Topic: what book would you like to see as a movie (Read 18033 times)

gytaar · « **on:** 06 Sep 2007, 11:16 »

i would really like to see a movie version of neil gaiman and terry pratchetts "good omens"
fantastic book...
and i would really like to see a burning car with no wheels hover above the road

and it would be really cool if they could fit the footnotes into the movie somehow

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #1 on:** 06 Sep 2007, 11:29 »

i would love to see someone try to make Dan Simmons' Hyperion series into an epic quadrilogy. key word being "try" because no one could do it justice. but i wouldn't bitch and complain if someone tried and failed; i'd still have the books.

....now that i think about it....the first book could potentially be made into seven or eight movies all on it's own. i don't think this is a good idea.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #2 on:** 06 Sep 2007, 13:37 »

I think both deserve movies...apparently at one point there were plans to have a Good Omens movie with Robin Williams as Aziraphale and Edward Norton as Crowley, and Terry Gilliam was signed on to direct, but it never got through.

I think they need to redo The Neverending Story. Atreyu is supposed to be GREEN. The actor playing Atreyu didn't like wearing the paint. Pansy.

I don't know, man...considering the amount of books I can go through, there are a lot of movies that should be made from books...Stranger in a Strange Land comes to mind.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #3 on:** 06 Sep 2007, 14:44 »

Speaking of Hyperion....

http://www.dansimmons.com/news/movies.htm

tomselleck69 · « **Reply #4 on:** 06 Sep 2007, 16:08 »

blood meridian.

although i dont think mccarthy's writing translates well to film and it would be incredibly difficult to pull off. the world where they do this and they do this right is fictional and highly idealized...

maybe an hbo miniseries?

Cpt.Oats · « **Reply #5 on:** 06 Sep 2007, 21:51 »

I'd love to see another one of Chuck Palahniuk's books on the screen. I read "Choke" a while ago and absolutely loved it.

Postino · « **Reply #6 on:** 07 Sep 2007, 01:23 »

Personally I would love to see Gaiman's Anansi Boys as a movie or Pratchett's Thud. Either would be fantastic.

3Z3VH · « **Reply #7 on:** 07 Sep 2007, 01:39 »

I actually want to see Neil Gaiman's Books of Magic turned into a movie. Timothy Hunter was my hero.

Perhaps even American Gods.

Has Neil Gaiman had any part in any movies other than Mirrormask ?

SusurrusIgnoramus · « **Reply #8 on:** 07 Sep 2007, 10:37 »

stardust

also, he wrote the script (or at least helped) for the upcomming Beowulf. He also wrote the English translation for Princess Mononoke. AND before Neverwhere was a book, it was a BBC miniseries.

3Z3VH · « **Reply #9 on:** 07 Sep 2007, 12:03 »

Wow, now I may just have to go out and watch Stardust

pentaen · « **Reply #10 on:** 07 Sep 2007, 13:11 »

Either Chuck Pahlanuiks most cinematicly Do-able book Survivor, or maybe one of the books by Tim Doresey, his books are a lot like Carl Hiassen but more violent and psychotic.

Caiphana · « **Reply #11 on:** 07 Sep 2007, 13:16 »

I never ever want to see my favorite books as movies.

I am mortified that they're making His Dark Materials into a movie. gagh.

Sometimes, I think the script writers don't even read the book. Like with Eragon. My god. Or Harriet the Spy. You guys remember that?

Mnementh · « **Reply #12 on:** 07 Sep 2007, 17:07 »

I'm pretty sure Eragon sucked. I mean both the book and the movie.

But the movie had comedic value.

Liz · « **Reply #13 on:** 07 Sep 2007, 17:57 »

Quote from: Dimmukane on 06 Sep 2007, 13:37

I don't know, man...considering the amount of books I can go through, there are a lot of movies that should be made from books...Stranger in a Strange Land comes to mind.

If they did it well enough, that could be fantastic.

As for me...
"Phantom" by Susan Kay
"Death Be Not Proud" by John Gunther (it needs to be re-made, anyways)

Baggy · « **Reply #14 on:** 07 Sep 2007, 19:06 »

I'd love to see them turn The Wheel of Time series into an epic multi-installment movie series like Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings but I think there might be far too much information in each book.

