# What book would you make into a movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187 "2008-11-17T22:09:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187/1 "2008-11-17T22:09:17Z")
Inspired by this thread: [Would Heinlein's "The Star Beast" make a good movie? - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=493258) 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?) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187/2 "2008-11-17T22:32:39Z")
Somebody should make those Lord of the Rings books into movies\* [Cloud Atlas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Atlas) [sub]\*You know I’m kidding, right?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187/3 "2008-11-17T22:36:21Z")
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187/4 "2008-11-17T22:38:29Z")
Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy. Rolling Thunder - Mark Berent; followed by the rest of the series if it’s successful. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187/5 "2008-11-17T22:38:42Z")
Stephen King’s Rose Madder, starring Bruce, Demi & Ashton. WHY DOESN’T ANYONE DO THIS??? ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187/6 "2008-11-17T23:25:13Z")
Ariel by Stephen Boyett ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187/7 "2008-11-17T23:38:40Z")
_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? ---
**Author:** ![3acresandatruck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e79b87/32.png) [@3acresandatruck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3acresandatruck)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187/8 "2008-11-17T23:41:18Z")
Titan by John Varley ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187/9 "2008-11-17T23:42:00Z")
Catcher in the Rye, if we thought there was a chance in hell that anyone could do it justice. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187/10 "2008-11-17T23:46:33Z")
Starship Troopers! Footfall - Niven/Pournelle The Mote In God’s Eye - Niven/Pournelle The latter two would be better served as miniseries on HBO. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187/11 "2008-11-17T23:49:10Z")
_Good Omens_ ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187/12 "2008-11-17T23:55:51Z")
Elie Wiesel’s _Night_. I can’t understand why it hasn’t been made into a movie, considering how widely it’s been read. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187/13 "2008-11-17T23:56:39Z")
_Rendezvous with Rama_ _Childhood’s End_ ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187/14 "2008-11-18T00:21:35Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187/15 "2008-11-18T00:28:55Z")
I’d do a treatment based on the kid’s book “[Captain Underpants](http://www.scholastic.com/captainunderpants/)” series. I could do it with a reasonable budget, shot with unknowns, and make a fortune from it. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187/16 "2008-11-18T00:29:36Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187/17 "2008-11-18T00:31:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187/18 "2008-11-18T00:41:25Z")
[The Man Who Never Missed](http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Never-Missed/dp/0441519180/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226968848&sr=1-1) could be done well, I’ve always thought. ---
**Author:** ![AllWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@AllWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllWalker)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187/19 "2008-11-18T01:13:46Z")
Depending on how the third book turns out, I think the Waterwalker arc in Hamilton’s Void Trilogy could make a good movie. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187/20 "2008-11-18T01:16:52Z")
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