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What book or fictional story would make a good movie?

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?


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To: DemforBush

EVE Online and the vast expanse of New Eden would offer a nearly unlimited source of material.


41 posted on 05/21/2015 8:55:10 PM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: MNDude

The Day After Tomorrow
by Allan Folsom


42 posted on 05/21/2015 8:55:30 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (All the days of my life were written in your book before there was one of them!)
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To: MNDude

Vince Flynn’s(RIP) Mitch Rapp books


43 posted on 05/21/2015 8:55:39 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: doorgunner69

Wikipedia notes that it was optioned by Paramount.


44 posted on 05/21/2015 8:56:57 PM PDT by pa_dweller (If just one life can be saved, isn't CCW worth it?)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

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I got a little 99 cent book out too.

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Although I think I’m going to raise it to $2.99 next week and see what happens.


45 posted on 05/21/2015 8:57:25 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL; doorgunner69

According to Wikipedia: “It was optioned by Paramount Pictures in 2011.[3]”


46 posted on 05/21/2015 8:57:54 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: MNDude

The Matthew Corbett series by Robert R. McCammon, and Eliot Pattison’s Mystery of Colonial America trilogy.


47 posted on 05/21/2015 8:58:10 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: RginTN
Vince Flynn’s(RIP) Mitch Rapp books

Would make some great movies.

48 posted on 05/21/2015 8:59:09 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: MNDude

Acts


49 posted on 05/21/2015 9:00:38 PM PDT by rochester
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To: MNDude

The story of Joshua or David and the conflict with Saul would make a great movie. Problem is Hollywood would throw in a pointless love story or concerning David, make his relationship with Jonathan into a homoerotic one.


50 posted on 05/21/2015 9:03:16 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: MNDude

The Compleat Enchanter by Sprague de Camp

Lucifer’s Hammer Larry Niven
And of course Ringworld, which would have to be multiple movies to even begin to do it justice.


51 posted on 05/21/2015 9:03:38 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: MNDude

“A Confederacy of Dunces” could be an interesting movie and there has been talk about such a movie for a long time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confederacy_of_Dunces#Film_adaptations


52 posted on 05/21/2015 9:04:21 PM PDT by JLS
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To: MNDude

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, by James Hornfischer, captured my fascination by dint of sheer heroism and selfless sacrifice. It is about the Battle off Samar, prelude to the greater Battle of Leyte Gulf, that is featured in this book; and, in particular, it features the life and times of one Ernest Evans, Creek/Cherokee Annapolis grad who, having run once in sea battle, vowed never to do so again. CMH winner Evans had told his crew at the commisssioning of the USS Johnston: “If you go on my ship, expect us to sail into trouble, not away from it.”
Well, that’s just what they did. Well worth reading, one of the best WW II histories I’ve ever read; and I think a dang good movie could come of it.


53 posted on 05/21/2015 9:04:48 PM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
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To: MNDude

54 posted on 05/21/2015 9:05:27 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Swordmaker
Absolutely! Greatest Space Operas of all time!


55 posted on 05/21/2015 9:07:15 PM PDT by 10mm
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56 posted on 05/21/2015 9:09:21 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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To: Swordmaker

Just a couple of weeks ago, I found a three issue comic book (er, graphic novel) version of Citizen of the Galaxy.

http://www.idwpublishing.com/product/robert-heinleins-citizen-of-the-galaxy-1/

It was pretty good.


57 posted on 05/21/2015 9:10:31 PM PDT by garyb
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To: MNDude

Give Terry a Bone
by Babes van Dillen Clinton
Great book!


58 posted on 05/21/2015 9:10:42 PM PDT by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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To: MNDude
ERB's A Princess of Mars
59 posted on 05/21/2015 9:10:43 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Sub-editors: totes unnecessary.)
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To: MNDude

Not fiction.
Capt. Dan Morgan. We wouldn’t have a country without him.

http://www.want2bwriter.com/2011/05/daniel-morgan-unlikely-revolutionary.html


60 posted on 05/21/2015 9:10:58 PM PDT by bigmak007 (They who can't control their own passions, want to passionately control others.)
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