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Granted that no movie can ever be as good as a book, but what (if any) books have you read that you would like to see the movie industry take under as a new project?

... And if you have a director you think would do a good job on it, include that.

For myself, here's my list:
The Sword of Shannara
Stranger in a Strange Land
Running with the Demon
The Divine Comedy (I know it'll never happen, but I think it would be interesting to see someone try)
The Once and Future King

Granted that no movie can ever be as good as a book, but what (if any) books have you read that you would like to see the movie industry take under as a new project?

... And if you have a director you think would do a good job on it, include that.

For myself, here's my list:
The Sword of Shannara
Stranger in a Strange Land
Running with the Demon
The Divine Comedy (I know it'll never happen, but I think it would be interesting to see someone try)
The Once and Future King
Irvine Welsh's Porno, the sequel to Trainspotting. Preferably directed by Danny Boyle, as he did a bloody good job with Trainspotting, and with the cast of Trainspotting as well - Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, etc.
Apart from that, can't think of anything.
Definitely none of the Discworld books. The animated ones for TV were ok, but had nothing on the books, so definitely don't film them.

Steven Kings "Dark Tower" series.
Also, I hear that The Hobbit will be a movie in the next few years, now that King Kong is done. Here's to hoping! x

his dark materials. i know they're working on it but i want it now!! :D

his dark materials. i know they're working on it but i want it now!! :D
(bold is mine)

really? Yay!

I adore those books. They're on my (ridiculously long) list of books to re-read...

The Dunwich Horror - H.P. Lovecraft (It's been done before, but very very poorly, it is absolutely begging for a big budget re-write)
Ringworld - Larry Niven
Blackwater - Michael McDowell
any of the Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser books by Fritz Leiber
any of the Elric of Menibone series by Michael Moorcock
Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

I predominently read fantasy/science fiction, and horror novels. Hence my choices.

(bold is mine)

really? Yay!

I adore those books. They're on my (ridiculously long) list of books to re-read...
yeah, apparently so. i remember seeing shots of the dude who's playing lord asriel and i was dead disappointed (nothing like i'd imagined) :(

but then it was some time ago and i haven't heard anything since...


(and they're also on my own re-read list, heh. started northern lights a month or so ago but only read about 2 pages :headbang: )

edit: and directors? two choices really - either Peter Jackson or Terry Gillingham

his dark materials. i know they're working on it but i want it now!! :D
Am I the only one who didn't like those books? The first one started off poor, and didn't get much better by the end. I haven't read the others, but I've been told by two people who love them that the second one is ok, and the third one is amazing. But why should I read an awful book and an ok book, just so I'll understand an amazing book? I have plenty of amazing books that I could read or re-read that don't need any other reading to understand.

Am I the only one who didn't like those books? The first one started off poor, and didn't get much better by the end. I haven't read the others, but I've been told by two people who love them that the second one is ok, and the third one is amazing. But why should I read an awful book and an ok book, just so I'll understand an amazing book? I have plenty of amazing books that I could read or re-read that don't need any other reading to understand.
bah i liked the first book so the other ones just followed on and got better :)

Kafka's Metamorphosis

Jeff Smith's Bone and Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo, although these are comic books

Kafka's Metamorphosis
Just the Metamorphosis story, or the whole book? That'd be a strange film. In the right hands it could possibly be the creepiest film ever.

For those interested in the His Dark Materials trilogy - IMDb link (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385752/)

100 Days of Sodom

Just the Metamorphosis story, or the whole book? That'd be a strange film. In the right hands it could possibly be the creepiest film ever.

For those interested in the His Dark Materials trilogy - IMDb link (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385752/)

Just the Metamorphosis story. I know it's short, but I've never seen a director who doesn't go to some lengths to add something of his own to the storyline, so they might as well do it without having to leave bits and pieces of the original story out.

The Celtic Crusades. Medieval tales with secret orders, atrocities and magic lances are just begging to be cinemised.

