8 Failed Fantasy Franchises & What Happened To Them

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Amidst the success of the fantasy genre over the past twenty or so years with franchises like Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, even Twilight (as much as some people might hate to admit it) there were actually far more FAILED franchises than there were successful ones.

0:00 - 1:34 - The Era of Failed Franchise Startups
1:35 - 5:07 - Eragon
5:08 - 8:32 - The Golden Compass
8:33 - 10:58 - Inkheart
10:59 - 13:58 - The Mortal Instruments
13:59 - 16:22 - A Series of Unfortunate Events
16:23 - 18:40 - The Spiderwick Chronicles
18:41 - 22:25 - Percy Jackson
22:26 - 23:59 - Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children
24:00 - 27:33 - Okay, What's Your Point?

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[karstenvoigt]

Percy Jackson (together with Troy) taught me one thing: Sean Bean doesn't die, when he's playing someone Greek.

[yourstruly]

Percy Jackson taught me that Hollywood can destroy your beloved books at a young age

[gravityfalls]

One problem with Miss Peregrine's, is that the film changed a lot of the plot points, included 2 characters that arent in the books, and changed the characters ages and powers.

[mnplumberman]

Miss Peregrine's would be good for TV. The only problem is the aging issue with the children/actors.

[joshchavez]

Wish you had covered “I am number 4” or whatever that series was called

[rinsuaa]

spiderwick chronicles was my gateway to western fantasy and i loved the books so much as a kid, it’s one of the reasons i’m obsessed with d&d and fantasy in general now. the books were also my introduction to tony diterlizzi’s wondla series and holly black’s other works like cruel prince, both of which i love even now. they could never make me hate u spiderwick chronicles!!!

[baileyv]

Very proud to be 1 of the 3 Inkheart fans watching!

[meganhirschi]

It’s always sad when the magic and uniqueness of a book is turned into something generic. The biggest one of these EVER in my opinion was, “The Dark is Rising”.

[UPCherry]

Eragon crushed me as a child. Imagine being a nerd, and nobody likes your weird nerd crap, but then Nickelodeon makes a movie based off your favorite book series. They butchered the movie so bad, the REASON they couldn't do a sequel is because they forgot to put the most important scene into the first movie: Where Eragon blesses a child with magic. This set up the next book. Without it, THERE IS NO sequel D: Arya was supposed to be an elf princess with long black hair and that was a HUGE deal. I promise they never read the books when making the movie

[glennwilliams]

I had to laugh at the Hunger Games as a sitcom because I took all the HG characters, put them in NYC, in their 30s and made it an episodic comedy. In other words, a sitcom.

[tokarukora]

The golden compass is absolutely not intended for children. It is not a happy fantasy film, it is DARK. And that is how it should be.

I was very surprised that Vampire Academy didn't make it into this fine video. Maybe next time.

[ConnorWiederich-hrzu]

People have also talked about a failed adaptation called The DarkTower. There is also the live action The Last Airbender movie that fans like to forget that was supposed to adapt the 3 seasons of the animated show and now there is the live action show.

[sorbbae]

i feel like the mortal instuments is, so close to actually being a success, it just doesnt have the required level of polish.

[fernisaperson]

I so desperately want a full length Miss Peregrine’s show. Never finished the full series, but the books I did read were so incredible and absolutely dripping with an eerie, uncanny style

[BleistiftSchwert]

As Germans me, my family and Friends were CRAZY about the Inkheart being adapted into an international movie with Brandon Fraiser and Paul Bettany (who was just incredible sexy in this movie).
The author of Inkheart is a very famous children book author in Germany and has written some groundbreaking books for the German market making many, many kids starting to read

[barbiquearea]

Can't believe you didn't mention Artemis Fowl, which Disney tried to adapt in 2020 with plans on following it up with more movies. But the first film fell completely flat on release that it killed any of their planned sequels.

[katdoral]

I suspect Eragon's primary issue was the truly egregious adaptation flop. For the people that read the books, it's basically not even remotely similair to the movie.

[WarpingFist]

I don’t know if it’s even possible for a new young teen fantasy series to kick off ever again.

[lewiswilliams]

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children…Definitely wanted a second film.