Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-34787272-20181226194709/@comment-37719459-20190625184823

At this point, nothing short of the greatest miracle in human history will get us a KOTLC movie franchise that is faithful to the movie and well-written and acted.

Someone may have already said this, but...there are only two books left in the series, most likely. It's a basically unknown series - sure, most people that read it become die-hard fans, but the other 99% of society has no idea about it. If a trailer came out for KOTLC, literally everyone would be asking themselves "wat b dis". It would make absolutely NO money at the box office. The creators of the movie would be anticipating this, and they would make it with a SUPER low budget.

Basically, what would need to happen is:

1. KOTLC would become INSANELY popular in the next two years - at least 1000% increase

2. Some tiny company that makes terrible movies and doesn't have anything else to do decides to take a HUGE chance (and no, Disney and Universal would undoubtedly refuse, unless the last few books became #1 national bestsellers, and even then it's unlikely for either to accept)

3. They decide, even though most people haven't heard of the series, to put a lot of money into the movie, making it with good actors, and a good storyline.

4. A LOT of luck is involved.

MAYBE then the movie might make a decent amount of money. But for it to do well, it would most likely need to be a live-action, most likely a soft PG-13 rated movie - it would need to be PG-13 to do well at the box office - and it would just be loosely based off the series. It wouldn't be a faithful adaptation, but the ideas would loosely be the same, because let's face it, the first book wasn't written wonderfully.

A lot of people think it would be best as an animated TV show, but honestly, a TV show would have MUCH more potential to be terrible.