For a while it looked like Terry Gilliam was going to direct Good Omens by Terry Pratchet and Niel Gaimen. That might've been cool.

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., narrated by Vonnegut would be cool.

What you want to do, I think (and I'm no expert, despite the fact that I think I am...) is not so much to look for a book that you like and therefore want to see on the screen but look for a book that has something in it that could be brought out in film, not just specticle but narrative as well. So the interpretation isn't going to be word for word, but will utilize the different tool to bring something out of the source text.

Just the Metamorphosis story. I know it's short, but I've never seen a director who doesn't go to some lengths to add something of his own to the storyline, so they might as well do it without having to leave bits and pieces of the original story out.
Lol. Can't imagine exactly what else they could put in...
Man wakes up. He's turned into a giant insect! Family shuns him. Loses his job. Eventually he dies. Gets chucked in the incinerator/down the garbage chute (can't remember the exact ending).
Oh crap...they could change it! They could make it a happy ending! He turns back into a human, and they all live happily ever after.
Or, they add a bit to the start, making the guy a Commie or something, telling the audience that he deserved it.

The Dunwich Horror - H.P. Lovecraft (It's been done before, but very very poorly, it is absolutely begging for a big budget re-write)
Ringworld - Larry Niven
Blackwater - Michael McDowell
any of the Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser books by Fritz Leiber
any of the Elric of Menibone series by Michael Moorcock
Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

I predominently read fantasy/science fiction, and horror novels. Hence my choices.

How about George RR Martin's [I]Song of Ice and Fire[I]? And I know its impossible but the Wheel of Time would be cool too. Dunwhich Horror is a good choice though.

Lol. Can't imagine exactly what else they could put in...
Man wakes up. He's turned into a giant insect! Family shuns him. Loses his job. Eventually he dies. Gets chucked in the incinerator/down the garbage chute (can't remember the exact ending).
Oh crap...they could change it! They could make it a happy ending! He turns back into a human, and they all live happily ever after.
Or, they add a bit to the start, making the guy a Commie or something, telling the audience that he deserved it.

Disney-Version : He was bad, and gets changed back in the end for being good

Stanley Kubrick Version : Insect is waering strange make-up, theme song is a tune from Tchaikovski's Nutcracker

Peter Jackson Version : Insect is 10 meters tall and has hairy feet

George Lucas Version : Insect falls in love with his sister and finds his father

French Version : Black and white movie of a conversation of the insect with the family dog

Monthy Python Version : Michael Palin in an insect suit is trying to fight the Roman Empire

Roland Emmerich Version : Insect is trying to take over the ice age world from Will Smith

Tim Robbins Version : Insect falls in love with Jonny Depp

See, there are millions of possibilities...

William Gibson's "Neuromancer", but I doubt it will happen. But maybe it's better that way - he hasn't had much luck with previous movies adaptions.

Disney-Version : He was bad, and gets changed back in the end for being good

Stanley Kubrick Version : Insect is waering strange make-up, theme song is a tune from Tchaikovski's Nutcracker

Peter Jackson Version : Insect is 10 meters tall and has hairy feet

George Lucas Version : Insect falls in love with his sister and finds his father

French Version : Black and white movie of a conversation of the insect with the family dog

Monthy Python Version : Michael Palin in an insect suit is trying to fight the Roman Empire

Roland Emmerich Version : Insect is trying to take over the ice age world from Will Smith

Tim Robbins Version : Insect falls in love with Jonny Depp

See, there are millions of possibilities...


Don't forget the Speilberg version, insect befriends little kid, evil government/family member tries to take insect for study, kid and insect escape on pushbike, Dreamworks makes a fortune on insect plush toys

Sleeping Beauty, by Anne Rice. :D

Which actors would you like to see in these movies as well? After all, sometimes the director is pants and the actors make the movie.

For example, in a movie based on Noble House by James Clavell, I'd like to see Christian Bale play the lead part of Ian Dunross

Actually, I'd like to see Christian Bale in a lot of movies. The man is class... He was Batman!

