If You Could Apply Rings of Power Budget to Any IP Adaptation, What Would You Choose?

Submitted by Any-Low9727 t3_y93er5 in television

Title is the discussion topic. If you could take the budget that Rings of Power had (basically unlimited) and choose any IP you know and make it into a TV show that has as many seasons as you want it to be, what would you choose and how many seasons would you make it?

This can be any book or video game you want to adapt or any movie that you feel deserved to be expanded to tell the whole story. Caveat: You cannot choose a television show that has already existed or currently exists and fix it. You have to choose something that has never been adapted for television and adapt it.

My choice: I was REALLY disappointed to hear the Green Bone Saga from Fonda Lee was dropped by Peacock. That being said, I'm not entirely sure they would've done it justice because it really does deserve a fairly big budget. The fight scenes require a lot of choreography and CGI to make sure that it doesn't look corny AF. And I actually don't think you'd need too many seasons. You probably want four seasons at the most - one season for the first book, one season for the second, and either an elongated third season for the third book or could be split into two seasons.

Other adaptations that would be dope with unlimited budgets:
-Mortal Kombat
-Immortals
-Chronicles of Narnia
-Push
-Assassin's Creed
-Starship Troopers
-Titan AE
-Chronicles of Riddick
-Blade Runner

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HutchyRJS t1_it3i99y wrote

A mythology anthology tv series that focuses on Greek, Norse, Egyptian myths etc

A Mass Effect series

A Malazan Book of the Fallen series

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debsghost t1_it3bpw0 wrote

The Dark Tower. I’ve basically made peace with the fact that I’ll never see a live action adaption of it that remains even halfway faithful to the source material in my lifetime, but I would love if it ever happened. It’s my favorite book series and honestly, it gets pretty insane in some parts and I don’t even know if it would translate well on screen, but that’s my pick for sure. I think five or six seasons would be perfect to tell the story.

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bowromir t1_it44e4f wrote

The sad and ironic thing about your reply is that the actual Dark Tower pilot, produced for Amazon, shot and apparently well received did NOT get picked up for series by Amazon. You know why? Focus on LOTR and budget concerns. This is a great read up, it'll make you sad https://ew.com/tv/glen-mazzara-canceled-dark-tower-series-amazon/

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meowskywalker t1_it48qac wrote

Anyone who thinks the series should start with content from the fourth book is someone I don’t think should be trusted to make the series. Susan is supposed to be this mysterious figure for half the story, we’re not supposed to meet Cuthbert and Alain until after we know Eddie and Susannah so that we can appreciate how his new Ka-Tet echoes his old one. But everyone who adapts it insists for some reason to start with these characters and ruin all of that.

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Duke_CrowBait t1_it6okg5 wrote

The pilot Amazon did is meant to be very faithful to Wizard and Glass.

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moonfox1000 t1_it47jgm wrote

I’ve always thought this would work much better as an anime. The magical elements and some of the characters just seem like they wouldn’t work as in a live action series.

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Musth t1_it3huda wrote

The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson

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austinrose7 t1_it3bviw wrote

For a long time mine was the Foundation books, but Apple actually gave that the Rings of Power treatment. I don’t really have a saga now, but I would kill for mammoth-budget series set in the worlds of Jurassic Park (more faithful to the darker novel than the movie), Terminator (this would entirely depend on nailing the showrunner, directors, and cast tho), The Abyss, and Blade Runner (I know Amazon is doing that, we’ll see how that turns out).

A couple Paul Verhoven movies like Robocop, Total Recall, and, like you said, Starship Troopers may actually lend themselves better to an extended miniseries format than a two-hour movie. To do right they would require insane budgets that only Apple and Amazon can really afford tho.

individual novels I’d love to see done right in a limited series that would require a huge budget are World War Z, Gravity’s Rainbow (Thomas Pychon), and The Island of Dr. Moreau (a proper adaptation, not whatever the hell the Brando thing is).

The Sparrow and Dark Matter also, but those are already in development at FX and Apple, respectively.

