Books you'd like to see as movies
 

It seems a lot of really good books are being turned into movies lately, with varying degrees of success. This thread is a sort of "wish list". Feel free to cast people into the movies you'd like to see. For example:

L. Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth series, starring
- Brad Pitt as Jettero Hellar
- Val Kilmer as Soltan Gris

Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, starring
- Me as Rand
- Edward Norton as Mat
- ? as Perrin
- ? as Egwene
- Kirsten Dunst as Elayne
- ? as Nynaeve
- Sean Connery as Thom
- ? as Moraine
- The Rock as Lan

Can anyone help me fill in the blanks for the Wheel of Time chars?

"Outside, even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere."

I'd love to see a decent adaptation to 1984, the George Orwel masterpiece. With the populatiry of philosophical/political/religious/paranoia/futurism movies like The Matrix, it might be time for people to get something of real substance out of hollywood. It's a shame that Kubrick isn't around to give it life.

Before you go wishing for another L Ron Hubbard adaptation, just remember the travesty that was "Battlefield: Earth". They took the first half of the book (The only good segment, I barely made it through the last 500 pages) and played some kind of sick prank on sci fi fans everywhere.

As for me, I'd love to see another adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath. Sure, it wouldn't beat the 1940 version but can you picture a better Tom Joad than Jim Caviezal? Or a better Preacher than Harry Dean Stanton?

Something else for the wishlist is an adaptation of Peter F. Hamilton's 3500+ page Night's Dawn trilogy. With:

Joshua Calvert - Jason Carter (Babylon 5)
Ralph Hiltch - Kiefer Sutherland
Syrinx - Michelle Branch (Don't ask me why, just think she'd be perfect)
Alkad Mzu - CCH Pounder
Quinn Dexter - Gary Sinise

Not that that movie will ever happen, but a man can dream...

I'll be the wet blanket and say that I wish NO books to be made into movies. They're never as good as the original, and a good 80% of the time suck ass.

I agree that the majority of book adaptations are pretty awful, and there isn't one I've seen that's as good as the book. But I wouldn't want adaptations to be abolished completely simply because there are films that do justice to their source material and stand on their own merits as movie masterpieces. For example:

-The Godfather
-The Thin Red Line
-Solaris
-Lawrence of Arabia
-Don't Look Now

Remember; we wouldn't have these if people didn't adapt books into movies.

I would love to see the Wheel of Time series made into a movie or a mini-series at the very least, but since the books are so long and the scope so large, it would probably pale in comparison to the books themselves.

Even so, I would love to see a mini-series adaptation of them....maybe from the folks at the Sci-Fi channel.

I wouldn't want known actors to play the part as I would much prefer an unknown cast with maybe a 'star' or two thrown in for bit parts.

I would also like to see a couple of the "Incarnations of Immortality" books made into little mini-movies just to see what they would be like.

the black company as a mini serries or tv show on sci fi

a Game of thrones as an epic by peter jackson

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

I don't know who should play whom...but it would make an excellent movie..

any and all Palahniuk books.

Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire

Aliens vs. Predator: Prey

I know they are making a movie from the book "The DaVinci Code" but I also just finished the prequel to that book..."Angels and Demons". I thought it was a great story....so much going on, just short of 24 hours.

On second thought...it would be difficult tell that story in 2 hours or so......Let's make it a TV show or a mini-series.

isn't the Davinci Code being made into a movie? that's what i thought i heard

i would like to see 1984 made into a movie (as someone had said above), and also Jumper by Steven Gould. i must have read that book like 10 times a few years back

I *would* put a Clive Cussler book, but since that has finally become a reality....

I've always thought that The Catcher In The Rye would make a good movie, what with all the shenanigans that Holden gets into in the book. It would be hard to make it not depressing as hell though.

1984 was already made into a movie starring John Hurt as Winston, and it was actually not too bad.

I would love to see any of the series written by R.A. Salvatore involving Drizzt D'Urden tured into movies.

Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series
L.J. Smith's The Vampire Diaries & The Secret Circle series
Maggie Shayne's vampire books
The Forever King
Jostein Gaarder's "Maya," "The Solitaire Mystery," and "Sophie's World"

a tad off topic but id have to say the adaption of shawshank redemption was pretty damn close to being just as good as the short story of it

edit: and for a movie i think "The Stand" by stephen King would make an interesting movie(s) although i think it would be really really long

Two other people beat me to the Incarnations of Immortality series - that is great.

Arther C. Clarke - The Light of Other Days
Chuck Palaniuk - Choke

skinnymofo-Have you seen The Stand miniseries?

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I think American Gods has the possibility of a great movie in it, and I also think it would be butchered beyond watching if it was ever greenlit.

On another Gaiman note, Stardust would make an excellent animated movie.

A book called Chasm City by Alliester Reynolds would be an amazing movie. It's a sci-fi mystery, one of the finest ever written imo.

Odd Thomas and The Taking are two Koontz books I'd like to see on screen, but really, they're much too cliched.

All in all, though, most books I've enjoyed I'd prefer never to see as movies. Too hard to translate, and too much hollywood bullshit.

True, I suppose it'd technically be a remake, but I'd like to see something that isn't 50 years young. 1984, out in 1956, was a trmendous movie, and for it's time it was quite simply amazing. Now that the movie industry has taken over, it might be interesting to see it's reemergernce. A new 1984 might also help to open some very closed minds.

The Art of Kama Sutra. ;)

Although I've pretty much outgrown my StarWars fanboy phase, I would enjoy seeing a lot of the books turned into movies (done well, of course). The original cast could play their characters, since they did a pretty bang-up job of it.

Ender's Game Series by Orson Scott Card. But I am frightened by the thought that Orson Scott Card thought Jake Lloyd (Mannequin Skywalker) was a good actor.

How about the UK movie, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (that's why it didn't show up on your IMDB search) that was released in 1984? It's actually a pretty good movie - I have the DVD.

Hmmm....how about Hemingway's (Ernest) "Old Man and the Sea"? It is relatively short and easier to adapt.

Maybe Edward James Olmos as the "old man"? I dunno...it's late.

Hey, wasn't there a whole bunch of Indiana Jones serials? That would be cool.

Or, does anyone remember the youth books "The Three Investigators" (I think it was a Hitchcock series or somethin'). It would make a cool TV series for "Nick" or something.

Ok, it's late....

Apparently not too late for me. Jupiter Jones and Bob...Crenshaw and...the other guy. That was a decent series for children.

Myself, I'd like to see The Elfstones of Shannara. I MIGHT be getting Confederacy of Dunces, but talk about that seems to have died again. :(

Man, I LOVED those books when I was around, I guess, 11 or 12. I'm waiting for my nephew to be old enough and I'll try to track down copies to give to him.

I'd like to see Pat Conroy's "Beach Music" made into a movie. I can't remember the book that well since it's been a while since I read it, but I really liked it (and the movie adaptations of his books "Prince of Tides," "Lords of Discipline," and "The Great Santini" were pretty decent).

Wow, I thought I was the only one who read those books (Three Investigators). SO, do you guys think it would make a good series (tv) for pre-teens and/or teens?

Jupiter Jones
Robert Crenshaw (records & research)
Pete?

[QUOTE=Slavakion]I'll be the wet blanket and say that I wish NO books to be made into movies. They're never as good as the original, and a good 80% of the time suck ass.[/QUOTE

I agree. It's rare to have an adaptation that is a work of art in its own right. I don't know why movie creators don't focus on creating new original works that use the strength of the medium rather than adapting things created for an entirely different medium. Books are written with text in mind - they rely on things like 3rd-person narration, metaphor, allusion, and all the other qualities of books to tell their story. Movies have different strengths, and new stories should be created that use those strengths, instead of just plundering the work of authors.

Bingle

As a long time Cussler fan, I was really excited when they decided to do Sahara, but geez the people they have picked for the cast UGH!!!

I would love to see Outlander by Diana Gabaldon as a movie or miniseries, done right I think it could be awesome.

