Eddings’s Belgariad and Mallorean were favorite bedtime reading for my kid - and so easy to read out loud for me. Sadly, I’ve read that his controversial personal life plus the underlying racism suggested against pretty much all the non-white civilizations makes it impossible in a global movie audience.
I don’t see any connection to Harry Potter stories or characters
I read Eddings as a kid and mostly enjoyed them, but I hadn’t even heard about the “controversial personal life”. Reading now, he did time for Child abuse after caging up his adopted son, the details are pretty horrific. I can’t see this ever getting made into a movie.
The Culture series of books from Iain M Banks have always struck me as being ripe for dramatisation, and it looks like they’ve recently been picked up by Amazon. Consider Phlebas is probably one of the weaker books, but it’s a space opera, and there are some scenes that would look amazing if done right. Let’s hope they don’t butcher it.
Nevewhere, by Neil Gaiman, but he’s too much of a lightning rod now.
Always wished they’d made Neuromancer. but I think it’s time has passed.
Oh, I wasn’t aware of any of this. Back then there wasn’t much of an Internet…
Edit: about the child abuse, wow
About the racism, i read 2 things, and this second one is so dumb I don’t really buy it
Totally possible he was a bit of a racist, but might as well throw out everything from Homer to Kendi just to be safe.
Added to read list but 972 pages 
I’d like to see Haruki Murakami’s early work get made into English speaking film, but I’d take a Japanese version with subtitles. Even shorts of his short stories would be cool beyond belief, such as The Second Hamburger Robbery would be awesome.
I fear Hollywood would schmaltzify them into some bullshit romance film a la The Postcard or some well–schmaltz.
I’d like to see some of Haruki Murakami books and short stories made into movies but it just seems hard to move them from novels to movies
whoa-- that was so Murakami!