 7 different main characters and 7 chapters... Theres even a town called Shrike. Pretty cool!Priest chapter was my favorite. The others did not really grip me as well but I love the poet
>>215450853I never heard of that book. Did it come out recently?
>>215447711Only Titus Groan and Gormenghast. Titus Alone didn't get adapted, nor does it really need to be.
Can't be fucked to post an image from phone but Spell for Chameleon will never get adapted.It would be... Interesting to watch a studio dance around the trial scene where Bink sympathasizes with a rapist because his victim was hot.
>>215451372Reddit incarnate
>>215450547?https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9892936/
>>215450180Lynch's Dune would have been a 10/10 if they gave him a bit more time and he followed the novel more closely. Herbert himself actually was a fan despite it's flaws. Meanwhile Jodorowsky's Dune would have been reddit troon central.
>>215443275If Haneke can write + direct White Ribbon all by himself, adapting novels is just lazy shortcut. Someone years ago had a full complete idea so good a director or writer couldn't come up with, then they butcher or condense it. Why bother? Adapting just for the sake of it. They have no strong desire to say sth about the world they observe/understand, and not just through the daily news EVERYONE is already FORCED TO WATCH or discuss.
>>215444184>>215444089shadow of the torturer would be shit because the book relies on an unreliable narrator not telling you shit that you would know immediately upon seeing it. they would have to just film things wrong and nobody likes that
>>215444181It does. But the more you read it (and especially the follow up, Endymion) the more it shows that going back to trad values is the way to go.
>>215448475Mason & Dixon with this animation style
>>215444089kek
>>215444089kek it really do be like that. also OP btfo.
>>215450180Dune is Hamlet in space, there's no good adaptation because the story is incredibly mid until you get to Messiah. It's like watchmen in that the dialogue and ideas it presents are amazing but the story is boring. It's something that movie directors and nerds can appreciate but not normies.
>>215450887I don't like the final act of Lynch's dune. It felt too easy for paul just like in the book. The weirding module was an interesting addition but very goofy.
>>215443438He captures people to torture them eternally in the time zone so that the torture like drowns out the sub space internet AI from sending itself back in time to kill everything or something like that maybe the other way around
>>215452228based
>>215444089
>>215452228Is this the one with the eyeball on a wheel?
>>215443438As I understood it, in the future, the AI finished making a god, and humanity gave rise to a god in three parts. AI god wanted to kill the human god, but one third of it, the empathy part, had fucked off back in time, so the AI god couldn't kill the human god because god time shit. AI god thought "empathy is when you feel sad about other people suffering or something, right?" So AI god thought it could make the empathy come back if made a shit ton of people suffer, and made a bunch of Shrikes to enact it's plan, though only one got to go back because of honorable combat or something.The Shrikes job was to draw empathy out of hiding by putting people into a pain simulation and generally menace Hyperion until all those disasters that needed to happen, happened.TL;DR: Shrike's job was to make people suffer until god decided to do something about it, so other god could kill him. I think.
Not unfilmable just that no-one has made it yet
>>215443275I felt bad for the woman who regressed in age and lost all of her memories.
>>215452380Give us a book review
>>215444181Yes, but in a hippy way so we can live in harmony with nature across the universe as magical space science fairies and centaurs and shit because AI, the internet, and teleportation are evil and cringe.
>>215443275The best they could do was a music video
>>215443275>every picture of the shrike shows it with 2 arms. >it actually has 4 arms.
>>215443275Last and First Men
>>215443275Didn't they say Dune was unfilmable?
>>215443275>>215443383I swear I've seen this guy post about this book for like the last 5+ yearsAnyways, is it really that good?
>>215453056It's probably more famous for the way the story is told than the story itself but it's well above average IMO.
>>215443402Have you read it at least? there is nothing to adapt here. The biography elements are extremely short and he is not even talking about himself most of times. It's mostly about politics and theories, which are extremely centered about germans and germany.It's like this site is infested of posers who never read this actual book, which is pretty boring to be honest.