I can't imagine anyone finding a way to satisfactorily cram 800-1100 pages into a 3 hour movie.

Lines · « **Reply #15 on:** 07 Sep 2007, 20:15 »

If someone could do a well adapted screenplay of it, I'd love to see someone do a movie of something by Gregory Maguire. Preferably not Wicked, as it's a musical already, but Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister or Mirror Mirror would be interesting.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #16 on:** 07 Sep 2007, 23:25 »

Kafka on the Shore, just to see how messed up they could make all the wierd things that happened in that book

shinytoydragon · « **Reply #17 on:** 08 Sep 2007, 00:18 »

wow, it has been a while since i have read any good books worth making into movies.

IMOP, the HP series didn't need to have screenplays written (or even the movies made, by extension). One book that i would like to see as a movie is Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. damn good book, but due to the huge amount of antigravity/outer space scenes in the book, a lot of CGI would need to be used.

also, the Weather Watcher series might make good movies. i haven't read any of them after the first book, but it was good and kept my interest the whole 5 hours i was reading it.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #18 on:** 08 Sep 2007, 08:42 »

The Ender's Game script has been knocked around and rewritten three times or so, and I think it recently entered pre-production.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #19 on:** 08 Sep 2007, 09:47 »

I'd like to see a rock opera based on Kafka's Metamorphosis.

I also wouldn't mind seeing City Infernal by Edward Lee as a film. And they could do it in about 2 and a half hours as well.

Alternatively the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant would make a pretty good trilogy. Two trilogies actually but they'd have to give it a Lord of The Rings type treatment.

Neuvost · « **Reply #20 on:** 08 Sep 2007, 11:18 »

Quote from: Dimmukane on 08 Sep 2007, 08:42

The Ender's Game script has been knocked around and rewritten three times or so, and I think it recently entered pre-production.

Man, I'm pretty sure I first heard they were making an Ender's Game film five or six years ago. Been a long time coming on that one.

I'd like to see Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles as a movie. Making a collection of short stories into a feature film sounds like suicide, but I think if the right writer and director did it it could be tied all together for an amazing film.

Runs_With_Scissors · « **Reply #21 on:** 08 Sep 2007, 19:33 »

Haters, its a book aimed at young adults, it would make an awesome movie.

Postino · « **Reply #22 on:** 09 Sep 2007, 10:00 »

They need to remake Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 with good actors and a better script. It was an excellent book but the movie was terrible. I would also love to see Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes made into a movie. That would be such a cool and creepy kids horror story.

celticgeek · « **Reply #23 on:** 09 Sep 2007, 11:16 »

Something Wicked This Way Comes:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086336/

sandysmilinstrange · « **Reply #24 on:** 09 Sep 2007, 11:38 »

I would love to see The Secret History done correctly. Or perhaps Momo. That would certainly appeal to my whimsical side and take me straight back to childhood.

Of course, in a way, I don't like to see books that I really love made into movies because it makes it easier for people not to put forth the effort to read the damned book.

3Z3VH · « **Reply #25 on:** 09 Sep 2007, 22:07 »

Quote from: Postino on 09 Sep 2007, 10:00

They need to remake Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 with good actors and a better script. It was an excellent book but the movie was terrible.

They did, it was called Equilibrium.

tomselleck69 · « **Reply #26 on:** 09 Sep 2007, 22:18 »

Quote from: sandysmilinstrange on 09 Sep 2007, 11:38

I would love to see The Secret History done correctly.

I could get behind that.

Like, sexually.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #27 on:** 10 Sep 2007, 00:14 »

The Great and Secret Show. The Clive Barker stuff that has already been done was pretty cool (Hellraiser, Nightbreed, Lord of Illusions) but they all look kind of dated at this point. Something insanely creepy and sexual like The Great and Secret Show or even Weaveworld would make an awesome fantasy film.

bryanthelion · « **Reply #28 on:** 10 Sep 2007, 03:18 »

Quote from: 3Z3VH on 07 Sep 2007, 12:03

Wow, now I may just have to go out and watch Stardust

You should, stardust was a very nice surprise.

