BOOKS you would like to see turned into movies:
 

Wheel of Time (Now THAT would be difficult)

Rift War Series by Raymond E. Feist.

Belgarath series by David and Leigh Eddings


my choices.

rift war would certainly be neat, they were fantastic books.

i dunno.. i like book, but the movies almost always lose something when they are made based off a novel. The problem lies in that you cant match one actor to play a role that can match how millions of people perceive a character to look or act.

That being said, i wouldnt mind seeing some Douglas Coupland books be made into movies, but i know they would suck and star Nick Cage.. so maybe it's better they are still text.

I'd love to see the book 'Choke' by Chuck Palahniuk become a movie. He wrote fight club, and this book Choke is even more twisted then that. Would be a cool movie.

I think they should try again with Jean M. Auels' "Earth's Children" series.
"The Clan of the Cave Bear" was mediocre at best, in my opinion.
With todays' computers you could really see what it was like to live back then.
If they didn't want to redo "Clan", then they could start off with the next book in the series, "The Valley of the Horses."
The one after that, "The Mammoth Hunters" would be awesome to behold.
Just to be able to see a mammoth hunt in action would make me very happy.

Edit:
I wouldn't mind seeing a Janet Evanovich "Stephanie Plum" book made into a movie. It's a very funny series.
Her Grandma Mazur cracks me up. :lol:
If you haven't read any of the "Stephanie Plum" books, I highly recommend that you do.
The first one is entitled "One for the Money".
In it, Stephanie Plum gets a job as a "fugitive apprehension agent" (bounty hunter, if you prefer) working for her cousin Vinny, the blacksheep of the family, who has a bail bond business.
It turns out she's not very good at being an agent and the series is all about her misadventures in trying to bring in bail-jumpers from in and around The 'Burg, which is in New Jersey, and her interactions with her crazy family.
A light read, but a very entertaining one. :thumbsup:

a excerpted version of Thucydidies "Peloponnesian War." Just the scope and the drama would make for one of the best war movies ever.... and i'd love to see jude law play pericles...

<i>The Talisman</i> - by Steven King & Peter Staub
<i>River God</i> and <i>Warlock</i> - by Wilbur Smith

And I'd like to see some re-makes of movies from some Robert Ludlum books - every movie so far has sucked (although I haven't seen <i>The Bourne Identity</i> yet)

geek love by katherine dunn.

disturbing humor.

Choke by Chuck Palahniuk. Ah yes, that i would watch. ;)

I would like to see The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen Donaldson. It would most definitely be disappointing as far as comparison to the books, but a great epic movie that would rival The Lord of the Rings, nonetheless.

The Dark Tower, by Stephen King

I think if they actually did a GOOD JOB on the vampire chronicles books. I'd like to see "The Vampire Lestat" made into a movie.

Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"
Douglas Adams' "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (it's been in development hell for years and years now)
and to throw in an obscure (IMHO) one:
Aaron Allston's "Galatea in 2-D"

My first thought was The Dark Tower also, but I'm afraid they would fuck it up like they did with most of the Stephen King movie adaptations.

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, although that bitch Oprah owns the rights so she'd probably star in it and ruin it like Beloved.

Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash would make a really fun movie, IMHO... In fact, it reads alot more like a high-budget action movie than like cyberpunk novel.

Rift War Series by Raymond E. Feist would awesome if they can do it Lord of the Ring style.

Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy - A realistic WWIII novel (at the time it was written). One of my favorite books of all time. This would be an awesome move.

The Thomas Covenant Series. How cool would that be?

Pretty damn cool is the answer to your question.

The OTHERLAND series, though that'd probably be turned into a Band of Brother type of mini-series.

ARTEMIS FOWL but I hear they are already doing that.

and last but not least, my favourite novel of all time BLOOD AND GOLD by Anne Rice.

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.

The Running Man by Richard Bachman/Stephen King in a way that actually resembles the text.