Lastly, Amazon needs to get moving on Mass Effect w/ Henry Cavill. It’ll happen one day cuz video game adaptations are pretty much guaranteed hits as long as they’re decent, but I want it soon lol.

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meowskywalker t1_it3nvet wrote

> Lastly, Amazon needs to get moving on Mass Effect w/ Henry Cavill

Why would they cast Henry Cavill when Commander Shepard is a lady?

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austinrose7 t1_it3pgux wrote

Idk but Cavill himself said he really wants to be in it as long as Amazon is planning on being faithful to the games.

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meowskywalker t1_it3q76u wrote

How can it possibly be faithful to the games when even the games aren’t faithful to the games? Entire species were genocided in my roommate’s game, while they were saved in mine. Which option do you pick? If we make it to the end of the series, what outcome will a Commander Shepard that isn’t even the same gender as in my game choose for the entire Galaxy? No matter what he chooses two thirds of players are going to see it as inaccurate.

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ColdCruise t1_it4wjn2 wrote

They'll pick a canon. They have kind of already done that.

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CommanderL4 t1_it6gqfq wrote

Honestly I would make Sheppard a twin.

one can be paragon the other can be renagade

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Pretty_Garbage8380 t1_it4qj9a wrote

Whenever I see this suggestion, I think of that amazing Batman The Animated Series episode where three kids recount their personal encounters with The Batman and each is very different.

I would love an Elder Scrolls that takes that approach, but we would probably get something more like the Halo/RoP “canon/not-canon” approach so Hollywood creatives could fellate their egos a little more.

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Neo2199 t1_it3ff2h wrote

  • 'Revelation Space Universe' & 'House of Suns' by Alastair Reynolds.

  • 'The Night's Dawn Trilogy' & 'Commonwealth universe' by Peter F. Hamilton

  • 'True Names', 'Across Realtime', & 'Zones of Thought series' by Vernor Vinge

  • 'The Uplift series' by David Brin

  • 'Galactic Center Series', by Gregory Benford

  • 'Culture series' by Iain M. Banks

  • 'Otherland' & 'Bobby Dollar Series' by Tad Williams

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kingdazy t1_it3liz5 wrote

Fuck yes all of that. You and me are scifi twinsies.

I suggested Nivens Ringworld series, but I think Pohls Gateway series would be ripe as well.

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KumagawaUshio t1_it3ir5q wrote

Rings of Power itself shows that having all the money doesn't make an engaging show and show writing seems to be going downhill fast in sci-fi and fantasy shows.

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Redlemonginger t1_it3ka6p wrote

The first law trilogy

Berserk.

Eisenhorn trilogy

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Taylorenokson t1_it3l5p5 wrote

I want a high budget Bioshock series. Not a movie. Would love to see Rapture for a couple seasons and then even a spin-off where we see Columbia.

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pishposhpoppycock t1_it3d54k wrote

Vampire: the Masquerade and Mage: the Awakening/Ascension.

Would be nice to have a decent live-action Elder Scrolls series... maybe set around the Alessian slave rebellion event.

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Daikey t1_it3br17 wrote

I'd do Children of Hurin.

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GeekdomCentral t1_it3cb5n wrote

My vote has to go for the Dresden Files. They’re such fun books, but due to being about magic and fantasy it’s inherently a budget-heavy thing to adapt. I’d love to see it done properly though

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meowskywalker t1_it3n6kj wrote

Dresden Files has too many supernaturally attractive people in it to be live action. You can’t cast Thomas or Lara or Mab with humans. Animate it.

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GeekdomCentral t1_it3p08s wrote

I don’t know, I feel like Kate Beckinsale would be a pretty good Lara

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meowskywalker t1_it3pjno wrote

Ten years ago she might have looked the part, but I think Kate Beckinsdale is quite a terrible actress, so I still wouldn’t want to see her in the role.

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Brand023 t1_it3wf0w wrote

100% would love this. The codex alera series could be nice too

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smaugington t1_it4qv1c wrote

I was going to say Felix Castor, but I haven't read the Dresden files so yeah I second that so if they fuck stuff up I won't be attached haha!

