Books you'd like to see made into movies.

[leo-rcc]

Disc World

I have "The Colour of Magic" and "The Hogfather" on DVR. Terry Pratchett even has a part in them.

[cowiz]

Disc World

I have "The Colour of Magic" and "The Hogfather" on DVR. Terry Pratchett even has a part in them.

Didn't know about that. Animated or real life?

[leo-rcc]

Disc World

I have "The Colour of Magic" and "The Hogfather" on DVR. Terry Pratchett even has a part in them.

Didn't know about that. Animated or real life?

Real life, and with good actors too. (edit: well apart from Terry Pratchett )

[cowiz]

Disc World

I have "The Colour of Magic" and "The Hogfather" on DVR. Terry Pratchett even has a part in them.

Didn't know about that. Animated or real life?

Real life, and with good actors too. (edit: well apart from Terry Pratchett )

Cool, I'll see if I can get hold of them in the US - thanks for the info

[RuleBritannia]

Disc World

I have "The Colour of Magic" and "The Hogfather" on DVR. Terry Pratchett even has a part in them.

Didn't know about that. Animated or real life?

Real life, and with good actors too. (edit: well apart from Terry Pratchett )

Cool, I'll see if I can get hold of them in the US - thanks for the info

The Colour of Magic one is actually both The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic.

Going Postal is coming out in the Easter aswell.

[lordshipmayhem]

Considering how many fine novels get butchered when Hollywood tries to adapt them for the Big Screen, I'm not sure if I'd like any of my precious books made into movies.

However, I would like to see The Greatest Show on Earth made into if not a movie, at least a TV series.

[Animavore]

Considering how many fine novels get butchered when Hollywood tries to adapt them for the Big Screen, I'm not sure if I'd like any of my precious books made into movies.

However, I would like to see The Greatest Show on Earth made into if not a movie, at least a TV series.

Funny. I was just going to say that.
It would have to be British though. Americans can't make documentaries to save their lives.

[maiforpeace]

The book I'd most like to see made into a movie is a book by Katherine Dunn called Geek Love.
Its a story about a family in a traveling carnival of which all the kids are freaks due to the parents deliberately taking all types of drugs to make them fucked up. Of the surviving kids one is a sort of a thalidomide kid who swims in a tank like a seal and is a great yarn spinner and hit with the ladies. Then there are conjoint twins who play piano together and sing and become prostitutes and the youngest, the main protagonist, is a hunch-back girl who resents the others because she's not enough of a freak. She's also in love with her brother but he sees her as nothing.

So there you have it. A great book which will make a great dark movie full of unrequited love, incest, jealousy, loathing, deceit, murder and, most importantly, freak sex. It can't possibly lose. The imagery would be deliciously macabre and bizarre.

A while back it was rumoured that Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton were fighting over rights to this. Personally I say fuck Tim Burton. He's a complete sell out and personally I don't think he has the balls Gilliam does to make this totally left of field although I would rather Guillermo del Toro make it than either of them.

If anyone here hasn't read it, do, its awesome

That is both a great and freaky book. I have read that and it would be a coup if someone could make that into a good movie.

I would like to see Shepherds of the Night, by Jorge Amado made into a movie.

[Animavore]

That is both a great and freaky book. I have read that and it would be a coup if someone could make that into a good movie.

Yay. Someone else in the world read it

[Deep Sea Isopod]

Sniper One. http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDi ... 16,00.html

April 7th 2004: a year to the day since the city had fallen. Saddam had been deposed. The Marines and the Para's were long gone and rarely made it into the news. When Sgt Dan Mills and the rest of the 1st Batallion, The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment flew in, they were supposed to be winning hearts and minds. They were soon fighting for their lives.

Within hours of arriving in Iraq a grenade bounced off one of the battalion's landrovers, rolled underneath and detonated. The ambush marked the beginning of a full-scale firefight during which Mill's killed a man with a round that removed his assailant's head. It was going to be a long tour.

Like some post-apocalyptic Mad Max nightmare, the place had gone to hell in a handcart. Temperatures on the ground often topped 50c, sewage systems that had long since packed up, the stench of cooking waste and piles of festering rubbish that grew wherever you looked. Throat-burning winds, blast bombs and well-trained, well-organised militias armed with AKs and RPGs and a limitless supply of mortar rounds were the icing on the cake.

If any of Mills's 18 man sniper platoon had thought that the people of Al Amarah were going to welcome them with open arms, they were forced to rapidly reconsider. For the next six months, isolated, besieged and under constant fire the battalion refused to give an inch. Cimic House, their HQ, may have been shit, but it was home. And its defence, the most intense the British army fought in 50 years, was a modern day Rorke's Drift.

[tattuchu]

I'd love to see a big-budget, Peter Jackson version of Michael Moorcock's Elric books. ALL OF THEM!!

Agreed. Why haven't the Elric books been translated to film yet?!
Except I'd rather have Guillermo del Toro direct them. I think he'd be perfect. In fact, there was a character in Hellboy 2 that looked very much like elric

I'd also like to see Catcher in the Rye made into a film. Maybe now that Salinger is dead and out of the way, it could actually happen.

Also, enough dicking around...Good Omens, FFS!

[Fat Ronnie]

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

[CookieJon]

I'd love to see a big-budget, Peter Jackson version of Michael Moorcock's Elric books. ALL OF THEM!!

There have been rumours of an Elric movie for years - apparently scripts have been written but Universal is sitting on them doing nothing. Personally, my favourite Moorcock books were the Dancers at the End of Time, but I think they're probably unfilmable! The only other movie of his I'm aware of was that godawful The Final Programme from the 70's. And more trivia since we're here - Moorcock's just been commissioned to write a novel based on Doctor Who. Go figure!?

A book I'd really love to see made into a movie is James Follett's Earthsearch. Well, it was originally a radio serial before it was a book, but... If you like a cracking good sci-fi yarn, I highly recommend getting your hands on a copy of the radio series from Amazon or somewhere.

[Reverend Blair]

Waiting for the Galactic Bus and The Snake Oil Wars, by Parke Godwin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_fo ... lactic_Bus

[AshtonBlack]

Sniper One. http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDi ... 16,00.html

April 7th 2004: a year to the day since the city had fallen. Saddam had been deposed. The Marines and the Para's were long gone and rarely made it into the news. When Sgt Dan Mills and the rest of the 1st Batallion, The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment flew in, they were supposed to be winning hearts and minds. They were soon fighting for their lives.

Within hours of arriving in Iraq a grenade bounced off one of the battalion's landrovers, rolled underneath and detonated. The ambush marked the beginning of a full-scale firefight during which Mill's killed a man with a round that removed his assailant's head. It was going to be a long tour.

Like some post-apocalyptic Mad Max nightmare, the place had gone to hell in a handcart. Temperatures on the ground often topped 50c, sewage systems that had long since packed up, the stench of cooking waste and piles of festering rubbish that grew wherever you looked. Throat-burning winds, blast bombs and well-trained, well-organised militias armed with AKs and RPGs and a limitless supply of mortar rounds were the icing on the cake.

If any of Mills's 18 man sniper platoon had thought that the people of Al Amarah were going to welcome them with open arms, they were forced to rapidly reconsider. For the next six months, isolated, besieged and under constant fire the battalion refused to give an inch. Cimic House, their HQ, may have been shit, but it was home. And its defence, the most intense the British army fought in 50 years, was a modern day Rorke's Drift.

There were 5 civvies there too at the time, doing the data comms and generators. One is a good friend of mine. I arrived in theatre about 12 months after that. Al Amarah was still an RPG/Motar magnet still.