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 LittleAlbatross29:
I have to ask off subject of the movies - were you happy with the Ending of The Dark Tower ? It is one of my most beloved stories & would love to hear your opinion.
Bryce
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Perhaps the most non-Hollywood ending I have ever seen/read. I would be amazed if this were made into a movie and the ending wasn't changed. I agree with another poster who was a bit disappointed with the portrayal of the Crimson King and the way he was dispatched. Also, if you have read any of King's other works he weaves bits of the Dark Tower into almost every story. If I remember it correctly(from Insomnia) there were supposed to be other things in the Tower but they were strangely absent at the conclusion of the series.
Back on topic. I would like to see Michael Moorcock's Elric series put on film. The conclusion of the story is another non-Hollywood type ending.
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Originally posted by jossisagod:
Anything Star Wars:Young Jedi Knights or beyond. I'm uncertain about who to cast though.
Another great series of books. *hangs head in shame for forgetting about it*. It's too bad Jewel Staite has already done Kaylee because I think she'd be a perfect Jaina Solo. For anyone that hasn't read the series she's a Jedi with a knack for machinery. She built a working TIE Fighter out of scrap and added a sublight engine to it, all by the time she was 15.
I'm not sure, but the way I read it Jaina fixed up a crashed TIE from The Battle of Yavin(mostly in one piece, with damage to the Radiation/Solar collection panel.) Did I read that wrong? It wouldn't be the first time!
For Jaina, I'm stuck in a tie(pun intended) between Lacey Chabert and Jewel. from to cover art Lacey looks more the part, but jewel played a machanically inclined young adult.
And, yeah, dye his hair a little darker and heath would almost be Zekk.
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Elric of Melnibone - Michael Moorcock
The Hawkmoon Trilogy - Michael Moorcock
Druss the Legend - David Gemmel
Bloodstone - Karl Edward Wagner
Darkness Weaves - Karl Edward Wagner
Several of the Games Workshop 40k novels would make a good film as well.
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Another that I think would be a great movie would be "The Immortals" by Tracy Hickman
This book is nothing like the rest of his work(which I really enjoy). It takes place about 4 years from now. The government creates a virus to kill AIDS called VCIDS; however it becomes worse than the disease it was ment to kill. It was written in 96 and has been out of print for years, but is being re-released by Margret Weiss' company. This has been one of my favorite books.
This is just another sign of your tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crotchety...breaks the heart.
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Originally posted by aussay:
Theres a series of books by Jasper Fforde about a character named Wednesday Next.
The day after, actually: Thursday Next. It's a British pun; Americans would say "next Thursday".
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She's a literay detective in a parrallel universe where literature crimes are a big racket. Its really funny and a good read and would make great movies.
My opinions:
The series has dropped off. Only the first novel, "the Eyre Affaire", was wonderful. The year it came out, I gave a copy to everyone on my Christmas list (as I did with Firefly). The rest are good, but I hesitate to recommend them to someone who hasn't read the first one, in case (as with Firefly) my opinion of the series is influenced by how much I love the characters.
The wonderful thing about it is the language. While I agree with your first two points, I doubt that translating the books into the visual would add anything, and I fear it would subtract much.
I recommend his website http://www.jasperfforde.com/. Among over thirty links are: "Book Upgrade Centre", "Special Features", & "Readers Parodies". Another is to a bookseller who has signed copies available. If you don't need signed (or, as I usually type it, "singed") copies, you can get recent hardbacks, and all paperbacks, from Amazon.com, by going through Haken's link on the home page of this site.
For a taste of his language, Czech out this excerpt from the "Book Signings & Talks" page:
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FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS
March 2031: Asteroid belt and Saturn (technology permitting) More details TBA.
October 2042: 81-year-old Fforde talks to other members of old people's home: "I used to be a novelist, no really, I did. Is it lunchtime?" More details TBA.
July 2175: Semi-lifelike cloned Ffordesque replicant to tour Gamma Quadrant in the Cygnus Cluster. More details TBA.