See, there are millions of possibilities...
Quentin Tarantino version: Insect takes cocaine, kills his family, goes on a violent rampage.

Quentin Tarantino/Monty Python version: As above, but is finally killed by a farmer's wife (Terry Jones) with an over-large can of pesticide.

John Carpenter version: Stays faithful to the story, but with epic, sweeping shots out of the windows, and an epic, sweeping soundtrack.

Luc Besson version: Set in France, insect eventually dies from smoking too many dodgy French cigarettes, gratuitous graphic violence involved.

Pixar version: Amazing CGI, let down by the fact the story is completely ignored.

Tim Burton version: Johnny Depp gets lead role, his sister is Helena Bonham Carter. An almost perfect cinematic vision of the story - dark, sinister, yet with a hint of pathos and comedy.

Sleeping Beauty, by Anne Rice. :D
Ooooh, on the subject of Anne Rice, hows about The Vampire Lestat, and a proper version of Queen of the Damned?

Quentin Tarantino version: Insect takes cocaine, kills his family, goes on a violent rampage.

Quentin Tarantino/Monty Python version: As above, but is finally killed by a farmer's wife (Terry Jones) with an over-large can of pesticide.

John Carpenter version: Stays faithful to the story, but with epic, sweeping shots out of the windows, and an epic, sweeping soundtrack.

Luc Besson version: Set in France, insect eventually dies from smoking too many dodgy French cigarettes, gratuitous graphic violence involved.

Pixar version: Amazing CGI, let down by the fact the story is completely ignored.

Tim Burton version: Johnny Depp gets lead role, his sister is Helena Bonham Carter. An almost perfect cinematic vision of the story - dark, sinister, yet with a hint of pathos and comedy.


Luc Besson version, Insect wears dodgy Jean Paul Gautier 'fashion'

Tim Burton version For once do a movie without Johnny Depp! And if that fails at least Keith Richards can play his insect father....

Tim Burton is not going to do any more movies without Johnny Depp.

Ooooh, on the subject of Anne Rice, hows about The Vampire Lestat, and a proper version of Queen of the Damned?
Mmmmmmm! They did a drastically toned-down version of both of those, but if they did a version true to the book of either, they would have to slap a XXX rating on it. Heh!

Tim Burton is not going to do any more movies without Johnny Depp.


Shame. Batman (Micheal Keaton/Jack Nicholson) was one of Burton's best films, and not a shot of Johnny Depp anywhere.

Don't get me wrong, I like Depp, he's one of the most talented actors of the last fifteen years, but COME ON. Try something different Tim!

Mmmmmmm! They did a drastically toned-down version of The Vampire Lestat, but if they did a version true to the book of either than one or Queen of the Damned, they would have to slap a XXX rating on it. Heh!
Yup! I was just reading on IMDb, apparently the reason Queen of the Damned was so poor was because Warner Bros (despite having the rights to TVL and QotD for over 7 years), waited until the last year of that to actually make the film. Then they condensed both books into the one film, cut massive parts out, and made it crap.
If they could make versions of the entire Vampire Chronicles as well as they made Interview With The Vampire, then I'd be suitably impressed.

Yup! I was just reading on IMDb, apparently the reason Queen of the Damned was so poor was because Warner Bros (despite having the rights to TVL and QotD for over 7 years), waited until the last year of that to actually make the film. Then they condensed both books into the one film, cut massive parts out, and made it crap.
If they could make versions of the entire Vampire Chronicles as well as they made Interview With The Vampire, then I'd be suitably impressed.
Perhaps suprisingly enough, I have a copy of Interview With the Vampire. :D

I'd like to see a movie made of Marge Piercy's Gone for Soldiers. Also movies of the Amelia Peabodoy mysteries by Elizabeth Peters. Robert Heinlein's Friday and J.O.B., a Comedy of Justice. And, of course, the Honor Harrington novels and the Miles Vorkosigan novels.

