What Would You Most Like to See Adapted for TV or Cinema?

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You know HBO is doing a series based on Foundation right?

For my part I'd love movies or a series (probably series) based on events from the Silmarillion. A Children of Hurin series could be legendary. But I understand that the Tolkien estate is against the idea of doing anymore adaptations. Then again, I'd also like to see the Lord of the Rings done again, because I don't think PJ's version is perfect. I mean, I absolutely love those movies, but there's a certain something that they don't capture from the books.

I cut the cable decades ago.

That would be VERY cool, but they could just as well screw it up. (Look at the Hobbit films!)
Glad to find another Tolkien fan that has read Silm on here! I have basically everything he's set in that universe... I just love it that much

According to both IMDB and Wikipedia, the Foundation TV series has not yet premiered and -- when it is finally shown -- it will be shown on Apple+ and not HBO.

Since he died before Asperger's Syndrome was added to the DSM-5 we will never know.

But some Aspies can be extraverts, and if Asimov was one people would probably ignore a bit of social awkwardness.

Some folk think his obsessive work habits were suggestive of him being an Aspie.

https://www.us.mensa.org/read/bulletin/features/isaac-asimov-writer-polymath-chemist-mensan/

https://www.biography.com/writer/isaac-asimov

https://www.quora.com/What-was-Isaac-Asimov-like-in-person

Hmmmm? I have no doubt Asimov was ND, same with Ray Bradbury.

Here's a great short story "Second Variety" by Philip K. Dick that would make a great film:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32032

I know there have been versions of "A Saucer of Loneliness" by Theodore Sturgeon, but none of them pack the emotional punch that the X Minus One version did, not even the original short story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oYHSKdFsfs

Yes, it is a bit dated, but still excellent...

DIVAIR

Just as there are people who would demonize Aspies by declaring that historical "villains" were Aspies, so to do those would deify Aspies declare that historical "heroes" were Aspies, as well.  Whether or not deceased historical figures were Aspies before such a diagnosis became official is irrelevant -- they are historical figures solely because of their recorded accomplishments, nothing more.  There is no need to perform an amateur "diagnosis" to justify their actions.

I love The Silmarillion but an adaptation would probably be terrible. A live-action show wouldn't have the budget to do it justice and if it was movies they would probably make it cheesy like the Hobbit movies or MCU. The only realistic chance of it being good would be as an animated series for adults.

Imagine the film company looking for their next family-friendly blockbuster, and someone innocently suggests "The Tale of the Children of Hurin," with its rather inavoidable incest / suicide plot....

Although, to me, the antithesis of this is the 1966 film-version of "Fahrenheit 451": François Truffaut both directed and wrote the screen play. I felt the film had a much cleaner story arc, and was way creepier than the book: I seem to recall that Ray Bradbury felt the same way too, afterwards. Oskar Werner's very-very-dry Montag feels so beat-down and hopeless: a totally broken person.

Just an observation

DIVAIR

I'm not going to suggest deification for Asimov. Most reports suggest he had some awkward social traits. But he had a very strong interest in writing--a lot of it was Sci-Fi but he famously hit most of the Dewey Decimal System categories so it appears to me that he was especially interested in writing. He apparently spent most of his time alone in a small windowless office writing continuously. At least two different people who knew him wrote reports hinting that Asimov tended to show up at certain places, by choice, at regular times. Apparently he was friendly enough in person but my understanding is he had a small circle of friends.

But, as I said, I don't think we'll ever know.

As someone who is long since dead, I don't think Mr. Asimov gives a flying (expletive deleted) what anyone thinks about him really... What/who is it really hurting to speculate such things? I personally think it's fun to look at what people know and do hypothetical forensics: again, it hurts no one!

DIVAIR

I'd like to see a series made for HBO or some other cable channel of James Elroy's three books, American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Death's A Rover.
In this loose trilogy, lead characters show up then eventually die. Those who are supposed to be heroes do indefensible things. The story goes from the 1950's to the 1970's, involving organized crime associates, government agents, fanatics - often the same characters filling two or three of those descriptions - in the era of social and political unrest, when famous assassinations fill the headlines. And some of those characters change history with involvement in those assassinations. The sinister figure of J. Edgar Hoover emerges from the background in each book.

Any of Stephen King's books that he wrote as Richard Bachmann.

I always thought Mark Z Danielewski's House of Leaves would be unfilmable but since the author has written the first three episodes of a TV show himself then I guess I'm wrong. Dont think there are any plans to make it but I'd love to see it.

Also a remake of the Tripods trilogy that doesn't get axed before the end would be lovely.

Yes to Asimov's Robot series

Also the Murderbot diaries by Martha Wells

(Because I have a bit of a thing for intelligent robots and cyborgs - and the scenes from other planets / space stations would be awesome)