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Books you wish would be turned into movies
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#25re: Books you wish would be turned into movies
Posted: 3/9/06 at 4:06am
If we're going for Chuck Palahniuk novels, I say we ignore Lullaby as it was poo and instead can they please get the adaptation of Survivor back on track that was derailed by 9/11? I also wouldn't mind seeing Invisible Monsters made into a movie.
But the book I most want to see turned into a movie (or better yet, a kick ass miniseries) is Donna Tartt's The Secret History.
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#26re: Books you wish would be turned into movies
Posted: 3/9/06 at 4:13amFlavor of the Month by Olivia Goldsmith. Why that book didn't become the Valley of the Dolls of the 90s is beyond me. Such highbrow trash. Delicious book that could make a wonderfully fun movie in the right hands.
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
#27re: Books you wish would be turned into movies
Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:15am
I'm interested in the Secret Life of Bees movie that's being made...
"A little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing." - Thomas Jefferson
jasobres
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/9/05
#28re: Books you wish would be turned into movies
Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:55amI wish Catcher in the Rye was a movie, but Mr. Salinger does not like to have his stories in any other form but written.
"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!"
- Jimmy Durante
"Breathe from your hoo-hoo."
-Kristin Chenoweth
#29re: Books you wish would be turned into movies
Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:56am
One of the best books I've read in recent memory (and indeed, possibly ever) is apparently in pre-production for a film version now. "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell."
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#30re: Books you wish would be turned into movies
Posted: 3/9/06 at 10:56am'Middlesex' Jeffrey Eugenides . Don't know how they'd do it but it would be cool.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#31re: Books you wish would be turned into movies
Posted: 3/9/06 at 11:14amThe Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
WindyCityActor
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/13/03
#32re: Books you wish would be turned into movies
Posted: 3/9/06 at 11:29am
"A Confederacy of Dunces" most definately
A Confederacy of Dunces has made into a musical many many moons ago when I was an under-grad at LSU.
#33re: Books you wish would be turned into movies
Posted: 3/9/06 at 11:31am"B is for Betsy"
"Y'all have a GRAND day now"
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#34re: Books you wish would be turned into movies
Posted: 3/9/06 at 1:11pm
Is Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell a good book? I always look at it when I'm at the bookstore, but I never buy it.
I can't think of any to add to the list. The books I've been reading lately are already movies (Freedomland) or would be hella stupid movies (NNNNN).
#35re: Books you wish would be turned into movies
Posted: 3/9/06 at 1:13pm
It's a phenomenal book.
Isn't "Dunces" already in the can starring Will Ferrell?
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#36re: Books you wish would be turned into movies
Posted: 3/9/06 at 1:17pmThanks. I'll pick it up next time I'm at Barnes and Noble.
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