# Books you would like to see as films **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 14, 2002, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-would-like-to-see-as-films/114063 "2002-06-14T18:02:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-would-like-to-see-as-films/114063/81 "2002-08-27T21:05:39Z")
Swan Song by Robert McCammon— ---
**Author:** ![Zanshin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e274bd/32.png) [@Zanshin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zanshin)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-would-like-to-see-as-films/114063/82 "2002-08-27T21:22:34Z")
I’d love to see John Steakley’s _Vampire$_ redone, and this time, stay with the friggin’ story, willya? The original novel screams out to be done as a movie, and how they got from that story to the bastardization that was _John Carpenter’s Vampires_, I will never know. (Although I will say that, “Give you a little mahogany, padre?” is one of my favorite movie quotes ever.) ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-would-like-to-see-as-films/114063/83 "2002-08-27T23:32:40Z")
I always thought **The Mote in God’s Eye** would have made an excellent movie… interesting premise, plenty of opportunity for neat effects, and a neat ending. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-would-like-to-see-as-films/114063/84 "2002-08-28T12:12:26Z")
ATLAS SHRUGGED of course~ (No less than an 8 hr miniseries, TNT did have plans for it at 6 hrs INCLUDING commercials but that got shelved) THE FOUNTAINHEAD (the Cooper version was OK, Rand did the screenplay, but too much got left out) Another vote for Kim Newman’s ANNO DRACULA & his short story COPPOLA’S DRACULA (done as APOCALYPSE NOW- Brando as Dracula, Sheen- Harker, Duvall- Van Helsing, best of all- HOPPER AS RENFIELD!) Jeffrey Sackett’s BLOOD OF THE IMPALER (oop)- nice prequel AND sequel to Stoker’s DRACULA btw, while Coppola’s DRACULA & the TV COUNT DRACULA with Louis Jourdan were closest, the definitive Stoker’s DRACULA has yet to be made finally, tho NBC tried twice, Aldous Huxley’s BRAVE NEW WORLD has yet to be done authentically Vonnegut’s SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE- a remake is in order if only to include Kilgore Trout- tho the original movie was quite good. The decision NOT to show the Tralfamadorians should still be respected. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-would-like-to-see-as-films/114063/85 "2002-08-28T12:28:45Z")
Frank Miller’s graphic novel THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS- Sean Connery perhaps as elderly Bruce Wayne! and using the DC graphic novel as a storyboard, Richard Wagner’s RING OF THE NIBELUNG- too bad the forward’s suggestion for Wotan- Jason Robards- has passed away. Btw, I heard that a Japanese anime of NIBELUNG was planned a few years back. Any knowledge of this? ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-would-like-to-see-as-films/114063/86 "2002-08-28T16:27:39Z")
**The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant** by Stephen R. Donaldson. Very long, though, might actually make a good Anime. **The Monkey Wrench Gang** by Edward Abbey. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-would-like-to-see-as-films/114063.md?page=4)