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TheUncannyBroker t1_it3clsq wrote

-Borderlands

-Ninja Gaiden

-Dark Souls

-Fables

-Anything Kojima

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u2sunnyday t1_it3fdf3 wrote

Berserk

Chrono Trigger

Final Fantasy 2 (the one with Cecil)

Dragonlance Chronicles

Final Fantasy Tactics

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TheSeventhAnimorph t1_it3i1t8 wrote

If Animorphs would have to be adapted as live-action, then Animorphs. Though I'd prefer an animated adaptation.

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BaldFraud99 t1_it45gbn wrote

Red Rising. The only books I've read that had me on the edge during most of the reading and its battle scenes and twists would be grand in a high budget adaptation. It's also modern and inclusive, so you wouldn't have all these "race" or sexual identity shenanigans/discussions, as those are logically included in the source material.

Although I wouldn't know how to portray the different colours. Casting's gonna be hell for that. You would probably have to tweak that concept for live action a little. Don't think there are that many actors with the frame of Lebron around.

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reddit455 t1_it3bv0w wrote

live action Akira.

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seeyerla t1_it3jjd5 wrote

SAGA - Brian K Vaughan & Fiona Staples

THE HYPERION CANTOS - Dan Simmons

LAZARUS - Greg Rucka & Michael Lark

Tonnes of 2000ad adaptations, but mainly Strontium Dog, Rogue Trooper, Halo Jones, and Dredd.

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anasui1 t1_it3k48e wrote

a proper League of Extraordinary Gentlemen tv show, with the best writers, directors, actors et al I could find

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HowardRabb t1_it3nm0r wrote

Someone already said Dark Tower, and I'd have to agree with that. In the absence of that, I'd want to see Final Fantasy 6. I think its epic story line would make an incredible 10-part series.

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wubrgess t1_it3qq5w wrote

dragonlance chronicles, then other dragonlance series

warcraft could be good having each game/expansion be a season, though that'd be hella fast I think

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safe-word t1_it3t0bu wrote

Treasure Island. It would nice to see a follow up to black sails.

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bnicoletti82 t1_it3uvxs wrote

An adaptation of the Marvel 1602 series. Back up the brinks truck for that cash cow.

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After_Hovercraft7822 t1_it5x5hg wrote

Marvels by Kurt Busiek (with iconic artwork from Alex Ross)

This is the comic that got me back in to comics after not reading them for years, and it still holds up as a story full of spectacle, emotion, and a character arc that I understand more as I get older myself.

I’d want to see a 10-episode limited series. There’s no need to try and stretch it out to make it 4 seasons or anything like that. Just take the 4 issues and make them live action.

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falderol t1_it97fvf wrote

  • Space 1999
  • The Black Company
  • Jonny Quest
  • Something with an android takeover like exMachina + iRobot
  • The Belgariad or The Riftwar Saga
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JBloomf t1_it3b4h3 wrote

Beastmaster, book version

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evilsir t1_it3brub wrote

The necroscope series. Part British Secret Spy stuff intermingled with batshit crazy insane violent vampire shit.

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urgasmic t1_it3brzv wrote

Dragon Age. Oh man i would love that.

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bflaminio t1_it3dg1a wrote

Kim Stanley Robinson's RGB Mars trilogy. I'd make a 10-episode series out of each book; 30 episodes total.

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enough-rope t1_it3gzgy wrote

Raymond E Feist's riftwar sagas, encompassing thirty books.
They're apparently in the early stages of development and I'd love for them to have the budget to see them faithfully adapted.

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jogoso2014 t1_it3kfi4 wrote

I’m fine with it for Rings if Power.

Anything else would be for a new IP.

I would love to see Mistborn a true blue Dark Tower series.

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kingdazy t1_it3l1y4 wrote

Larry Nivens Ringworld series.

It's a massive environment, packed with aliens, lore, and adventure, enough canon to make 10 seasons easily. Had a clear beginning and end narrative, with room for tons of everything in between.

