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gprsh924 01-27-2009 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Rick Lee (Post 4446949)
Couldn't disagree more. Willem Dafoe is great, but he ain't Clark. I still refuse to see Sum of All Fears. Bear and Dragon was good, but probably not Clancy's best researched piece. At least, he didn't spend any time in China before writing about the poor quality of women and food there. And I've never ever heard anyone utter the term "Joe Chink", as is tossed around so much in that one.

Clancy's work is best left to book, though I think Without Remorse would fit into a movie. I always pictured Clark as looking like Kono from Hawaii Five-O.
See I always pictured Clark as a John Travolta type.

daepp 01-27-2009 05:42 PM
My first thought was Atlas Shrugged.

I have to say tho that my kids and I would also love to see Ender's Game made into a movie.

Both would have to be done by the right people....

daepp 01-27-2009 05:43 PM
Ignatius J. Reilly - my hero!

daepp 01-27-2009 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by legion (Post 4446860)
Even after cutting all of the minor characters, it would still have to be 10 hours long just to cover Galt's and D'anconia's soliloquies.

That and there's no way Hollywood would allow the message behind the story to be released unmolested.
3 part mini-series ala Lonesome Dove?

Rob Channell 01-27-2009 06:40 PM
Robert Heinlein's "The Door Into Summer"
Bunches of Heinlein's short stories.
More of Frank Herbert's Dune series.
Lyndon Hardy's "Master of the Five Magics"
The entire Left Behind series by LaHaye and Jenkins
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson

"How I Went From a Normal Joe to a Wealthy Racer and Won the 24 Hours of Le Mans" by Rob Channell (I will not even get the opportunity to write it.)

tiwebber 01-27-2009 06:52 PM
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates - Tom Robbins.

syncroid 01-27-2009 07:15 PM
The Cardinal and the Kremlin would be a good one or Red Storm Rising. Both great books! Its hard for me to see movies "after" reading the book. They never seem to get it right. Patriot Games was the worst!
In my opinion, the only one they didn't screw up making a movie of was The Hunt For Red October.

BRPORSCHE 01-27-2009 08:17 PM
Yeah Hunt for Red October was actually pretty good movie. I have seen it ten's of times.

In regard to Clancy, the detail is just to immense. He explains every weapon system and character with much to detail. The movie would be for either be crap or be for the die-hard Clancy fans like us. Sadly that won't just happen. I kinda imagined Clark as a short stocky guy with immense hands. Domingo Chavez to be a slender tan guy with a great shot.

With Ender's Game who liked Bean more then Ender? I thought Ender was way to obsessed with himself. I found myself identifying with Bean more then Ender.

Porsche-O-Phile 01-27-2009 08:18 PM
Phillip Pullman's "The Subtle Knife" and "The Amber Spyglass".

Anyone know if they've finally gotten their heads out of their asses at New Line Cinema and decided to make these yet or not?

"The Golden Compass" was good, although they totally screwed up the marketing here in the U.S. in order to suck up to religious conservative types. Movie grossed something like $300M overseas and only $70M here. I'm certain if they marketed it properly both sequels would kick butt at the box office.

Britwrench 01-27-2009 09:52 PM
101 things to do with your Porsche.

The Rick Wagoner autobiography.

livi 01-28-2009 03:49 AM
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Originally Posted by austin552 (Post 4446748)
Waynes 101 Projects for your Porsche 911
:D
Not a bad idea at all. For a tech ignorant like me, an instructional video/movie would be much appreciated.

Wayne? :)

Pazuzu 01-28-2009 07:07 AM
How about books that should never be made into movie, but will, thereby destroying them?

http://www.movieweb.com/news/NEAE9CBJeABbDJ

:(

m21sniper 01-28-2009 08:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Chris Martin (Post 4446785)
While I'd love to see Atlas Shrugged, I doubt it could live up to my expectations. Imagine Steve McQueen as John Galt.
It is currently being made. It will star Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.

m21sniper 01-28-2009 08:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Schumi (Post 4446939)
Clear and Present Danger - the movie with harrison ford, was not too bad I thought. I liked Willam Dafoe as Clark.

Sum of All fears would have been good if it wasn't Ben Afleck as Jack Ryan and they focused more on Clark's story.

Clancy's books are so detailed, and this detail cannot be easily put into a 2 1/2 hour movie.

I remember reading Bear and the Dragon (My favourite Clancy novel by far I believe), all 1100 pages of it... and just being blow away with not just how much detail each character's story portrayed, but also how many characters they were and how they all tied into the plot. I get a real sense of "Real" when reading those books, even if they are made up. Which is good, because that is what he is going for obviously.
Have you read "Red storm Rising"? It is about 10,000x the novel that Bear and the Dragon is. Personally i thought that was Clancy's worst work.

m21sniper 01-28-2009 08:07 AM
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Originally Posted by BRPORSCHE (Post 4447980)
Yeah Hunt for Red October was actually pretty good movie. I have seen it ten's of times.
The book was way, way better. They cut my fave scene in the whole book out of the movie too...when the A-10s do a low level pass on the Soviet Fleet/Flag ship.

BRPORSCHE 01-28-2009 08:10 AM
ahh yes. What did they call it in the book? An alpha attack? Almost like an air armada.

Rick Lee 01-28-2009 08:11 AM
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Originally Posted by m21sniper (Post 4448724)
It is currently being made. It will star Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
Another duo I can't wait to not ever see in a movie again.

creaturecat 01-28-2009 08:40 AM
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Originally Posted by vash (Post 4446456)
looks like they are getting close to my wish. i saw a preview for a new X-men movie. i read a book called WEAPON X, which is the story on the beginning of wolverine. great fun, fast read. the new movie seems close, but is called something else. has some new players like Gambit.

another great movie would be do a Mitch Rapp movie, based on the CIA books from Vince Flynn. mitch would make jason bourne look like a girl. (i am joking)

what else?

cliff

Wolverine, the movie. Runaway production. Last week of filming in Vancouver. Most of the principal photography done in Australia. Budget approx 150 million.

Sarc 01-28-2009 08:46 AM
Clapton's autobiography.

daepp 01-28-2009 09:07 AM
I have heard the story over and over again that they are making AS into a movie. I'll beleive it when I see it. Even Rand canned one attempt.


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