/The Stand as a mini series was totally awesome.....one of the best I've seen

I've heard news of them making a movie for this, and Card actually wrote the screenplay. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400403/ I hope they capture the true spirit of the novel, and don't just turn it into a Hollywood-ized action flick.

I would absolutely love to see Stephen King's Dark Tower series turned into a (hopefully high budgeted) series. I read rumors that the creator of Samurai Jack wants to make an animated movie based on the books, which would actually be pretty neat I think.

I got curious enough to Google it. I was wrong, it was Pete Crenshaw and Bob Andrews. I only read a handful of them, like Purple Pirate, Monster Mountain, Wandering Cave Man, but they were good stuff. I think it could make a good tv series, and there are over 50 (some apparently written in the late 80s and some German ones from the 90s).

Good luck on tracking down some early "The Three Investigators" books. I've priced some in the 3 figures area.

I agree that they would make a pretty good series.
Especially if they get their secret headquarters right.

I would hope if they did do a series, they would include their Alfred Hitchcock-like mentor.
Or was he supposed to actually be Hitchcock?

Wow you guys,

Kadath, Fremen: you are taking me down amnesia lane! I'm starting to recall the books and how I pictured the "secret headquarters" in my imagination.

The Hitchcock thing always confused me: In the later books, he actually helps them a little. SO, did Hitchcock sponsor the series? What was his involvement?

Man, they need to reprint! I got all mine from the library when I was a kid. 3 figures, so they were popular! Hmmmm....maybe we can start a revival.

So they were still being written in the late 80s and 90s. That means there are books I haven't read!

no i havent, i had heard they were making something for the book a few times but i never knew they actually did it, i always passed it off as here say

The Stand miniseries was made 11 years ago in 1994

regarding the thought that most books turned into movies aren't good, well, most movies in general aren't good.
also, every kubrik film was better than the book, 2001, the shining, a clockwork orange, etc.
i'd like to see someone tackle dellilo's white noise. that would be a laugh riot! or nabokov's pale fire.. that would destroy...! i can't think of a good kinbote, but if anyone can, i'm all ears.

I haven't read 2001, but The Shining is definitely a better book than a movie, by far. The movie doesn't even get the characters personalities right. As for A Clockwork Orange, the movie did bring the graphic violence and such to life but again the book was far more detailed and interesting.

So i just finished reading The DaVinci Code. I know they are already making this into a movie. It sure reads like one. I actually thought the writing wasn't that great. But the characters are made for a movie. Woulda liked to seen someone besides Hanks get the main role, someone a bit more aloof and sort of spacey as that is what the character is about, but we shall see.

Does anoyone else have thoughts about this?

I have just started the DaVinci Code.....now that I know Hanks is in it, I think Its gonna be real hard to read the book and "see" him....I hope it doesnt ruin it for me

Wow, dude. It would.

Maybe I just have the guy irrevocably connected to Palahniuk in my head, but I think Ed Norton would be a brilliant Tender Branson. You'd need somebody who could do fractured-but-smooth for Adam... Let's see... 15 years ago I'd have said Dennis Leary. Who's today's Dennis Leary?

Oh, wait... Tender and Adam are twins, aren't they? Okay, now we're in trouble. One actor who can do both roles... Geez. Hm. Val Kilmer's a little old for the part, but he could play it. Maybe Jude Law, with some really good dialect coaching.

I think most Palahniuk books would make good films, but you'd have to have a director/screenwriter who was willing to be as true to the essence of the thing as Fight Club was.

Diary would make a decent film. Choke would be okay, although it goes in a lot of different directions. Lullaby would be GREAT on film.

I would disagree strongly about The Shining. The two forms are both good, each has strong points, and I wouldn't say either is better. As for 2001, it was a movie before a book and Clarke helped write the screenplay before he wrote the book to flesh out some other things, so it doesn't apply to the "book turned into movie" category.

There were 2, one with Spencer Tracy that had little to do with the book if I recall, and one with Anthony Quinn that was pretty good.




I'd love to see anything by Neal Stephenson, but I don't think Hollywood would ever do any of his stuff justice. Maybe as Anime or cartoons.

Hey cool, I'll go put it in the Netflix queue.