Pelay · « **Reply #29 on:** 10 Sep 2007, 03:19 »

Quote from: Caiphana on 07 Sep 2007, 13:16

I never ever want to see my favorite books as movies.

I am mortified that they're making His Dark Materials into a movie. gagh.

Sometimes, I think the script writers don't even read the book. Like with Eragon. My god. Or Harriet the Spy. You guys remember that?

Harriet the Spy was a great book my favorite for a while in fact. But I don't think the movie was terrible, I remember really loving it at like age 10. And the His Dark Materials looks more promissing than the most recent HP. I'm trying very hard not to get my hopes up though, or I'll have another Ella Enchanted on my hands...THAT was disapointing.

Postino · « **Reply #30 on:** 10 Sep 2007, 03:56 »

Quote from: 3Z3VH on 09 Sep 2007, 22:07

Quote from: Postino on 09 Sep 2007, 10:00
They need to remake Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 with good actors and a better script. It was an excellent book but the movie was terrible.

They did, it was called Equilibrium.

No... *smacks alphanumeric generic name on nose* back to your cave for advocating that movie as a Fahrenheit 451 remake.

3Z3VH · « **Reply #31 on:** 10 Sep 2007, 07:56 »

Quote from: Postino on 10 Sep 2007, 03:56

Quote from: 3Z3VH on 09 Sep 2007, 22:07
Quote from: Postino on 09 Sep 2007, 10:00
They need to remake Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 with good actors and a better script. It was an excellent book but the movie was terrible.

They did, it was called Equilibrium.

No... *smacks alphanumeric generic name on nose* back to your cave for advocating that movie as a Fahrenheit 451 remake.

It was... The only difference was what happened because of the wife, and the ending was changed to something a little more 'studio'... I didn't think it was nearly as bad as you seem to.

ThePQ4 · « **Reply #32 on:** 10 Sep 2007, 08:06 »

Quote from: Pelay on 10 Sep 2007, 03:19

I'll have another Ella Enchanted on my hands...THAT was disapointing.

That movie made me want to cry. For reals. I totally fell in love with that book when I was like 13 and have read it so many times...and then they ruined. Ack!

I want to see Self-Made Man as a film...documentary style. It would be awesome. I just finished it yesterday, and I really liked it.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #33 on:** 10 Sep 2007, 11:07 »

Quote from: Dimmukane on 06 Sep 2007, 14:44

Speaking of Hyperion....

http://www.dansimmons.com/news/movies.htm

man, i hope that actually works out. you have made my day, sir.

MusicScribbles · « **Reply #34 on:** 10 Sep 2007, 15:08 »

I'm really disappointed about the Dark Is Rising movie coming out (See Seeker.) because that series was a part of my childhood. This looks like a Nick original movie.

Runs_With_Scissors · « **Reply #35 on:** 11 Sep 2007, 16:52 »

Hey, whatever happened to the Artemis Fowl movie? I thought that was supposed to come out , like, 2 years ago (or more).

jimbunny · « **Reply #36 on:** 11 Sep 2007, 23:39 »

I'll tell you what books Sci-Fi channel should have stayed the fuck away from.

I hear there's a Studio Ghibli film on the books, though I think it'll be a while until I can get my hands on it.

Really, what Terry Pratchett said about Neil Gaiman in the afterward to Good Omens is pretty much true. He's such a visually-inclined writer that most of his books could really come alive on a screen under the right direction (see Stardust).

I, for one, would like to see a good William Gibson novel adaptation. Pattern Recognition, perhaps. It was going to be made, and now isn't, I understand.

Lines · « **Reply #37 on:** 12 Sep 2007, 11:36 »

Quote from: jimbunny on 11 Sep 2007, 23:39

I hear there's a Studio Ghibli film on the books, though I think it'll be a while until I can get my hands on it.

There is. http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/earthsea/ It came out last summer, but now we have to patiently wait for it to come overseas.

