Sci-fi Fans Sound Off on “Unfilmable” Books They Want to See Become Movies | Latest Hollywood News 2023

A hypothetical question on Reddit has movie fans thinking about their favorite books that would be considered "unfilmable" and how which ones they think should get a shot. Started

by a thread in the /r/movies subreddit where user "Darth_Se7en" asked the question, "Now that we've had successful film adaptations of LOTR and DUNE, what 'unfilmable' popular

scifi books are next to be tried?" To his point there was long a held belief that Frank Herberts franchise and even The Lord of the Rings would be impossible to do justice in

live-action, despite attempts that occurred. Now that both have happened and are Oscar winners however, nothing is off the table.  The most common reply with nearly every title

that was mentioned in the thread is that most sci-fi and fantasy novels aren't unfilmable anymore. Naturally a handful of listed books and comics have elements about them that

would make them difficult to adapt beyond prose, be it mystery surrounding the plot or specific themes that may be scary to major movie studios to even bring to life. Despite this

almost every answer had fans coming together in their love for these stories and the hope that they'll see the big screen. With Denis Villeneuve already hoping to follow-up Dune

Part Two with an adaptation of Dune Messiah, anything seems fair game these days. Earthsea "I love Earthsea so much. I can't imagine how'd they do it though. Theres like 10 years

between the first 2 books and then 20 between the 2 and 3rd? And then Tehanu starts right after 3 but the 5th book is a short story collection." – /u/cmonyer3ds "Ged was the

greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible

shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance. An

exciting re-launch of the classic Earthsea Cycle, by fantasy literature legend Ursula K. Le Guin, winner of a Newbery Honor, the National Book Award, Pushcart Prize, and six Nebula

Awards." prevnext Rendezvous with Rama "Can't believe it hasn't been done by now." – /u/TheBlackHandofFate "An enormous cylindrical object has entered Earth's solar system on a

collision course with the sun. A team of astronauts are sent to explore the mysterious craft, which the denizens of the solar system name Rama. What they find is astonishing

evidence of a civilization far more advanced than ours. They find an interior stretching over fifty kilometers; a forbidding cylindrical sea; mysterious and inaccessible buildings;