>>215443275Literally impossible
>>215448315Yuki needs to put that slop down and read Dune.
>>215444089how do i stop liking this and finding the real good stuff? pls help it's taken years to get here.
>>215452402That story arc was weighed down by the jew whining about his jew bullshit.
>>215444089>wojacksSorry, I agree with the image but I am still compelled to call you a faggot
>>215453246>writer barely disguises his fetish>300 pages of juicy black pussy
>>215453208this and Elric saga would NEED to be animated.
>>215443275>Dialogue is shit>Weird sex scenes because some sexually repressed boomer>Unlikeable charactersHow does anyone like this dogshit series again?
>>215453246Maybe as a traditional film, but it could be some kind of liminal horror youtube thing.
>>215453423The characters are unlikable but it's a good setting and premise with a novel story structure plus billions of furries get burned alive so it's not all bad.
>>215445710Only if it is an anime or cartoon adaptation.
>>215445082There already was a Disco Elysium movie anyways. The only thing missing was Kim.
>>215452866That's definitely a dystopian horror novel, right?
This one, for obvious reasons.
>>215444335Most sci-fi are racist metaphors, just like phantasy writers.
>>215451546Agree. but tbf he shat the bed with some visual idead that were to early to portray with special effect of that time, like personal shields
Pretty comfy book though
>>215444324There are like 3 female character in the book.Galaxy Leader whose plot point is making an unwomanly decision not based on compassion to "save" the galaxy, and facing the consequencesDetective babe from Schwarzelegger high gravity world whose plot point is is being pregnant and longing for the guy who got her pregnantSoldier (not) Virgin Mary from [SPOILER] searching Commando's dickFirst two are quite decent, the third one is a plot device.
>>215443913i don't even understand why this is considered good
Or maybe it could. I don't know.
>>215444335This is the fear and loathing of books I really like the first half but the second half is a chore.
>>215443275It's unfilmable until the author dies.
>>215443275Is this really one of the best sci-fi books ever? cause i read it and was not impressed
This would be dumbed down immensely.
>>215453852>sci-fiI won't say that it doesn't qualify as sci fi, because it does, but it's more in a hybrid genre way, more inerested in things that could be told in a fantasy book as well. But that's the problem with depicting the far far future.Asimov does it better, and so does Stanislaw Lem. Or Verne.Dick is... interesting, but never hits the spot imo.
>>215443383They will or they won't and it'll work or it won't. My favorite series is the Dark Tower, and I think a black guy in a box office bomb no one remembers and therefore fails to taint the legacy, was the perfect outcome. They'll never touch it again.
>>215453427You posted this already.
here's an easily adaptable book
>>215454047>DUDE what if on a long enough timescale anything can happen!!!!pfft
>>215443275Whats unfilmable about Hyperion anyway? Its just a collection of sci-fi stories a la Love, Death, and Robots, except written by a neocon who loves jews a bit too much
>>215454323What's the deal with that? The jew glazing is so on the nose but the biggest badass in the galaxy is a palestinian
>>215443275I was gonna post pic related until I found out that Amazon is going to be making an adaptation. Here's hoping they don't fuck it up as bad as Apple did to the Foundation series.
>>215444089>spam shitty book threads on 4chan, say its “unadaptable”>wait for youtube retard horde to make a shitty video essay summary of the heckin controversial book>wait for movie studios to pick up on books popularity and create the worst movie you’ve ever seen
>>215451405Sit your ass down, zoomie.You weren't even alive during the original run.
>>215444089>adapt JojoBut the anime is already the manga adaptation.
>>215443402A series of films depicting Hitler's life, from childhood until death, if done correctly, and in German, would become one of the great epics of our time.
>>215453556Sequel to Camp of the Saints.
>>215454656Live action remakes of anime
>>215454364The guy whose only role is to die fighting their enemy and who is easily manipulated by his desire to get his dick wet?
>>215443275>So, a jew, a priest, muslim, a space dwarf, a space elf and a drunk poet walk into a bar...
