Book you would most like to see become a Movie?
10-26-02, 12:37 PM
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I'd like to see a completely faithful version (including time period and location) of War of the Worlds. The version slated for 2004/5 was originally slated for modern-day Seattle, but apparently there was a rewrite that moved it back to 19th-century Britain.
10-26-02, 03:10 PM
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Originally posted by RevLiver
Vertical Run by Joseph R. Garber
A man goes to work and his boss, coworkers, family members, everyone he knows or meets tries to kill him and he doesn't know why. Most of the action takes place inside a skyscraper he has to escape from. Very fast read, in fact, it reads like a movie.
Vertical Run by Joseph R. Garber
A man goes to work and his boss, coworkers, family members, everyone he knows or meets tries to kill him and he doesn't know why. Most of the action takes place inside a skyscraper he has to escape from. Very fast read, in fact, it reads like a movie.
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Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield. A novel of the Battle of Thermopylae where approximately 300 Spartans and some of their Greek allies held off a massive Pesian invading force in 480 BCE long enough to allow the rest of Greece to prepare for ultimately defeating the invaders.......
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield. A novel of the Battle of Thermopylae where approximately 300 Spartans and some of their Greek allies held off a massive Pesian invading force in 480 BCE long enough to allow the rest of Greece to prepare for ultimately defeating the invaders.......
Since I've already mentioned these books on prior occasions here in the "movie" talk forum, I'll add:
The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale - mystery
Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter - suspense/thriller
Dirty White Boys by Stephen Hunter - suspense/thriller
Also,
Breakheart Hill by Thomas H. Cook - mystery
All the above are terrific books and are readily available in paperback.
10-26-02, 03:55 PM
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Originally posted by das Monkey
Whether you like the story or not, I think the story depends too much on Ender's mindset to be done justice. Hollywood would make it all about the Battle Room, and that's not the full story.
Whether you like the story or not, I think the story depends too much on Ender's mindset to be done justice. Hollywood would make it all about the Battle Room, and that's not the full story.
Every well-regarded novel that gets adapted to the screen always has "purists" who are disappointed in one way or another, sometimes even disgusted. Perhaps you would be one of them.
You can't cast an established talent in the role of Wiggin, and to find the right unknown kid to pull that off would require nothing short of a casting miracle IMO.
Max Pomeranc (Searching for Bobby Fischer) might have been good casting, but he is probably too old now.
Considering you didn't like Ender's Game, have you read Speaker for the Dead? It's a completely different type of story, and I think it's better.
10-26-02, 04:30 PM
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• Quoth Souljahh •
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Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
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The rights to this were bought, and the script was being adapted, when the studio decided to take it in a whole new weird direction that doesn't resemble the book at all. It starred Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding. Jr. and is called Instinct.
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Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
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The rights to this were bought, and the script was being adapted, when the studio decided to take it in a whole new weird direction that doesn't resemble the book at all. It starred Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding. Jr. and is called Instinct.
10-26-02, 05:18 PM
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• Quoth JustinS •<HR SIZE=1>You are confusing a pessimism with what Hollywood would likely do with what is possiblein the hands of a talented screenwriter and director. EG doesn't rely any more on the inner thoughts and motivations of the central character than hundreds of other novels that have been adapted quite well to the screen.<HR SIZE=1>
Oh, I agree. But I think there's a difference when the central character is so young (not impossible, but significantly more difficult). Ender's 6 when he heads off to Battle School, and that's not even the beginning of the story. I guess I just don't have much faith that all the pieces would come together in a work that depends so heavily on the thoughts, more than the actions, of such a unique young character. Considering how much action is in the latter half of the story, I fear that too much focus would be placed on the action leading up to the climax more than all the backstory that gets us there. Of course, it can be done, but I stand by my position that it would take a casting miracle just to get the right kid ... and that's just one piece.
As I said before, I'd love to be proven wrong.
Oh, and I loved Max Pomeranc as Josh Waitzkin. Josh was, what, 7? 8? And it was made in 1993, I think, so that would make Pomeranc about 17 years old? Yeah ... I think he's too old.
But he was darn good in a difficult role.das
10-26-02, 09:03 PM
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Originally posted by das Monkey
Oh, and I loved Max Pomeranc as Josh Waitzkin. Josh was, what, 7? 8? And it was made in 1993, I think, so that would make Pomeranc about 17 years old? Yeah ... I think he's too old. But he was darn good in a difficult role.
