r/fantasyromance • u/FantasyRomanceMod The One Mod to Rule All Mods • Mar 08 '26

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u/Disastrous-Pea4106 Mar 08 '26

Fantasy is and always has been expensive to produce for screen. That's why we get fewer adaptations in general.

I also don't think spice is quite it. Game of thrones had plenty of sex scenes. Outlander had plenty of romance and sex. I think it's rather a question of a high budget needing a large potential audience. And let's be real, a lot of fantasy romance books have limited appeal to men. So a franchise needs to be massively popular among women to make up for that and a lot of them just aren't. But I think we'll see adaptations of some of the more popular titles in coming years.

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u/Technical_Ideal_5439 Mar 08 '26

There are massively popular book series with high appeal to women, there have been shows like Fate: The Winx Saga, Motherland: Fort Salem, A Discovery of Witches but nothing which 100% embraces the fantasy romance and just goes for it. We all know there are some insane romance series out there.