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Mimishiki19:

--- Quote from: ett on February 16, 2009, 09:51:59 AM ---I love to see a Isaac Asimov book adaptation anime The Caves of Steel as a movie would be sweet.

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Would be sweet to see that with Blame style arhictecture.
Btw,remember Jyu-oh-sei?Doesn't it resemble the Dosadi experiment?

It would be interesting to see any Sven Hassel book animated.Tags"War,seinen,tragedy,comedy".It sounds almost impossible to make it happen.That's what would make it interesting.
Terry Pratchet's Discworld world would also be funny to see as anime.
I can imagine a A.E Van Vogt-World of null-A anime....or not.
Oh,not to forget:Shogun-James Clavell :p (or at least Changi)

surdumil:
I would like to see a long anime series based on Roger Zelazny's two 5-part series that make up the Amber Chronicles.  The complex character interactions, incredibly imaginative settings, strong emotions, and fantastic universe construction in the novels would be fun to see expressed as anime.  I'd like to see how hellriding and pattern walking would work out, especially.

Sakura588:

--- Quote from: Chiyachan on February 16, 2009, 09:15:18 AM ---David Eddings: The Belgariad story of a young man growing into unknown powers saving his world.

As far as I remember, the boy was failed, has his son stolen, had a reluctant wife, and ended up having to go to war.

The entire series was amazing though. 15 books? Or was it 10? Belgariad, then another 5 books.

But the "Age of the Five" and "The Magicians Guild".
They would also both make good anime.

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The Belgariad (5 books):

Garion grew up on Faldor's farm with his Aunt Pol, befriends the "vagabond" he calls Mr. Wolf, and appearances of a Murgo merchant cause his once-peaceful life to be forced aside as he, his aunt, and "Mr. Wolf" flee from the farm to safety, meeting along the way Silk the Drasnian "merchant" and Barak, the Earl of Trellheim and cousin to the King of Cherek. As events unfold, Garion learns more and more about those in his party and who they really are, and also who and what he really is.

The sequel 5-book series to The Belgariad is titled The Mallorean, and tells of events following the confrontation between the Child of Dark and the Child of Light, and of how there is one last prophecy to be fulfilled before everything's finally over.


As for A Song of Ice and Fire being made into an HBO series, I think that, as with all adaptation productions, it could be either really really good, or be really really bad. If they target the series the same way George R. R. Martin targeted his books (basically to anyone who loved main characters dying like flies, blunt yet humorous descriptions and dialogue, and very very good plot/plot twists) and they kept content censorship to a minimum (obviously the whole Daenerys thing would be considered, uh, out of the question as far as revealing exactly what GRRM wrote and described in his book), add in a cast that closely resembles the characters without too much difference (Would love to see what Tyrion and The Hound look like) and can actually act, (not the hardest of any of these, by far) and remove any "extra touches" that they sometimes like to do, I believe we then have a very nice formula for success...


I think that the first book of the Ender's Saga would be a very good PG-13 movie. They wouldn't really need to take anything out as the story is pretty tame besides some of the dialogue. My only concern would be the whole Valentine/Peter part where they become Desmosthenes and Locke, as that might be above the heads of most kids that would see it because it would be "a kid's movie".


Finally, The Wheel of Time would make a great movie series, with the only problem being the length of the movies. Each book is 700+ pages (with the exception of New Spring) and the amount of content and dialogue in each would cause the movies to be above and beyond the length of the un-edited Lord of the Rings movies (they took 36+ hours of direct book -> movie content and trimmed it all down to ~9 hours for all 3). Yeah, that would probably work as far as the movie-going experience is concerned, but the true story would probably never be adapted or told at all, leaving many, many people unhappy (though we'd still watch it, just because it's The Wheel of Time). If they made WoT a multiple-season series ala HBO, again, as with A Song of Ice and Fire, it could be either really good or really bad. I think A Song of Ice and Fire would be better because there is much more "sellable" content that WoT, since WoT is more of overall story progression with a few twists and turns and betrayals whereas A Song of Ice and Fire relies more heavily on those twists and turns and betrayals and story progression flows from that. (Basically, it's the same thing but emphasis on different parts of the story; I don't know how clear I can make this sound without being either redundant or just restating what is already known; ie it's hard to put into words, you'd have to read both to understand)

Mimishiki19:

--- Quote from: Sakura588 on February 16, 2009, 04:03:39 PM ---I think that the first book of the Ender's Saga would be a very good PG-13 movie. They wouldn't really need to take anything out as the story is pretty tame besides some of the dialogue. My only concern would be the whole Valentine/Peter part where they become Desmosthenes and Locke, as that might be above the heads of most kids that would see it because it would be "a kid's movie".

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There are 2 comics with Ender out there.Ender's game and Ender's shadow.I found them on Demonoid.They seemed pretty boring to me.I read the books so story-wise it was not entertaining and the fact that the characters spoke in bubbles ruined all the fun but they are closest anime.

Anyway,I was thinking that if they made it into an anime it would probably be something like Code Geass or Stellvia and that's only the Game.Speaker of the Dead would have to be something like Death note+Golden boy.
Also,the sheer viciousness of the survival instinct through Battle School,the different mentalities of the Hive Queen and the piglets(sorry,forgot how those little things are called),the splitting of Ender into Peter and Valentine as well as the after-thoughts about them as well as many other things cannot be conveyed to children through an anime.I'm not saying that children wouldn't understand it.I know there are many precocious kids out there but an anime isn't a good medium to transmit these kinds of ideas.It would require an extra mental push from the viewer to become receptive.Looking at what is popular and what is not I  came to the conclusion that western children don't expect anything beyond the surface from anime and eastern kids are not used to western anime. (then again children would be perfect for these kinds of experiments due to their ability to adapt which is beyond most adults)

And I think this could be said about other western anime.I honestly can't imagine The God-Emperor of Dune anime being watched by more then 10 people.The entire story of the book could be written in under 3 pages if you would take out all philosophical,sociological,psychological,political mumbo-jumbo that make that book what it is(though they could make it watchable if they made Leto II into an gothy,angsty teen with blue hair, the Nuns into some clumsy big-breasted blondes and Siona the epitome of cuteness)

panicfire:
Raymond E. Feist his entire book series and all the books he planned to write
starting with: The Magician.

Terry Pratchett: The discworld series

Trudi Cannavan: The black magician trilogie

Robert Jordan: The Wheel Of Time

Roger Zelazny: Amber (2 sets of 5 books)

Terry Goodkind: The Sword Of Truth

Laura & Tracie Hickman / Margarett Weis (and others over the years): Dragonlance serie (all 190 of them :))

David Eddings: The belgariad

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