Movie or Mini-series?

Personally, I think that films can never be long enough to tell the story of a book. Bits will always be missed out and fans will always bitch about how bits have been missed.
I myself am definitely guilty of this. I rant about how different GoT season 5 was to the books and how much certain aspects annoyed me (****ing Dorne...). But as a whole, I try to avoid such heavy criticisms, as I try to accept that it is impossible to cram in every tiny little detail.

 

The Mistborn books. I could see them being either a movie or a fun TV series.

 

It's getting a movie adaptation next year*, but I think the Dark Tower would make a great mini-series. It's too many books long to make a good movie series; it's no Harry Potter, I doubt moviegoers will stay interested for eight movies. But a high-budget miniseries? That could work beautifully.

* Or so Sony says, January 2017. By the sounds of it, they're still in talks with Idris Elba to play Roland, so I don't know how it can have a release in a year when they've not even written the contract for the guy playing the the main character.

 

I second the Dark Tower. My mom isn't an epic fantasy person, but she loves Stephen King, and we both agree it's one of the best we've read. It really gets us thinking. Julie Of The Wolves, Tweaked, Island Of The Blue Dolphins, Stowaway, The Midwife's Apprentice, Dogsong, The Journey Outside, Star Dragon, Rebel Moon, the Matador series, the Earth's Children series, and People Of The Wolf would all make great movies. Also this one book I read in middle school for that Accelerated Reading thing....it was about two Korean brothers, sons of some noble, and one brother is supposed to compete against the emperor's son in a kite contest. Wish I could remember the name....

 

I would love to see LOTR done sort of like GOT-- one book = one season, three seasons all together. That way they could cover everything. Of course, everyone would hate it because, in staying true to the book the tension level wouldn't be cranked up to maximum in each and every episode.

I'd also love to see Thomas Covenant this way. Ten books should yield ten seasons (and they wouldn't have to wait for the books to be written, or worse, adapt books that haven't been published!)

@Addison--did you see the Terry Gilliam movie--The Brothers Grimm? It's a bit like you describe, though it doesn't cover ALL the tales.

 

There's a novel called A Gathering of Heroes that I used to read religiously when I was younger. It isn't the most amazing book in the world, but I think that it would make an excellent film. The entire book is basically one long siege, and there's lots of potential for really epic fights and whatnot.