When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One, by David Gerrold, the most criminally overlooked science fiction novel I've ever stumbled across.

I'd like to see M. Night Shayalaman do Farenheit 451.

Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Choke and Lullaby by Chuck Pahlaniuk

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

As it turns out, Daniel Day-Lewis starred in an adaptation a few years ago.

First and foremost, I would like the Harry Potter movies to be REMADE. I saw the first, hated it, saw the second, and resolved to not waste any more of my time and money watching that turd :)

Next, I think George RR Martin's song of ice and fire would make an excellent (albeit very long) movie series. The depth of his characters is fantastic, and it would make a great epic fantasy if done right.

Finally, I'd like to see something by Rohinton Mistry made into a movie. The interaction and dialog in his books are superb, in my opinion.

Damn, GreyWolf...you got all my selections...perfect.

Although I think the "Wheel of Time" saga, needs to be a TV series like Babylon 5.
That's the only way they could get all the damn detail into a visual medium.

Another one which I think would be good as a TV series too,
would be Steven Brust's "Vlad Taltos" series.

But I think the whole "Rift War" saga, and the "Belgariad" could be done in movie trilogies.
And both already have second trilogies ready if those are successful.

I talked to Raymond E. Feist when I met him in San Diego
about him doing a movie with the series,
and he said it would be difficult to get a scene with so many troops attacking.
However this was some years before LOTR came out,
so it should be able to be done now.

The LOTR trilogy has proven the fantasy saga can be done
and be a big money maker to Hollywood,

As Hollywood discovers already written and proven stories & characters from Fantasy & Comic genre,
we will see better and better Action/Adventure movies.

The only decent suggestion in this thread.

Alternatively, if you wanted a bit more Hollywood glitz, you could adapt Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire which is loosely based upon the Battle of Thermopylae. Though to be honest, I'm not a real fan of this book having just finished it. Full of anachronisms and a bit too "trashy", but anything that helps popularize history is good in my opinion.

Finally, Jude Law as Pericles?!! He was approximately 65 when he died of the plague in Athens at the height of the Peloponnesian War. A bit old for Jude Law...

Great suggestion for a film though.

They should seriously consider remaking a film about the Roman Civil War(s). Either that between Marius and Sulla or that between Octavian (Augustus) and Mark Anthony/Cleopatra.

I'm looking forward, tentatively, to the upcoming epic Alexander...

Mr Mephisto

ender's game. perhaps switch lil kids with teenagers...

Dante's Inferno. And not a PG-13 version. I'd want it to go all out with the special effects and graphic imagery.

/me marvels at how awesome that would be.

Also, Paradise Lost.

That would be cool, but I'd like to see a series based on the Rama books.

The Illumnatus Trilogy

Good idea that, I think it would be better just a film version. I would like to see someone give Terry Brooks Shannara series a go, and Alan Dean Fosters Spellsinger, and Terry Pratchett's books as well (yes I know there are some animations of these books but they are not very good).

A good adaptation of 1984

Mostly images, little dialogue. No one talks much in the book

That would be cool, but only if they made the whole series. Book 3 & 4 dragged on and on, but the shadow books were good with lots of action for the big screen.


Otherland would be good too, but would probably be way too long even if the movies were divided like the books.

ENDER'S GAME: The Movie

http://www.frescopictures.com/movies...me_update.html

Carter Beats The Devil by Glen David Gold

Under production, directed by David Fincher, starring Morgan Freeman:

http://www.thezreview.co.uk/comingso...uswithrama.htm
http://www.revelationsent.com/film/rama.html
http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hp&cf=prev&id=1808405622

Oh yes; most excellent!:)

That would rock! And why stop at just Inferno? You could have make the otehr two as well Purgatorio and Paradiso.

That would make one Hell (ha!) of a movie trilogy if done right

This is news to me -- yeah! I hope they film Ender's Shadow next!

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

But only if they didn't completely screw it up.