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Post by vishspal on Apr 23, 2017 16:09:56 GMT
For me it would be Waiting for Sarah. I read the book a long time ago, and really enjoyed it. I would like to see it as a movie or a new TV show on Netflix.
Which book would you like to see made into a movie/TV show?
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Post by politicidal on Apr 24, 2017 23:20:50 GMT
The Catcher in the Rye, just to see how it turns out.
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Post by general313 on Apr 25, 2017 0:35:21 GMT
Sirens of Titan.
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Post by Marv on Apr 26, 2017 12:34:22 GMT
Wheel of Time series.
I've only read the first 6 books or so but with Song of Ice and Fire being a hit and Dark Tower coming soon I'd welcome seeing this translated to either high end tv series or a movie franchise.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2017 22:41:52 GMT
Finnegan's Wake.
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Post by Nalkarj on May 2, 2017 0:28:35 GMT
J.D. Salinger - The Catcher In The Rye Sherman Alexie - Indian Killer Mark Z. Danielewski - House Of Leaves Nikos Kazantzakis - The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel William Faulkner - Light In August Roberto Bolano - 2666 Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch David Vann - Legend Of The Suicide or Caribou Island Robert Jordan - Wheel of Time series Tad Williams - Memory, Sorrow, Thorn trilogy Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses Paul Zindel - The Pigman Mario Vargas Llosa - Death In The Andes Salman Rushdie - The Moor's Last Sigh Paula Gunn Allen - The Woman Who Owned The Shadows Anne Rice - The Wolf Gift Anne Rice - The Wolves Of Midwinter Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar Jeanne Kalogridis - Covenant With The Vampire Jeanne Kalogridis - Children Of The Vampire Jeanne Kalogridis - L-rd Of The Vampires Barbara Michaels - The Dark On The Other Side Sylvia Cassedy - Behind The Attic Wall Bill Wallace - Trapped In Death Cave Tad Williams - Child Of An Ancient City Howard Norman - The Bird Artist Italo Calvino - If On A Winter's Night is one of my favorite books, but how in the world would they do it as a film? |
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Post by Nalkarj on May 2, 2017 0:50:02 GMT
First thing that comes to mind is one of the books by John Dickson Carr, that fella whose picture is my avatar here. None of his many series novels has ever been adapted, believe it or not. |
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Post by Nalkarj on May 2, 2017 18:09:06 GMT
Multiple timelines and flashbacks and a director who has studied Bergman and Tarkovsky Probably a miniseries to retain as much of the content as possible I'm still afraid that I can't see it, DevouringTime. The second-person gimmick ("you") and the changing points-of-view are so vital to the book that the only way I can see it going is a subjective camera, which may seem gimmicky and fake. Ironically, the most satisfying use of the subjective camera I've seen is in the Joe McDoakes short " So You Want to Be a Detective?" |
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Post by Nalkarj on May 2, 2017 18:22:44 GMT
Just to answer the OP again... I'd also love to see Ellery Queen's Ten Days' Wonder turned into a movie. Incredible book, very philosophical, essentially a musing on Nietzsche's "death of God" in the form of a detective story. It was, in fact, made into a movie by Queen-admirer Claude Chabrol in '71, starring Orson Welles and Anthony Perkins, but the Ellery character was written out, believe it or not! I think that, made properly, the film, like the book, can be just as inciting and insightful a critique of detective stories as Shaffer's Sleuth, Bentley's Trent's Last Case (the 1952 adaptation of which also starred Orson Welles, curiously enough), and Borges's "Death and the Compass" (which was very inspired by EQ) as well as a particularly effective tale in its own right, especially as it has Queen's finest characterizations (IMO). |
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Post by PreachCaleb on May 2, 2017 18:54:45 GMT
I always get a kick out of adaptations of Michael Crichton's novels. I'd like to see Prey and Micro adapted.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2017 8:42:44 GMT
The Silmarillion by Tolkien
Niels Klim's Underground Travels by Ludvig Holberg
The Divine Comedy by Dante
War with the Newts by Karel Capek
Any book by Doestoyevsky
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Post by chasallnut on May 3, 2017 15:54:25 GMT
Christopher Moore's - The Stupidest Angel
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Post by koskiewicz on May 4, 2017 16:55:43 GMT
Way Station - Hugo Award winning novel by Clifford Simak
Starmaker - by Olaf Stapledon - not sure how this could be made into a film except maybe through animation...
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on May 18, 2021 2:26:52 GMT
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Post by Marv on May 18, 2021 18:32:00 GMT
Wheel of Time series. I've only read the first 6 books or so but with Song of Ice and Fire being a hit and Dark Tower coming soon I'd welcome seeing this translated to either high end tv series or a movie franchise. Lol nice. This will be a tv series on Amazon soon. |
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Post by Zos on May 20, 2021 13:24:19 GMT
For me it would be Michael Moorcock's "Colonel Pyat" quartet of novels. An alternative history of the 20th Century with the ultimate unreliable narrator.
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Post by novastar6 on May 30, 2021 17:57:25 GMT
Multiple timelines and flashbacks and a director who has studied Bergman and Tarkovsky Probably a miniseries to retain as much of the content as possible Ironically, the most satisfying use of the subjective camera I've seen is in the Joe McDoakes short " So You Want to Be a Detective?" I love that short!
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Post by novastar6 on May 30, 2021 18:01:44 GMT
The Boys who Challenged Hitler The Ghost Came Alive a true adaptation of Freaky Friday a true adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 A full length movie of Ray Bradbury's Usher II the other books in the Wizard of Oz series All the Little Bad Ones The Dollhouse Murders Varney the Vampire
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Post by Feologild Oakes on May 30, 2021 18:29:58 GMT
The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Jun 9, 2021 21:03:24 GMT
The Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths. Ruth is a forensic archaeologist, has an affair with a married Norfolk police detective resulting in a daughter, among her friends is a Cathbad, a Druid. Ruth lives on the Norfolk salt marsh.
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