Thanks man.,

I would love to see the Wheel of Time book series finished, before they make it into a movie. =p

Ender's Game could be a spectacular movie. I know they are already planning too release as one sometime soon, but I just don't think it's going to be as good as it could be.

I'll wait until George is finished with Song of Fire and Ice before I start wishing for that one, though I'd Love to see what they would do wityh Gregor Seldane.

Black Company, On the other hand... Hmm.

Croaker - Bearing in mind that the first impression that people get of Croaker is Psychopath or Child Molester, and then thinking about the cover of "She is the Darkness", but bearing in mind that, at least at the beginning he is neither so old or so badass as he becomes later, one of the Sheen Boys. Probably Emilio, since he carries of crazy intensity a bit better. I could see Oliver Platt doing it justice, though.

Raven - Quiet, intense, and deeply frightening. Strangles his wife in public in the first scene - Chris Noth.

One Eye - Need a spry, older black man, slightly short, doesn't mind makeup or playing a witch doctor. That is a tall frickin order. To make it worse, you need a guy who could pass for his brother to play Tom Tom in the first act. I am stumped.

Goblin - Face Like a Frog, smallish, but very smart and cunning. Howzabout David Patrick Kelley.

Silent - Tough one. In 4 books he has one line, but he's always there. He should have a really menacing smile, and a certain grace. I think Michael Wincott (the head bad dude in The Crow) would do admirably.

Captain - The Captain is a greying bear. I'd go with Jerry Orbach if he were still around. Kris Kristofferson might be perfect, but he might be too long in the tooth.

Leiutenant doesn't have a lot of speaking parts, but is a no nonsense kind of guy. How he gets to be a sailor and a seige engineer, I have no clue, but that implies brains and flexibility, and yet a very by the book approach.

Shifter is as large a pro wrestler as can be found. He's going to be dubbed in any case. Same deal with Catcher - all that's required is someone who can make a full leather bodysuit look good, but not overact - with the voice changing every line and the mouth rarely visible, it'll have to be dubbed.

Howzabout Bruce Campbell as The Limper?

I'd like the Brunette from Sex and the City as Lady.

That would absolutely Rock. Samurai Jack was probaly the single greatest animated series of the last 10 years. With that eye and the kind of understated approach to realism, that could be absolutely perfect (Particularly if Mako stays alive long enough to voice the Crimson King. He was awesome as Aku.)

That's the thing right there. The movie ISN'T the book. People who have read the book get all attached to the book as what "really" happened, and lose sight of the fact that both the film and the novel are works of art.

The Shining is one of the best films of all times. You really can't say that The Shining is one of the best novels of all times. Same with 2001.

Personally, I would love to see Snowcrash turned into a movie. I can't imagine what director would be able to do it justice, but I would love to see someone giving it a try.

I can imagine the following cast:

Hiro Protagonist: B.D. Wong would be perfect.
Y.T.: Not sure here, any ideas would be great.
Raven: Vin Diesel, with some makeup work? He has the size and attitude, but not the looks.

Not perfect choices, maybe, but the first people that came to mind. I'd have to give it some thought.

<b>ratbastid</b> speaks the truth. ;) The thing is, if LOTR and Fight Club can be done and done well, then any book can be done well. Books and film are separate works of art, but they are related, and it is possible to do a successful film that completely betrays the meaning and purpose of the book. Dune, Congo, The Scarlet Letter - I don't know if any of them were successful works of art as films, but they all butchered their respective books.

Should one get all bent out of shape about this? I don't know. I guess it depends on one's emotional investment in the book. I wouldn't watch a David Lynch movie for 10 years (no shit) because of what he did with Dune (my favorite book). On the other hand, he would have been the perfect director for Congo, which is the first adult fiction I ever read. And I'm kind of happy that the Scarlet Letter got butchered. I hated that fvcking book.

The Shining, however, is the perfect example of doing it right, because there is Kubrick's definitive film, which takes huge liberties with the book, and then there was the TV movie with the guy from Wings, which tries to be letter perfect, and is also excellent, but not as good or memorable as Kubrick's.

