Books you wish would be turned into movies

[YankeesFan175]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:25pm

I searched for this first b/c I thought I remembered a thread like it. But I found nothing, so if it has been posted forgive me.

What books do you wish would be turned into movies? Mine are:

The Westing Game
Number the Stars

[DramaDork925]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:29pm

My guilty answer: Gossip Girls... you all know (if you've read it) you want to see it.
I'd LOVE if Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings was... although I think that maybe without Jessica's voice it would lose some of its intensity.

[Allie]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:32pm

Michael Cunningham's "Flesh and Blood". I loved the move adaptations of both "The Hours" and "A Home at the End of the World", so I'd love to see this one as a movie, too!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:50pm

Toyer
Angels And Demons (but I'll take a preemptive strike against Ron Howards here and say I want to direct this instead of him)

I'm sure there's more but those two come to mind right away and I've already got them "cast"!

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:52pm

Chuck Palahniuk's "Lullaby"

I was picturing the movie in my head while reading it. In the right hands, it would be the equal of, if not better than, Fight Club.

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:52pm

More than any other book, I'd like to see Timothy Findley's "The Wars" made into a movie.

Actually, I believe it was made into a film with a young Brent Carver and Martha Henry, but it's impossible to find.

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:53pm

Isn't Gossip Girls being made into a movie?

[SmeagolxIsxSexy]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 7:55pm

It's a shame they didn't make Angels and Demons before DaVinci Code.

I would love to see a good movie version of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, it might be difficult since there isn't really a plot.

[TheaterAddict7652]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 8:01pm

It's already a movie, but I'd love a remake of The Outsiders, since the movie was pretty bad, in my opinion. When I read it in english class last year, one of our assignments was to cast each character if the movie was being made today, and I got extra points because, according to my english teacher, it was a perfect cast.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 8:03pm

If we get to list remakes of books that have already been made into movies,

1984
The Handmaid's Tale
Memoirs of a Geisha (what a nightmare!)


And I'd love to see a mini-series made of Eric Wilson's mystery books for teenagers.

[DramaDork925]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 8:04pm

Yeah it is, it either going to be good or suck.

[TheHumanTorch]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 8:08pm

A Confederacy of Dunces most definately

[TheaterAddict7652]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 8:08pm

If it could be made perfectly, then The Catcher in the Rye, which is my favorite book of all time- but only if it was made perfectly, since it could be ruined in a lot of ways.

I know it would be extremely difficult to make a movie of, but I'd love to see Marjane Satarapi's autobiography Persepolis made into a movie. Except it would be way too hard, since the book is a graphic novel.

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 8:10pm

I rather liked the movie version of THE HANDMAID'S TALE. It certainly captured the surreal eeriness of the book. Natasha Richardson and Aiden Quinn were wonderful.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 8:12pm

Oh, I didn't mind the original. I just would like my own hand at it.

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 8:13pm

I was going to say The Giver but then...http://imdb.com/title/tt0435651/

[TheaterAddict7652]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 8:23pm

The Giver is being turned into a movie? Wow. That was one of my favorite books when I was younger. I can see the movie either being really good or really bad.

[slimandslam]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 8:36pm

Memo to Peter Jackson: your next project should be...

The Oxford English Dictionary: The Movie.

It would be epic.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 8:40pm

I think talk of a film version of The Giver with Jeff Bridges involved has been around since 2001 (if not before). I had completely forgotten about it, but it's nice to see that it's apparently going to be released in 2007. Ever since reading the book in eighth grade, I've had some ideas for a film version and it'll be interesting to see if any of them are used.

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 8:44pm

Home at the End of the World(the movie) blew. Flesh and Blood isn't his best book, and it's not very cinematic. But neither were the other two and The Hours made a pretty good movie.

But my vote for the next big Hollywood blockbuster definitely goes to the His Dark Material series. By far the most filmable books I've ever read. Enormously dramatic set pieces (The roofs of an old fashioned Oxford, the arctic, an Italian Rennaissance-ish city, some of it takes place in HELL!), some of fantasy's most memorable characters (witches, talking polar bears, Mrs. Coulter, Will and Lyra, and of course the daemons, potential toy selling ability greater than Pokemon), an enormously, dazzlingly original and exciting plot, and most of all, controversy. The potential in this movie for art, music, and acting far surpasses the lame commercialism of Harry Potter and the occasional bore that is The Lord of the Rings. I can't believe they haven't made a movie out of this yet.

They did a play which was supposed to be amazing but I never got to see it because for some reason they never brought it to America.

[BrianWilsonFan]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 8:54pm

The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

I loved everything about it, it would make a wonderful film...

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 8:59pm

dante's inferno
... i know it's not really a book it's an epic poem, but still

Updated On: 3/8/06 at 08:59 PM

[Overthemoon6]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 9:10pm

The Other Boleyn Girl.

Wonderful book. It was already a tv movie on BBC, but they're making another one!! With Keira Knightley possibly being Anne Boleyn (which I don't see, but whatever).

[slimandslam]

Posted: 3/8/06 at 9:31pm

Roninjoey--
"They did a play which was supposed to be amazing but I never got to see it because for some reason they never brought it to America."

Apparently, the National Theatre is the only theater in England that could mount the show; even a West End transfer wasn't feasible.

The published playscript includes this note: "This adaptation was written to be played in the National Theatre's Olivier Theatre, making maximum use of that seldom-seen, subterranean monster, the Olivier's drum-revolve. The demands and abilities of this mighty piece of '70s technology are now inseparable from the script."

So, that's a big ol' impediment to any potential NY production of His Dark Materials. Updated On: 3/8/06 at 09:31 PM

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 3/9/06 at 3:25am

The Golden Compass from His Dark Materials is slated for 2007 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385752/), but I haven't heard much in terms of progress on it. Tom Stoppard was writing the screenplay but now is not, which worries me quite a bit. I LOVE this trilogy, and I can't think of anything worse than seeing its religious themes toned down to avoid controversy in the current social climate of America.

I would love to have seen the stage version.