• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Pratchett’s Discworld deserves the Marvel treatment. If I had a few billion, I’d be all in.

    Reading selected novels for the 3rd pass. I get that much wouldn’t translate to screen, but plenty enough would. We have an abundance of genius in Hollywood to pull this off. Take LOTR and Harry Potter for fantasy examples.

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      20 hours ago

      Have you tried China Mieville yet?

      ‘UnLunDun’ is set in a mirror universe where the plucky sidekick finds herself the unhappy heroine of the story.

      ‘The Scar’ is pretty dark, set in a future where magic and technology collide.

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        9 hours ago

        Perdido Street Station is probably my favourite book ever, and would make an insane film if done right.

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          8 hours ago

          Either book would need to be a series. Too many details for a short form.

          One of my favorite little touches in Perdido is that there’s a tavern called “The Moon’s Two Daughters.” He casually mentions that the Moon has two smaller satellites orbiting it. No mention of when or how this happened. Then there’s The Ribs…