Favorite Book into Film, Not Yet Done?

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FERREL

Thursday, June 30, 2005 5:19 PM

Startide Rising - David Brin
Doomsday Book - Connie Willis

SICKDUDE

Thursday, June 30, 2005 5:23 PM

"The Invincible", by Stanislaw Lem. It's a hard enough book to find since it hasn't been released in a while. But I always thought it'd be great as a movie.

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THESOMNAMBULIST

Thursday, June 30, 2005 5:34 PM

Notre Dame by Victor Hugo.
Although there are two versions of this book, and a Disney animated
movie, none of them have stuck to the real tragedy of the original
story. Plus none of them explored 'Notre Dame' Cathedral as a
character. So I'd love to see this made into a film. When I was
younger and dreaming of being a director this was my pet project, I
even started doodling a graphic novel of it. So this is very much top
of my list of Books into films.
In terms of cast and crew :
Director: Tim Burton
Music: Danny Elfman
Cinematographer: Stephan Czapsky
Adaptation: Richard Gravanese(sp) (He wrote Fisher King)
Cast:
Quasimodo - Ron Perlman
Frodo - Gerard Depardieu
Phoebus - Jude Law
Esmeralda - Morena Bacarin or Lenor Varela

That'd be my first choice, my second would be Don Quixote also
known as the unfilmable book, as I'm sure poor Terry Gilliam would
agree with.
No one seems to have been able to adapt this book by Cervantez. It is
a difficult character, but I reckon it's possible these days.
Director : Jean Jeunet
Music : John Williams
Cinematography :Vittorio Storaro
Adaptation: Richard Gravanese

Cast:
Don Quixote :Antonio Banderas
Pancho : Dominique Pinon (From Delicatessen)

Also I'd love a TV show adaptation to:
One Hundred Years of Solitude. I think this would work better than a film as it is such a layered book it would need the proper time to develop all the characters, and TV could certainly do this.

Lastly a concise TV show about :
On Thousand and one Nights. With a new cast and crew every week. Telling these great fantasy tales. Some great directors could have a go at directing a show every week. That'd be fun.

Those are my choices for now. :)

TheSomnambulist

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GUNRUNNER

Thursday, June 30, 2005 5:47 PM

'Nimitz Class' by Patrick Robinson, one of the best Naval-Techno Thriller-Mystery novels I've read. Also the sequel ‘HMS Unseen’ disserves to be made in to a film. Too bad Robinson slowly turned in a bigoted, liberal bashing (military bashing too?!?) Tom Clancy.

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THATWEIRDGIRL

Thursday, June 30, 2005 6:15 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Notre Dame by Victor Hugo.
Although there are two versions of this book, and a Disney animated
movie, none of them have stuck to the real tragedy of the original
story. Plus none of them explored 'Notre Dame' Cathedral as a
character. So I'd love to see this made into a film. When I was
younger and dreaming of being a director this was my pet project, I
even started doodling a graphic novel of it. So this is very much top
of my list of Books into films.

That'd be my first choice, my second would be Don Quixote also
known as the unfilmable book, as I'm sure poor Terry Gilliam would
agree with.
No one seems to have been able to adapt this book by Cervantez. It is
a difficult character, but I reckon it's possible these days.

I second! btw, I'd love to see a Notre Dame graphic novel.

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JADEHAND

Thursday, June 30, 2005 7:04 PM

Well, These would take more than one movie:

Raymond E. Feist's (Rift war saga) at least. followed by the 2 in between books and then the Serpent war saga. Great series, 10 books.

L. Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth (another 10 book series) Very funny. But keep those scientology freaks away from it. Silly actors, haven't heard he made the whole thing up on a bet, and it's all psychology with a few words changed.

But since those are unlikely, I'd Love to see Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchet's GOOD OMENS: the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch. I think It'd make a great movie.

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THESOMNAMBULIST

Thursday, June 30, 2005 7:08 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
I second! btw, I'd love to see a Notre Dame graphic novel.

Cool. Nice to see we agree on books too twg!
:)
...One day I hope to return to the idea of the graphic novel. It'd mean a change in drawing style but I think it'd be fun to return to pencil and ink, and a more sketchy style, and get away from the fussy thing I've got going at the moment.

.....one day.... maybe.....

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Somnambulist

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CRIMSONSTAR

Thursday, June 30, 2005 8:06 PM

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

I heard a rumor that Ender's Game was being made a while back, but I haven't heard anything about it going into production.

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FIREFLYWILDCARD1

Friday, July 1, 2005 2:06 AM

Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern would make an excellent series of movies, or maybe HBO miniseries.

Sword of Shadows by J.V. Jones would make a good fantasy trilogy. I love this trilogy (although we haven't gotten the 3rd book yet). The first two books are awesome. And I'm hoping that the 3rd comes out this year.

FOURTHTROIKA

Friday, July 1, 2005 2:30 AM

Well, it's not quite my favorite book, but I'd like to see someone do a properversion of The Food of the Gods by H.G.Wells. It's one of his lesser known works. Bert I. Gordon filmed a "portion" of the book in 1976. But I'd like to see the whole book covered. With the big budget versions of his stories coming out in recent years (War of the Worlds, The Time Machine), who knows?

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