Books you would dearly love with all your heart to be made into movies.

[Faster With Feeling]

I have three I have loved since I was a child...... I know a movie they would probably ♥♥♥♥ up the story but my choices for book to movie are

Dragonriders Of Pern by Anne McCaffrey (primary author)

The Crysalids by John Wyndham

On The Flipside by Nicholas Fisk

[Masque]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Breakfast Killer:

Why do people in SW have British accents? That's actually a good point, there should not be any of that in a universe like that

Why do all fictional dwarves have Scottish brogue? Seriously all of them.

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Masque:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Breakfast Killer:

Why do people in SW have British accents? That's actually a good point, there should not be any of that in a universe like that

Why do all fictional dwarves have Scottish brogue? Seriously all of them.

You're almost right. Technically they're a little Irish.

[Grendalcat]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von vkobe:

rendez vous with rama

You can thank Morgan Freeman for no movie, he owns the rights but won't make it, and won't sell the rights to anyone else.

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Also, A Canticle for Leibowitz

[Big G]

Books are boring, so naturally I don't read them.

[Hobbit XIII]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Breakfast Killer:

Why do people in SW have British accents? That's actually a good point, there should not be any of that in a universe like that

In Battlefront 2 classic version...

The republican space rangers clone trooper side voices are all macho and cool.
Then they turn Imperial awesome but have Eton / Cambridge accents voicing over the victories and dilemmas of the battle / war and yet not one asks for a cuppa tea.

Onto topic

'd like to see some of the Fighting Fantasy books turned into a tv show or movie.

[Devsman]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Breakfast Killer:

Why do people in SW have British accents? That's actually a good point, there should not be any of that in a universe like that

Why do they speak English?

[Daenoxiis]

The Enuma Elish.

[Ruckman_Void]

The way movies are being made these days?

Even that epic LOTR cut out a whole theme from the story by axing Bombadil

I really wanted a conclusion to be done to Tripods (they did 2/3 and at the time I thought they did it really well). But now it's dated and the actors have probably retired and...


...above all...


The way they are making movies these days? I am content to enjoy my favourite books without such imagery and interpretations taking over from my own.
And I like the stories as they are.

[Devsman]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Grendalcat:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von vkobe:

rendez vous with rama

You can thank Morgan Freeman for no movie, he owns the rights but won't make it, and won't sell the rights to anyone else.:VGRUMPY:

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Also, A Canticle for Leibowitz

I didn't think the book was that great anyway. It had some neat ideas and all but there wasn't really any takeaway, and there wasn't much of a structure to the story either. It did have a couple of noteworthy themes, but nothing really off the beaten path.

It was pretty much Stuff Happens: The Novel.

[Heraclius Caesar]

The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (to be fair this has been adapted numerous times but with terribly low quality Russian/Polish/etc. production, or just a poor production that changes the story and sets it somewhere else, etc., though apparently a new miniseries or film is in the works? Idk)

The Life & Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by Ernst Hoffmann

Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium by Walter Kaegi

A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman

The Burgundians by Bart van Loo

Sabres of Paradise by Lesley Blanch

The Man Who Believed He Was King of France by Tommaso Di Carpegna Falconieri

I would also love to see a modern adaptation of the Accursed Kings series by Maurice Druon.

[Daenoxiis]

Into The Magic Shop was also really good and would probably make a solid movie.
It's about the life of a neurosurgeon.

[Morkonan]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Hobbit XIII:

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Tubi has the series for free: https://tubitv.com/series/2361/redwall
(Free - Enjoy!)

Netflix was/is supposed to be making a series out of it.

That is great and happy to see it coming again! Thanks for posting it up I had zero idea this was made.

I'll have to look for another site to watch it on Tubi is not available where I am.

https://archive.org/details/redwall-animated

:)

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Masque:

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Not just the one book. All four are one story. I just re-read them after thirty years -- I last read them when I was in my 20s -- and I do believe it's one of the best SF epics ever written.

I get it - It's had wide acclaim. I forget when I first read it, but several friends and I tried to get through it and it was just missing something and didn't quite resonate. I still have the first book somewhere, so may try it again.


Another suggestion:

From my most favoritist worldbuilder, C. j. Cherryh, - "The Chanur Series"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pride_of_Chanur

No, it's not about furries... The problem with this has always been the expense of both the practical effects necessary and the sets. Only a very limited number of scenes in one or two bits out of the whole series take place on a "planet." Everything else is in spaceships and very large space-stations. No location scout can shave some costs, here. All the main characters are aliens except the one human, who doesn't actually do much. The practical appliances and work needed would have to be of the Award Winning variety. Think of the needs of the first old Planet of the Apes movies, where the actors had to be able to convey emotions while wearing a pound off latex on their face... But, the story is excellent. It's a sorta/kinda YA'ish kinda story... ish, but the tension is largely drawn by very adult threats, like diplomatic relations and the potential for an interspeciels interstellar war. The hook - It's chock-full of cliffhangers and loads of action backed up by very tense drama.

(Her "Foreigner" series is too big and its drama is heavily wrapped up in people sitting in rooms and talking... "The Faded Sun Kesrith" would be a suitable mini, but it's got real-world overtones that wouldn't fly right now.)


Observation - A lot of series/books that are just at the cusp of moving from being just "Young Adult" (YA) titles into more adult selections are perfect sorts of books for film, IMO. They don't get bogged down in a lot of baggage that is difficult to translate to a screen, yet still mimic some of the heavy themes of more mature reading.

[Polverrati]

I want John Carpenter to come out of retirement just to make a movie based on Uzumaki with Guillermo del Toro.

Will it happen? Literally 0% chance.