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sudden_aggression t1_it3l644 wrote

Unlimited budget, hire good writers/directors/actors and actually be run by fans of the material?

  • Warhammer 40K, M39-M41 only but I'm almost certain they would manage to ruin it
  • Judge Dredd
  • Known Space (feel free to omit as much of the ringworld sequels as you like)
  • Berserker (the books about the giant planet destroying robots)
  • there was some military sci-fi series I read a while back about super advanced aliens dropping off a stargate type artifact in our solar system and then leaving. A short time after, various aliens (who are less advanced than the gate builders but more advanced than us) start coming through.
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Severe_Ad2611 t1_it3mt3u wrote

EXO Squad for sure, or Pirates of the Darkwater… Hell, I’d even love to see Battletoads.

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meowskywalker t1_it3nrbp wrote

Lightbringer series. I dunno if even a Rings of Power budget would be enough, because they toss a fuck ton of magic around, but they’d get closer.

Animated would still be better. But we hate animation for no good reason, so… really expensive live action it must be.

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dantemanjones t1_it3tuu6 wrote

Top would be Green Lantern. They do have a show coming and I'm sure it will be expensive, but I'm sure it's not going to be unlimited budget territory. Others:

Justice League International (really doesn't need that high of a budget but I want it regardless of budget)
Dresden Files
Harry Potter (made into movies but would be great as a series)
World War Z (made into a movie but would be much better as a series and faithfully adapted)
Pokemon Adventures (adaptation of the manga - the adventures of Ash doesn't follow the story or tone of the manga)
Days Gone
BioShock
Left 4 Dead
Star Wars (Old Republic Era)

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teachertraveler1 t1_it45t4d wrote

I think what Rings of Power shows is that you really can't just throw money at something. You have to have the right writers on board and the time for the VFX team to do their job properly.

Take Arcane for example. I, in no way shape or form, like League of Legends video game. At all.
However, that team did such a phenomenal job creating an engaging, nuanced story with stunning animation that it's now one of my favorite things. I've watched the whole thing through several times. Everyone I recommend it to comes back raving about it.

Good writers take the shakiest of IP and make it something worth being excited about.

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GO-KARRT t1_it47vya wrote

An HBO 8-10 part World War Z series. Each episode does a chapter or so of the book.

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UrLocalTroll t1_it4bc2s wrote

Eragon. Can’t believe they never made an adaptation.

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Maninhartsford t1_it4kyg9 wrote

Good news, there's a TV adaptation coming...

...bad news, from Disney+

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Duke_CrowBait t1_it6ohod wrote

The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie. It's got a fantastic storyline, killer dialogue and action sequences, and a believable and lived in world.

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jaymx226 t1_it6zvds wrote

Carnivale please and thank you

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idksomuch t1_it8cmk2 wrote

Attack on titan. Let's be real, Hollywood is already trying to make an adaptation and while more money doesn't necessarily mean more good, they can at least give us good visuals and cgi, especially since doing the titans and odm gear cannot be cheap.

Also the upcoming Death Note series from Netflix. It's a good thing they opted for a TV series rather than trying to shove an entire series into a poorly made, cringe-inducing, straight-to-DVD looking movie. Haha nope. Netflix never made a death note movie. There was no Netflix death note movie. there was no Netflix death note movie. -Denial intensifies-

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AlwaysOptimism t1_itdf3bu wrote

A Crown-esque show that covers Russia from 1915-1995

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TravelingFlipper t1_it3atw9 wrote

Uncharted if done correctly skulls be amazing.

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noneedforeathrowaway t1_it3g779 wrote

Gundam. DBZ. Naruto. And ideally a decent chunk of that budget would go towards a showrunner who actually understands the emotional heart of the source material and we'll finally get a good live action anime adaptation

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Roook36 t1_it3ba0l wrote

Perdido Street Station or any book in the Bas Lag saga

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archlector t1_it3cuef wrote

I would love to see Miéville's reaction to his books becoming a cog in the IP machine, lol.

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