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following life of pi as a film that people said couldn't be made.
I'd love to see Ian M Banks - Excession (More Hal from 2001 less people style) or a few other of his culture novels but only if they could be done perfectly (George Lucas step away)
What else is out there?
Kylie & Madonna in a lesbo porn movie?
Kylie & Madonna in a lesbo porn movie?
*frowny face*
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Is Life Of Pi worth a watch? quite fancy a trip to the cinema and everything else looks bobbins...
Is Life Of Pi worth a watch? quite fancy a trip to the cinema and everything looks bobbins...
Django Unchained is supposed to be quite good.
Lance, A true story.
good shout on excession
clive barkers weaveworld would be pretty bonkers
id have to say Dune unless david lynch was given infinite funds to do it again
says Quentin Tarantino 😉
says Quentin Tarantino
BUTT he would say that...
The Jack Caffrey series of books by Mo Hayder would make a great TV series. The subject matter is too taboo TBH. Would never make it on to prime time. If it was made in Sweden with subtitles, different kettle of fish.
Would also like to see William Gibson's Neuromancer Trilogy made properly. I know they tried with Keanu "Woody Plank" Reeves, but that doesn't count.
Weaveworld +1
clive barkers weaveworld would be pretty bonkers
I was about to say Clive Barker's [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imajica ]Imajica[/url]
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. One of my favourite novels, but it would take a very brave person to attempt to make a film of it; well, at least a film faithful to the book, which is essential IMO.
I believe it has been attempted, but fallen down in the early stages. There was a rumour that Ridley Scott had the rights, which got me a bit excited, but I'm not sure how true it is/was.
Hollow chocolate bunnies of the appocolypse, if pixar could do it and keep the adult theams (bo peep is a stripper & toy bear hangs himself to sober up) it could be ace.
A well done ABC warriors film? Some of the less weird Tom Holt stuff?
the rise n rise of Kraftwerk as cyclists. How some crazy German cyclists went a bit crazy and invented some great music and being a bit mad for road cycling.
That'd make a great bit of tv? it's been done hasn't it? not strictly movie material I suppose
Hollow chocolate bunnies of the appocolypse
+1
Plus, there's scope for a sequel.
Dunno about Pixar; I was thinking more of a CG / live action mix, like Ted recently.
+1 for the ABC Warriors.
On a similar tip, Zenith and/or Bad Company would make awesome films if done properly.
And if Peter Jackson can manage LOTR, then surely it's possible to get The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever to the silver screen?
Is Life Of Pi worth a watch?
Yes. Yes it is.
Ian Banks - Wasp Factory would/could be great - may be in the pipeline apparently.
Good call on Blood Meridian, but I'd be really reluctant to see it.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Blood Meridian +1
Astonishing book but it would be well-nigh impossible to do justice to the pathological violence and the unvarnished realities of scalp-hunting in the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the 1840s.
I can't think of any living actor who could play The Judge.
Materhorn
Blood Meridian +1Astonishing book but it would be well-nigh impossible to do justice to the pathological violence and the unvarnished realities of scalp-hunting in the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the 1840s.
I can't think of any living actor who could play The Judge.
I always picture him as Brando in Apocalypse Now.
The babies impaled on bushes, the legion of horribles etc etc.
TBH Inglorious Basterds did the scalping thing, but the rest of it...
After seeing LOTR, I reckon you could film just about anything.
Some of the Discworld stuff would be nice, or a proper version of Hitch Hikers.
McCarthy is famously tight-lipped on discussing any aspect of Blood Meridian, but he is apparently on record rubbishing the notion that it's an unfilmable book. Not quite sure what his thinking is, because I've not seen too many films featuring all-powerful mass-murdering paedophiles, but he's the boss.
The chronicles of Thomas Covenant are a good shout - quite badly written but great ideas and characters. Often the ingredients for a film being better than the book ( e.g Philip K. Dicks novels).
Converse of this would be Le Guins Wizard of Earthsea. Outstanding book that is often marketed as a younger readers fantasy novel. Everything that makes it great comes from Le Guins writing which was off the charts t the time. Try and visualise the film though and it's hard to see what would make it special.
Re: Blood Meridian. Found this hypothetic article:
[url= http://www.wordandfilm.com/2012/09/casting-the-uncastable-adaptation-cormac-mccarthy-blood-meridian/ ]Casting the uncastable[/url]
Some of the Discworld stuff would be nice
I'd love to see a proper film version of some of Discworld. More like Stardust/LoTR, less like those Sky TV adaptations they did.
Discworld works best in your head I think...
