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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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81 posted on 05/21/2015 9:44:41 PM PDT by publius911 (If you like Obamacare, You'll LOVE ObamaWeb.)
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To: MNDude

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


82 posted on 05/21/2015 9:46:08 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: MNDude

“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).


83 posted on 05/21/2015 9:47:25 PM PDT by Imnidiot (This space for Rent)
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To: MNDude

Any of the Daniel Silva novels.


84 posted on 05/21/2015 9:47:52 PM PDT by cookcounty ("I was a Democrat until I learned to count" --Maine Gov. Paul LePage)
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To: MNDude
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.

85 posted on 05/21/2015 9:48:04 PM PDT by JPX2011
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To: MNDude

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


86 posted on 05/21/2015 9:49:22 PM PDT by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: TexasTransplant
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".

87 posted on 05/21/2015 9:49:56 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: 2ndDivisionVet

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


88 posted on 05/21/2015 9:51:52 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (Just keep repeating to yourself, “All cultures are equal.”)
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To: Still Thinking
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:


89 posted on 05/21/2015 9:54:23 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: Shimmer1
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monserrat

That was filmed in the 1950s.

90 posted on 05/21/2015 9:54:24 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: GeronL

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


91 posted on 05/21/2015 9:56:23 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (Just keep repeating to yourself, “All cultures are equal.”)
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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.
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92 posted on 05/21/2015 9:57:19 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: Sans-Culotte

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


93 posted on 05/21/2015 9:57:38 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (Just keep repeating to yourself, “All cultures are equal.”)
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To: MNDude

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!


94 posted on 05/21/2015 9:58:15 PM PDT by Ellendra (People who kill without reason cannot be reasoned with.)
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To: MNDude

Anything by Jack McDevitt.


95 posted on 05/21/2015 10:01:43 PM PDT by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: MNDude

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


96 posted on 05/21/2015 10:04:16 PM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: MNDude

Without Remorse

Debt of Honor

Team Yankee

Red Storm Rising

Outlaw Platoon


97 posted on 05/21/2015 10:06:48 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Making harmless people defenseless, does not make dangerous people harmless)
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98 posted on 05/21/2015 10:07:16 PM PDT by null and void (In a world where lies and propaganda masquerade freely as truth, communication is everything.)
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To: MNDude
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
99 posted on 05/21/2015 10:12:46 PM PDT by jobim
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To: GeronL

Very cool! Way to go!


100 posted on 05/21/2015 10:23:30 PM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Sign up for my new release e-mail and get my first novel for free)
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