>>215443402kek. Well you could adapt the autobiographical part of the book. Hitlers youth up until the end of ww1 was quite interesting. He described some experiences that would make great movie scenes
>>215453731You definitely could adopt this, I feel like it would be perfect as a mini or 1 season tv show. Sadly the girl would have to be much older for them to get away with this
>>215454293This is just a native isekai where the protagonist has maxed out insight and speechcraft
>>215446344It's hard to make Use of Weapons work even as a book.Making the chair is not actually the most pivotal part of Zakalwe's life.The real climax is his decision to stop being the Chairmaker and seek forgiveness from Livueta.
>>215443275The Forever War
>>215453208Chain of Dogs would be pretty kino. Break it up into a series and everyone dies in the end.
>>215443275No actor could pull off this complex role
>>215445472Picked up.
>>215455143I've never dwelt on it but in some ways I think UoW is a little bit like his take on The Crossing. There are some things that you just can't/don't come back from. Z is way past that line and even the omnibenevolent quasi-omniscient Culture can't do a damn thing for him.
>>215454293"...he's behind me, isn't he?"
>>215443275A lot of books for teens and horror in general are very hard to put on screen for a 2 reasonsWhen you are writing about magical world of wonders that fill young brains imagination, it's too abstract to put it on the screen. It would look either goofy or bland. Money. So you use money to make money. You spend budget on CGI and expect fans of the original work to bring buck, but in reality the public is just not there. Adam Nevill probably the only horror writer with good movie adaptations and still his best works (Number 16) was not adapted, why? Because it would not work. They have to change half of the original script for the Ritual and for the No one gets out alive.Clive Barker wrote a lot of horror books and those which were adapted to movies are the most bland and unsexy
>>215455674Jesus' original RTX 5090 from the dawn of civilisation
>>215454656SBR anime is already DOA though, shit looks like a slideshow with cheap art. It’s too hard to adapt
>>215454293qrd on the setting? I've only seen vague grimdark references to man rape and endless suffering for the main character
>>215443275It's not unfilmableDo it as a miniseriesThe problem is who would they would ruin as Col Fedmahn Kassad, certainly would not include that he is a Palestinian
>>215443438>>215443980the future is not set and fluid, so his precise creator keeps changing
>>215447730>2021
wish kubrick could have gotten to the make the napoleon epic he always wanted to do
>>215455754>rape ayyys crash on totally-not-Earth thousands of years ago>get defeated in a big war>in the present, a guy with the brain of an artificial superintelligence goes on a questHow much of a rundown are you looking for? The series is enormous in scope and worldbuilding. First trilogy directly mirrors the First Crusade, but with rape orcs, sorcery, and misery not only for the main characters, but for pretty much everyone in-universe. Once you clue in that the different nations have more or less direct historical Earth analogues, it all becomes much easier to keep track of.
>>215455776How would they market it though? The same bait and switch as the book with the shrike front and center? People are going to want to see the spiky hell monster but instead they get a priest traveling on a backwater planet and hanging out with retards for 1-2 hours.
>>215455754basically a holy war is starting and a charismatic character the MC appears and starts gaining power in the hoast headed towards warthat's the first book
>>215450853You mad you cannot destroy more franchises, Moahe?
>>215455939How much of it is misery porn?
>>215456010It's not misery porn in the sense that it's just grimdark for its own sake, the story does stand on its own merits. But things start off bleak and only get worse, never better.
>>215455939Isn't the rape aliens goal to rape the earth so hard it causes some kind of stack overflow of suffering that cuts the world off from the afterlife because they don't want to go to hell for all the rape they've done?
>>215454656>>215444089There literally already is a part 4 live action adaptation, directed by Takashi Miike even. It was okay.
>>215455595And Livueta is more powerful than the Culture even though Culture drones can fly around a planet firing nukes at full auto
>>215456195Basically. They wanted to drop the population below 144,000 to achieve that. Turns out it wasn't just the aliens who were damned, but almost everyone, so they were right the whole time
>>215454953>>So, a jew, a priest, muslim, a space dwarf, a space elf and a drunk poet walk into a bar... and they meet a time travelling rape machinefixed
>>215443913Stavros Halkias should be Ignatius
>>215456691>and they meet a time travelling rape machineMore like a time travelling blueballs machine. The shrike only gets to really fuck someone up like once in the whole series?
