Books You Really Want To See As Movies

[Hotwire]

Just a simple discussion about the books you want to see made into films.

At the top of my list, Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Not much funnier than a screwed up apocalypse.

 

[redhawk23]

A few years back, while watching The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I couldnt help but think the whole time how awesome it would be if Michel Gondry directed a film of Phillip K. Dick's Ubik. Recently I've heard that Gondry is in fact attatched to a future adaptation of Ubik! This film absolutely needs to happen!

Under the Dome by Stephen King could make a very decent miniseries.

At the Mountains of Madness was nearly made, hopfully someday del Toro can pull it off.

 

[Ponyboy]

Comics count as books, right?

Sandman - the Gaiman stuff, like Seasons of Mist
BoNe - Jeff Smith's could do a trilogy; stick to classic animation Disney style
Shazam! - Do this one ala 1978's Superman with an epic feel
Usagi Yojimbo - do it animated, but make it look like Sin City
Madman - Mike Allred's creation come to life!
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clark - epic!
The NeverEnding Story by Michael Ende - I'd like to see a new one that follow the book properly

 

[Hotwire]

Actually, comics don't count. I'm looking for actual books or short stories.

Another I think could work, would be the Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz.

 

[The Morningstar]

Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. By someone like Cronenberg. Apparently James Franco is trying to get the project off the ground. If made, and made well, could probably be the best western ever.

 

[ComicChick]

its in production now, but i'm really anticipating The Hunger Games trilogy. The cast is already amazing

 

[tzarinna]

There was a time I had a mad list I would've liked to see adapted to film, now I'm not so sure.

Octavia E. Butler's writing skill is so haunting I'm not sure it would translate well to the screen. 'Parable of the Sower' and 'Parable of the Talents' both messed my head. Also, 'Fledgling', an amazing vampire book, like no other.

 

[childeroland]

Seconding The NeverEnding Story. I love Wolfgang Peterson's film, but I'd love to see a more faithful version.

 

[Mr.Webs]

I would love to see someone try and tackle The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. There's a lot of stories to tell and pack in, and every one is important to the overall arc, but I think with a good director and the right script it could be magic on screen, and really bring back in a huge way the science fiction genre.

Also, can someone please make War of the Worlds by HG Wells, and set it in the damn time the book was set in? Now that's a movie I would watch. And please, no Spielberg.

 

[TheIncredibleSk]

13 Reasons why. Awesome book.
Jude. This would make a Oscar type film if done right.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry

 

[Heffer Wolf]

I got 2:

Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahnuik. My favorite book of all time. Fight Club was a great movie, Choke could have been great, but it wasn't. I think if this book got a really good director it could be awesome.

And House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. It would be really hard to do, as its a very weird book to even read, but if it was done maybe as a documentary style it might work. Again you'd obviously need a brilliant creative director.

 

[Knight Rise]

Maniac Magee and Frindle

 

[TheAQU4M4N]

I would love to see Anthony Kiedis' memoir "Scar Tissue" to be translated on the silver screen. I know there has been a development of a TV series for HBO, that is based on the memoir but I think it would be better suited for the movies.

 

[Matt Mortem]

The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro. Such a good sci-fi novel. It should be a movie

 

[Knight Rise]

Different stories of the Bible:

David and Goliath
The Fall of Jericho
Noah and the Ark
Revelation of Jesus Christ

 

[jessica001]

The book i really wanted to see as movie i seen already in the form of "Twilight".

 

[moviedoors]

The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons

Mature, adult sci-fi with compelling characters and truly original world building. Seeing The Shrike in action in all of its bladed, time distorting, viscera spilling glory would be a hell of sight to see on screen.

I'd like to see some Dan Simmons movies period. He has yet to get any silver screen glory and he has so many novels that could adapt beautifully to the medium. The absurdly epic, minding sci-fi/fantasy of Ilium and Olympos; the bleak, ball-shriveling horror of The Terror (please be true David-Fincher-rumors!); the paranoid, fever dream hallucination of Drood (damn you Curse-of-Del-Toro!); the soul crushing darkness of Song of Kali; the pulpy badassery of the Joe Kurtz novels. His work screams to be brought to the screen.

 

[The Morningstar]

You might be in luck, apparently WB is developing Hyperion.

 

[ShaneHelms]

Black Mass by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill

I know the setting for The Departed was inspired by the events that take place in this book, But it hardly touches the true story of the relationship between FBI Agent John Connolly and Irish Mobster Whitey Bulger. This could be a hell of a film.

 

[moviedoors]

You might be in luck, apparently WB is developing Hyperion.

Yeah, I heard Scott Derickson announced as the director, but it's been awhile now since that was announced, and there's been no news since then, long enough for me to suspect that it's stalling again. I can't say that I'm surprised. The first two books, especially the first, can't be an easy adaptation. There's so much back story and you have to get a lot set up if you want to do books three and four (and ironically, those are the most cinematic of the series, but you wouldn't be able to tell those stories without the much more strange and difficult first half stage setting).

I just checked imdb. Derickson is no longer listed as being attatched as director. Someone kidnap Guillermo Del Toro's father again and make him do them.

 

[jonathancrane]

Part I.

While my song of another Star Trek: TNG film is not exactly new, but it has changed: last night, I picked up a copy of Resistance and really enjoyed it. Aside from it:

-The Crying of Lot 49. I'm not the only one - David Duchovny said he would love to be involved with an adaptation of it. There should be minimum difficulty in adapting it to the screen: as a challenge to myself four years ago, I spent a weekend adapting it.
-Dracula: The Un-Dead.
-Sherlock Holmes - "The Final Problem." Hopefully the upcoming Downey Jr. sequel will satisfy my craving for another Moriarty picture.
-The Pale Blue Eye. One of the best entries in Poe fiction.
-The Bounty Hunter Wars Trilogy. K.W. Jeter is one of the few writers who understands Boba Fett: the trilogy is a space-opera tribute to the Eastwood/Leone westerns.
-Pirate Latitudes. One of Crichton's best novels.
-Duma Key. One of King's best novels in the past decade

 

[NongEyeGong]

I'm surprised there hasn't been a film adaptation of A Confederacy of Dunces yet. It's one of my favorite books and I'd be all for a film version

 

[moviedoors]

Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. By someone like Cronenberg. Apparently James Franco is trying to get the project off the ground. If made, and made well, could probably be the best western ever.

I don't really see that as Cronenberg fair. But then again, he's one of my favorite filmmakers of all time, so if he felt so inclined, I can't I'd complain.

After I saw The Proposition, I thought John Hillcoat was born to helm Blood Meridian.

I'm just glad Ridley Scott is no longer attached.

Oh, and get Tom Noonan to play Judge Holden.

 

[HisMagicTrick]

My favourite books of all time are the Gretchen Lowell Series by Chelsea Cain, so I’d love to see those turned into a movie. I would also like to see Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk, and I’m pretty sure that is getting filmed this year (hopefully the movie will do the book justice)