re: Book series that deserve movies

Also, Virgil frickin Flowers

The Red Rising series

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Carl Hiaasen

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I was actually going to say this. His books would make a great TV series, kind of like a redneck White Lotus.

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I was actually going to say this. His books would make a great TV series, kind of like a redneck White Lotus.

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Bad Monkey was terrible. Terrible casting, terrible writing, terrible deviation from the book.

Would love to see an updated version of Double Whammy.

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Dave Robichaux


Dave: Taron Egerton
Clete: Paul Walter Hauser

Perfect chemistry on screen with these two could become a hugely successful franchise.

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This could be a great Apple or Max series. No network TV. Too gritty for the networks.

The Tim Dorsey books would make a great comedy series. Dark and weird comedy, but great.

The WEB Griffin books, especially the Brotherhood of War, The Corps, Honor Bound, and Badge of Honor series.

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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 (1857), 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.

All I know is that Rebecca Ferguson has been cast as Monza Murcatto. Otherwise there is like zero news about it out there.

Arthur C. Clarke’s Rama series