Postino · « **Reply #38 on:** 12 Sep 2007, 11:45 »

From what I hear Miyazaki was pissed that his son worked on the Earthsea series. I also understand that Ghibli took a lot of artistic liberty with the film. Personally I am looking forward to Miyazaki's new film Ponyo something or other.

anditsdiscontents · « **Reply #39 on:** 12 Sep 2007, 19:40 »

Gibson's Pattern Recognition fo sho. With Keely Hawes from Spooks, etc as Cayce. I'm sure she could do an American accent.

The Ghibli Earthsea film was FUCKING AWFUL. i was pretty crushed.

I think any movie production of His Dark Materials will fuck up unforgivably by erasing the atheist themes to get funding/audience in the USA.

I'd like to see Artemis Fowl and Ender's Game movies but they're just as likely to be awful as awesome so i'll survive if they never happen.

Lines · « **Reply #40 on:** 12 Sep 2007, 20:06 »

I don't know if I want to see Ender's Game as a movie. They'd have to find a bunch of child actors that could play roles more suited to adults and there would be soooo much CGI. But if it was pulled off well, it'd be flipping fantastic and awesome. I'm curious to see the giant game landscape just as much as the battles.

quietnow · « **Reply #41 on:** 13 Sep 2007, 18:05 »

Yakitate!! Japan: A graphic novel about the adventures of Azuma, who makes bread. Competitively. And has hot coworkers (see above).

Border Reiver · « **Reply #42 on:** 17 Sep 2007, 08:26 »

The Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser would be a very interesting book series to see done as movies.

For those unfamiliar with the concept behind the series Harry Flashman is a coward, bully and general lout, who by mischance ends up having to become the great Victorian hero, and has to play along or be ruined in society. The first boock starts out with young Harry getting thrown out of school and into the Army, and from their his misadventures as he drinks and fornicates his way into and out of the First Afghan War.

Garmr · « **Reply #43 on:** 17 Sep 2007, 08:42 »

Quote from: Postino on 09 Sep 2007, 10:00

They need to remake Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 with good actors and a better script. It was an excellent book but the movie was terrible. I would also love to see Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes made into a movie. That would be such a cool and creepy kids horror story.

I didn't think 451 was a bad movie. It could have been better, I agree, but not a bad movie. Something Wicked... hmm. That could work.

Lines · « **Reply #44 on:** 17 Sep 2007, 09:44 »

Quote from: celticgeek on 09 Sep 2007, 11:16

Something Wicked This Way Comes:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086336/

RobbieOC · « **Reply #45 on:** 17 Sep 2007, 13:03 »

I've been eagerly awaiting a Kavalier and Clay movie for years now. Supposedly it will be made, but it sure is taking a long time.

Hobbs · « **Reply #46 on:** 17 Sep 2007, 13:06 »

A good adaptation of The Stand to screen. If it was done right that would be one of the most epic movies ever.

Also a Discword movie would be great, but only if it was an original tale written by Pratchett for the big screen.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #47 on:** 17 Sep 2007, 13:30 »

Quote from: Hobbs on 17 Sep 2007, 13:06

A good adaptation of The Stand . . .[etc]

WHAT!? You mean you didn't like the shitty, made-for-tv version!? Unthinkable. I love that movie.

shinytoydragon · « **Reply #48 on:** 19 Sep 2007, 22:42 »

Quote from: Hobbs on 17 Sep 2007, 13:06

Also a Discword movie would be great, but only if it was an original tale written by Pratchett for the big screen.

What was Discworld? or did you mean Ringworld? I guess I will go and google discworld now, see what it was/ about.

Boro_Bandito · « **Reply #49 on:** 20 Sep 2007, 21:21 »

The Dark is Risin-- oh wait, snap! I'm so excited for this, now if they could just get some Philip Pullman on to the silver---oh yeah, I seem to hear plenty about that too.

My life is actually complete and I couldn't care less if another movie was made after these two series, as long as they're done well. It's amazing really how I think Lord of the Rings (and I know of the mixed feelings on the subject) really opened the door for epic fantasy stories to be translated to the big screen.

But if I really wanted a book or book series beyond that I'd go with Orson Scott Card's Earthbound series over the Ender Series any day.

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gytaar

Cpt.Oats

Postino

Mnementh

Baggy

shinytoydragon

Neuvost

Postino

Pelay

Postino

Postino

Garmr

Hobbs

shinytoydragon