Tumblr crosspost (7 March 2021)

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In this age of remakes and adaptations (though pretty much all ages are ages of remakes and adaptations tbh), I sometimes imagine adaptations of my childhood/adolescent faves. Off the top of my head and in no particular order:

• Jane Yolen’s Wizard’s Hall (super formative, could make a pretty cool, sometimes creepy, film)
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond (just … great, probably fits a mini-series better)
• Sweet Valley Twins (maybe this already exists? it would be terrible, but I inhaled them as a kid)
• Agatha Christie in general (definitely exists, though the quality is variable … I really disliked the version I saw of Cards on the Table)
• She-Ra (exists, is great)
• The Belgariad and the Elenium (I would prefer the latter, with Liberties taken to deal with some of the Eddingsisms, but the former might be more cinematic. I once had an AU where as a fairly minor background detail, the Elenium was made in place of GOT, but with the same cast, like Lena Headey as Sephrenia, etc …)
• LOTR, esp Gondor (of course there are the movies, but a) their treatment of Gondor is terrible on a lot of fronts, and b) I think LOTR is better suited to TV anyway, and in my dreams, really high-quality animation)
• Wheel of Time (in the works, I’m lowkey terrified)
• Daughter of the Empire (no idea how this would be done)
• Incarnations of Immortality (I don’t really want money going to Piers Anthony, so no, even though it’s conceptually one of my fave takes on Death)
• Pern (??? I would mostly watch this for Lessa. Probably super expensive to make as a series, which it would have to be)
• Valdemar (I DON’T EVEN KNOW)
• Tamora Pierce (I love Emelan best, but Tortall would be cool, too!)
• So You Want to Be a Wizard (it seems like it would be very cinematic in some ways and not at all in others, so I’m not sure, but if someone could make it work, awesome)