With the rise of prestige television, maybe it's time to reach for a different beloved early 2000s movie, with enough source material to provide a decade's worth of television. The promise of new adaptations is that they will be more fateful to the books, but with imperfect but beloved adaptations, is there any urgency for the titles? Hollywood would be better off adapting a series of books that maybe were meant to be a franchise but were possibly too unwieldy for the medium of film. Both literary series were previously adapted into major film franchises, each one grossing over a billion dollars that, despite some quibbles, are genuinely beloved by fans of the source material. There have recently been announcements for television series based on both the Harry Potter books and the Twilight novels, as if this is once again the early to mid-2000s. After the recent years of rebooting television shows from the 1980s and 90s and adapting a movie or two into a show, Hollywood has set its next reboot target: popular franchises based on popular book series.
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