>>215456817Yeah, but you get a loooot of Keats fellation
>>215447247I would rather watch an Illium cartoon
>>215453239> It's like this site is infested of posers who never read this actual book, which is pretty boring to be honest.It’s not like, it is. None of the LARPers know shit about Hitler. If they did, they wouldn’t be Christian and they certainly wouldn’t like what he did with Haavara.
>>215443475It should just be a montage of a Gosling-style autistic barely responding as things happen around him until he shoots the Arab and has his big sperg out at the end with the pastor. Almost like the movie Being There with Peter Sellers, but less comedic
>>215457014I wish the robot crew had stuck around a bit longer
>>215454364Biggest badass for me was the priest. The og one, not space Hitler. Soldier was cool and all, and probably his revelation at the end of Endymion is almost vital to it all, but the agony and absolute shit the old priest went on and still endured is some Superman level of willpower.
>>215443275>third book>loli character swimming around naked in a zero g pool>adult protag spends a few sentences thinking about how unsexy her butt is and how he is definitely not sexually attracted to herAlways weird when authors do this.
>>215451707So Shadow of the Torturer is shit that hides behind the gimmick of obscure language and descriptions? Is it the same as Dark Souls where it equates obscurity with depth?
>>215457215Yeah the old priest is pretty tough but how did he crucify himself? How is he not retarded after being killed 100s of times?
>>215447909Uh no? Did you just look at fanart of the judge and assume he’s a Mr. X type figure? Retard.
>UnfilmableWhat do you mean??? Just film your book
>>215444241severian did nothing wrongjolenta wanted the big seeker for truth and penitence cock
>>215457382Willpower, faith. Hence the badassery.
>>215456459not sure about that. what good would her forgiveness do the man? the point of his story is that for him, katabasis is contemptibly inadequate. the only way he can even put a scratch into his ethical debt is by abolishing and destroying hells on the off-chance that there might not be one left to throw him in
>>215443275First book could be. I could PTA doing it because of the unconventional story telling. Other than its definitely already been said but Blood Meridian. Probably also most Russian novels just due to their density. Most stream of consciousness novels as well. I doubt Catcher in the Rye could be done both faithfully and well. Infinite Jest and Gravities rainbow are both definitely really difficult as well if not impossible.
>>215457628So you believe in guilt. Do you also believe in redemption, or is there only guilt?
>>215443383>>215443275no one wants to adapt this retarded shit.worse than grrm
>>215457562yeah but physically how do you nail both your arms to a tree?
>>215457782that's not really germane here. let's just say that I consider self-inflicted samsara a suitably sisyphean fate for the chairmaker
>>215457880Drive it in with the point out then stab your wrist on it and use your hand to bend it so you can't slide off
>tfw no backwards aging waifu
>>215446363The loom weaves!
>>215452228Fuck you, anon. I was seriously thinking about posting this.
Of course that won't stop me from trying.
>>215453377literally develop your own criteria and standards by which to filter and find things, stop asking for recommendations, stop using whatever is standard issue for a interest or hobby or genre to engage with it, stop getting into things just to understand discussion surrounding it, be an individual who does things for individual reasons unique to you.
>>215457367No, not obscure language, but things like two characters being the same person but the author doesn't mention it till way later
>>215457367you ever watched Sucker Punch? where at a surface level, it's about girls in a mental asylum who retreat into a shared roleplaying world to cope with reality?It's a bit like that, except it's not a coping mechanism or a fake reality. As the characters' point of view & understanding of their world broadens throughout the story, it retroactively re-shapes the world you were reading about earlier in the story, and moving forward.There's a lot of foreshadowing of what some of it is about right from the opening and all throughout, but it's less so about any big reveal and more about experiencing a world coming to life many times over as your own understanding growsbtw it has a fan-made lexicon/dictionary/glossary that is approved by the author himself. (I think maybe it used to be a fan-wiki type project, the lexicon?)
