Favorite Book into Film, Not Yet Done?
POSTED BY: Indigo
UPDATED: Tuesday, September 4, 2007 17:39
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I'm gonna add a vote for The Dark Tower. Seven films - one for each book. It'll never happen of course. Hollywood will never have the guts or talent to make it. But I can dream. I just finished the last book yesterday and I'm having withdrawal symptoms. In fact...
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Originally posted by BlackoutNights:
Dark Tower; The only way this could be done right ... and it's how I'd do it if I could ... would be to make the movies [and put it like this for anyone who's not read to series] take up where the books left off. Start off showing Roland with the horn. It'd make deviations from the book more tolerable and acceptable.
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."—Stephen King
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I was just going to suggest that myself. It'd be a neat twist. Sort of an adaptation and a sequal at the same time. King should do the same thing if he revises the books - make the rewrites about what happens on Rolands next journey to the Tower
"Gorramit Mal... I've forgotten my line."
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I'd like to see the Mary Stewart version of the Merlin/King Arthur story made into a mini-series. It is much more human than so many of the over versions. Casting? Who knows!
Anything by William Gibson (yes, I know Johnny Mnemonic was done, but it wasn't really based on one story.)
I also vote for Browncoat author Shanna Swendson's book Enchanted, Inc. to be turned into a movie!
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I would ~LOVE~ to see a movie of Anita Diamant's beautiful novel "The Red Tent". It could be pretty controversial though, given how some Biblical characters are portrayed. Still, it's my all time favourite novel, and I'd love to see it on the big screen.
My next choice would be "The Other Boleyn Girl" by Phillipa Gregory. That would make a cracking movie!
Desktop Hippie: at one with the 'verse
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didnt he do starship troopers
Someday the verse will spit in your soup but at least they gave you soup.
one day
one plan
one mission
one army of browncoats
june 23rd serenity day
-Our mission as browncoats is to make us known.
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Definately the 'Wheel of Time' series, by Robert Jordan. Although this might be a bit tricky since there are eleven books in the main series so far (the twelth and final book is scheduled for release in 2008).
Lots of action, fantasy and prophecy and such, would make a great Lord of the Rings type series.
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Defiantely the Dark Tower Series by Stephen King .
Nathan would make a wonderful Roland of Gilead .
Also Elric by Michael Moorcock , or A good version of The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Leguin would do nicely too.
Bryce
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I swallowed a bug.
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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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I swallowed a bug.
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I'd like to see something of Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence books in film form, although how you would depict a ten-million light year diameter loop of cosmic string on screen would pose a few problems...
Greg Bear's Blood Music: Lots of scope for Giger-esque CGI as the entire population of North America mutates into a bizarre new life form...
Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers by Harry Harrison: A pair of college students accidently create a faster-than-light drive as a joke. Daft but fun space romp. (many years since I read it, might not have aged well though...)
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several Heinlein books have been mentioned- Stranger, Glory Road, The Moon Is- I'd love to see any of those or anything he wrote.
His short story Coventry would be easy- a modern courtroom, modern hospital, frontier/ wilderness that looks a lot like a Firefly planet, the only hi-tech gadjet in the film is basically a solar powered golf cart, and the only special effect is a force-field barrier.
Not sure if there are roles for the BDH's in it. Maybe Ron Glass as the Doctor; Summer as Persephone, his ward; Sean as the civilized protagonist, David.
Most of the rest of the cast are crooks, tough guys, hookers, but none of them are featured roles.
The other critical character, "The Fader", could maybe be played by Johnathan Woodward or the guy who played Mr. Universe.
The other book would be Wilbur Smith's Hungry As the Sea- present day marine salvage novel, Big shipwrecks, lots of water and under water work.
Nathan as Nick Berg, the captain; Mark Shepard ( he's got the accent) as the ship's engineer; Morena as the evil but sexy ex-wife; Sean as the bad guy/lawyer/company man. The girlfriend is unquestionably a blonde, so nobody from our bunch would do.
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It took a while to read through all the posts, but just to update on a few that were mentioned
Enders Game--apperently is in development. It will be a combination of Enders Game and Enders Shadow. The main reason that it took so long to get into development is that Orson Scott Card would not give up creative control. He did not want people messing up his book. OSC found that while writing the screenplay it was too difficult to just write it as Enders Game, because there was too much inner monologue, but by adding in Bean's side of the story it made things a whole lot easier.
Dragonlance: Dragons of an Autumn Twilight--is also in production. It is being done as an animated movie. Both Margret Weiss and Tracy Hickman have a cameo role as inn partrons.
I would also like to see Wheel of Time, Sword of Truth, the Shannara series, and the Dark Elf Trilogy (or any of the ones about Drizzt really).
I also think that the New Jedi Order would be interesting to see, especially since *IF* by some miracle they could get the original actors the timeline fits almost perfectly. It is set about 20 years after Return of the Jedi.
This is just another sign of your tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crotchety...breaks the heart.
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