•Anno Dracula
•The Mad Scientists’ Club (Probably unfilmable, as a motion picture…besides, any screen depiction of Mammoth Falls just wouldn’t measure up to the vague picture I’ve had in my head since I was a kid…I think something close to the town from “Calvin and Hobbes,” crossed with the Gold Country)
•Paradise Lost
The Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England by Brock Clarke. David Fincher could do this one.
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, plus that one about the guy who befriends the billionaire woman and accidentally takes over the nation’s industries. (ETA: Jailbird, also by Kurt Vonnegut.)
The Stranger by Albert Camus could make a stunningly beautiful film, both visually and emotionally, but it would have to be French, IMO. Alternatively, it could be done by the folks who brought you The Wackness.
And I think The Culture of Fear by Barry Glassner can and should inspire a brilliant documentary, hopefully done after the Obama administration to take into account the progress we will (or will not?) have made re the subject matter.
ETA: Somebody should really do The Yellow Wallpaper right. Please, don’t let the BBC get their hands on this one!
I’d like to make a do-over of The Dark is Rising, starting with one of the books that isn’t so cerebral. I think it’d make a good movie if done right, but I’d hook the kids into the franchise with the action packed misadventures of the Drew children, first.
I’d also love to see a quality version of [del]My Little Pony Goes to War[/del] Magic’s Pawn et al from Mercedes Lackey. Any of the sets, really, but The Last Herald Mage trilogy is my favorite. I wanna see me some luscious Tylendel on Vanyel action, baby!
It is a complex book. I think it would be very difficult to do well.
EXACTLY! One of my favorites, from a favorite author. Or how about her Silicon Mage books? Combine magic and computers!!
Probably BECAUSE how widely it’s been read. :eek: I’m not sure how much box office the Holocaust can bring in. I read the book in college 20+ years ago & I still remember enough that I don’t have to re-read it.
Great book! Just not one I want to keep returning to.
Ditto for-
The ANNO DRACULA series. Btw, Google up a short story called “Tim Burton’s RED REIGN” for a fun look at a possible filming.
ILLUMINATUS!
OWEN MEANY
WAR OF THE WORLDS- 1890s/1900s era (It was done but this time, do it good!)
Ones not named yet-
Bram Stoker’s DRACULA- and do the actual novel! Not a tragic/romantic mega-Freudian absinthe dream! (and I loved the Coppola version but it was NOT Bram Stoker’s story.)
C.S. Lewis’s THE LAST BATTLE (Narnia VII), TILL WE HAVE FACES, PERELANDRA and THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH (tho for the latter two, I guess they’ll have to make
OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET).
Brian Caldwell’s WE ALL FALL DOWN (the most horrifying Rapture novel ever written)
Mark Rogers’ THE DEAD (the second most horrifying Rapture novel ever written)
Alan Moore’s LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN Vol II- The LEG vs the HG Wells Martians (and Hyde vs Griffin :eek::eek::eek:)
Kurt Vonnegut’s SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE - as good as the first one, a remake is needed- especially with Kilgore Trout. Also perhaps GOD BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER.
A BRIDE PREPARED- my own story about how Ioshua BarDavid and Maria Magdala
conquered the Nephilim that afflicted her.
A TASTE OF ETERNITY- also my own story- how a lunatic overcame his own personal AntiChrist, said lunatic being R. M. Renfield.
Also, there was something else… an epic novel… probably needs a TV miniseries or 2 or 3 films to do it justice- written by a Russian woman… Alissa Rosenbaum, I think… Wish I could recall the title.
William Gibson’s Neuromancer.
Reasonably compact, noir-ish plot, great visuals. A few thought-provoking bits. Done right, it could be so much better than the action-explosion crap that sci-fi generally gets turned into.
I’ve thought about it for years and I’m convinced I could do it, even though I have absolutely no clue how to make a movie.
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Kate Beckinsale in the lead. I just don’t know who to cast as Jamie.
Gerard Butler as Dougal
Ack! What are you doing in my head?
Oh no! There’re two of you!
Heinlein’s *Time Enough for Love *done as a movie trilogy.
Eli Roth would HAVE to direct this.
I think Pixar could do a nice job visually on Watership Down, but it must not be made into or marketed as a cute funny bunny movie!
I posted in the current thread about great book/movie combos that the 1978 *Watership Down *movie is very good and holds well to the darker themes and tone of the book. It is definitely not a cute funny bunny movie.
But I agree it would be awesome to see a computer animated version that holds true to the book.
The Danny Dunn novels set as a series on Sci-Fi.
Nine Princes in Amber.
Emergence, by David R. Palmer.
City of Gold and Lead, and the other books in the series.
Watchmen, done as a 12-episode miniseries rather than the movie. I’m sure the movie will be cool, but I’d rather they took the time.
Telempath, by Spider Robinson.
The Phoenix Legacy, by M.K. Wren.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress would make a great movie done properly.
How’d you ever come up with the main characters’ names?
That sounds fascinating, actually. Can I read it?
So a remake of The Matrix, then?
Don’t know if this’ll make you happy or sad, but there’s a new movie version in the works. I think this is the third filmed version.
I’ll have to look up that story. I remember finding it very creepy thirty years ago.
Another Barbara Hambly suggestion - A Free Man of Color. First, the setting would make anyone drool with anticipation - New Orleans during the 1830s. Second, the characters - a mix of African-American, Anglo-Irish, French, Spanish, Creole, and Kaintuck from every socio-economic level of the time. The demimonde of free colored women and the choices they had to make so their children could grow up free as well.
The main character? Benjamin Janvier, 3/4’s African and dark as a Kenyan, a musician and a doctor. He can find work as the former, but not the latter. He has to find out who strangled the flower of the demimonde, a vicious, grasping woman, or he’s the one who’ll hang for her death.