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[-] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Occult and esoteric books in general, such as "The Kybalion" (Hermeticism), "The Book of the Dead" (Egyptian), "Liber AL vel Legis" (by Aleister Crowley, Thelema), as well as grimoires (such as the "Book of Saint Cyprian"). While there are tons of movies and TV Series that directly adapts biblical stories, I feel that there are so few (if there's any) cinematographic works adapting esoteric, occult, pagan books (from belief systems such as Gnosticism, Wicca, Rosicrucianism, Hermeticism, Luciferianism, Thelema, Goëtia, and so on). I even tried to ask AIs to list movies and TV series adapting such books, and every single listed movie (such as The Matrix) is not a direct adaptation. They don't even mention these books (in best cases, The Matrix merely alludes to hermetic principles such as "the Universe is Mental" (i.e. the scene between Neo and the kid that says that "the spoon doesn't exist").

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

There already has been a movie (L.A. Confidential), which is one of my favourite movies of all time. But to get it on the screen required a lot of rewriting to fit a complex weave of plots that intersect and takes 10 years to resolve. It was brilliantly done for what it was, but it left a LOT on the floor.

I would love love love to see an HBO or similar series that is as true to the novel by James Ellroy as it could possibly be.

[-] Osprey@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago
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[-] rubberduh@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Low Town and its sequels, especially She Who Waits. They're by Daniel Polansky and not my typical reads but dang were they good.

Random Acts Of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack.

From comic books, Bitch Planet and Archer And Armstrong.

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 3 months ago

Karsa Orlong would say: Witness.

[-] danhab99@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

Stranger in a strange land

For the chaos

[-] feannag@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Gotta be HBO though. For reasons. Otherwise I can't grok it.

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[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

Deserves? Not sure, but I feel like Gideon will get one. It seems pretty popular.

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[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

I would love to see a sword of truth series, but not done as an action thriller with shallow characters, because that’s just not what it is, damnit.

[-] Psymonkee@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six. Could be a fun mini series to adapt. The video game never grabbed me though.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

Fritz Leiber's short story "A Pail of Air".

This story portrays the effects of the most terrifying natural calamity I have ever encountered in fiction: Earth being ejected from the solar system. In any other disaster there's still hope because even though humanity might die out, life on Earth would eventually recover. Not so in this case. Without the Sun we're fucked. Even the air freezes (hence the title).

[-] dingus182@endlesstalk.org 1 points 3 months ago

"Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates" by Tom Robbins. I always thought Phillip Seymour Hoffman would be the perfect protagonist.

[-] wildcardology@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Repairman Jack. But reserve the supernatural stuff at the end of the seasons. I just want to watch his "repairs"

[-] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I have a vision that I think would be really cool for this type of adaptation but the only one I really care about is way too good to just put it up on the internet so that my idea can get stolen without credit.

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