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

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

"Picture This", by Joseph Heller.

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

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

+1 My all time favorite or close.

Geek Love - the special effects would be awesome.

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.

Victor Pelevin's Omon Ra.

Cronenberg directing Martin Amis' London Fields.

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.

+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

Red Storm Rising.

"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.

Clancy's The Cardinal and the Kremlin

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.

tom clancy's sum of all fears.

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

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.

Waynes 101 Projects for your Porsche 911
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Enders Game may or may not be in the works, depending. Been posted to slashdot a few times.

Carlos Castaneda's Don Jaun's teachings

i can totally get behind this one.

remember the Abyss? i think orson scott card wrote the book AFTER the movie. he made the book rock, with an otherwise very lame movie.

"Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy O'Toole.

Atlas Shrugged IMO does not lend itself well to being made into a movie, for a variety of reasons.

While I'd love to see Atlas Shrugged, I doubt it could live up to my expectations. Imagine Steve McQueen as John Galt.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six

Catch 22 was one of the all time great books made into one of the all time worst movies.

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.

Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath.

It would probably have to be a miniseries to be long enough, a 2 hour movie would require it to be chopped up too much.

i have always wanted to see a movie made of edward abbey's "the monkey wrench gang".
just googled it and, lo and behold......it IS projected for a 2010 release. yippee!
thanks for posting this thread, i wouldn't have known otherwise.

Ann Rice's "The Witching Hour"

Dean Koontz, "Odd Thomas".

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.

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.

The Bible, all of it.

That'd be cool. I bet they will.

I havent read that in ages, that could be an interesting flick.

According to Wiki

One of the most inspirational messages about writing your own book for a movie.... worth listening to imo.

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I thought they did a pretty good job considering the massive amount of story they had to work with. Catch the Extended DVD extras on the Fellowship, they have a large feature on how they brought the book to script. You can't beat the books, but I also enjoyed the movie immensely.


Practical Deemonkeeping by Christopher Moore

(Heck, anything by C. Moore)

The 964 Enthusiasts Companion.

I always wanted to see a movie version of Nelson DeMille's The Charm School with Willem Dafoe as CIA super spook Seth Alevy and Harison Ford as Cool, Calm and Collected Colonel Hollis.