I'd like to see a movie made of Marge Piercy's Gone for Soldiers. Also movies of the Amelia Peabodoy mysteries by Elizabeth Peters. Robert Heinlein's Friday and J.O.B., a Comedy of Justice. And, of course, the Honor Harrington novels and the Miles Vorkosigan novels.
You mean James Branch Campbell's Job A Comedy Of Justice, surely?

Irvine Welsh's Porno, the sequel to Trainspotting. Preferably directed by Danny Boyle, as he did a bloody good job with Trainspotting, and with the cast of Trainspotting as well - Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, etc.
Apart from that, can't think of anything.
Definitely none of the Discworld books. The animated ones for TV were ok, but had nothing on the books, so definitely don't film them.

Oh, man. That book was creepy. How do you think they'll shoot >forget sex scenes and penile ruptures< *the scene* by the Edinburgh Parliament?!
He should've ended the investigation into their lives with "Acid House" and the cameos in "Filth".

Granted that no movie can ever be as good as a book, but what (if any) books have you read that you would like to see the movie industry take under as a new project?

... And if you have a director you think would do a good job on it, include that.

For myself, here's my list:
The Sword of Shannara
Stranger in a Strange Land
Running with the Demon
The Divine Comedy (I know it'll never happen, but I think it would be interesting to see someone try)
The Once and Future King


How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove and Charlie Wilson's War are really it, actually.

Charlie Wilson's War is actually being adapted to a movie with Tom Hanks, and so I'm looking forward to that, if it gets of the ground.

eh...probably no ones heard of these but The Banned and the Bannished quintilogy as follows:

Wit'ch Fire
Wit'ch Storm
Wit'ch War
Wit'ch Gate
Wit'ch Star

Director: Peter Jackson

Cast
Elena: TBA
Er'ril: TBA
Tyrus: Vego Mortenson (VEGO!)
Mycel: TBA
Kast: Me duh
Sy'wen: a friend of mine
Mogweed/Fardale: Jim Cavesal
Flint: Liam Neelson
Joa'ch: TBA
Kral: John Ryths Davies. (Spelling)

Perhaps suprisingly enough, I have a copy of Interview With the Vampire. :D
Nothing surprises me on here anymore...
Book or film? I have both. Book's obviously better, although Tom Cruise is so good as Lestat.

Perhaps suprisingly enough, I have a copy of Interview With the Vampire. :D
Have you read it, though?

The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. Those books are SO good.

Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

Picture Johnny Depp as Valentine Michael Smith and Gene Hackman as Jubal Harshaw.

The Wild Cards mosaic novel series, edited by George R. R. Martin

Let's see what happens in a parallel Earth when real, non goody-goody people get both super powers, gross deformities or hideous death from an alien viral experiment which transforms the infected into a being more reflective of their inner nature.

Both of these will never get made because of the political fallout from the subversive ideas in both works. It's a shame, 'cause they're both very absorbing and well-written stories.

You mean James Branch Campbell's Job A Comedy Of Justice, surely?
Pretentious much?

No, he means Robert Heinlein's Job: A Comedy of Justice. It isn't so odd to have two books with the same title that you couldn't read the post, surely?

The Dark Tower series. I think susannah shouldnt be cripple in teh movie version though and the first two books could be compressed into one film, also the fifth book could be mostly skipped over as its shit.

--snip--
Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

I predominently read fantasy/science fiction, and horror novels. Hence my choices.

Good ones, too. Though I'd rather see Footfall made into a film than Lucifer's Hammer. It strikes me as more cinemagenic.

100 Days of Sodom
[QUOTE]

thats already a film isnt it?

thats already a film isnt it?
Yep - IMDb link (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073650/maindetails)
Film (and book) is actually called 120 Days of Sodom, is by an Italian director, and is set in Nazi occupied Northern Italy.

Pretentious much?