>>215452210The AI couldn't kill everything in the past because that would cause it to not get created
>>215453246I disagree.No need to adapt the overencompassing story: I think The Navidson record itself and the expeditions do lend themselves well to being adapted.I think a lot of it is the technical limitations and difficulties of having so much of it take place in nearly pitch black visibilityrelevant Tom Scott (formerly):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9j89L8eQQk
>>215443275I'm currently reading these books. I'm halfway through book 3 right now. I can definitely see these books being adapted into a tv series, but it needs a high budget and the right person. The books are kino, but i still have 1.5 books left to go before i can judge the series as a whole.
>>215443383del toro bought the rights long ago
>>215460059No he didn’t, Bradley cooper did
With all the autistic REE shows you would think this would be adapted.
>>215453056It is the best science fiction book ever written (#2 is a fire upon the deep, #3 is a note in god’s eye)
>>215460117My mom loves this book
What I don't understand is how the rendezvous with rama sequels haven't been adapted. The protagonist is a stronk black single mother olympic medalist athlete, heart surgeon, supreme court justice with magic nigger powers. Maybe the whole point of adapting sci-fi works isn't to adapt them but to destroy them.
>>215460157It's the oi you got a loisens equivalent of short mystery novels
>>215454293Came here to post this. But Anon came before.
>>215443275Just wait for ia to make films
>ahem
unfilmable you say?
>>215461042This book is so awesome
>>215461169it is. I know someone tried to make a play out of it at one point, no idea if it was "good" or not but I think it would be tough to make a coherent movie(s) out of it
>>215460237Villanueva is working on the first book right after Messiah
>>215461225The first book will never happen. It's too hard sci-fi. If it ever happens they'll make it like the video game. It has the characters and aliens from the sequels but pretends the first encounter with rama never happened.The Rama series is so bizarre. The first book is hard sci-fi and very famous but the sequels ditch all the hard sci-fi and turn it into a soap opera in space. Plus pedophilia. Which is odd since arthur C Clark is the one who gets accused of being a pedo and not the author of the sequels who put literal pedophilia in the books.
>>215443275My book
>>215453708Pretty sure James Franco adapted this
>>215444089Updated my journal
Pic related will never happen, too obscure and unknown on top of being hopelessly bleak, even if it is the grand daddy of all dystopian fiction.
>>215444089>tormentImpossible to adapt, this shit is a VN at best and it would bore people to death on film >ass defectdoable as a series, 8-10 episodes per game easily>blood meridiandoable as miniseries>disco Elysiumdoable as limited series>elden ringwhy>W40kjust pick a random book and use it as a screenplay, no need for exposition dump to explain the world beyond the very basics of the premise>weebshitThere's already anime of it so why bother, see what Netflix did
>>215462277>elden ring>whyright. i played the game and even finished it eventually and I still have no idea what it was "about"
>>215444089>elden ringtrannyshit>warhammer 40kamazon will make every character gay or black>neuromancergrow up>gay detective vidyagrow up>jojos bizarre transitiongrow up>shadow of the torturerevery character will be gay or black>planescape tormentgay>god emperor of dunedude psychedelics lmao>monstergay>berserkfucking mega gay>legend of gay heroesi honestly want them to adapt this so the retarded plot lines get showcased to normies and they realise just how much weebs will worship terrible writing if its delivered in japanese>mass effectnobody cares>blood meridianwhich youtuber started this bandwagon?>cosmerehecking chungus author!!!>hyperionevery character will be gay or black
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>>215462157They literally made three Sonic movies and they have the same basic plot.
>>215443275Hope they use the jack kirby designs
>>215443980There's was originally no plot. It's only when the books started making money that the author decided to retroactively include an overarching plot to connect the unrelated stories.
>>215463776bullshit. the first book won the hugo award so it was making money straight away you're full of shit.
