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vash 01-27-2009 10:03 AM

what book would you like to see made into a movie?
 
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

azasadny 01-27-2009 10:05 AM

Atlas Shrugged... no wait, we're living it right now!

BRPORSCHE 01-27-2009 10:17 AM

Ender's Game

Seahawk 01-27-2009 10:22 AM

"Picture This", by Joseph Heller.

I'd go, but that might be it.:cool:

KaptKaos 01-27-2009 10:23 AM

Atlas Shrugged - supposedly it's being made. We'll see. (yes we are living it)
Elric - someone owns the rights
The Hobbit - also to be made

tobster1911 01-27-2009 10:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BRPORSCHE (Post 4446514)
Ender's Game

+1 My all time favorite or close.

dd74 01-27-2009 10:30 AM

Geek Love - the special effects would be awesome.

legion 01-27-2009 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by azasadny (Post 4446467)
Atlas Shrugged... no wait, we're living it right now!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480239/

I can't see Angelina Jolie as Dagny Taggert. Neither her looks nor her politics line up well with the role IMO.

gtc 01-27-2009 10:34 AM

Victor Pelevin's Omon Ra.

Cronenberg directing Martin Amis' London Fields.

legion 01-27-2009 10:35 AM

I'd like to see A Clockwork Orange remade.

The original film, while great, ends before the book does, and it is that final bit that really communicates the purpose of the story.

fxeditor 01-27-2009 10:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BRPORSCHE (Post 4446514)
Ender's Game

+1 but you know they will screw it up. THere is a lot of subtlety in the book that I don't think will carry over to film.

Michael

m21sniper 01-27-2009 11:02 AM

Red Storm Rising.

Porsche-O-Phile 01-27-2009 11:19 AM

"License Renewed", the first John Gardner James Bond book (after Ian Fleming died). Don't know why they never made that one into a movie. It was awesome.

Schumi 01-27-2009 11:28 AM

Clancy's The Cardinal and the Kremlin

EdT82SC 01-27-2009 11:30 AM

I generally hate it when my favorite books are made into movies. The Lord of the Rings is a perfect example. I understand when they have to cut 2/3 of the book out, but Peter Jackson didn't like the way Tolkien did some things so he just changed them. Like having the elves come save the day at Helm's Deep instead of the Ents and Huorns. The elves had been withdrawing from contact with other races for thousands of years, had been slowly leaving middle earth, and their armies didn't leave their forests until after the Ring was destroyed.

If that were the only major change Jackson had made I could live with it, but it was one of many. Don't get me started about the orcs that could crawl walls like spider-man in Moria. Or how orcs were portrayed as much more deadly, capable fighters, and the members of the fellowship less capable fighters then they were in the books. And the list goes on and on.

So I really don't want any more of my favorite books made into movies.

varmint 01-27-2009 11:30 AM

tom clancy's sum of all fears.

and don't **** t up this time.

Rick Lee 01-27-2009 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Schumi (Post 4446732)
Clancy's The Cardinal and the Kremlin

Was just gonna say this and also m21Sniper's. But they must be done right! Clancy's other stories that were made into movies were barely recognizeable.

austin552 01-27-2009 11:33 AM

Waynes 101 Projects for your Porsche 911
:D

id10t 01-27-2009 11:33 AM

Enders Game may or may not be in the works, depending. Been posted to slashdot a few times.

scottmandue 01-27-2009 11:38 AM

Carlos Castaneda's Don Jaun's teachings


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