No, he means Robert Heinlein's Job: A Comedy of Justice. It isn't so odd to have two books with the same title that you couldn't read the post, surely?
Actually, I was refering to the fact that Heinlein pinched his plot, most of his mis en scene and a few of his characters from Jurgen, but if pointing that out makes me pretentious, then I can live with that.

American Gods by Neil Gaiman, but how do you squeeze 600 pages and dozens of gods into one movie?

American Gods by Neil Gaiman, but how do you squeeze 600 pages and dozens of gods into one movie?
Um ... data compression?? :D

I wouldn't mind watching a good adaptation of Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant...

American Gods by Neil Gaiman, but how do you squeeze 600 pages and dozens of gods into one movie?
You don't very succesfully. I suspect that this is why he's spent a chunk of every interview he's done in the last three years pissing and moaning about how bad the scripts Gaiman has seen for the Sandman movie are.
If the poor baby is unwilling to follow his mate Alan Moore's example and sign the proceeds from whatever pile of shit emerges over to somebody else, though, he probably deserves a lot worse.

American Gods by Neil Gaiman, but how do you squeeze 600 pages and dozens of gods into one movie?
With a very long film, and some good CGI.

Cradle Of Saturn/The Anguished Dawn by James P. Hogan
Up The Line/Adventures Of The Time Patrol by Robert Silverberg
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
A Deepness In The Sky/Fire upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge
The Depths Of Time/Ocean Of Years/Shores Of Tomorrow by Roger MacBride Allen
Gateway/Beyond The Blue event Horizon/Heechee Rendezvous by Frederik Pohl
Lest Darkness Fall by A.E. Van Vogt

And others, I'm sure, that escape me at the moment. Other titles by the same authours would also make fine film fare, particularly Misters Hogan and Van Vogt.

*edit: knew it. "The Region Between" (novella from "Five Fates" collaboration, reprinted all over the place, though) by Harlan Ellison.

Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

Picture Johnny Depp as Valentine Michael Smith and Gene Hackman as Jubal Harshaw.

Personally I'd rather see Christian Bale in the role of Smith, but I agree with your casting of Gene Hackman as Harshaw. As far as directors go, I wouldn't mind seeing someone like Terrence Malick give it a whack.

Both of these will never get made because of the political fallout from the subversive ideas in both works. It's a shame, 'cause they're both very absorbing and well-written stories.

Agreed whole heartedly, at least with the current polarity of the political scene. The backlash would sink whatever studio had the guts to pull it off.

Agreed whole heartedly, at least with the current polarity of the political scene. The backlash would sink whatever studio had the guts to pull it off.
Right. Because no studio had the balls to film Starship Troopers, did they?

my vote is for "The player of Games" - since I love the culture novels, and I think the humour might convert well to film. That said, it might miss a few themes, but since the only way that it would be allowed, according to Banks, is if he had control, I doubt we'd miss anything that could be accidently missed anyway.

Right. Because no studio had the balls to film Starship Troopers, did they?

The difference, in my opinion, between doing Stranger and Starship Troopers is that the latter is much easier to do with less emphasis on the politics and philosophy. With Starship Troopers, one could theoretically leave out much of diatribe for the actual events of the novel, thus making an action movie without the socio-political overtones. With Stranger though, I'm of the opinion that because those overtones are so central to the story itself, it would be impossible to truly do the book justice if these were left out.

... I hope I haven't offended...

The difference, in my opinion, between doing Stranger and Starship Troopers is that the latter is much easier to do with less emphasis on the politics and philosophy. With Starship Troopers, one could theoretically leave out much of diatribe for the actual events of the novel, thus making an action movie without the socio-political overtones. With Stranger though, I'm of the opinion that because those overtones are so central to the story itself, it would be impossible to truly do the book justice if these were left out.

... I hope I haven't offended...
(No offense, but)
The whole franchise depending on military service business?
You could argue (and on balance I'd agree) that the film of Starship Troopers was mockingf Heinlein's politics, but they are definitely in there, even if Verhoeven spends most of the film pissing all over them. I suspect it'd be perfectly viable to do the same with Stranger, thougfh it is true that there's more talk and less GBH in that novel.

