If Rowling is too toxic, probably best to avoid the Eddings too. Feist's Riftwar instead perhaps

How about Elric of Melniboné?

I would burn entire continents to ash for a good Elric series. Hell, any of the Eternal Champions would be sick.

I really think a lot of piers anthony would be perfect for anime adaptions.

Money talks if profit is the only goal, and all money talks is bullshit.

And the public has overwhelmingly said this is what they prefer.

It's the other way around.

Studios used to take chances on new IP's back in the day when they didn't have to make a billion dollars at the box office just to "break even" (I'm being a tad hyperbolic about that number). There's a clip of Matt Damon on 'Hot Ones' breaking this down. For those who can't (or don't want to) click the link, it basically goes like this:

In the days before the streaming boom, a movie studio could afford to spend a bunch of money producing and marketing an original movie, knowing that what they sank into production and advertising would most likely be recouped in video rentals, in the event that the movie under-performed at the box office. Once physical movie rentals went away, so did all that back end money, and studios became a lot more hesitant to take those kinds of risks. The end result was that studios started buying existing IP's that were already popular and producing those almost exclusively. The final death throes of video rental stores happened in the mid-to-late 2000s (think MCU Phase 1 era), and that's where we saw the big increase in reboots, sequels, prequels, franchises, and cinematic universes.

So basically, the majority of big studios lost a ton of revenue from the defunct video rental business, so they did a bunch of market research to find out what people liked (or rather, what made the most money), then decided that was pretty much all they were going to make from then on. The public ate it up for the same reason they eat junk food or smoke meth; it has no substance, but it has all the right ingredients to trigger a dopamine response.

The fault here lies with the dealer, not the junkie.

I'll add that the cost to see anything is so freakn high right now that no one wants to chance losing so much money on something new that turns out to be a dud. So safe it is!

No, not that he's not in support of LGBTQ, but that he hasn't been outspoken in his distaste for Rowling's support of anti-LGBTQ policy and rhetoric, like the 3 main actors in the HP movies were.

Clayton Bigsby walked so Severus Snape could run.