What novel/real-life event should be turned into a film?

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Any ideas? I, for one, would like to see a better film about Nixon.

― Anthony (Anthony F), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I would like to see a film about Emma Goldman.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

the 1972 fischer-spassky match.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Whatever the hell the pope did to get Attila the Hun to leave Rome.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 06:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I heard it was a hand-job

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

definitely emma goldman. and in the novel department, i think something really great could have been done with yates' revolution road.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

i guess that the stories about norman wexler as told by bob zmuda in his andy kaufman bio are apocryphal, but i think you could write a pretty entertaining film around them... i love certain elements of the 'mr. x' story-- like the three tape recorders, one playing a sousa march or rock music, depending on x's mood; one set to record the days events; and then one simultaneously playing back the previous day's events...perfectly synchronized

though i realize it's politically incorrect, not to mention rather cruel, to derive entertainment from behavior stemming from someone's mental illness...

― Dallas Yertle (Dallas Yertle), Friday, 31 October 2003 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I might as well let my ideas out of the bag, especially since they screwed up with "Enemy at the Gates", which was one of the historical stories I thought could make a good movie.

Gary Powers - U2 Spy Plane incident

Jim Thompson's novel - The Killer Inside Me
It has been made into a movie, but appearantly it wasn't very good, either way this book is great and could be made into an excellent film.

I also think there is a movie about the incidents in Kansas before the US Civil War breaks out.

The fall of Siagon could also make an interesting setting for a movie.

― earlnash, Friday, 31 October 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

A bio on Captain Beefheart....or, for that matter, Frank Zappa.

I once saw Mr Van Vliet on the Letterman show. It was truly uncomfortable. Whenever I think of someone uncomfortable in his/her own body, I think of Jeff Bridges as the alien in Starman. Don seemed as uncomfortable in his. When he talks, it sounds a lot like his lyrics...a mix of childlike wordplay and dadaism.

― ed dill (eddill), Monday, 3 November 2003 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

The Enigma of @d@ml.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 3 November 2003 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

The story of Jaco Pastorius. The bioraphy written about him was quite touching, it made me cry. Though the film version would probably be just another "The Rise and Fall of..."

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

all biopics are based on The Jerk so yes it would

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

Thermopylae

Midway could use an update, also.

― turkey (turkey), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I heard it was a hand-job

That was a hell of a long trip (with a full army in tow, no less), just to get a handjob from the Pope. I mean, Christ, the man had a wife, right? I guess this was the Monicagate of its era...

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

someone needs to finally make that script for The Moviegoer

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

I'd like to see Spike Lee do a movie about Nat Turner, and really make it hyper-violent, with some extreme master-slave cruelty followed by well-deserved knife-in-the-jugular payback. I'd like to see a biopic about Oliver Cromwell, whose ascencion to power defied every military and political dictum in the book. I'd like to see Peter Jackson direct Melvin Van Peebles "An American Dream", replete with a hundred million dollar FX budget. I'd like to see "The Worthing Chronicles", "Small Gods" and "Galapagos" turned into movies. Finally, since every other cartoon and comic book has already been converted to cinematic form, how about a Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers movie ? (Phineas: Eric Bogosian, Franklin: Kiefer Sutherland, Freddy: Jack Black).

― Dave Gilbert, Monday, 19 January 2004 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG did I actually say Eric Bogosian ? Er, um.... Charlie Sheen ?

― Dave Gilbert, Monday, 19 January 2004 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'd like to see a biopic about Oliver Cromwell, whose ascencion to power defied every military and political dictum in the book."

Cromwell (1970)

It stars Richard Harris as Cromwell. It is worth seeing.

― earlnash, Monday, 19 January 2004 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

and Alec Guiness as Charles "Stuttering Chuck" I.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 19 January 2004 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

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