Still on the Banks theme, Consider Phlebeas- it's perfect, as long as you've got a very big special effects budget. Both the biggest shipwreck and the biggest trainwreck of all time...
I'd like to see Jeff Noon's Vurt. A very visual book and I reckon it'd transfer well.
Before I clicked on this topic, I was already thinking of Iain M Banks - but I'd vote for Feersum Endjinn. You'd need a pretty big special effects budget, but do-able.
Discworld books don't work on the screen I think - so many of the jokes are written ones.
I just read The Long Earth, would love to see that made to a flick. Would be taxing, but if they pulled it off..
Discworld books don't work on the screen I think - so many of the jokes are written ones.
Good point - bit like Wodehouse really, a lot of the joy is in the writing itself.
Banks would be excellent - The TV version of The Crow Road was ace - believe there was a film of Complicity too, though I've never seen it.
There was something on the BBC about an old rock band with Bill Nighy some time ago that owed a hell of a lot to Espedair Street.
Would also like to see William Gibson's Neuromancer Trilogy made properly. I know they tried with Keanu "Woody Plank" Reeves, but that doesn't count.
I'm sure I read somewhere that there is a plan to make Neuromancer into a film, but as with all these things, it's getting everything in place for it to happen: good script, experienced and sympathetic director, quality cast, top-notch SF house.
The cast doesn't have to be that well known, just appropriate to the characters. I suggest Maggie Q for Molly Millions.
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Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' & 'American Gods'.
'The Dark Tower' by Stephen King.
Snow Crash would also be amazing as a film...
I'm sensing a lot of money to be made by Iain Banks here. I reckon his fiction, rather than his science-fiction (Culture) stuff, would translate easier to film. I'm thinking Guillermo del Torro is about the only person able to do any of his work justice though.
I'd love to see Altered Carbon + the rest of the Kovacs books done. Morgan's style in Market Forces is also very filmable, not surprising as he wrote with it as a screenplay in mind.
That's a good shout drain.
Finnegan Wakes.
"Loud, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low!"
'The Dark Tower' by Stephen King.
Yes! loved reading that years ago
Convoy II
Mmmm, Dark Tower, yes - how good would that be?!! 😀
[i]Snow Crash would also be amazing as a film... [/i]
Totally. With modern capabilities it would be great too.
Cryptonomicon for me. It's an amazing book but pretty much impossible to make into a film.
Alasdair Grays Lanark
Snow Crash would also be amazing as a film...Totally. With modern capabilities it would be great too.
I believe [i]Snow Crash[/i] is a serious possibility as a film. Not sure if its as far ahead as Pre-production. But there is talk of a film being made. Now, who would be good as Hiro Protagonist? I reckon Dakota Fanning as YT. Raven might be a bit tricky to cast; how many Aleutes are out there?
Yes, here it is:
http://m.geek.com/geekdotcom/#!/entry/snow-crash-movie-to-be-written-and-directed-by-joe,4fdb4b174b672622b83bfec4
Joe Cornish, of [i]Attack The Block[/i] as director.
The Vega Brothers
Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' & 'American Gods'.
HBO are apparently doing American Gods as a multi season series. Seems fairly definite based on this:
[url= http://hbowatch.com/what-is-american-gods-all-about-anyway/ ]http://hbowatch.com/what-is-american-gods-all-about-anyway/[/url]
The Flying Ox - MemberI'm sensing a lot of money to be made by Iain Banks here. I reckon his fiction, rather than his science-fiction (Culture) stuff, would translate easier to film. I'm thinking Guillermo del Torro is about the only person able to do any of his work justice though.
Complicity was moderately succesful... And the Crow Road TV series was bloomin excellent
Vurt is one that I'd love. Noon has been doing it for a decade iirc.
Personal favourite would be Rendezvous with Rama.
Culture film can't be too long off, Use of Weapons please 🙂 Or the one with Fassin Taak which isn't culture but would look great.
Use of Weapons please
+1
Complicity was moderately succesful... And the Crow Road TV series was bloomin excellent
Aye, but they were both more "fresh out of film school" than "seasoned director with own sense of style and vision".
Give Banks the silver screen and I think he'd be screenwriting king of Hollywood.
Addendum. I had no idea "Pan's Labyrinth" was on tonight. I looked up from submitting my previous comment and had to stand up so I could sit down again.
Thinking about it, the 2 biggest SF franchises of recent times are on the wane. A series of Culture films could fill that gap rather nicely.
I'd love to see Altered Carbon
[url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2261227/plotsummary ]Linky[/url]
I think it's in the planning, should be a fairly easy one to do, more film noir than space opera.
