What books / book series other than ASOIAF would you most like to see get the Game of Thrones treatment (i.e., a show on HBO with a massive budget)?

opinions-about-tiaras:

racefortheironthrone:

Oh, this is a fun one.

• The Gentlemen Bastard series by Scott Lynch would be really fun. 

• I’d love to see Sapkowksi’s Witcher novels given a high budget, especially after the CD Projekt Red adaptations. 

• Tad Williams’ Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series could be cool if they can cut down on Williams’ penchant for characters going slightly mad down in cave systems.

• The Rivers of London urban fantasy by Ben Aaronovitch if they’re doing a joint BBC operation would be good.

• Ken Liu’s The Grace of Kings would be an interesting departure from the often monochromatic quasi-Medieval European settings.

• I’d love someone to do a Conan the Barbarian vignette series, if they can nail the tone of the Dark Horse adaptations.

I remain somewhat surprised the Peter Grant novels haven’t gotten adapted to the screen by the BBC yet. It capitalizes on urban fantasy, which remains hot these days, it’s unrelentingly British but also based on a property with moderate international appeal (important to the Beeb these days in many ways) and the nature of the magic in it is such that it can be handled on the cheap and still look good.

And that’s above and beyond them just being good stories.

Dunno either, especially as the project started as a spec script for a Torchwood-like magical police show, and the author has a background in British TV.