What Book Series Would Make the Best Set of Movies?

i think the Wool series of shortstories would translate well to film.

the first one could stand alone.

it would be a character piece much like gattaca, but with enough depth to last 90-100 min. then there is the twist ending too.

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Brigadier-General Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser, but based on the character "Flashman" in Tom Brown's Schooldays (1957), a semi-autobiographical work by Thomas Hughes.

In Hughes' book, Flashman is the notorious bully of Rugby School who persecutes Tom Brown, and who is finally expelled for drunkenness. Twentieth century author George MacDonald Fraser had the idea of writing Flashman's memoirs, in which the school bully would be identified with an "illustrious Victorian soldier": experiencing many 19th century wars and adventures and rising to high rank in British army, acclaimed as a great soldier, while remaining by his unapologetic self-description "a scoundrel, a liar, a cheat, a thief, a coward—and oh yes, a toady." Fraser's Flashman is an antihero who runs from danger or hides cowering in fear, betrays or abandons acquaintances at at the slightest incentive, bullies and beats servants with gusto, beds every available woman, carries off any loot he can grab, gambles and boozes enthusiastically, and yet, through a combination of luck and cunning, ends each volume acclaimed as a hero.

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The books are like James Bond set in the 19th century -- and hilarious to boot. Flashman experiences (always against his will) The Charge Of The Light Brigade (which he somehow ends up leading!), The Sepoy Mutiny, the Taiping Rebellion, Little Big Horn and other great moments of history, all the while getting mixed up with Queen Victoria, Bismarck, Wild Bill Hickok, Lola Montez, Lincoln, The Empress of China, Oscar Wilde, John Brown the abolitionist and other such immortal personages.

My favorite book in the series is the third, Flash For Freedom (which takes place in pre-Civil War NO and Mississippi), but I'd start out with the first, Flashman. After that you can really read them in any order. There are 12 books in the series; I reread them every 4 or 5 years.

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i think the Wool series of shortstories would translate well to film.

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Yeah, Wool would be very good in film, wouldn't even require a huge budget.

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Sean Bean for Croaker.

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So Croaker dies in the first act?

Magic Treehouse

Maybe one of the Bernard Cornwell series. The Saxon Stories would probably be the best IMO. The Warlord series dealing with Arthur and the Grail Quest series dealing with legendary artifacts are both good but might get bogged down in previous works about them.

Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp series.

ETA: I believe they are already working on one of them, American Assassin

RIP Vince

There's too many for movies, but I would love to see a tv series, well done by somebody like AMC, based on Lucas Davenport and the Prey novels.

I am a big fan of the repairman jack series. I can't think of anybody for Jack though, I think you would really need to nail the casting of Jack. I also think the old mans war books would be good. I didn't know about the old mans war books until a thread here, and I really enjoyed them.