Posted on 05/21/2015 8:30:11 PM PDT by MNDude
It seems like there's not many original ideas in Hollywood...how many remakes is there of Dracula or King Kong?
Yet, I'm sure there's got to be thousands of great books and stories that have never been made into a movie. Which fictional stories would you like to see as a movie?
Also, a series I'm doing with the kids: "All The Wrong Questions" by Lemony Snicket might translate quite well onto screen.
I always wanted to vacation on the Iles of Langerhans...
The book was nuanced and deep. I haven't seen the movie. They butchered the society that Heinlein constructed for "Starship Troopers" based on some very good thinking of having to actually earn the franchise and just turned it into a Fascistic dictatorship and missed it entirely, turning it into a basic bug hunting us v. aliens with great swarming monsters. They even threw away Heinlein's power suits which were perfectly possible given our modern CG.
I have no faith that Hollywood could ever handle the philosophy found in many science fiction . . . and that is where many philosophers have gone to explore the ramifications of philosophy.
A helluva book, dunno how good a movie it would make though................
Yeah, all that "Grok" crap, the hippies and liberals still worship the weird old guy as some sort of god. The hints of homosex are likely the key to it.
I haven’t seen it, yet. Thanks for the tip.
“The White Plague”
Hubby loves that book!
Very interesting.
I tell you that movie really holds up. I watched it late one night a few years ago, and I was pretty terrified. The effects work very well.
“All The Wrong Questions” by Lemony Snicket”
I think there is a Lemony Snickt movie, perhaps it’s called just that “lemony snicket” and/or “a series of unfortunate events”.
I saw part of it one day, recognized it because my kid had read them.
I may be messing some of this up, but I tell you the 2 children in it were about the most beautiful children I’ve ever seen. A boy and girl, in the 12-15 year old range. They were nearly supernaturally beautiful, it was almost scary.
The Great Divorce, CS Lewis
“...liberals still worship the weird old guy..”
It seems a lot of conservatives like him too.
I tried “Stranger in a Strange Land” twice. Once in about 8th grade when the whole class was reading it as an assignment. A sufficient number of us hated it sufficiently so we voted to read another book. Interestingly I have no idea what that other book was but have never forgotten SIASL.
I tried it again years later, but just couldn’t, you know, grok it.
Good heavens! You're Cook's other reader of this thoroughly enjoyable series! BTT
P. T. Deuterman has written some really good novels. “Cat Dancer” and “Hunting Season” are two of them.
I suspect the FReepers that like his later works are more of a libertarian bent than conservative, if not liberal sleepers, like one on this thread cheering his work.
When I read his stuff as a teenager, I just read for the SF. Later on, I noticed the free-sex and other creepy stuff threaded through. SIASL is a very creepy book.
I’ve always wanted to see “Red Storm Rising” on the big screen.
That could be really good as a series ... the time scale, book to book, is enormous.
I am surprised none of Joe's books has been made into a movie.
“SIASL is a very creepy book.”
I didn’t make it far enough to get to the creepy part, it was just boring to me, and my schoolmates.
I remember that so well, I thought the boys would really want to keep reading it, but it turned out nobody liked it very much.
I don’t think I’ve ever read anything else by Heinlein. I’m not that big of a Sci Fi person.
YES, Time and Again!
My understanding is that a major studio owns the rights to make a movie of it, and they are just sitting on it. Very frustrating.
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