The chronicles of Amber
-Roger Zelazny.

The chronicles of Amber
-Roger Zelazny.
All of them, or just the ones with Corwin?

Granted that no movie can ever be as good as a book, but what (if any) books have you read that you would like to see the movie industry take under as a new project?

The science fiction novel Midnight at the Well of Souls by Jack Chalker. Computer special effects have finally developed enough that any kind of alien race can be created now and can interact on the screen.

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Even though, in order to get every plot in the movie would take about 40 or more hours worth of movie but Id watch it! :D

All of them, or just the ones with Corwin?


Probably just the Corwin saga.

The Merlin saga is great too, but not many people would have the slightest idea of what is happening, without knowing who these guys are.

Angels and Demons - forget The DaVinci Code, this book is where the real action is at

You mean James Branch Campbell's Job A Comedy Of Justice, surely?

Robert A. Heinlein wrote the book to which I'm referring. Interesting that there would be two with the same title. I wonder how similar the storylines would be?

Pretentious much?

No, he means Robert Heinlein's Job: A Comedy of Justice. It isn't so odd to have two books with the same title that you couldn't read the post, surely?


Actually, in the interests of accuracy, I am a she. I just have eclectic tastes in literature (sic). And, now that it's been mentioned, I may have to read Campbell's book just to see if there are similarities.

It depends who makes the movie.

I wouldn't mind watching a good adaptation of Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant...
Oh, god help us. Do we really need the most pathetically self-pitying "hero" in the history of fantasy literature to come to life on the screen? (And please, please, don't let Kevin Costner have anything to do with it...) :rolleyes:

Changing the subject, I heard recently that someone is actually working on a movie version of Patricia Anthony's Flanders. I wonder how they're going to pull that off?

What I'd really love to see is an adaptation of C. J. Cherryh's Pride of Chanur series. Though it would take extensive CGI to do justice to the alien characters - it might even have to be entirely CGI. Humans in prosthetics, no matter how well done, wouldn't be able to pull it off.

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Even though, in order to get every plot in the movie would take about 40 or more hours worth of movie but Id watch it! :D

Not really. The first six books would need a movie each (at least), but you could probably fit books 7-11 into two. Nothing much happens. It is SO pissing me off, I want to beat Jordan with a crowbar, but I'm gonna have to wait til he finishes book 12. There is so much left to cover (since he's pussyfooted around the last 5 books) that I doubt he will be able to stick to 12 books like he claims.

Now, a series that would be GREAT on film (although it would probably have to be a long mini-series or a bunch of movies) would be Fred Saberhagen's Swords series. It's pretty old, so I don't know if anybody here has read it.

One of Edgar Allen Poe's short stories would make great movie material, too.

The mask of the Red Death, or The Black Cat. Or even the Tell-Tale Heart... enough room to integrate more elements, but still fantastic storie. Just imagine the special effects that would be possible :D

you do not need special effects to maka a good Edgar Allan Poe Movie . just good actors.

you do not need special effects to maka a good Edgar Allan Poe Movie . just good actors.

Yes, but people WANT special effects. And with Edgar Allan Poe stories, there's room for great actors, great special effects, and great theme music.
It's win-win :D

if you were a bit older you will remember the Vincent Pryce Movies of Poe´s Story..The are very good

if you were a bit older you will remember the Vincent Pryce Movies of Poe´s Story..The are very good

Yeah... such a pity I'm not older...

Yeah... such a pity I'm not older...

no.... such a pity : you are not younger :D

It depends who makes the movie.
Uwe Boll, all movies done by Uwe Boll!!!

Picture Johnny Depp as Valentine Michael Smith and Gene Hackman as Jubal Harshaw.

*VOMITS*

Honestly...there would be no better way to ensure that a movie based on that book would NOT be successful than to cast those two in those roles.

