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Which book or books would you like to see be made into a movie?

I'd like to see Long Dark Tea Time for the Soul and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency as flicks...John Cleese would have to do them both of course and Terry Gilliam would be given all the money in the world to do them both.

I'd like to see a true to the book film of HGTG (just the first book).
 
rollmodel36 said:

The Mist by Stephen King, I've been hearing about this one being in production for years now,but it still hasn't been made. It's a short story from his Skeleton Crew collection and one of the creepiest stories I've ever read.
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Fuck that is a great story. Would make an awesome movie. Everytime I finish reading it I wish that it was a whole book instead of a short story... I can't stand not knowing what happened to the characters later on.
 
There was a computer game I would love to see made into a film, albeit with real actors - not CGI. It was called Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller - fucking awesome story, mad twist at the end, one of the best games I have ever played storywise, fucking cool atmosphere as well - although most cyberpunk has that. It actually had Dennis Hopper and a few other well known actors in the game.

Someone mentioned some Christopher Pike books - just about anything he has wrote would make a great movie - I would personally like to see Scavenger Hunt (cool, twisted shit :)), Road to nowhere (absolutely love that story and I think it would make a great movie), and the starlight crystal (very wigged out).

Of course there is still a lot of Stephen King books I think would make great movies, and ones that have been made into movies that should be done better. The Dark Tower series should be made into a big budget TV series.

Also the Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson would make about 6 good movies. Although doing it properly would be a task comparable to actually colonising mars.

1984 by Orwell and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury would make amazing films if done right.

Spellsinger series by Alan Dean Foster would also be a good choice for a transfer to the big screen - quirky characters, witty dialogue.
 
^^^ you know fahrenheit has been done before (i wasn't a big fan, but mainly because it looked so fucking weird). it was a truffaut film, and it was definitely *good*...
 
Originally posted by lostpunk5545
1984 by Orwell...would make amazing films if done right.

have you seen the version with richard burton and john hurt which was made in 1984? what was done wrong about it?

alasdair
 
Originally posted by onetwothreefour
you know fahrenheit has been done before (i wasn't a big fan, but mainly because it looked so fucking weird). it was a truffaut film, and it was definitely *good*...


i liked it. that is i found the premise of what the movie was touching an interesting aspect of what exists in our society. i.e. the whole making people burn all the books that they have aka capitalisms desire to cultivate and sustain an uneducated unmotivated population...
 
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alasdairm said:
Originally posted by lostpunk5545
1984 by Orwell...would make amazing films if done right.

have you seen the version with richard burton and john hurt which was made in 1984? what was done wrong about it?

alasdair
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Nothing was done wrong with it except for the lack of my knowledge of its existence :)

Thanks I'll be sure to check it out...
 
Two I've read in the last year would make pretty good adaptations, if done well:

God Emperor of Dune, by Frank Herbert
---Hell, they've already done the first three...

Blood Music, by Greg Bear
--It would be very tricky to make this and keep the transhumanist theme intact, as opposed to making it just another body horror disaster flick.

"The Wedding Album", by David Marusek
--This is my favorite novella, and I think it would make an outstanding short film, at least.
 
Have you read the hardcover graphic novels yet?
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I have six of each. Five of each that will stay in the plastic. To say they are some of my most prized Stephen King items is an understatement.
 
There is a great comic book by Rob Zombie and they've been promising a movie version of it for years, since before the remake of Halloween. It's called El Superbeasto , coming soon. I wish it would hurry up already. It'll be an excellent animated movie.
 
There was a TV show in the 80's called Sledge Hammer. It was a parody the Dirty Harry-type movies that were popular at the time. The main character would put a loudener on the end of his gun.

Anyway, there was one episode where Sledge's boss says to him "Sledge, you can't do that! Didn't you read your police procedures manual?"
Sledge says "No, I was waiting for the movie to come out"

I've ripped off that joke many times thoughout my life.
 
Insomnia by King would be pretty good too ! I read more of book seven of the Dark Tower series today in the doctor's waiting room. <3
 
I 'm sort of ambivalent on this topic. It could certainly be argued that the sure way to ruin a book is to make a movie of it. I think, as a general rule, art does not translate well across media. Infinite Jest, for example, should never be produced as a film. To even attempt to do so would be a crime. Then again, when I first heard there was going to be a cinematic production of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I was horrified, believing the essence of that book could never be captured in a "mere movie." I was proved wrong.

That said, I'll say Mark Helprin's A Soldier of the Great War, which is my favorite book of the past 20 years, would make an amazing epic film. Same for Stephen KIng and Peter Straub's collaboration The Talisman.

Also, my favorite childhood book, Andrew Davies' Conrad's War is a story I've wished for a movie of for 25 years.
 
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