Books You'd Like To See Made Into Film

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Originally Posted by tentoze

Always thought that Lovecraft's At The Mountains Of Madness would make a terrific film, in the right hands of course. Last weekend,one of my twins said some decent director (don't remember who, I'm not a follower of cinema at all) has it on his plate as a future project, finally.

That is a perfect story to put to film or digits. Probably one of the most disturbing & intriguing stories I've read. Did not know it was being made into a movie either. Del Toro is a good choice although Ridley Scott's work certainly comes to mind. When the ancient beings are first described I could not help but think of H.R. Giger & the foreboding tension of Alien.

[shrinkboy]

somebody above mentioned The Road, by C. McCarthy--i think it is already in development. i am a long time Cormac obsessive, and would nominate Blood Meridian as the book i'd most like to see made film. by the right directors of course.

and The Road, FWIW, is probably THE most gripping, wrenching, spooked, agonizing, can't put it down/must put it down, hurry up and get it over with so you can go back to normal life books i have EVER read. when i finished the last sentence, i almost literally threw it down and stared at it for about 5 minutes.

Cryptonomicon -- this, in particular, would translate well onto the big screen, there's some very Indiana Jones type action in there
Snowcrash -- I've already rewritten a scene to translate it to movie

[electronjohn]

Ringworld--Larry Niven. Who would you cast as Louis Wu?
The Mote in God's Eye--Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Still my favorite re: alien first contact.
City--Clifford D. Simak. Humans are pretty much legends---smart dogs and robots inhabit the Earth.
Rendezvous With Rama--Arthur C. Clarke. Would be spectacular.
The whole dragonrider thing from Anne McCaffrey would be a CGI-fest.

[Sandy G]

I'd like to see "A Catcher in the Rye" made into a movie, but Salinger has never released the movie rights. And if it WAS made into a movie, would you set it in 1949-50, or 2007 ?

[Holst]

Originally Posted by electronjohn

Rendezvous With Rama--Arthur C. Clarke. Would be spectacular.
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When I read that book the state of the art for special effect's would have never been able to do it. They can now. It would be spectacular.

[Holst]

Originally Posted by wajobu

After London is REALLY special as a First Edition, and even a late 19th C reprint. There's just something about an old book.

What always stands out in my mind is that the people are the same as they are today. Society is different, but people remain the same.

I'm an HG Wells fan and I'm always struck by the fact that these storys were often written a century (or more) ago. Replace the telegraph with the internet and it's 2007. The books may be old but the story is still fresh.

[ojTHEd]

Anything by Heinlein.

Stranger in a Strange Land would be incredible. I've always imagined Danny Devito could play an excellent Jubal Harshaw.
Any of the Lazurus Long books, too. They could have a Bond-like mega-series from these!

[pmsummer]

Goodbye to a River
- John Graves (WWII Marine vet takes a month-long canoe trip with a dachsund)

Grendel
- John Gardner (The Beowulf monster as hero)

Gravity's Rainbow
- Thomas Pynchon (V-2s, and post-war Germany, and some 400 characters)

The Oath
- Frank Peretti (evil and a dragon live in the Cascade Mountains)

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Originally Posted by ojTHEd

Anything by Heinlein.

Stranger in a Strange Land would be incredible.

Hard to believe, or should I say grok, that this one has not been made into a movie.

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Originally Posted by electronjohn

The Mote in God's Eye--Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Still my favorite re: alien first contact.

I am indeed among friends. I'll reread this one every 5 years or so. (Crazy Eddie is not a former NY hifi merchant.)

Staying in the Niven/Pournelle theme, I'll add Lucifer's Hammer.

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Originally Posted by Dusty Chalk

Cryptonomicon -- this, in particular, would translate well onto the big screen, there's some very Indiana Jones type action in there
Snowcrash -- I've already rewritten a scene to translate it to movie

Diamond Age too. I was not real enamored with it the first time through but decided to read it again and could not put it down. Amazing how frame of mind affects your inital take.

[rickon66]

Speaking of Heinlein-"Door Into Summer"

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Originally Posted by shrinkboy

somebody above mentioned The Road, by C. McCarthy--i think it is already in development. i am a long time Cormac obsessive, and would nominate Blood Meridian as the book i'd most like to see made film. by the right directors of course.

and The Road, FWIW, is probably THE most gripping, wrenching, spooked, agonizing, can't put it down/must put it down, hurry up and get it over with so you can go back to normal life books i have EVER read. when i finished the last sentence, i almost literally threw it down and stared at it for about 5 minutes.

Say no more about it. I am not finished with it yet. I'm at the point where they found the bunker and have real food again.

I've noticed that there are a number of post apocalypse story fans -

Post Apocalyptic Fiction

This is a great resource for books and films. Some of the websites listed catalog foreign works as well.

[Retro Stereo]

"The Second Son" by Charles Sailor

Read some of the Amazon.com reviews:

http://www.amazon.com/Second-Son-Cha.../dp/0380455676

My copy, I believe, is the second printing and it says on the back "Soon to be a major motion picture by MGM" or somebody. It never became a motion picture.

Rumor has it, this book was ready to become a movie and the Catholic Church stepped in and payed the author some ungodly (no pun intended) amount of money to not only keep it from becoming a movie, but to take it off the shelves completely!!!

Weird huh.......




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