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

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Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon would make a great movie. It deals with the end of the world,good and evil. It's in the same vein as The Stand,but I think it's a little better.
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.
 
I thought that Stephen King's "The Langoliers" would've been a good movie. It's from the same collection of stories as "Secret Window" (Four Past Midnight), but I remember someone telling me they thought it was already made into a movie a while back and it really wasn't that good.

I think the book "Ender's Game" would be a really cool Sci-Fi movie, but it would probably be fairly expensive to do a really good job on it.
 
Langoliers was a made for TV movie and it sucks so bad its good IMO (yeah, one of those . . .)


Personally, I would like to see We The Living by Ayn Rand made into a film . . . . that or Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.
 
the painted bird by jerzy kosinski. a disturbing, but very unique story (loosely based on jerzys life). and im convinced "into the labrynth" by dead can dance would be the perfect soundtrack to it.
 
Da Vinci Code.. and supposedly it is being made into a movie.

I would like to see another Palahnuik book made into a movie (hopefully by the same director too.. he seemed to capture the his tone and "feel" really well). Probably Choke.. or Diary.

Tom Robbins Still Life with Woodpecker wouldn't be bad with the right director or cast. I know his "Even Cowgirls get the Blues" was done, but it was a horrible transition to film.
 
before it was made, i would have said that michael crichton's timeline would have made a great film. but then they made it :/

i'd really like to see another go had at camus' the outsider (though i've never seen the original visconti version), and i'd also like to see some more of edgar allan poe's stories adapted.

btw, there are some other book/film-related threads, too:
the book is always better than the movie...
best adaptation
 
Anything by Lee Childs. This guy writes solid, solid thrillers with a great lead character. All the best elements of Andrew Vachss and Andy McNab.

And of course, the holy grail of modern cyberpunk, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. To do it right they'd need, amongst other things, the CG team from Final Fantasy, easily $80 million and about three hours, but fuck, if they pulled it off I'd cream my goddamn jeans.
 
The way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman

If there was a movie I've never heard of it, but I know at one point he was trying to adapt it into a screenplay. One of the greatest books I've ever read.
 
Wiretrippa said:
And of course, the holy grail of modern cyberpunk, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. To do it right they'd need, amongst other things, the CG team from Final Fantasy, easily $80 million and about three hours, but fuck, if they pulled it off I'd cream my goddamn jeans.
You stole my thunder :(
That's what I was going to suggest as it is my fave book of all time and I have read it cover-to-cover like a billion times.... I just never get tired of it. =D
 
This so cheesy...But, as a chick flick, I would like to see Yellow Raft in Blue water turned into a movie. it's so cool how the author tells the story from the daughter's point of view, then the mother's, then the grandmother's. I would like to see it brought to film.
 
Negative said:
Langoliers was a made for TV movie and it sucks so bad its good IMO (yeah, one of those . . .)


Personally, I would like to see We The Living by Ayn Rand made into a film . . . . that or Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.


marry me... please?


I would like to see most of Ayn's work put to film but it's interesting that you specifically suggest We the Living. I think this would be the easiest of her novels to produce. The others have character development that took 1000 pages to complete fully... and being that their development was the most essential part of the escelation of the events in her novels, this would be difficult to do well.


I would also like to see The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. It was a story written by Ronald Dahl, and although I know almost everything he has written has been put to the film, I think this one is really being left out.
 
Great thread!

1.) "The Forever War" (Joe Haldeman)

2.) "The Silmarillion" (I've always envisioned it as a several-part miniseries covering the First Age)

3.) "A Canticle for Liebowitz" (Walter Miller)

4.) One of the "Death Dealer" books. ;)

5.) Any Anne McCaffrey Pern novel!

6.) A remake of the "War of the Worlds" that is more true to Wells' novel

7.) A much better version of Wells' "Time Machine" :p

8.) "Vathek", by William Beckford, though I think it would be very difficult to make a version that people would take seriously...

9.) "The Stake" (Richard Laymon)

10.) Christopher Pike's teen novels "Remember Me," or "Die Softly."

11.) L.J. Smith's "The Vampire Diaries"

12.) Robert Silverberg's "At Winter's End"

13.) A series of short films based on Poe's most famous works ("Amontillado,"House of Usher", etc.)

14.) A movie of Eugene O'Neill's plays "Beyond the Horizon," or "The Emperor Jones"

I could go on and on, really. :)
 
AmorRoark said:
I would also like to see The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. It was a story written by Ronald Dahl, and although I know almost everything he has written has been put to the film, I think this one is really being left out.

Great choice!! Roald Dahl is one of my fave all time authors.... growing up I purchased every one of his books and still own them to this day.
This could be adapted to film so easily and I agree, it has been seriously overlooked.
 
*bump*

i don't have much to add to this atm, but i'd like to see if anyone else does.

however, i would like to see some of etgar keret's short stories filmed one day - as a short film - (i'll try myself, eventually) - he writes really quirky stuff, and in the right hands i think it could turn out well. alternatively, he could just write a novel and someone could do that, which i'd definitely prefer :)
 
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