I’ve always thought David Brin’s Sundiver would make a pretty decent movie.
He’s not the only member of the Legion Of Bronze here.
And, much less campy, please.
Agreed. Part of me would like to see it in the cinema, the other part is screaming 'NO! Leave it alone! You’ll only mess it up!". There is a lot in Morgan’s books that I can’t see making it into the cinema, even with an ‘18’ rating. The trouble with Altered Carbon is that I think you need the context of just how many nasty things can be done to someone who’s stack is removed to see how tough a world Kovacs walks in (that part of it anyway). Speaking of the Hendrix…there’s an awful lot of scenes in that hotel that would end up on the cutting room floor!
I could cope with this RM book coming to screen a bit more easily since it’s a standalone. I have a suspicious feeling it would get very Mad Max though…alright a lot of the inspiration for the duel scenes came from that film but it could just end up being a cheap rip off. Fingers crossed it isn’t if it makes it to the big screen though.
Bah…this is the problem I always have. Most of the time I don’t want to see books that I really enjoy being made into films, I know that what ends up on the screen is going to mess around with so many of the ideas I’ve gotten from the books 
grey_ideas
I said a GOOD Doc Savage movie.
So far, the best one I’ve seen is http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086856/
You gotta admit, this is the guy who in the Louisiana Swamp Story…Something Or Of the Spider, I think…snuck about in an alligator suit. :rolleyes:
George R. R. Martin, Armageddon Rag
Norman Spinrad, Agent of Chaos and Little Heroes
John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider (if it could be updated for the contemporary state of the art of the internet)
I am really conflicted on this subject.
There is one book I’d love to see a movie of (The Stars My Destination, already nominated by Cal Meachum), but it’d have to be a good movie, and faithful; and frankly, given that Hollywood has turned some great books (Starship Troopers and I, Robot)and good premises (The Island) into the most by-the-numbers, now-it’s-time-for-the-chase-scene-and-exploding-helicopter rubbish, I don’t think Hollywood is capable of doing a good adaptation.
So, really, I’d rather they didn’t make The Stars My Destination.
George R.R. Martin’s “The Skin Trader.”
Another vote for “the Mote in God’s Eye”
Just thing of “Time Enough for Love”
Can you say NC-17?
Gateway would make a kickass movie. It’s got everything: sex, mystery, adventure, even the Citizen Kane framing device already built in to the story. I have no idea why it hasn’t been done yet.
I often hear folks (on this board, mostly) saying that they’d like to see The Stars my Destination as a movie, but frankly, I just don’t see it. Yes, it’s a great story. And yes, the opening scene of Gully being left to die in space would be a great visual. But how would you introduce jaunting? It’s critical to the story, and in the book, an author can get away with saying that in the world he’s depicting, normal humans can teleport around at will. But I don’t think you could get away with that in a movie, both due to the different medium, and to the wider audience.
“Camouflage” by Joe Haldeman would make a great movie! You’d get two different shape-shifting characters, a series of historical flashbacks (from pre-dinosaur eras onward), a love story, mysterious alien artifacts, shady military-industrial types, all the wars and carnage you could want and special effects up the wahzoo (sorry for the technical term). Mystery! Suspense! Romance! Sharks! If no-one in Hollywood has bought these film rights, it can only be because they haven’t read it.
I’m also with you guys on the Altered Carbon film. Hard to do the book justice.
Thing is with Market Forces is that Richard Morgan wrote it as a movie screenplay before writing Altered Carbon. The execs thought the main character was too dark and nobody would like him. So he went and wrote Altered Carbon then after that got published fleshed out Market Forces. But he’s sold his soul (his words) as he has no right to creative input into either movie if they get made.
The Man Who Never Missed by Steve Perry.
It’s not hard – audiences have seen teleportation plenty of times (Star Trek alone has educated the general public – “Beam Down” is in the public lexicon). And the book has the “Class for beginning teleporters” scene that’s practically custom-made for spoon-feeding the details of how it works in this book (Ain’t no teleportation chambers or booths, see?)
I have no doubts it all could be done, if handled with intelligence and a desire to avoid cliches. Whether it would or not, given Hollywood’s reputation, is another matter entirely. But – hey – look how good Lord of the Rings turned out
(And don’t tell me “it’s not Hollywood” – you know what I mean.)
“Quest of the Spider”
The Gray Spider had recruited the degenerated bayou voodoo cultists to help him buy out and plunder the top companies of the Lousiana lumber industry. Doc had an alligator skin in the rumble seat of his roadster, and after the members of the Cult of the Moccassin exploded that bomb that threw his car over the levee he pretended to be eaten by an alligator so that he could later disguise himself in that alligator skin and scout out their compound and devise a plan to rescue Ham, Long Tom, and Johnny…
Why are you all looking at me like that?
How about I Will Fear No Evil or Farnham’s Freehold?
Farnham’s Freehold?
I would love to see the McDonald’s promotional tie-ins to that one…
The Man In The High Castle, if we’re talking Dick: preferably directed by somone weird like David Cronenberg or Terry Gilliam, assuming he can still get work. Or, for a dose of steam-punk {there just aren’t enough steam-punk movies} William Gibson/Bruce Sterling’s The Difference Engine: granted it isn’t Gibson’s best work, going a little too Harry Harrison at the end, but that would make it easier to adapt as a screen play - hurtling through the streets of a retro-future Victorian London on the brink of anarchy in a steam powered racing car in pursuit of the machiavellian Captain Swing.
Dreampark
It’s got an accesable story, a noob to explain thing to (and thus to the audience), a murder mystery, an orgy if you want it, an ending that cuts deep, and a cameo by the Spruce Goose (and pilot).
Oh, yeah; and a drowned Los Angeles.
DD