Books to movies? Strangers by Dean Koontz, The entire Dark Tower series by Stephen King, Enders Game by Orson Scott Card and Paragon Lost by Dave Duncan

The Ringworld Series by Larry Niven can be made into one single movie.

I think they should remake L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth, and make sure it isn't complete shit. I don't think anyone of the pre-production and production even read the goddamn book. The book was amazing, the movie was nothing like the book. The only things that the movie had correct from the novel were a handful of names, places... and that was it.

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse was an amazing novel and that would be a great movie.

1812 is just begging to be made into a big, sprawling, lavish tv mini-series. You've got drama--Dolly Madison saving precious works of art as the British attack--spectacle--the burning of Washington D. C., action--naval battles. It's nearly as important to our nations formation as was the Revolutionary War, but it gets short shrift.

No clue as to casting.

Can you imagine them trying to produce all of her Outlander books into movies? :D
Confusion supreme!
I'd like to see how they handle Jamie's prison stay, and when he's attacked by "Black Jack" Randall. :|

Great series. :thumbsup:

Where's Waldo (Spielberg)

Cars And Trucks And Things That Go (Bruckheimer)

Everyone Poops (Tarentino)

something tells me that part would be changed :lol:

hey they did 3 of john jakes books (north and south, heaven and hell, and love and war)..actually they did others too...the bastard, the rebels, and the seekers...surley they could do hers!!!

I have to echo the sentiments of anything palahniuk has written. his style lends its self very well to cinema i think


Survivor has been a dream of mine to see since the Fox picked it up shortly after it became such a success. sadly i can't say the project is ever going to be reborn.


i'd love to see "The Bretheren" by john grisham made into a movie, definitely an excellent story.


I have a hard time picking good actors/actresses for movies so i'm not going to try and cast anyone.

William Gibson's Neuromancer would make an astounding film - plus, there are the 2 other sprawl books that could turn into a cushy deal for all concerned.

As long as they got the locations and the feel of the books onto film, I think it would be fantastic.

I'd have to agree that Chuck Palahniuk's other novels would make great flicks..

Also, The Contortionist's Handbook would make a great movie, especially with someone like Edward Norton playing the lead. Christopher Nolan (Memento) would do a great job directing it.

Also, House of Leaves by Mark J. Danielewski would be interesting to see for shits and giggles.

Spares by michael marshall smith would make a visually stunning film.

Neuromancer would be great as a film!

WOW!! I forgotten all about that book series. Those would make for excellent films. The books fame would get the same following as LOTR. and the special effects would get the geeks in.

Maybe Peter Jacksin could do it. After he gets done with 'King Kong' that is.

First off, there is no way that Kirsten Dunst should play Elayne, mainly because I just don't find Dunst as attractive as Elayne is supposed to be, and Thom is supposed to be lanky, Connery is a little to hefty.

The Rock would make a good Lan.

I think they would need to do some open casting and find some new talent for this series, because there just aren't any current stars that pop into my head as being perfect for most of those roles.

But it would be a cool movie series. :thumbsup:

I would like to see Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series put into movies.

As a movie-goer and being a man who knows talent when he sees it, I can assuredly say that the rock would never make a good anything unless it was a jockish character...sorry there's a reason he gets put into action films. I would think you guys wouldn't want to see your series slaughtered, unless you're really holding "Crossroads of Twilight" against him. :P

I'm reading a book right now called "Under The Volcano" by Malcolm Lowry which might be interesting as a movie, but there's a lot of internal dialogue that would either have to be translated as 'mind talking' or just long drawn out sequences of the Consul sitting at the bar drinking.
Anyone ever read this book? It was a selection of my 20th C. Lit class that I bought but never read. I just recently went though my old University texts and found it. Hopefully I get past page 50.

EDIT* Under The Volcano was made into a feature film, directed by John Hughes, starring Albert Finney in 1984. Thank you IMDB.

Stephen Hunter's series featuring retired Marine sniper Bob Swagger is really good. It might be too painful to see the screenplay butcher one of the original works, though. I'd like to see Point of Impact, but any of the Bob Swagger works would be great to see on the big screen, like Black Light, Time to Hunt, etc.

