What book or fictional story would make a good movie?

[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?

[publius911]

Bookmark

[Still Thinking]

Any of Neal Stephenson’s later work (and most of his early stuff). Tons of Ken Follett’s best stories have never been done.

[Imnidiot]

“Protector” by Larry Niven…or even his “The Legacy of Heorot” . With todays computer graphics, either would be great (if done by the right people).

[cookcounty]

Any of the Daniel Silva novels.

[JPX2011]

I would like to see more Robert Ludlum stories made into movies. They are rich in story telling and intrigue. With the caveat that the stories are not bastardized like the Bourne Trilogy or made into horrendously cheesy TV movies.

They could be modernized if need be or set in their own time like the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy movie was.

My biggest pet peeve with modern spy movies, however, is the insistence on making the hero's intelligence agency the primary antagonist or the reveal of 'the mole' as a third act plot device. It smacks of lazy writing. Robert Ludlum occasionally used moles in his stories as plot devices but the majority of his work focused on external threats.

That's why I had a big problem with the Bourne movies. In the books the issue with Treadstone was resolved in the first 2/3rds of the first book. The remainder focused on Carlos and other figures in the following books. In three Bourne movies it was all Bourne vs. Treadstone (four if you count the other movie).

So more Robert Ludlum, done right. That's what I want.

[RobbyS]

I Maccabeus, about the founders of the Hasmonean dynasty. Would make a great mini-series.

[Swordmaker]

This time with Cheaters.

I was wearing glasses from the time I was six. . . and read Heinlein then. Started with his juveniles and grew up with him. Read "Stranger in a Strange Land" when it first came out. I have a first edition Hard Back somewhere . . . I got it on my 12th birthday, five days after it was published.

I think my favorites of his were "The Door into Summer" and "Time Enough For Love".

[Shimmer1]

You would love the book I posted above. (I believe you would) The Cruel Sea.

[Swordmaker]

I think Ender’s Game is on production as we speak.

Nope. . . it's been produced, released, and is now available for purchase on iTunes and Amazon as a digital download:

[Sans-Culotte]

The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monserrat

That was filmed in the 1950s.

[Shimmer1]

Oh Lord, please let that be a nom de plume.

[TexasTransplant]

WOW First I have read of that Tough SOB, in Texas we will always appreciate and salute men of his caliber.
I fear that we will need more like him in the near future and they may not be available.
TT

[Shimmer1]

Thanks. It’s my favorite book, I didn’t remember a movie. Have you seen it?

[Ellendra]

The Shannara series by Terry Brooks. I’d like to see it get the same care and treatment that “Lord of the Rings” had.

The Conquerors’ Trilogy, by Tim Zahn. For that matter, anything by Tim Zahn. Awesome writer!

[bluejean]

Anything by Jack McDevitt.

[davius]

CHARLES THE HAMMER -The Story of Charles Martel (originally The Hammer of Gaul)

[2CAVTrooper]

Without Remorse

Debt of Honor

Team Yankee

Red Storm Rising

Outlaw Platoon

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[jobim]

I've read 95 comments and I'll be darned if I know any titles being discussed.

There are some great short stories that haven't made it onto the screen yet:

Master and Man by Tolstoy
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
Demon Lover by Elizabeth Bowen
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Brave New World by Huxley
Cancer Ward by Solzhenitsyn

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Very cool! Way to go!