Although, personally, I could see Depp as Ben Caxton, and perhaps Hackman as Secertary General Douglas. :)

Yeah... such a pity I'm not older...
Oh, I totally agree! :D

I think "The Jester" would be a great movie. Though Kingdom of Heaven is very similar in some sense. Who Agree's ?

if you were a bit older you will remember the Vincent Pryce Movies of Poe´s Story..The are very good
Age has nothing to do with it. I'm 20, I've seen all of those except for Fall of the House of Usher. The Pit and the Pendulum is amazing. Although I would like to see a modern version of Poe's stories. Not sure who I'd like to see do them, though.

Lest Darkness Fall by A.E. Van Vogt

L. Sprague de Camp, shurely?

Granted that no movie can ever be as good as a book

I'm actually thinking the DaVinci code film will be better than the book, given how bad the book is. It may be popular, but its no litarry masterpiece

I'm actually thinking the DaVinci code film will be better than the book, given how bad the book is. It may be popular, but its no litarry masterpiece

A nice little action movie maybe... but I personally found the book boring beyond belief and infuriatingly unresearched. I won't bother with the movie.

The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. Those books are SO good.

I def agree with you here.

I would also like to see something done with The Dragonlance series. I know this was an on again/off again project but never got done. I saw a glimmer of hope when Dungeons and Dragons was released. Then I saw the film and that glimmer faded as quickly as William Hung's "singing career".

I'm a sucker for a good schlocky action flick too, there was a book out around 15 years ago called Vertical Run by Joseph R Garber. It's a post cold war story about a businessman (ex military) trapped in his Manhatten office building trying to avoid getting killed by guns for hire. He doesn't know why they want him dead, but they do. I think John Woo would be a good choice for director for this.

I've been hooked on the Dr Alex Delaware novels for some time now and would love to see how well they would transfer to film. They are about a clinical psychologist and his best friend, an openly gay LA police detective, Milo Sturgis that solve "cold case" files. Great characters, great stories. Wolfgang Peterson would be my choice to direct.

Lastly, I would like to see a big screen version of Robert Parker's Spenser. I liked the A&E Spenser films that were done. No idea who could direct or play Spenser, but I nominate Michael Clark Duncan to play Hawk... :D

"The Pillars of the Earth", by Ken Follett would be nice, though probably it would be better off as a mini-series.

The Dark Elf Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore

"Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut

"Ubik" , "A Maze of Death" and "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" by Philip K. Dick

"Ringworld", "Protector" and "A Gift From Earth" by Larry Niven

"The Voyage of the Space Beagle" by A.E. VanVogt

"Under the Frog" by Tibor Fischer

And while the '60s version by Hallas and Batchelor is an animated classic, I think a re-make of Animal Farm by someone like Pixar would be very, very cool.

The Silmarillion, with a bunch of novice actors nobody has ever heard of, directed by Peter Jackson who is in turn regulated by myself to make sure he doesn't alter the storyline too much...

The Wolves of Time - Journeys to the Heartland by William Horwood

Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein

Or one of Harry Turtledove's alternate histories like Guns of the South or In the Presence of Mine Enemies or maybe his "World War" series.

Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.

The Silmarillion, with a bunch of novice actors nobody has ever heard of, directed by Peter Jackson who is in turn regulated by myself to make sure he doesn't alter the storyline too much...


That book should never have been published, and would make the most boring movie EVER.

And while the '60s version by Hallas and Batchelor is an animated classic, I think a re-make of Animal Farm by someone like Pixar would be very, very cool.
No. It'd be frickin' awful. It would be closer to what Orwell put as the subtitle - 'A Fairy Story' - than to its true meaning, as a criticism of Communism. Could possibly be the most saccharine sweet movie ever, in the wrong hands.

Angels and Demons - forget The DaVinci Code, this book is where the real action is at

Agreed, although I didn't like either story.
But seriously, Tom Hanks as Langdon? :confused:
Didn't Langdon have some sex appeal in the books?