I don't think movies would work. However, a Game of Thrones style series...that could be done.

Also, honestly, there are a lot of things that I could stand to see cut.

-Phobos

What I wouldn't give to see a mini-series depicting The Last Light of the Sun, or Lions of Al-Rassan, or a pair of movies on The Sarantine Mosaic. They're not even effects-heavy, so it would be doable, and his characters can be so lifelike...

Protector of the Small would be particularly cool, given the mechanical creatures involved - I'd love to see those animated. I'm wondering how they'd manage to animate the magic in Circle of Magic properly, though. How do you show the scenes of the connection between Briar and the shakkan, for example?

In the end, I think that's why Tamora Pierce's books wouldn't work too well as movies. There's just too many details that can't really be expressed well through visuals.

I feel like it would be really easy -and really, really likely- for a Circle of Magic movie(s) to turn out terribly. But if it were done well...

-Aila

Consider how massive, and massively episodic, the Belgariad is... I'm not sure you could actually fit it into five films and do it justice, and when was the last time anyone reached five in a series of films? The new Narnia adaptation appears to have stalled out at three.

But a TV series... yes, please. I think (if I were making it) I'd probably start with the scene where Garion runs away from everyone in Arendia - it's a nice active start, pretty close to the beginning, without too many characters already introduced, and it lets the audience share his 'who are these scary people' experience, rather than going 'Garion, what are you on?'.

Then I'd probably split the stuff before that up into a few chunks and give it as flashbacks, dream sequences and conversations where it seemed to fit. It would help fill out the impression that Garion's trying to figure out what he's gotten himself into...

Of course, if I were the obscenely rich person I'd have to be to make it, I'd make sure before we started that we could pull off three things:

-The corrupt decadence of Tolnedra
-The sheer mind-numbing terror of Maragor (and specifically the capital)
-The holiness of Ulgo

There's other things that I'd look into (the Stronghold, for instance), but if we can't do those three, we wouldn't have a hope of doing the whole story.

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(All names from memory, sincere apologies if I got them mixed up)

... IF they can find a child actress capable of playing Flute/Aphrael. That would probably be the hardest part, because she's clearly described as a child, not a teenager. Knowing Hollywood, they'd probably cast some 30-year old as the Child-Goddess.

(I was thinking after last Costume Con that if I could scrounge up four males to wear them for the Fantasy/SF Masquerade, there's enough description in the Elenium to re-create the formal armor of the Church Knights. Then I started looking at prices for Wondra and Wonderflex. Ouch!)

I suspect it wouldn't be all that hard to do a movie/TV version of any of the Elemental Masters novels. They're all set in the Victorian/Edwardian/very early WWI period, so the costumes are already sitting in theatrical warehouses. Current CGI is definitely up for creating the elemental creatures and any visual effects of spellcasting.

And thirding, and fourth...ed...ing - or whatever.

And, having just finished re-reading Midnight, I agree with you that it'd probably be the best one to start with. Although it would be nice if they expanded on the section where they're travelling through the Deepwoods by including some of the stuff from Beyond the Deepwoods - they kind of gloss over the danger and sheer variety of fantastic creatures in Midnight.

…is Disney's Treasure Planet. It has the space pirates, the flying ships, and engaging characters you said that this has. It's also animated, and all the steampunk/cyberpunk glory that is this movie is visually spectacular.

It also really needs more love, because as Disney animated movies go everyone forgets about it.

But if I did, I'd end up writing a five-page rant about everything that's wrong with the movie, which would probably end up going into the mythological errors in the books, which would trail off from there... so I won't.

The Sea of Monsters looks slightly better. At least this time they got Annabeth's hair color right. Somewhat of an achievement. Kane Chronicles movies would be awesome, too. Those remain my favorite Rick Riordan books, although that's possibly just because of my fascination with Egyptian mythology.

I'd like to see the rest of the Narnia series, but I really, really disliked the first HDM movie, and I think I'd be ambivalent about another one.

A Good Omens movie would be amazing, but the film would have to be done really, really well for it to come anywhere close to the book.

Oh, and a Discworld TV show about the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is in the works. Has anyone else heard about that?

From the looks of the trailers I think Sea of Monsters is going to be closer to the book than Lightning Thief was. Well apart from Grover, but not everything's perfect.