Books you'd like to see made into movies.

[Feck]

I'd love to see a big-budget, Peter Jackson version of Michael Moorcock's Elric books. ALL OF THEM!!

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[AshtonBlack]

I'd love to see a big-budget, Peter Jackson version of Michael Moorcock's Elric books. ALL OF THEM!!

OOOOOOOOH with a Hawkwind sound track
( I think I just came a little )

Anti Hero are the best type of heros!!

[Random Mutant]

I'd like to see Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series made into movies. It's LOTR for adults.

However I doubt they would ever be done properly. There is far more in them than LOTR (4-5 times as much?) and a lot of it is the main protagonist's self doubt and self loathing. Internal narrative is always hard to present on screen.

OTOH, his Gap series would work well- space opera using Wagner's Rings cycle is a classic storytelling device. Hero becomes villian becomes victim and becomes hero again. What's not to like?

Those Discworld treatments are a travesty IMO. Visually sumptious yes, but still feeling like an episode of Dr Who. Corny and B-grade in other words. I don't agree that the wizards should be presented as such idiots. They are actually very smart but completely narcissistic and totally lazy. Death looks like someone wearing a mask, and his eyes only occasionally glitter with a blue star. Or was it a blue supernova? The acting is generally weak, and I get the feeling it's all directed at a 13 year old child.

Which of course is the mistake George Lucas makes with his Star Wars scripts. Just because the first movie was enjoyed by teenagers, doesn't mean the rest of them need be aimed at that level. As the audience grows up, so too should the plot. What we got instead was an increasingly insulting Kidult series with so much eye candy and so little drama and character development. Ewoks, Jar Jar, midichlorians... the list is endless. The first Star Wars was cool but anything subsequent to that (including the episode 4 remaster) is just an ocean of Fail.

Back on topic. Another book I'd like to see made into a movie is Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance. A road trip with a difference. If you haven't read the book, do so. It will change the way you look at everything.

[orpheus]

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Except I can't decide if I really do or really don't want them to make this into a movie. So much of it happens off the page, in your own mind. It's extremely visual, but I think the sense of ominous vast labyrinthine spaces is far more powerful if imagined than if seen.

[Sisifo]

There are many books that I can't believe that no film has been made. Especially, considering how hungry the film industry is for good Sci-Fi movies, and how bad they deliver.
Ender's Game, and Asimov's Foundation would top the list, but other unbelievable forgets are Rendezvous with Rama, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, (I would slap the face with Ursula Le Guin's books to those who say they don't like Sci-Fi).


As my personal request, if they would make a mini or maxi series of the first six Chung Kuo novels, I think I would live in a permanent pre-orgasmic state.

[CookieJon]

Rendezvous with Rama

I thought that would make a good movie while reading it too, but when you think about it - nothing actually happens in the entire book!

The BBC did a radio dramatization of the first novel in the series in 2009... worth checking out if you can track it down.

[orpheus]

Rendezvous with Rama

I thought that would make a good movie while reading it too, but when you think about it - nothing actually happens in the entire book!

The BBC did a radio dramatization of the first novel in the series in 2009... worth checking out if you can track it down.

Yeah, but think of the visuals - such fantastic descriptions in that one.

[CookieJon]

Rendezvous with Rama

I thought that would make a good movie while reading it too, but when you think about it - nothing actually happens in the entire book!

The BBC did a radio dramatization of the first novel in the series in 2009... worth checking out if you can track it down.

Yeah, but think of the visuals - such fantastic descriptions in that one.

Yeah - it'd sure look great!

[Sisifo]

Rendezvous with Rama

I thought that would make a good movie while reading it too, but when you think about it - nothing actually happens in the entire book!

The BBC did a radio dramatization of the first novel in the series in 2009... worth checking out if you can track it down.

Yeah, but think of the visuals - such fantastic descriptions in that one.

Yeah - it'd sure look great!

It would be reasonably easy to make an adaptation with a more filmable human plot. Combining with the character's interaction in first book in the mars trilogy (red mars), it would be a wow-wow-wow.

[Mephistopheles]

I want to see Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None made into a thriller/mystery movie. A new one, that is, where direction and cinematography can actually do the story justice.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

"Weaveworld" by Clive Barker. (Horror fantasy.)
I would think maybe CGI technology has progressed enough to do something with it.
Also "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever" (fantasy) by Stephen R. Donaldson.
I imagine the whole set would be too massive for a single film to encompass though. The final tetralogy has yet to be completed.

[JimC]

I'd love to see a big-budget, Peter Jackson version of Michael Moorcock's Elric books. ALL OF THEM!!

Absolutely! Plus:

* the entire "Wheel of Time" saga

* Glen Cook's fantasy series that starts with "The Black Company"

* all of Arthur Ransome's books

* David Weber's Honour Harrington series...

[JimC]

"Weaveworld" by Clive Barker. (Horror fantasy.)
I would think maybe CGI technology has progressed enough to do something with it.
Also "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever" (fantasy) by Stephen R. Donaldson.
I imagine the whole set would be too massive for a single film to encompass though. The final tetralogy has yet to be completed.

Oooohhh, I meant to include the Covenant books as well, even though they are rather theistic...

[CookieJon]

"Weaveworld" by Clive Barker. (Horror fantasy.)
I would think maybe CGI technology has progressed enough to do something with it.
Also "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever" (fantasy) by Stephen R. Donaldson.
I imagine the whole set would be too massive for a single film to encompass though. The final tetralogy has yet to be completed.

This thread is bizarre - the last page is as though you're all channelling my bookshelf; Rama, Foundation, Ender's Game, Elric, Left hand of Darkness,Thomas Covenant (Brilliant!!) and now Weaveworld (which I'd LOVE to see as a movie - although not if it turns out like those godawful Hellraiser movies).

Although, I suppose they are all the old classics in their field.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

A series of "Stainless Steel Rat" films.
I loved reading those books when I was young.

Weaveworld (which I'd LOVE to see as a movie - although not if it turns out like those godawful Hellraiser movies).

Yeah. It would be hard to do it justice, I think. - Some things are just better left to the imagination.