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Imagine you are a director with a big budget. What book would you want to make into a movie?
I’ve always thought that Roger Zelazny’s Doorways in the Sand would make an awesome movie.
(Anyone have a few million they want to invest?)
Somebody should make those Lord of the Rings books into movies*
[sub]*You know I’m kidding, right?[/sub]
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles.
Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy.
Rolling Thunder - Mark Berent; followed by the rest of the series if it’s successful.
Stephen King’s Rose Madder, starring Bruce, Demi & Ashton.
WHY DOESN’T ANYONE DO THIS???
Ariel by Stephen Boyett
Bride of the Rat God by Barbara Hambly. I am dead serious.
Hollywood 1923, a silent movie vamp, a young English widow, a Jewish photographer, a Chinese sorcerer, and a cursed sacrificial necklace!
What more could you want?
Titan by John Varley
Catcher in the Rye, if we thought there was a chance in hell that anyone could do it justice.
Starship Troopers!
Footfall - Niven/Pournelle
The Mote In God’s Eye - Niven/Pournelle
The latter two would be better served as miniseries on HBO.
Good Omens
Elie Wiesel’s Night.
I can’t understand why it hasn’t been made into a movie, considering how widely it’s been read.
Rendezvous with Rama
Childhood’s End
The Stars my Destination by Alfred Bester
The Puppet Masters by Heinlein. I’d do it right.
The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court It’s about time somebody did it justice.
Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp
** Arena** by Fredric Brown. Properly done, it’d be a feature-lenngth film.
I’d do a treatment based on the kid’s book “Captain Underpants” series.
I could do it with a reasonable budget, shot with unknowns, and make a fortune from it.
Nightlife by Rob Thurman
Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison (followed by the next several book adaptations)
Strangewood by Christopher Golden
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
I’d like to see a series based on Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch series, but based on what Eastwood did to Blood Work, I’m loathe to wish that on Connelly’s bread and butter character.
The Man Who Never Missed could be done well, I’ve always thought.
Depending on how the third book turns out, I think the Waterwalker arc in Hamilton’s Void Trilogy could make a good movie.
Fevre Dream.