What fantasy stories are should be done next on the big screen?

[Mouseferatu]

For movie series how about the Belgariad?

A bigger fan than I, of the Belgariad, you'll not find.

(Boy, that sentence was convoluted, wasn't it? )

But honestly, I'm not sure it'd work as a movie series. (And while Edding's plots are, if we're to be brutally honest, simplistic at best, it would still have to be a series. Wouldn't fit in one movie.) I think too much of it is about Garion figuring out who he is to appeal to the mainstream. Not enough action. To say nothing of the fact that I think the whiny farmboy who grows up to be a powerful mystic warrior might remind people of someone...

Now, if you wanted to talk about making The Elenium into a trilogy of movies, I'd be all over that like white on mice. Er, rice.

 

[Larcen]

John Carter, Warlord of Mars

Ditto that.

 

[WayneLigon]

Pern would be a very good idea, I think. Very visually appealing, nice tight adventure story, cool dragon aero maneuvers, etc.

Wrinkle in Time
Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser would certainly be good.
Several of the Tarma and Kethry stories.
King Arthur, of course. One about Merlin would be better.
Some twisted fairy tales I've read, like one where Snow White was a vampire (with her hideous dwarf servants - she couldn't be killed but the good witch of the forest drove a stake made of apple wood into her heart and put her in suspended animation).

Something set in the Horseclans universe.
Something set in the SERRAted Edge universe
Something set in the Bordertown universe

 

[Black Omega]

King Arthur, of course. One about Merlin would be better.

Crystal Cave, maybe?

Some twisted fairy tales I've read, like one where Snow White was a vampire (with her hideous dwarf servants - she couldn't be killed but the good witch of the forest drove a stake made of apple wood into her heart and put her in suspended animation).

Sounds close to a Rammstein video I saw.

 

[Desdichado]

I'd go for John Carter of Mars, followed by Prydain, as the minable properties I'd most like to see brought to screen. Big or small, I don't care.

 

[Wombat]

Yep, John Carter would be cool, if done right. Then again, given the pulpiness of the source, I allow a lot of wiggle room that way

I would like to see a good film about King Arthur. Excalibur didn't cut it for me, nor Last Knight, King Arthur, or Camelot. In fact the only really good Arthurian films as far as I am concerned are Monty Python & the Holy Grail, The Fisher King, and Perceval. (for the last, see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078073/).

A good version of Earthsea would be lovely, as would A Wrinkle in Time.

American Gods would make a great movie as well.

And anything dealing with Fafhrd & the Grey Mouser would be highly welcome, not to mention pretty simple. It's not like they would have to do a particular story, but rather something "in the style of", as long as they got the tone right (light, swashbuckly, energetic).

And, of course, one could ask for a decent version of War of the Worlds

 

[Storm Raven]

A good version of Earthsea would be lovely, as would A Wrinkle in Time.

Yeah, I'd like to see a version of Earthsea done. That's a property that hasn't been touched yet. (No, the Sci-Fi channel did not do an Earthsea story, they did some other badly written story).

 

[Roudi]

American Gods would make a great movie as well.

I'll second that vote.

 

[Tonguez]

Another vote for John Carter of Mars

I'd also love to see REH's Solomon Kane brought to the big screen, but fear it might end up like 'Van Helsing' which would be atrocious

I also agree on the Epic of Gilgamesh
Prydain would be fun too

 

[Green Knight]

King Arthur, definitely. An adaptation of The Once and Future King would be even better, in my mind, since I adore that book. The only thing better then that would be if they were to make four movies out of it.

Either way, I'd love to see a King Arthur story done well. Forget doing a 'historical' recreation, since no one knows the real history, anyway, assuming there is one. Go full-out on the fantastical aspects of the myth. And no modern day anachronisms like disco lights or whatever.