Setember 3431: Much improved Fforde cloned back to life to face execution for sedition; all works consigned to erasure.
Janfebry 8910: Last evidence of Fforde's books vanish forever with the removal of the 'Formerly Thursday Street' plaque from what is now W23-61 Rd in the conurbation known as EuroWest-79.
12972: Visiting archeologists from Thraal-7 discover incomplete copy of Well of Lost Plots from excavation in landfill. Deciphering takes seven hundred years and a further four hundred years of academic scrutiny before being accepted as historical fact.
His last two books were in the Nursery Crime series, not Thursday. But the upcoming (July 2007 * ) "First Among Sequels" will be the next Next.
* Only J K Rowling, & sometimes Stephen King, get prescheduled release days; others get release months, if they're lucky.
* A prescheduled release means two things:
a) the publisher is still selling shed loads of his books
b) he must deliver the manuscript (ie he must stop rewriting) by a certain date
For those lucky enough to live in one of the cities on his next book tour, I urge you to go listen to him; he's one of the most entertaining speakers I've ever heard.
Speaking of which, another is James Elroy (X rated), whose "the Cold Six Thousand" would make an excellent source for a film. Two of his other novels, "LA Confidential" and "the Black Dahlia", were adapted as movies.
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Originally posted by Gavida:
Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
I absolutely loved Lucifer's Hammer. Such great visuals and such a great story. I was frankly surprised when all those meteor movies hit the theaters [Armegeddon and that other one I forget the name of] and Hollywood completely missed LH.
Deep Impact, but who's counting. Well, I am, for one. And the first travesty to hit the big screen after Lucifer's Hammer (1977) was Meteor (1979). Even though it starred Sean Connery, it sucked, and I knew it meant that Lucifer's Hammer wouldn't be made into a movie for a long time.
That turned out to be twenty years, and now Armageddon (and that other, more forgettable, one) have probably pushed it back another twenty (on the Gripping hand, a third of that has already gone by).
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The Dark Knight Returns- Frank Miller
Dare Devil: Man without Fear- Frank Miller (I know parts of it were in the sucky movie starring Ben Assface)
Without Remorse- Tom Clancy
John Clarks story is the most exciting and saddest of them all. That and he's a bad ass.
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Originally posted by seryn:
Oh! I'd love to see the Thursday Next as a film, I used to hang around in the Fforum on Jaspers website, and it was a constant source of discussion.
Problem is, it could be done, and it would be funny and cool, but whole chunks of the book are so book-centric that it would loose most of what made it unique, I mean, how would you film the scene in Mycrofts shed with the bookworms eating the words and crapping out capital letters and apostrophes? on the page its so funny I had to stop reading the books on public transport, but I couldn't think of any way to translate it to a visual medium.
Thought I'd taken the time to read through this thread, but must have missed this one. My post earlier today rather belabours your point.
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And Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel, I started writing a screenplay for that I wanted to see it done that much.
Work on it 'til it's beautiful, then shop it. It's sad but, Susannah Clarke suffers from a medical condition that makes it impossible for her to work long hours. She isn't likely to do a spec screenplay. She has written but the one novel (and I'm certain her publisher wants another), plus eight shorter pieces that have been collected in "the Ladies of Grace Adieu & Other Stories". For a review, I direct your attention to the Washington Post's Book World, on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Ladies-Grace-Adieu-Other-Stories/dp/1596912510/s
r=1-1/qid=1167355706/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-4601595-7417263?ie=UTF8&s=books
If that link doesn't work for you, try this one: http://SusannaClarke.notlong.com
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Possibly Jim Cary,(if he pulled another Truman Show and really restrained himself) as either Norrel or The gentleman with thistle down hair.
Alas, I fear that the GwtTDH would bring out the Lemony Snicket in Carrey.
I admire your taste, and ambition, and wish you the very best of luck with your writing, and life in general in the new year.
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Angles and demons by dan brown
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