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?
Excellent choice! I'd love to see it--the visuals lend themselves very well to cinema. When do you start production?
The Earth Abides
Brave New World
Kidnapped
Heidi
A remake of 1984
They are both books that I think should be movies.
The best-selling Big Lake series by Nick Russell.
Best described as Mayberry meets Twin Peaks.
My list:
Magician’s Nephew (CS Lewis)
Hyperion (Dan Simmons)
11/22/63 (Stephen King)
Long Shot (A Marvel comic)
As a long running series, Neal Stephenson’s “System of the World” trilogy.
The frontiersman by Alan Eckert
James Ross. Unintended Consequences.
Simon Kenton was a Man.
Big bump for ‘The White Plague’ (this is out of print??? Are you kidding?)...also ‘Lucifer’s Hammer’ and ‘Unintended Consequences’.
I wish! It’s really hard to get the rights to his work.
I’ll bet. I just lent my CD of it to a Christian friend who really couldn’t quite appreciate it, so it’s not for everyone. Still, it’s completely and uniquely extraordinary. It would need the right screenplay treatment to convince the owner—I mean, if you held the rights, you wouldn’t let just anyone do it. I suppose Douglas Gresham or his heirs?
Wow! Thank you. I think King Kong (1933) holds up to the day.
Yup, and for such a short book, it is filled with pages of content. Would be really kewl to see what a good special effects treatment could do with it.
I agree Enemies Foreign & Domestic wold make fanatic movie or TV mini-series.
There's also a long list of novels that have been adapted to film but were done so poorly that another filmmaker should take a shot.
The book? Atria Books, 2001, by Vince Flynn; the title : Term Limits.
As a memory tickler, this author was one of Dubya's favorite authors, and one day in the presidential limousine, Dubya asked him how he got his facts about the inner workings of government, particularly the intelligence services. Seems his novels were spooky; way too real and worrysome to some in government. His answer? a smile, and "I've got my sources..."
Although Flynn died before finishing his latest thriller, released this year, before it was published it had to be vetted by the CIA and FBI.
It is a wall to wall thriller, not taking a back seat to the traditional writers of the genre. It would make a great movie! And it displays the arrogance of the inner workings of politics and abuse of power enough to make you see red. And current events seem to be mimicking a 14 year old novel!
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