Swagger would have to be played by Billy Bob Thornton. I'm unaware of too many other actors that could capture that persona equally well.

You guys really make me want to go pick up one of Palahniuk's works. Working too many hours right now to ready something, tho...

Ok I would like to see Earthsea re-made. Just seen one version of it that an American company made, and I am hoping there is a special place in hell for those who turn a brilliant book into somthing as awful as this.

I've heard from several people that the miniseries was bad. I think I'm going to search Netflix for it anyway, because The Stand is my favorite book by him.

Comic books count? If so Morbius! :D

http://www.comune.modena.it/glamazon...la/morbius.jpg
http://www.samruby.com/Villains/Morb.../Morbius01.JPG

Asta!!

The Aeneid by Vergilius really needs to be made into a huge Hollywood epic. Not just the Dido parts, the whole story. It shall be lavish and confusing and subject of much dorkish nitpicking.

I really second Snowcrash, great sci-fi book, and I think it would translate well

I'd like to see at least some of Harry Turtledove's World War series be made into a movie(s).

http://www.ffbooks.co.uk/images/n2/n10120.jpg

An alien invasion force comes down during World War 2. The Axis and Allies form a (very) loose alliance against them.

That would be the most incredibly amazing thing ever. First off, I've always thought making 'The Dark Tower' series into a movie would be rad but I just dont see that being possible. It would be too big of a budget and there are just some things I dont think they could pull off right now. I mean, look at what Peter Jackson did for 3 books. We are talking about 7. But if Tartoskvy (sp?) created an animated series of it....now THAT I can totally see. Samurai Jack is absolutely my most favorite animated series I can remember. Im dying for season 2 to come out on DVD already because Cartoon Network isn't playing them anymore :(

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet would make an excellent film. That could be on Oscar contendor if done well.

. . . isn't any movie an oscar contender if it's done well?

not really. Some movies just don't even get regarded as Oscar material even if it was done well. There are some really good Sci-fi movies that have been made but never get considered for Oscar contention. I am sure there are movies we can all agree that were done extremely well but didn't get any recognition. Pillars just happens to be a book that is Oscar material in the making (atleast...I think so).

You are talking to the wrong people.... :D the miniseries was very well done... The casting was interesting... not some choices I would have made but other choices were dead on... The miniseries followed the book pretty closely definitely one of the better King book into movies there are.

While the book wasn't that great, Michael Crighton's Timeline would make for an interesting movie... especially for the special effects.

The one I've looked forward to the most is already being made into a movie. It's called Empire Falls by Richiard Russo. It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction a few years back.

The cast is pretty phenomenal: Ed Harris, Helen Hunt (her I can do without...although she'll be great in her role), Philip Seymore Hoffman, Robin Wright Penn, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Aidan Quinn and Dennis Farina.

I can't wait...

I totally agree.

Other books I'd like to see as movies: Mary Stewart's Merlin books, Jean Auel's Children of the Earth series (that awful movie with Darryl Hannah does not count!)...I'm sure there are more. I'll have to survey my book collection.

They've already made it, mal. Timeline (2003) :)

From what I've heard and read, it doesn't compare favorably with the book.

I've seen the movie, but haven't read the book yet.
I thought the movie was ok. I can pretty much watch grass grow and enjoy it, though. ;)

American Gods by Neil Gaiman has the potential to be a great movie, but pulling it off would be hard.

I'll back the idea for Ender's Game, though, again, hard to produce and I don't know that it would come off with nearly the same feeling as the book.

And what does anybody think about making a movie based on The Satanic Verses? I think that could go places if they got the right director... Then again, it has the potential to go completely haywire as well.

And I'm waiting for Halx to write a book based on everything that happens here on TFP so that the movie can get kicked into production as soon as possible. :D

the darktower series written by stephen king, awesome books, would be awesome movies!

i dont think they could be made into movies. They would have to be LOTR caliber. The budget would be a bazillion dollars. Somebody mentioned in the post the idea that Tartokovsky (the writer of Samurai Jack and The Clone Wars) might make an animated series. I can see that being awesome.

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. :)