Books to Film - What would you like to see?

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MSA

Thursday, July 30, 2009 7:09 PM

Dresden Files... I know they did that brief " alternate universe tv show" but I'd really love to see the books done and done right

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PHOENIXROSE

Thursday, July 30, 2009 8:00 PM

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Originally posted by MsA:
Dresden Files... I know they did that brief " alternate universe tv show" but I'd really love to see the books done and done right

Word. A show that actually followed the books would be awesome. I think it would translate well to the screen, too, unlike my very favorite trilogy, which I don't think could ever be done.
And I was so excited to hear that the Sword of Truth books were being made into a show. Too bad the show bears pretty much no resemblance to the story. Grr. Arg.
This sounds silly, but I'd like to see a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. I know Watterson is dead-set against that, and I know he has good reason to be, but I think it would be super fun, myself.

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KWICKO

Thursday, July 30, 2009 8:11 PM

The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. LeGuin. I know, it's been done (early 80s, PBS if memory serves), but it could be done newer, better. A miniseries would be just about right for it.

ECGORDON

Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:27 PM

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. LeGuin. I know, it's been done (early 80s, PBS if memory serves), but it could be done newer, better. A miniseries would be just about right for it.

It was remade in 2002 by A&E, and they butchered it as much as they did Andromeda Strain, and I fear they're going to do the same with The Prisoner.

TDBROWN

Friday, July 31, 2009 12:09 AM

Any or all of H Beam Piper's "Fuzzy" Novels would be good. There's a Frontier feel to the sunstone mining camps that would appeal to the Browncoats out there. For those unfamiliar, the titles were "Little Fuzzy", "Fuzzy Sapiens", and (posthumously) "Fuzzies and other people". They were compiled as "the Fuzzy Chronicles" in the late 1970s.

Ditto to all the Heinlein suggestions,

Asimov's Robot Detective Novels would be Shiny; "Caves Of Steel", The Naked Sun", "Robots of Dawn". The Foundation Series would make a great TV Show or miniseries, IMO.

Arthur C Clarke's "Songs of Distant Earth" would make a great film, provided a genius like Greg Edmonson did the Soundtrack.

And if you want to make a film of an Ayn Rand Novel, "Anthem" would be perfect. It's set in a bleak future time, when "group mentality" has gone to such an extreme that the words "I" and "Me" have disappeared from our language.

"Might have been the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one." -Mal

KWICKO

Friday, July 31, 2009 12:55 AM

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. LeGuin. I know, it's been done (early 80s, PBS if memory serves), but it could be done newer, better. A miniseries would be just about right for it.

It was remade in 2002 by A&E, and they butchered it as much as they did Andromeda Strain, and I fear they're going to do the same with The Prisoner.

OH, Christ - you're right! I vaguely remember trying to watch it, and being horrified by what they'd ruined!

Okay, maybe they SHOULDN'T remake it. Just reissue the original 1980 version. I have fond memories of that one.

Mike

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Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

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KWICKO

Friday, July 31, 2009 12:59 AM

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And if you want to make a film of an Ayn Rand Novel, "Anthem" would be perfect. It's set in a bleak future time, when "group mentality" has gone to such an extreme that the words "I" and "Me" have disappeared from our language.

It would be a good subject for a movie. I think Atlas Shrugged would HAVE to be a miniseries - and a pretty damned long one at that.

I don't necessarily subscribe to Randian Objectivism, but I do enjoy her novels; they definitely make me think and re-examine some of my ideas and preconceptions...

TDBROWN

Friday, July 31, 2009 2:15 AM

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And if you want to make a film of an Ayn Rand Novel, "Anthem" would be perfect. It's set in a bleak future time, when "group mentality" has gone to such an extreme that the words "I" and "Me" have disappeared from our language.

It would be a good subject for a movie. I think Atlas Shrugged would HAVE to be a miniseries - and a pretty damned long one at that.

I don't necessarily subscribe to Randian Objectivism, but I do enjoy her novels; they definitely make me think and re-examine some of my ideas and preconceptions...

I don't totally agree with her philosophy either, but "Anthem", if modernized a bit, is a very compelling story. The Fountainhead was done as a film long ago, and I believe they might have also made a film of Atlas Shrugged; I'll check on that.

ETA: I found it! It's going to be released in 2011! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480239/

"Might have been the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one." -Mal

ECGORDON

Friday, July 31, 2009 3:00 AM

That production of Atlas Shrugged is still just in the speculation stage at the moment. It is proposed for it to be a mini-series for a new cable network called Epix, co-owned by Lionsgate Films and MGM. Doesn't mean it will ever get made.

KWICKO

Friday, July 31, 2009 3:35 AM

It'd be interesting to see it, though. I wonder how close they'd stay to the source material.

I've got The Fountainhead on DVD. It's okay. Decent for its time, I suppose. Stars Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal. Her, I get, but Gary Cooper as Howard Roark? Really?

So I'm guessing Ban Afleck will be John Galt...

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