| I know a lot of people hate it when their favourite books are adapted because the results are usually shit or at least far worse than the books. |
What books would you like to see adapted into movies?
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Snuff, by Chuck Palahniuk.
I'd say all the Michael Connelly books about Harry Bosch but I don't think a movie would do a very good job with them. They should each be adapted for TV - maybe 2x2hrs each, even. There's enough material in them for that. -
pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoMein Kampf -
THEBIBLELOLAMIRITE? -
Spanky 15,037 posts
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Registered 18 years ago1984 with Will Smith as Winston Smith(with a name like that he's gotta be a n -
Biggy316 25,288 posts
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Registered 13 years agoRingolevio -
The Last Wish. That's ignoring the godawful Polish TV-Movie they did of it. -
localnotail 23,079 posts
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Registered 13 years agoThe Chrysalids by John Wyndham
so much so that I have placed a copy in the library of Peter Jackson's production company in Wellington (Three Foot Six). He said he would get round to reading it after King Kong. Still waiting... -
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Registered 20 years agoGirl you have taste! -
Star Wars -
Spanky 15,037 posts
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Registered 18 years agoFemale in liking book with Giant Horsey shocker.
Other than that yeah, i approve.
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Rendezvous with Rama.
I love the book.
Also The Stars, My Destination -
Tonka 31,979 posts
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S.J.Rogers 3,593 posts
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Registered 16 years agolocalnotail wrote:
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
so much so that I have placed a copy in the library of Peter Jackson's production company in Wellington (Three Foot Six). He said he would get round to reading it after King Kong. Still waiting...
Very good call. I love that book and i know that a remake of TDOTT is on its way... \o/
I would love to see: The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul, by Douglas Adams... -
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Registered 16 years agoSomething by Ian M Banks.
Or His Dark Materials. Properly. -
pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI cant help but think the new Triffids film is going to be a stinkturd.
I'd (seriously) love to see someone make The Guardians (John Christopher) into a film. Always thought it was better than The Tripods. -
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Registered 13 years agoSpanky wrote:
Female in liking book with Giant Horsey shocker.
I'd forgotten about the horses actually, I just like the whole post-apocalypse religion gone mad thing. And telepathy, obviously. It's a great book and would make a marvellous film.
Vurt would be good Tonka, but I'm not sure how they would realise it. At all. -
Pretty much anything by Alastair Reynolds -
PearOfAnguish 7,573 posts
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Registered 17 years agodangerpuss wrote:
Also The Stars, My Destination
Definitely this.
I'd like to see someone tackle The Peace War and Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge. Those could be epic if handled well.
Consider Phlebas would be awesome, but I think it would work better as a mini-series. Same goes for a lot of sci-fi books. Fire Upon the Deep as a big budget mini-series could be amazing. -
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Registered 18 years agoMrED209 wrote:
I'd say all the Michael Connelly books about Harry Bosch but I don't think a movie would do a very good job with them. They should each be adapted for TV - maybe 2x2hrs each, even. There's enough material in them for that.
Lead role? I can't help but think of Charles Bronson, but he's too old now. -
S.J.Rogers 3,593 posts
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Registered 16 years agopjmaybe wrote:
I cant help but think the new Triffids film is going to be a stinkturd.
I'd (seriously) love to see someone make The Guardians (John Christopher) into a film. Always thought it was better than The Tripods.
It may well be but here is to hoping its not...
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pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoStainless Steel Rat would be a peach of a film if they got the lead right (alas, the person who would've been perfect for the part - Steve McQueen - was born a few decades too early and died a few decades too early)
Would also love to see someone do Rama properly. -
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Registered 15 years agoThe Catcher in the Rye will make a classic emo film when JD Salinger kicks the bucket. -
glaeken 12,070 posts
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Registered 17 years agoDougs wrote:
MrED209 wrote:
I'd say all the Michael Connelly books about Harry Bosch but I don't think a movie would do a very good job with them. They should each be adapted for TV - maybe 2x2hrs each, even. There's enough material in them for that.
Lead role? I can't help but think of Charles Bronson, but he's too old now.
Yep too old and also too dead. -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoIs he? Blimey, missed that entirely! -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoFuck, it was 6 years ago! Jesus. -
figgis 7,721 posts
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Registered 16 years agodangerpuss wrote:
Rendezvous with Rama.
I love the book.
Also The Stars, My Destination
They are doing a Rama film IIRC
pjmaybe wrote:
I cant help but think the new Triffids film is going to be a stinkturd.
I'd (seriously) love to see someone make The Guardians (John Christopher) into a film. Always thought it was better than The Tripods.
Can't help you but the Tripods is production. -
pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoS.J.Rogers wrote:
pjmaybe wrote:
I cant help but think the new Triffids film is going to be a stinkturd.
I'd (seriously) love to see someone make The Guardians (John Christopher) into a film. Always thought it was better than The Tripods.
It may well be but here is to hoping its not...
/Crosses fingers.
I remember the last time Hollywood had a go at making it. They made a mess of it. The Beeb series was good (just had a repeat showing on BBC4 as it appens) but the effects were a bit shit and low tech. Hopefully they won't CGI the shit out of the Triffids.
The Guardians would be good but the whole class divide thing would probably seem a bit twee and out of place if they made it today. No one really gives a rat's arse about the class divide anymore do they? -
too dead 
wikitrivia: Bronson's family was so poor that, at one time, he reportedly had to wear his sister's dress to school because he had nothing else to wear
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