Favorite Book into Film, Not Yet Done?

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UPDATED: Tuesday, September 4, 2007 17:39
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Originally posted by BlueHandTwoByTwo:
I really fell for "LOVELY BONES" by Alice Sebold and "THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHTTIME" by Mark Haddon. Both, I feel, would be unfilmable, as they are primarily narrator-driven pieces and the movies would have to rely too heavily on "Voice overs".

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You know Lovely Bones is next on the plate for Peter Jackson after Kong, right? And Chuck's stuff is all in development hell at the moment - they are insanely unfilmable and take a fair amount of money. They need a package like that behind Fight Club to do a decent job.

I may be imagining it, but I think I read somewhere that Fincher may be looking at one of the books for a mini-series (presumably HBO or Showtime)

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Originally posted by perfessergee:
There have been many great suggestions on this thread, but here's a couple that haven't been seen yet:

Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos series (Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion and The Rise of Endymion). If you haven't read Simmons, by all means do; he's awesome.

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Hard to do, but I'd like to see it done.

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Stephen Stirling's Island in the Sea of Time series.

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This is one of those rare books that I'd love to see done (especially as a TV series), but I wouldn't particularly care if they changed much of the story. I like the setup and a number of the characters, and the story is okay, but I just wouldn't get at all worked up if they changed stuff - just as long as it was changes that made sense.

Let's see, other choices for me, ones I haven't seen mentioned (since I agree with a number others that were mentioned):

Jumper, by Stephen Gould. Sure, it's a simple 'person with powers in a normal world' story, but I really enjoyed it and would like to see it come alive.

I'd love to see something done in the setting of James White's Sector General series, but I'm not sure of any particular book I'd like to see adapted.

Runaways, the comic.


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Hmm... The mentions of "The Lovely Bones" got me thinking about a book that was often compared to it when it first came out, "The Dogs of Babel" by Carolyn Parkhurst. Sad and beautiful book. Would make for a sad and beautiful movie. I don't know about directors, etc. as long as Thomas Newman does the score. Thomas Newman!

And AOman14: Dark Tower! Completely impossible for Hollywood to do it, but man... What a series of movies it would make. Of course it would need to be like six movies long ...at least. A double trilogy. Heh. Yeah right.

But Gina as Susannah? Hmmm. Maybe get a time machine and retrieve a slightly more grizzled Nathan Fillion from the future to play Roland? Or you know...just wait a while. I'm sure 6-7 movies would require decades of preproduction.

And thus this adaptation shall forever remain intangible and wraithish, existing only in my head. Probably for the best...but man! So cinematic!


Same goes for Neil Gaiman's Sandman. Sure it's a graphic novel. But still...novel. And again, unfilmable. But fun to dream about.

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Hmm... The mentions of "The Lovely Bones" got me thinking about a book that was often compared to it when it first came out, "The Dogs of Babel" by Carolyn Parkhurst. Sad and beautiful book. Would make for a sad and beautiful movie. I don't know about directors, etc. as long as Thomas Newman does the score. Thomas Newman!

And AOman14: Dark Tower! Completely impossible for Hollywood to do it, but man... What a series of movies it would make. Of course it would need to be like six movies long ...at least. A double trilogy. Heh. Yeah right.

But Gina as Susannah? Hmmm. Maybe get a time machine and retrieve a slightly more grizzled Nathan Fillion from the future to play Roland? Or you know...just wait a while. I'm sure 6-7 movies would require decades of preproduction.

And thus this adaptation shall forever remain intangible and wraithish, existing only in my head. Probably for the best...but man! So cinematic!


Same goes for Neil Gaiman's Sandman. Sure it's a graphic novel. But still...novel. And again, unfilmable. But fun to dream about.

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Double poster! You jerk!

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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
I'm not really sure. It came around the mid eighties, and I think the idea of resurrecting the 'musical' was deemed silly. Fact is I thought it was really hip. David Bowie was in it and he wrote some of the songs. It was about 60's Britain. I thought it had some style and punch, but everyone else I know just thinks it's trash... It was directed by Juiln Temple who later went on to do 'Earth Girls are Easy'.

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But..Bowie! Now I'm interested. :)

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Yeah I loved that intro to that episode. Just the way he looks down at those goats. Funny.

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Hee!

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I couldn't get that flash to work - I'm on my lowly 56k modem thingy and I've not downloaded the latest version of flash. I'll try at work another time. Thanks though. I read some of the stuff there.

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Heh yeah, when you get a chance, definitely give it a look. It's like a cross between the Disney and the book..very funny. I really like some stuff on that site...I'm looking forward to when it's completely renovated.

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Yeah Big Fish is awesome.... Really moving. I have to admit I wasn't a big fan of the first Batman, although Jack Nickelson was great. No I was more into Batman Returns - that's seriously twisted and Bizarre, and Michelle Pfeiffer is brilliant. Danny Devito as Penguin is tragic and Keaton as Batman is finally allowed to be the suffering hero.

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Hmm. Was Keaton Beetlejuice? Haha anyway, yeah, I now definitely need to rewatch those. I love Michelle Pfeiffer. And twisted and bizarre = of the good.

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Y'know these days though, most probably it'd have to be a CGI Notre Dame :( Not sure I like that idea, but you can see why it would be so....

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Damn...actually being shot in France would be absolutely amazing. I think, as producers, we should demand that. :P Of course permission to shoot inside of the cathedral itself might be a little bit difficult and possibly sacreligious..damn.

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Hey - excellent. Maybe we should collaborate on an adaptation :) Man I wish I could really commit to that. So much work and so little time.. Oh well we can dream eh?

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Oh, to be an important and influential person. Sigh. Maybe I'll reread the book and adapt it..although I'm trying to read it in the French now and it's..kinda hard .

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I'll keep doing so :) As for Sean - you know maybe he's just too nicer a guy for that part. I really despised Phoebus when I read the book! I projected images of all the guys I went to college with who stole the hearts of girls I liked... Ok so a tiny bit jealous but y'know I'm ok now....However that was the power of the book.

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Oh, definitely too nice. But I think it'd be interesting to see Sean pull off a mean mean character. Phoebus was eeeevil. Although he seemed more of just a self-centered coward to me, wherease Fleur really did seem evil to me. I think Liam Neeson would actually do a really good bad/tortured guy as Frollo..although keeping Notre-Dame a non-big-star production would probably be a better idea.

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Woah!!! Yeah you're in for a treat if you can buy these on DVD. They're great fun! They're really Ray Harryhausen's masterpieces, very enjoyable. I have The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad made in 1958 on DVD. Its famous for having a sword fight between Sinbad, and a Skeleton warrior. Similar to Jason and the Argonauts but came earlier so it's not as polished. However the adventure is very enjoyable. Cyclops, Giant Eagles, Genies, Dragons, man you name it it's got it. Fantastic film. However there is one version where Vincent Price is side kick to Sinbad played by Douglas Fairbanks JR - this is a superb film and Vincent Price is hilarious. It was actually thought a bit racey as it had a lot of delicately dressed women in it.

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Argonauts! This sounds like a load of fun..I'll definitely have to check those out as well. What else is summer for, eh? Hee, "delicately dressed".

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Presently no, but I'm going to keep my eye out for one. [/QUOTE

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