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Originally Posted by ablethevoice
Literary works?? LITERARY works????
All I ever see are film versions of either comic books, "graphic novels" (one very small step above a comic book), or video games.
If only Hollywood would adapt a real book to film...
I can think of several real, live BOOKS with more than 16 pages which would make fine movies - with the right screenwriter and director at the helm:
ARTHUR C. CLARKE
Rendezvous With Rama
Childhood's End
The City And The Stars
ALAN DEAN FOSTER
Spellsinger
To The Vanishing Point
Bloodhype
(Short stories I think would convert well into films)
THEODORE STURGEON - Microcosmic God
ROBERT HEINLEIN - The Roads Must Roll
A.E. VAN VOGT - The Weapon Shop
RAY BRADBURY - Mars Is Heaven!
LESTER DEL REY - Helen O'Loy
JAMES BLISH - Surface Tension
TOM GODWIN - The Cold Equations
IMO, many of these books/stories are so visually powerful they might best be tackled in the "Shreck/Beowolf" super-realistic CGI method - so long as the story isn't sacrificed in the name of sheer spectacle.
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I'd love to see Hollyweird do Gibson's "Neuromancer", if they can.
Another would be Samuel R Delany's "Nova", way, way ahead of it's time.