Let me toss in Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. Another with potential, but not a lot of action, which might bar it from production even were it up for that.

By the way, just in case anybody's interested, I read today that Spielberg took an option on the Tintin books in 1983 and finally decided to take them on. The first film should be ready in 2006, with Hanks as Captain Haddock.

I've been kicking around the idea of "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. I think that book is smashingly hilarious but I'm curious if it could be made into a movie.

huh... "Good Omens" hadn't crossed my mind until you said it. I'd be really interested in seeing it if they made it.

I dunno, I think it could be done... might end up a little campy though.

i heard a little while ago that someone (i want to say john cleese) was interested in the project but funding came up like 17mil short or something?

it's a kids book but it'd make a cool movie: A Wrinkle in Time.

Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse--Robert Rankin.
The Alchemist--Paulo Coehlo
The Life of Pi--whatshisname

I want more Nick Hornby a la High Fidelity and About a Boy.

and Walter The Farting Dog.

Howzabout some Zelazney? Not the Amber stuff - Let's be realistic: that's a 3 to 5 film commitment, but maybe "Lord of Light" or "Creatures of Light and Darkness" or, most especially, "Jack of Shadows". Ooh Ooh! This Immortal.

Walter John Williams: "Knight Moves."

Barbara Hambly's Darwath Trilogy, starting with "The Time of the Dark" which could stand on it's own. I'm thinking Eastwood as Ingold Inglorian, Benicio Del Toro as Rudy, and I'll be Damned if I can think of who I would want for Gil, the Queen (Minnie Driver?), or The Icefalcon.

you mean this ?

I can think of a couple of Tom Clancy's books that would do well to be made into movies.........a few of his have already with mixed results, but I'd LOVE to see "Without Remorse" done, and I think "Rainbow Six" would be excellent as well. :cool:

Here's a few short snips about things talked about throughout the thread..

A wrinkle in time was made into a miniseries in 2003, I didn't think it was that great but kids seem to enjoy it..

I also enjoyed the Stand miniseries.

I can't really believe there hasn't been another Chuck Palahniuk novel turned into a film.

Also, on the topic of Neil Gaiman, I haven't read Good Omens but Sandman could make a good movie. [Also Neil wrote the screenplay for MirrorMask that comes out this tuesday(feb. 14th...) which I'll talk more about in my "on DVD this week" thread... Now there's an advertisement if I ever saw one..]

I'd like to see Redemption of Althalus by David Eddings turned into a movie. It may not be the best book, but It's one of my favorites. The movie covers deserts, forests, Mountains even an ice age so there is always different scenery. I also like that the main character is far from perfect. There's one thing I don't think would be good in the movie is that the lead female character is a cat.. Not a lion, or tiger.. A cat. I just don't think it'd be as accepted on screen as it was on paper.

first of all i'd like to say that it feels so good to be back here,posting and stuff.

i'd love to see Boris Starling's "The Masaih"

good book if you like phsyco thrillers.keeps the mind working.gruesome but very entertaining from the very first page.a real page turner.

I'd like to see The Kinks - Well Respected Men (the Kinks biographies), by Neville Martin & Jeffrey Hudson

i haven't read much gaiman, but omens seems to be written much like other pratchett novels, if you're up for a good laugh, it's definitely a must have.

Just finished Velocity by Dean Koontz, and Carter Beats The Devil by Glen David Gold would make an awesome film

Good news Fredweena. Life of Pi is being made into a movie due to be out in 2007. :D
I'm very excited by this although I hate to see books get slaughtered. However, it's directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunot (Amelie, Delicattessen, City of Lost Children). He is awesome and I'm hoping he can do a good job with it. If you want more info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454876/

A favourite story from my childhood that I'd like to see adapted, is The Phoenix and The Carpet, by Edith Nesbit. The BBC did a TV miniseries adaptation back in the 80's (Doctor Who Style), but I'd love to see a lavish production.

However, I put more trust in the BBC to recreate books, rather than Hollywood. Their serial of Dickens' Bleak house, running on PBS right now is fantastic.

you've got to be shitting me...

Somebody earlier mentioned City, by Cliff Simak. I don't think this would work as a live action film, necessarily, but picture, if you will, a dog in spectacles speaking from behind a podium doing the set-up for each of the eight stories, while a robot stands next to him with a remote control cueing up animated versions of the stories (done by the folks who did Watership Down or by Gennedy Tartakovsky, or, better yet, eight different animators). The only problem is that so much of the book goes on in the head. How, for instance, are you going to get across Juwainian philosphy? I mean, Joe lays it out what it is, but it plays a fairly large part in "Hobbies", and I just don't know if it would come across as what it is, rather than just a diffident guy giving up on a woman. And there's lots of other things like that gong on.

I'd like to see another Wrinkle In Time movie, as the book wasn't done justice in the awful B movie they released. It was endearing but it just didn't hit the spot.

I'm dying to see Phillip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy made into a trilogy of movies in the near future, and a good rendition of Shogun wouldn't go amiss either. (I know they made a really long TV series out of it, but a concise yet juicy movie would do wonders).

Slightly off topic, but I think that Monkey Island (the video game) would be face melting on the big screen. Think singing pirates, Heath Ledger as a cheeky yet ditzy Guybrush Threepwood, and amazing water-warfare based solely on strength of wit.

Off the top of my head, I'd say The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, although I'm not sure how they'd pull it off. The other would be Imajica by Clive Barker. It's another epic that would be nuts to see on the big screen. :)

I think the only way to do Stephen King's The Dark Tower, would be through stylized animation. Presented straight, the western/fantasy setting would look silly, and the story's more maudlin elements, would be unbearable. Epic storytelling demands epic visuals.

I nearly did a happy dance when I found this on Rotten Tomatoes. I enjoyed The Bridge to Terabithia so much more after I was in high school, than when they forced us to read it in middle school. So much potential with the people involved in the production and the book itself. Can't wait!

'Bridge to Terabithia' movie



Maybe they should consider the special effects team from this one for The Life of Pi, eh, Shesus? :D

Fredweena, I'm hoping that the special effects are good. But I have faith in the director...his movies are always fantastic imo. :)
To bad you aren't closer, I'd make a date for opening night of Life of Pi with you. :)

fredweena: Hopefully it's better than this one:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0088853/

I really don't know why they're making that book into a movie again. I never really got excited by the fantasy land; the whole book is about the kids trying to escape from their bad lives and then death. It's a real fucking downer. I need a drink just thinking about it. Why the hell is that a children's book?

Sorry. That book just really depressed me when I was 12 or so and I never really came to terms with it.

Thomas Covenant series (white Gold Weilder)

And

Stranger in a Strange Land

Ringworld would also be wicked cool

a better version of Fahrenheit 451 would be refreshing

2007, right? Maybe I'll have to travel, but that would make me end up crossing the Mason-Dixon again. :lol:

I moved over the Mason-Dixon line. It wasn't too painful, you just have to be careful because they only let you cross it 3 times and then you have to stay. ;)

the blue nowhere-jeffrey deaver
i am charlotte simmons-tom wolfe

Good Omens. BUt only because we've been teased with a Terry Gilliam version of it for so long. Looks like it won't get any backing to get made, though.

Since Hollywood loves to re-make old movies and can't or don't get many
new ideas...I'd like to see a new version of "The Story of O". I would
like to see an unknown actress in the main part and the location be in
England or France.