I would like to see a LITERAL version of the Stephen King/Richard Bachman story The Running Man - an incredible story with a very poetic and powerful ending that was completely fucked up when they made it another cliched action movie.

and IMO the best way to handle the Dark Tower Series would be to make them as a graphic adult cartoon - something like spawn.

Chuck Palahniuk is my favorite author and I agree with you Choke would be an awesome movie and so would Survivor. I think Lullaby would work better on film then in print. As cool as those would be as movies I doubt they could hold a candle to Fight Club.

I just thought of another one that would make a good movie: The Thief of Always. A very good children's book by Clive Barker.

The thief of always would be awesome.
I'd go with American Gods ( I'm not sure that'd be all too easy) and the His Dark Materials trilogy.

There was this book about using sesmic semi's to trigger earthquakes as a terrorist scheme. I forget what it was called and who wrote it but it was a good book nonetheless

All of Chuck Palahniuk's books. I couldn't help myself.

Wow, thanks for the update Lebell. I hope this is gonna be worth the money to go see, not like some other book to movie stuff

"13th legion" by gav thorpe. that'ld be sweet
or maybe terry pratchett's "Mort"

I second that! Although, it would probably be better as a mini-series on a cable channel like F/X or such...

NNO! movies based on books can't, shouldn't, darn well NOT be done! EVER! they always screw everything up.... GRRRR....

oh nnnooooo!... not ender's game!!!! they're gonna kill it... i'm telling you... arrargh...

runs away screaming... rocks back and forth in the corner.... curse you!!!!

great choice. thats what i thought of first.

then i was thinking, what about a LIVE ACTION version of DAVID COPPERFIELD, with say Joel Schumacher or James Cameron directing??

there just isn´t enough DIckens starring Schwarzenegger and Van Damme in the movies these days.... but then i´m thinking... how silly... what a waste of money.

better to stick with the Raymond E. Feist masterpieces.

Don't know if someone already posted this, but I'd like to see "The Hobbit". It's a precursor to Lord Of The Rings. It could be just as good a movie as the LOTR trilogy.

I would like to see homeland by R.A. Salvatore made into a movie but I dont think it could be done.

The Colour of Magic. Hell actually any of the Discworld books.

Favors, Animals and Winning, By Brian Knowes

The Gap series by Stephen Donaldson
The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons

This is going to sound pretty lame but I think Paris : 1919 might be a pretty cool movie or mini-series.

I know it will never happen, because Stephen King will never let the series be turned intoa movie, but i the Dark Tower Series was turned into a movie series, oh man

Completely agree with you. It was a great book, and right before I started it, I got it in my head that I would really like to see another adapatation of a Palahniuk novel. So as I read, I tried to picture it on the big screen. I really thought it would traslate well.

edit - one more thing: is it just me, or would Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Bohnam Carter again be perfect as the lead characters? Norton as the main character (arg, what's his name), Carter as the main girl (arg, what's HER name? :p) and Pitt as Oyster. That's at least how I pictured it as I read.

OK, some great suggestions, and some not so great suggestions out there.

Riftwar would be Awesome, and the Kelewan series would be every bit as good.

Enders game, while superb as a book, is going to lose almost everything that made it worthwhile as a movie. Sorry, but scrolling the cinematics of the book through my mind, I realize that most of what makes it a great book is all going on in Ender's head. Still, we'll see.

Hear hear to the Running Man made right! But it'll be years before anyone would believe that someone would fly a plane into a tall building just becaus...

Nevermind.

Wheel of Time, Dark Tower, Song of Ice and Fire, Belgariad are all too long to be made into decent movies. The same, I think, with Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, a favorite of mine.

Moon is Harsh Mistress (as Manny would call it) is every good book, but world is not ready for ideas yet. Give 10 years, 15. Am <i>bolshoyeh</i> certain screen writer would do worse to <i>gospodin</i> Professor than putting him out airlock. (I really love that book. I don't think they could do it right.)

Thomas Covenant. Hmmm. Now there is a set of books crying out to be a movie. It one of the ideal situations - a dreadfully written book with exquisite characters, settings, and ideas. With the right screenwriter and special effects people and actors (Jeremy Irons as Mhoram? Ed Norton as Thomas? Picking a Bannor and a Foamfollower would be key. Ditto Lena) it could be an improvement on the books.

While I'd like to see a Terry Pratchet book turned into a movie, I think one of the more ridiculous ones would be better. I would be worried about what bad things could happen if they did Colour of Magic or (my favorite) Small Gods.

According to web scuttlebut, Miramax has optioned His Dark Materials, a Theatre in England is going to do a stage production, and the fellow who directed road to Perdition is interested. It could happen. Think the Jesus Freaks went apeshit over Harry Potter? You ain't seen nuthin' yet. For no other reason this should be made into a movie.

I would love to see any of the Greek or Roman war classics made into a movie a la Gladiator/LoTR.

Now, as for my picks:
Terry Gilliam has said that he would love to make a movie out of "The Watchmen". He has also said that, in order to do a good job of it, it would be about 12 hours long. My personal bias is that he could do it in half that without too much drop off in quality or trimming of sub plots. If for no other reasons then that first scene where Rorhsach's alter ego is trooping through the Comedian's blood and because I'm dying to see how he would work the scenes where the history of Dr', Manhattan is interleaving with the present and the "Black Freighter" comic that the kid is reading at the news stand.

My all time favorite movie project, though, would be Zelazney's Lord of Light. They are just now to the point where the required special effects are available.

<a href="http://www.cinescape.com/">Cinescape</a> has a pretty good site for checking out this kind of thing. Unfortunately, it's really frickin' slow this morning, or I'd link in a couple of things.

I would like to see Confederacy of Dunces on the screen.

Chasing the Dime was a really good book I just finished that would be an awesome movie. I think it was by Michael Connelly.