Books That Should Be Movies

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And short stories. "The Moviegoer" by Walker Percy.

― aimurchie, Friday, 14 May 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd like to see a Kavalier and Clay movie.

― Phastbuck, Friday, 14 May 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Agreed! Also a "Carter Beats The Devil" movie.

― aimurchie, Friday, 14 May 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Homer's The Iliad. Man, that would be so awesome. It would be, like, epic.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Friday, 14 May 2004 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I just got a bunch of nice herbs (the legal kind), from a friend from the Montpelier area. I visit a couple of times in the summer - also Burlington. So we can do a FAP if you want. if you're near either of those places. I'm a Masshole.

― aimurchie, Friday, 14 May 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread sucks! I was drunk and bored when I posted it. Now I'm tired and ashamed. But I still plan to go to Vermont...

― aimurchie, Friday, 14 May 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

>I just got a bunch of nice herbs (the legal kind)

Psh, yeah right.

Hey, man, if anyone wants to come up to VT for a FAP, that would be A-OK. Massholes don't have to go all the way up to Montpelier, where I live is on the way...

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Friday, 14 May 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's a great thread.

― joking (joking), Friday, 14 May 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Ditto on Kavalier and Clay and Carter Beats the Devil.

I'd also suggest If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things and Being Dead (er, the latter needs the right director, of course).

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 14 May 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Dhalgren, a 10-part mini-series coming soon to ABC.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 16 May 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I suppose it's redundant to say Watchmen. I'd also love to see a film of The Time Traveler's Wife.

Although having said that, there's a specialness about books which might be 'cinematic' but aren't (yet) films that maybe I wouldn't want to lose.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 17 May 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I've read several Robert Westall books that would make wonderful movies--in another thread I mentioned "Blitzcat" and "The Machine Gunners," both excellent WWII British novels. "Blitzcat" would make a great animated film (although I'm sure there are fine feline actors who could use the work). There are some mystery series that I'd like to see made into TV shows, too--like Peter Lovesey's Diamond books (cranky cop in Bath), and Anne Perry's Pitt books (Victorian police), and Stephen Booth's Derbyshire books (up and down the bloody Peaks). On the other hand, I haven't been too impressed by the TV versions of favorites like Jonathan Gash's Lovejoy, though the Hillermans and P.D. Jameses are pretty good.

― Carol Robinson (carrobin), Monday, 17 May 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The great (somewhat forgotten) science fiction novel, The Wasp by Eric Frank Russell.

― Sredni Vashtar, Thursday, 20 May 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

River God and Warlock by Wilbur Smith. It's about time a movie was made about Ancient Egypt and these books would look great as films.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Sredni, I have just noticed your name, and you are henceforth the best person ever. (Also, you are dead on abt Wasp).

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Homer's The Iliad. Man, that would be so awesome. It would be, like, epic.

Hey, not so great, as it turned out. Ah well.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 21 May 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. It's the only fantasy I can stand. It's so complex, though. It'd be hard to fit it all in.

― Will Sommer, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks.

If done right - the way I saw it in my head - it could be the best epic ever. But I'm sure they'd screw it up, cut the story by half, replace a quarter of it with Jar Jar running around naked and let all characters who die triumph over death under american flags proudly standing in the wind.

So meh.

― Mikhail Capone (Mikhail Capone), Thursday, 27 May 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Hasn't Michael Chabon already sold the movie rights to "Kavalier and Clay"?

He's writing the Spiderman screenplay just now.

Anybody know if he's gonna write the screenplay of his novel?

Oh, and I keep reading all this hubbub about the Antartica part of the novel, well I say the moment where listening to the radio he hears his grandfather singing in the ghetto may be the most moving moment I have ever had in literature.

Hollywood will muck it all up by axing Antartica altogether. Bastards.

― clellie, Friday, 28 May 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Absolutely: One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus. This would be a fantastic movie!

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Sunday, 30 May 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart would make a hell of a fun Hong Kong Kung Fu movie.

― oblomov, Monday, 31 May 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Lotus Crew" by Stewart Meyer. The lower east side heroin scene NYC 1982-83. "...Delancey Street crackled shamless like a neon leper colony." More realistic than Naked Lunch, maybe the great lost post-beat drug novel.(Maybe the only p-b d n.) Action-packed, rapid-paced and not for those easily nauseated by needles, blood, etc.

― lovebug starski, Monday, 31 May 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not going to tell you which books would, in my opinion, make good films. Instead, I am going to write the screenplays (probably not, but I'm not going to steal my own thunder by giving the game away already).

― SRH (Skrik), Monday, 31 May 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree with oblomov; Bridge of Birds would be great. Like an Asian version of Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I was looking forward to Terry Gilliam's adaptation of Good Omens but it seems to have stalled indefinitely now and I'm doubtful it will ever be made.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Was hoping Bridge of Birds came out more along the lines of a Asian Princess Bride myself. But if it was half as funny as the Holy Grail would be very happy.

― oblomov, Tuesday, 1 June 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

What's an FAP?

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Sunday, 6 June 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

should I start a seperate thread about how the producers will mess up the Kavalier and Clay movie?

― clellie, Sunday, 6 June 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

>should I start a seperate thread about how the producers will mess up the Kavalier and Clay movie?

LOL - I can see it now, we need a big name to play Kavalier ......hmmmm I know Ben Affleck, Yeah that will work.

― oblomov, Monday, 7 June 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Revive! Cause, er well...just 'cause.

― Dark Horse, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

Damn, I just realized I loaned BRIDGE OF BIRDS out years ago and never got it back. Grumblings and mumblings.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

My own personal vote would go to Shirley Hazzard's "The Transit of Venus."

― Dark Horse, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

Cronenberg should do Darrieussecq's Truismes ("Pig Tales")
I didn't much care for the novel, but it's so wonderfully right up his alley.

― Øystein (Øystein), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

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