>>215463953The first book had several unrelated related stories with nothing to connect them together except for the occasional appearance of the spiky dude. The fact this book won a hugo award means that the hugo award is worthless.
>>215464124What sci fi books do you like, champ?
>>215464124I agree that the hugo award is worthless and that he probably won in by sucking all that jew dick but that isn't really relevant to your assertion that the series wasn't profitable from the start.
>>215446363>reading a novel by a gentleman called "China"No, I don't think I will.
>>215455754LOTR with ancient evil awakening + Dune mentat aryan ubermensh MC + Crusades.
>>215453246The Kevin bacon and Amanda seyfried horror movie stole the main pre.ise from this movie, it was alright. Stir of echoes is still Halloween kino.
>>215464124It’s way better than any other Hugo winner except maybe a fire upon the deep
>>215464600checked I didn't know Vernor had died last year until recentlyRIP Vernor
>>215462421Are you retarded? It’s a pretty clear and straightforward plot without including any of the obscure lore and gay item descriptions. You have to kill a degenerated bloodline of demigod rulers to become the new lord and bring back the sacred order or destroy it depending on the ending you choose. The few cutscenes and dialogue the game has are pretty clear about this. It can become much more convoluted depending on how deep into the lore you get but that’s the gist.
>>215454305Frostpunk adaptation?
>>215454385I wonder if meat fucker will make an appearance?
>>215464656>Are you retarded? It’s a pretty clear and straightforward plot without including any of the obscure lore and gay item descriptions. You have to kill a degenerated bloodline of demigod rulers to become the new lord and bring back the sacred order or destroy it depending on the ending you choose. The few cutscenes and dialogue the game has are pretty clear about this. It can become much more convoluted depending on how deep into the lore you get but that’s the gist.
>>215461069Very filmable actually, the novel is already basically the screenplay for the movie.
>>215455143How the fuck do people like these gay books? Well they like GTA Vice City so
>>215454385>Amazon is going towere going to I think I read they abandoned this (wish I was wrong as I loved the Culture novels)
>>215460117Autistic child detective?
>>215456749Easily filmable.Just cut between incomprehensible massively detailed cosmic prog rock covers or something like superjail’s random shit going on all the time, and splice in videodrome style vulgar body shots without faces or context, perhaps some serpents amidst the bodies, then 2001 style watercolor filter things that last 20 minutes each
>>215464124Awards and ratings are subjective, consensus-based opinions that can offer utility or entertainment.They are not an objective measure of something, and I understand this might be a revelation for some people reading, as obvious as it all sounds.What metric are you using to measure worth/lessness?
>>215444089Kek
>>215444335First half of the book is interesting sci-fi. Then it turns into new age hippy shit.
The star, my destination is count of monte christo in space. It is definitely possible with the six of men's nightcrawler and jumper.
>>215465115That's exactly how I feel about it. I don't know why they even hooked up with that hippy fosterite bitch at all.>straight up murder the leader of the fosterites because he sensed a terrible wrongness >hooks up with some stupid bitch who worships fosterPersonally I like to pretend the second half of the book doesn't even exist.
Death's End by Liu CixinThe Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Cope
Hyperion would be easy to adapt. It's simply a few short stories.
>>215465001>What metric are you using to measure worth/lessness?It needs a plot at least. If Hyperion had won the award later, after the author tried to cobble together a coherent narrative, it would've made more sense.
>>215464214Berserker. The stories are separate like in Hyperion, but the overarching plot is already evident in the first book. It doesn't pretend to be deep or try to string you along.
>>215465853>anime shitOpinion discarded, Jesus fucking Christ.
>>215443275utterly unfilmable
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>>215465875It was adapted into something of an epic cinema experience.https://youtu.be/PaPN51Mm5qQ
>>215465918Oh my mistake
>>215446534>>215446775Later books are better but they have so many action and battle sequences that it would have such a gigantic budget. Plus the world has mythological creatures like gryphons so that's additional CGI. Difficult, but not impossible.Victra > Mustang
Impossible if they decide to do Glokta's internal monologues.
