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Post by Nalkarj on Nov 10, 2019 22:27:39 GMT
Are there any books/stories you’ve always wanted to adapt into other mediums (film, theater, TV, etc.)?
I’ve always wanted to adapt Dorothy Macardle’s Uneasy Freehold (1941; adapted into the movie The Uninvited, 1944) and Agatha Christie’s Towards Zero (1944) as stage plays; there’s something about both that seems distinctly theatrical. Freehold is a ghost story, and a stage play could start gradually breaking the fourth wall, as the whole theater becomes an extension of Cliff End (Windward House in the movie). Towards Zero is a murder mystery told in reverse: instead of having a murder happen in the beginning, most of the book consists of character studies, building up to the murder, as we learn why each character would commit it. Both also take place in few locations, which would help for a stage adaptation.
I’ve also long wanted to adapt four Washington Irving stories into a musical, and I’ve even got a title, Knickerbocker Tales. Each story would represent a season: “Rip Van Winkle” for summer, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” for fall, “The Devil and Tom Walker” for winter, and “Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams” for spring. All of the playlets would be set in the same town (Sleepy Hollow, by necessity) over time and would feature the same cast in each story, à la Bock and Harnick’s The Apple Tree.
For film: Harry Brown’s The Stars in Their Courses. Leigh Brackett wrote a script based on it for Howard Hawks, but Hawks gradually stripped it of anything distinctive and turned it into a redo of Rio Bravo—thus El Dorado. The original book was a tragedy (or, at least, “one of those things where Wayne died at the end,” according to Brackett—she thought the original script was the best she’d ever written), and it’d be interesting to have a western based on that.
How about you?
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Post by jackspicer on Nov 11, 2019 0:13:28 GMT
Someone should adapt Sphere by Michael Crichton into a movie that's actually good. I didn't see the movie, but I was disappointed to learn that a movie had been made of the book, and it sucked.
Maybe some Garth Nix stuff (young adult fantasy) could work as anime.
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Post by amyghost on Nov 11, 2019 13:51:45 GMT
Would love to see some good adaptations of several of Elizabeth Bowen's short stories; but, given the heavy reliance on atmosphere and unspoken tensions that the stories are rife with, it would be difficult to do.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Nov 11, 2019 18:43:57 GMT
I am a big fan of the Ava Lee series of books by Ian Hamilton. Ava Lee is a Chinese-Canadian accountant by trade who specialises in finding and recovering stolen money. She’s also a martial arts expert who doesn’t hesitate to kick butt when the situation calls for it. Her cases take her all over the world, although primarily in Asia. It’s not great literature or anything, but I find it very entertaining. Anyway, I read some time ago that it had been optioned for a TV series. I would love to see that, although I doubt it will ever be made – and if it IS made, I doubt it will be very faithful to the books, because it would be very expensive to do it properly with filming in all the different international locations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Hamilton_(writer)#Ava_Lee_Series
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Post by faustus5 on Nov 11, 2019 19:25:37 GMT
Most novels work much better as a mini-series. Having said that, I'd love to see a mini series based on Gibson's novel, Neuromancer, and Wolfe's New Sun series of novels.
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Post by politicidal on Nov 17, 2019 23:35:06 GMT
Just seeing the Ethan Gage series adapted for a film franchise would be satisfying for me.
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Post by hi224 on Nov 18, 2019 21:18:34 GMT
Rant.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Nov 19, 2019 13:57:11 GMT
I'd like to see House of Leaves developed into a show. (I don't think a movie would be able to properly contain the story without cutting stuff out due to time constraints.)
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Post by Nalkarj on Nov 19, 2019 14:14:17 GMT
Is this a recommendation or a description of my OP?
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Post by Nalkarj on Nov 19, 2019 14:20:59 GMT
I just finished Straub’s Ghost Story, and while I didn’t love it (I found it fairly disappointing, in fact), I thought it’d make for a pretty good miniseries. I’d streamline the story, though, and cut out all the stuff about the Manitou. I found that the most disappointing part—it should have been a genuine ghost story about Eve’s revenge, as the title suggests, instead of a monster story.
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Post by hi224 on Nov 19, 2019 16:13:28 GMT
Is this a recommendation or a description of my OP? I meant Palahnuiks Rant.
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Post by koskiewicz on Nov 19, 2019 17:10:51 GMT
I love to see an adaptation of the Clifford Simak Hugo award winning sci fi novel "Way Station"
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 19, 2019 17:29:47 GMT
Niels Klim's Underground Travels (1741) by Ludvig Holberg. There have been made one adaption of the book on Danish tv in 1984 but that adaptation was bloody awful.
The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett
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Post by Carl LaFong on Nov 20, 2019 16:36:12 GMT
Monkey Tennis?
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Post by koskiewicz on Nov 20, 2019 17:17:02 GMT
How about "Venus on the Half Shell" by Kilgore Trout?
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Post by OldSamVimes on Nov 21, 2019 9:31:08 GMT
I think 'The Carpet Makers' by Andreas Eschbach would make an awesome mini-series, 8-10 hours.
I'd also like to see 'Stranger in a Strange Land' get done as a mini-series.
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Post by lordquesterjones on Nov 21, 2019 10:33:07 GMT
Someone should adapt Sphere by Michael Crichton into a movie that's actually good. I didn't see the movie, but I was disappointed to learn that a movie had been made of the book, and it sucked. Maybe some Garth Nix stuff (young adult fantasy) could work as anime. That's because the book sucked. It was one of the worst books I've ever read. ......and they all woke up and realised it was all a dream. FFS!
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Post by jackspicer on Dec 2, 2019 21:58:10 GMT
Someone should adapt Sphere by Michael Crichton into a movie that's actually good. I didn't see the movie, but I was disappointed to learn that a movie had been made of the book, and it sucked. Maybe some Garth Nix stuff (young adult fantasy) could work as anime. That's because the book sucked. It was one of the worst books I've ever read. ......and they all woke up and realised it was all a dream. FFS! You're entitled to your opinion of course, but that isn't how Sphere ended. I don't know what book you're thinking about.
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Post by lordquesterjones on Dec 2, 2019 22:01:32 GMT
That's because the book sucked. It was one of the worst books I've ever read. ......and they all woke up and realised it was all a dream. FFS! You're entitled to your opinion of course, but that isn't how Sphere ended. I don't know what book you're thinking about. Not exactly, but that's pretty much the ending, if I remember it correctly. Not 'All A Dream', but it didn't really happen scenario.
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Post by jackspicer on Dec 2, 2019 22:03:01 GMT
You're entitled to your opinion of course, but that isn't how Sphere ended. I don't know what book you're thinking about. Not exactly, but that's pretty much the ending, if I remember it correctly. Not 'All A Dream', but it didn't really happen scenario. It was a 'did really happen' scenario, though. The survivors used their powers to erase their memories of the events that occurred. Go read the Wikipedia article and refresh your memory.
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