Oh, and I loved Max Pomeranc as Josh Waitzkin. Josh was, what, 7? 8? And it was made in 1993, I think, so that would make Pomeranc about 17 years old? Yeah ... I think he's too old.
But he was darn good in a difficult role.
10-27-02, 12:56 AM
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In addition to Ender's game, I'd like to see a multisegment epic (like Star Wars) of the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold. 
Probably never happen though.
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Probably never happen though.
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10-27-02, 01:05 AM
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If they handed the Ender's Game script to someone new, able and not yet tainted by Hollywood, I know that this film could be great. This thread wasn't made to talk about how it may or may not be foreseeable or even doable in the future, but what you would really love to see come to film.
I read a post a little ways back about Lord of the Flies animated. Might be interesting, but I really doubt Miyazaki would come out of retirement yet again to do it. He said Mononoke Hime was his last film, but then he was convinced/swayed to do Spirirted Away.
Catcher in the Rye would make an awesome drama, I would definitely love to see that be made into film as well. I just don't know if they would be able to get rights to it.
Oh well, we can dream!
I read a post a little ways back about Lord of the Flies animated. Might be interesting, but I really doubt Miyazaki would come out of retirement yet again to do it. He said Mononoke Hime was his last film, but then he was convinced/swayed to do Spirirted Away.
Catcher in the Rye would make an awesome drama, I would definitely love to see that be made into film as well. I just don't know if they would be able to get rights to it.
Oh well, we can dream!
10-27-02, 01:37 AM
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• Quoth Psychlowne •<HR SIZE=1>I read a post a little ways back about Lord of the Flies animated. Might be interesting, but I really doubt Miyazaki would come out of retirement yet again to do it. He said Mononoke Hime was his last film, but then he was convinced/swayed to do Spirirted Away.
Catcher in the Rye would make an awesome drama, I would definitely love to see that be made into film as well. I just don't know if they would be able to get rights to it.<HR SIZE=1>
I thought this thread wasn't made to talk about how it may or may not be foreseeable or even doable in the future.
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10-27-02, 07:42 AM
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Originally posted by flixtime
Great book! Fantastic epilogue! I read it a few years ago. At that time, I think they tried to get a movie deal together but it never came to fruition. Maybe too much like Die Hard so everyone gave it the "been there, done that, and it can't be topped" response. Who knows. I wonder whatever happened to Joseph Garber.......I kept an eye out for follow-up books but nothing ever came out.
Great book! Fantastic epilogue! I read it a few years ago. At that time, I think they tried to get a movie deal together but it never came to fruition. Maybe too much like Die Hard so everyone gave it the "been there, done that, and it can't be topped" response. Who knows. I wonder whatever happened to Joseph Garber.......I kept an eye out for follow-up books but nothing ever came out.
Originally posted by Samuel
The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub.
The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub.
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10-27-02, 09:18 AM
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Originally posted by RevLiver
He actually did write another, titled In a Perfect State, but it was never published in America. I got my copy in paperback from Amazon UK, haven't read it yet though. It's a thriller set in Singapore. I once found a website for him, but it stopped working a few years ago. In it he had said he was working on his fourth novel (Vertical Run was his second, Rascal Money, long OOP, was his first). I don't know whatever became of that.
He actually did write another, titled In a Perfect State, but it was never published in America. I got my copy in paperback from Amazon UK, haven't read it yet though. It's a thriller set in Singapore. I once found a website for him, but it stopped working a few years ago. In it he had said he was working on his fourth novel (Vertical Run was his second, Rascal Money, long OOP, was his first). I don't know whatever became of that.
Thanks for the info. Believe it or not, I've actually got a hardcover copy of Rascal Money sitting on my bookshelf. I picked up a remaindered copy years ago after reading Vertical Run. I don't remember too much about the book though I do recall that I thought it was just okay. I just checked the book flap which describes the book as being a "satire of American business".
10-27-02, 01:28 PM
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Originally posted by William Fuld
I wonder whatever happened to this? The cast seems solid and the trailer/commercial on the Spy Kids dvd looked pretty good.
I wonder whatever happened to this? The cast seems solid and the trailer/commercial on the Spy Kids dvd looked pretty good.
Oh and another movie adaptation I'd like to see is One Fat Summer.
10-27-02, 04:03 PM
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Timeline - by Crichton
And it is becoming a movie soon...this book had me hooked I finished it in like 2 days...
Timeline - by Crichton
And it is becoming a movie soon...this book had me hooked I finished it in like 2 days...
It was a decent novel and probably would turn into a fairly good script.