What books would you like become a movie?

[THE BULK HULK]

What books would you like to become movies?

I would like all the books of Dean Koontz to become movies.

Especially all of his sci-fi tales.

[Euda]

I would love to see a rendition of House of Leaves.

[crazzyass]

Dark Tower series. They keep talking about doing it. The suspense is killing me.

[G-man]

Transmetropolitan.

But not really, they'd probably fuck it up big time.

Careful what you wish for, man.

[moonturtle]

A Confederacy Of Dunces

[Issue313]

The Turner Diaries.

[moonturtle]

A Confederacy of Dunces

[SteamPunk]

None

Encourages retards who watch movies instead of read.

[Village Idiot]

None. Come up with original film ideas and keep mediums separate.

[Sir Cornwell]

George R. R. Martin's "Tuf Voyaging". Haviland Tuf is quite an interesting character and as in Firefly he has his own trading ship. Though he is it's captain and crew too.

He becomes the captain/crew of an old Bio-Warship 30x5x3km (18x3x1.8miles).

He's a kind, though solitary, vegan. With this ship he gains the power to both terraform planets or sterilize them of life.

[The Explanation]

Ender's game, although I'm not sure that it would really translate well into a movie. If they could pull it off, though, it would be epic.

[DJ Meaty Cheeks]

Robert's Rules of Order

[crazzyass]

Originally Posted by The Explanation

Ender's game, although I'm not sure that it would really translate well into a movie. If they could pull it off, though, it would be epic.

I heard they're making one.

[Dionysus]

Understanding the Media - Marshall Mcluhan

Preferably starring Robert Downey Jr.

[Sir Cornwell]

Early Heinlein.

[slicknickns]

The Kama Sutra, however replace Indian dudes with average white dudes and the girls with Alexa Loren, Sunny Leone and Priya Rai

[The Explanation]

Originally Posted by crazzyass

I heard they're making one.

Wow I checked and it's actually got a slated release date now. Last I looked, it was in production hell and looked like it was never going to be released.

[Benjamin Linus]

The "Incarnations of Immortality" series by Piers Anthony. Those would be awsome.

[Kwinnie Bogan]

The Dictionary.

[Dread_Lord]

Twilight. I would like the movie to be about the author getting beaten to death with the books.

[Oct]

Kill your friends

If Patrick Bateman from American Psycho was a drug addict AND psychopath, this would be him.

I was going to say Irvine Welsh's "Filth" but i believe it's already coming out this year with James McAkavoy and Robert Carlisle in the lead performance, if your familiar with Trainspotting you will love this book.

[Proots]

None. If there's one thing I hate, it's seeing movie star's images being plastered over every goddamn book in existence.

[Cerberus]

Star Wars.

[Tachosomoza]

Manchild in the Promised Land

[Pee Vee Proots, M.D.]

Neuromancer. I have a feeling it'd suck though.

[mr.blunt]

the hobbit

[Pee Vee Proots, M.D.]

Originally Posted by mr.blunt

the hobbit

Coming out this summer isn't it?

[mr.blunt]

around christmas, i believe. SO FAR AWAY!!

[Eridani]

The Revelation Space series. Lot of potential there for a few really good sci-fi films. Chasm City especially, stands on its own and doesn't need as much exposition as the others, would really make a great film if done well. Pisses me off seeing remakes of old films, like Total Recall, when there's a lot of amazing sci-fi novels out there just asking to be filmed.

[Euda]

I'd like to see another attempt at The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

[Kwinnie Bogan]

So would. So would I. It'd not that i dislike Mos Def, it's just.... ....yeaaah.

[Rolf]

Originally Posted by Village Idiot

None. Come up with original film ideas and keep mediums separate.

This, agrees Rolf. If only film were original and creative, all it seems to be now is remakes of old films and those based off comic books, novels or video games, states Rolf.

[constantinople]

Originally Posted by Kwinnie Bogan

So would. So would I. It'd not that i dislike Mos Def, it's just.... ....yeaaah.

Umm...how about a movie that follows the FUCKING STORY?

[Euda]

I'd like to see a fresh Moby Dick movie.

[Village Idiot]

Originally Posted by Euda

I'd like to see a fresh Moby Dick movie.

Daniel Day Lewis as Captain Ahab.

[ArmsMerchant]

The Gormenghast Trilogy.

BBC did a version, but I'd like to see, I dunno, Ridley Scott or Tim Burton do it up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gormenghast_(TV_serial)

[Thought Riot]

Originally Posted by crazzyass

Dark Tower series. They keep talking about doing it. The suspense is killing me.

That would be awesome. And the books, especially the first, aren't too long. They could probably actually make it good and true to the book. The only difference is that they're going to have to add in a lot of dialogue, but that's ok and expected.

Originally Posted by Proots

None. If there's one thing I hate, it's seeing movie star's images being plastered over every goddamn book in existence.

The worst offender ever:





I would love to see the Sharpe books redone. They had them on bbc quite awhile ago but with a major budget like HBO....it could be AWESOME.

[arleybob]

Stephen King's The Talisman

[arleybob]

OH and Naked Lunch - but a real book-to-film adaptation. The existing Naked Lunch movie is a joke imo - more the story of Burroughs writing the book than the book itself. But even then, it's still stupid - making the main character "Bill Lee" and all that bug powder and whatnot. What a dumbass movie.

If they were to translate the text of Naked Lunch into a video medium, it would be very long and expensive and banned everywhere, but man would it be worth it.

[Dionysus]

Originally Posted by arleybob

OH and Naked Lunch - but a real book-to-film adaptation. The existing Naked Lunch movie is a joke imo - more the story of Burroughs writing the book than the book itself. But even then, it's still stupid - making the main character "Bill Lee" and all that bug powder and whatnot. What a dumbass movie.

If they were to translate the text of Naked Lunch into a video medium, it would be very long and expensive and banned everywhere, but man would it be worth it.

I think the Naked Lunch movie was pretty well done. I don't want them to attempt a true to the material adaption, since allot of the charm is in the prose, and I can't see it translating to a video median. Some books simply shouldn't get made into movies, and Naked Lunch in it's raw form tops the list.