Book Adaptations You'd Like to See

[Boom]

Beowulf
Lord of the Flies
Moby-Dick
Paradise Lost
Slaughterhouse Five
The Faerie Queene
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Silmarillion: The Children of Húrin
The Silmarillion: The Fall of Gondolin
The Silmarillion: The Quest for the Silmaril

 

[Arachnerd]

At The Mountains Of Madness.

Maybe Del Toro will be able to revisit it successfully one day (me when I inhale copium).

 

[Kane52630]

...

Where's Waldo directed by David Fincher.

 

[Boom]

At The Mountains Of Madness.

Maybe Del Toro will be able to revisit it successfully one day (me when I inhale copium).

He said he only had a couple more live-action movies he wanted to make. I hope that's one of them.

 

[sueb1863]

A new version of A Tale of Two Cities starring Tom Hiddleston as Sydney Carton. I think he'd do a great job in the role.

Little Fuzzy, which is a sci fi book with adorable little creatures. There were also several sequels written so it could be a franchise!

 

[Sawyer]

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

They have already had a movie and show done about them.

But I Am Number Four and The Strain both done more faithfully to the books could be something else.

 

[Drizzle]

Beowulf
Lord of the Flies
Moby-Dick
Paradise Lost
Slaughterhouse Five
The Faerie Queene
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Silmarillion: The Children of Húrin
The Silmarillion: The Fall of Gondolin
The Silmarillion: The Quest for the Silmaril

The Odyssey in particular is something I'm surprised that Hollywood didn't attempt in the post-LOTR mid-2000s when demand for fantasy epics was at its peak. Yeah, there was Troy, which I do actually like, but it barely resembles The Iliad. I would have liked a sequel based on The Odyssey with Sean Bean returning as Odysseus but as it is, more faithful adaptations of both that and the Iliad are likely best suited for a series these days.

 

[Kane52630]

I feel like there are only a handful of directors who can make an Odyssey movie and make it feel as epic as it should be. Ridley Scott, Denis Villeneuve, Chris Nolan, Matt Reeves, James Cameron, maybe even Steven Spielberg.

 

[Drizzle]

I feel like there are only a handful of directors who can make an Odyssey movie and make it feel as epic as it should be. Ridley Scott, Denis Villeneuve, Chris Nolan, Matt Reeves, James Cameron, maybe even Steven Spielberg.

You forgot someone.

 

[Kane52630]

You forgot someone.

 

[Boom]

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
King Solomon's Mines

 

[Sawyer]

Neither of the TV adaptations thus far have felt like they really had the last word on the subject, so I’m going to say The Stand, though considering the most recent one was only a few years ago, it’ll probably be awhile before it’s revisited.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

David Gemmell's books are just there waiting for someone to adapt them.

 

[Breogan]

A proper Don Quixote
The Lighthouse at the End of the World - Jules Verne
The Beetle - Richard Marsh
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett, with so many films it's influenced and borrowed from it, surprised there has never been a legit direct adaptation. (no Last Man Standing doesn't count either)

More legit Adaptations of the works of Robert E. Howard:
Conan
Bêlit the Pirate Queen
Kull
Red Sonya of Rogatino (yes the version with a "y", Siege of Vienna of 1529 setting (not the marvel version))
Solomon Kane
The Hawk Diego de Guzman (Road of Azrael
El Borak (Francis Xavier Gordon

Street & Smith Pulps, all set in their time:
The Shadow
Doc Savage
The Avenger

Michael Moorcock's Elric White Wolf saga:

1961- The Weird of the White Wolf - 'You are pledged to serve Chaos, Elric, as were your ancestors. You will serve Chaos! The time draws near when both Law and Chaos will battle for the Realm of Earth and Chaos shall win! Earth will be incorporated into our Realm and you will join the hierarchy of Chaos, become as we are! '

1985- Elric at the End of Time - Somehow she had to return Elric to his own dimension without creating further disruptions in the fabric of Time and Space. The Conjunction was not due yet and, if things got any worse, might never come. So many plans depended on the Conjunction of the Million Spheres that she could not risk its failure. But she could not reveal too much either to Elric or his hosts.

Sadly the studio took a look at the source material; the White Wolf wandering sell-sword, in the age of sorcery, the chaos realm, and (Lovecraftian) conjunction of the spheres elements: Time-space dimension displacement, fantastically crossed into the sword/sorcery/fantasy genre.
And concluded they and viewers will think it "borrowed" to much from The Witcher series

Good luck....

 

[whoknows]

A Conan movie based on REH's original tales.

Any of Bukowski's novels(apart from pulp), 'Factotum' was great and apparently Paul Verhoeven has the rights to 'Women', it'll never get made though.

 

[Drizzle]

Something I think about every so often is why no one's attempted an animated adaptation of Maus and I just now learned that much like The Catcher in the Rye, the creator has refused to sell the rights.

‘Maus’ Creator Responds to Film and TV Offers

Art Spiegelman says he won't sell the rights to his Pulitzer-winning graphic novel despite the book topping the best-seller list amid a Tennessee book-banning controversy: "Comics adhere to the brain better."

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[Sawyer]

Something I think about every so often is why no one's attempted an animated adaptation of Maus and I just now learned that much like The Catcher in the Rye, the creator has refused to sell the rights.

‘Maus’ Creator Responds to Film and TV Offers

Art Spiegelman says he won't sell the rights to his Pulitzer-winning graphic novel despite the book topping the best-seller list amid a Tennessee book-banning controversy: "Comics adhere to the brain better."

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Hmm. I had no idea.

But honestly, as great as it would likely be, it would be kind of a bummer to see this drop on a streamer, only stay in the conversation for about a week and then only get a physical release when Criterion gets around to it.

 

[Drizzle]

Hmm. I had no idea.

But honestly, as great as it would likely be, it would be kind of a bummer to see this drop on a streamer, only stay in the conversation for about a week and then only get a physical release when Criterion gets around to it.

I agree, but in theory I think it could work theatrically as two movies or even one 3.5 hour movie.

 

[Deck Rickard]

The Dark Tower.

Don’t let me down, Flanagan.

 

[:eek:]

The Talisman. Unbelievable this still hasn't happened

 

[Sawyer]

The Talisman. Unbelievable this still hasn't happened

Yeah, we really haven’t gotten an update from the Duffer Brothers/Netflix in awhile.