Amazon Wants to Turn Lord of the Rings into the Next Game of Thrones

They should make the Malazan series into a tv show: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malazan_Book_of_the_Fallen Or some of Michael Moorcock's books: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elric_of_Melnibon%C3%A9

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corum_Jhaelen_Irsei

Hell even Conan would make a pretty good series if they kept it true to the original stories. There's never been a really faithful Conan adaptation yet.

I was never a fan of the George Martin's books, I couldn't handle the characters. They were all reprehensible and the Lord of the Rings have been done to death at this point.

There's so many great fantasy series that would do really well as a tv show. It's too bad they want to make more of the same.

Honestly, I think they may do better finding another series to adapt to a TV show format instead. Lord of the Rings is good, but it's been done to death so much that I'm not sure what'd be left for an adaptation here. I've seen a few people mention a possible adaptation of The Silmarillion, but I also hear Tolkien's son forbids any adaptations of it due to his dislike of the movies based on his father's works.

But a different series could work better here.

I for one would love to see a proper adaptation of Gormenghast, but I doubt any American production company would touch it.

Looks like we have hit peak American imagination.