Oh man, I have so much to say about this :) 1. The first thing that comes to mind is that thesepictures of the actor Wang Yang give me tremendous Aral Vorkosigan vibes, and I would love a Chinese live-action version of the Vorkosigan books. Casting Miles would always be hard, but I think the series could be arranged into a cdrama very satisfactorily (ideally without censorship, oh dear. I can't imagine what the Chinese censors would make of Barrayar and Komarr.) Also a number of police procedural-type mystery series--I think there's already a Rivers of London series in the works? Other good ones would be Cynthia Harrod-Eagles or (as a Japanese quasi-period drama) James Melville. Also Lee Killough's near-future mysteries would be a lot of fun on screen if the budget was big enough to play with. Also I think Pamela Dean's Secret Country series might work surprisingly well on TV, if the child actors were good enough and the script was faithful to the books; they're very visual.
3. Mysteries that wouldn't do well on TV: Fred Vargas' Adamsberg series, I feel like the particular degree of...mostly benign weirdness...? set up by the text would not be translatable on screen. The Teixcalaan series would be visually absolutely gorgeous, but I feel like they're so reliant on language in various forms that a TV version would lose something, plus trying to figure out "alien, but not very" plausible costuming would be a nuisance. The Marlows books also rely so much on interiority that it would be very hard to relate to the characters in the same way on screen.
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1. The first thing that comes to mind is that these pictures of the actor Wang Yang give me tremendous Aral Vorkosigan vibes, and I would love a Chinese live-action version of the Vorkosigan books. Casting Miles would always be hard, but I think the series could be arranged into a cdrama very satisfactorily (ideally without censorship, oh dear. I can't imagine what the Chinese censors would make of Barrayar and Komarr.)
Also a number of police procedural-type mystery series--I think there's already a Rivers of London series in the works? Other good ones would be Cynthia Harrod-Eagles or (as a Japanese quasi-period drama) James Melville. Also Lee Killough's near-future mysteries would be a lot of fun on screen if the budget was big enough to play with.
Also I think Pamela Dean's Secret Country series might work surprisingly well on TV, if the child actors were good enough and the script was faithful to the books; they're very visual.
3. Mysteries that wouldn't do well on TV: Fred Vargas' Adamsberg series, I feel like the particular degree of...mostly benign weirdness...? set up by the text would not be translatable on screen.
The Teixcalaan series would be visually absolutely gorgeous, but I feel like they're so reliant on language in various forms that a TV version would lose something, plus trying to figure out "alien, but not very" plausible costuming would be a nuisance.
The Marlows books also rely so much on interiority that it would be very hard to relate to the characters in the same way on screen.