Halo
I still cling desperately to the hope that someone will pick it back up...
Even having suggested it a culture series terrifies me. The potential is huge but songs the danger. All I can see is ja ja binks. That and I can't see anyone agreeing on pronunciation.
I'd love to see Altered Carbon + the rest of the Kovacs books done. Morgan's style in Market Forces is also very filmable, not surprising as he wrote with it as a screenplay in mind.
I think it's in the planning, should be a fairly easy one to do, more film noir than space opera.
I'd love to see altered carbon as a film, it was bought by warner brothers (i think) within month of the book being published - hense HB 1st editions being worth £100's. It'll be hard though, with multipul celeb actors required to play the same role.
Market forces is a terrible book imo, i'd make a better film, but in a crap 80's si-fi way.
I'd also love to see the Rama series by A C Clarke made into a film series.
Cougar - Member
Hollow chocolate bunnies of the appocolypse+1Plus, there's scope for a sequel.
Dunno about Pixar; I was thinking more of a CG / live action mix, like Ted recently
I was thinking of the opposite, start all live action then only the boy in a CGI world.
There a Tom Holt book where all the old gods are in a retirement home and they break out on a stream engine they've been building in their spare time. Could be bonkers take most of the older expendables cast and make then doddery old gods bumming around.
Plants vs Zombies.
[url= http://sciencefictionworld.com/films/science-fiction-films/470-new-iain-m-banks-culture-movie.html ]A Gift From The Culture?[/url]
Still not in production 3 years on though...
I would love to see an A.B.C Warriors (from 2000AD) movie. For those that don't know, think big, mean, mercenary robots with style and attitude.
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Over 20 years ago, I did a uni project (ABC video game) and had the idea of using basketball players in cossies. But it would have looked crap. With today's CGI, it would be easier and betterer (plenty of nice toys to sell off the back of it - someone do it).
The Illuminatus Trilogy directed by Tarantino, please.
A decent H.P. Lovecraft adaptation, say ‘At the Mountains of Madness’. A cyclopean sprawling alien landscape in Antarctica would require a whopping big budget though.
Can't see why people are naming Blood Meridian here. It's just a western.
It would be difficult to watch due to the graphic violence and some film makers might shy away from this but there is nothing in the narrative structure of the book to make it 'unfilmable'.
Good point - bit like Wodehouse really, a lot of the joy is in the writing itself.
There's a new Wodehouse adaptation of Blandings starting on the BBC tonight. I await with baited breath.
Wodehouse fans, have you read this: [url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mortdecai-Trilogy-Kyril-Bonfiglioli/dp/0141003774 ]The Mortdecai Trilogy[/url] ?
I'd love to see a film version of it.
I was thinking of the opposite, start all live action then only the boy in a CGI world.
Aren't we in danger of seguing into Who Framed Roger Rabbit territory though?
There a Tom Holt book where all the old gods are in a retirement home and they break out on a stream engine they've been building in their spare time. Could be bonkers take most of the older expendables cast and make then doddery old gods bumming around.
Speaking of Tom Holt, the J.W.Wells series would make great movies.
Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
The first would have to be a CGI fest just to get all the cold war action in, the second, I'm not sure they could do justice to the whole vibe.
The film I keep coming back to is The Fifth Element, I've watched it so many times now that its hard to think of a scene that could be improved and also it could not be remade, it's just too good.
I remember reading The Chrisalyds by John Wyndham when I was younger and always thought it would makea great film.
Finnegan Wakes."Loud, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low!"
I think there was a version made in the 60's. Similarly there have been versions of Ullyses but they're a bit of a cop out, relying on a lot of narration. I'd have thought we're used to a more broken and non-linear film making now and a bit of Joyce would work. With Joyce theres a lot about how a words look on the page and how the sentence sounds to the ear and the layers of meaning that creates - seeing 'guineas is good for you' but hearing 'guinness is good for you' and all the history and politics tied up in that pun. But how do you achieve that without creating a sort of powerpoint presentation
I'm really surprised that the Third Policeman (why would that spring to mind) has never made it to the screen. The only reason I've seen for it having not done so is that it doesn't fit into the three act structure of typical movie. That doesn't seem unsurmountable though.
There was a rumour about 'Stray Toasters' getting a cinema release, but that was nearly a decade ago- they were always about a release as if a film was already in production. Similarly, around the same time there was talk about a live action Mr Benn.
Can't see why people are naming Blood Meridian here. It's just a western.It would be difficult to watch due to the graphic violence and some film makers might shy away from this but there is nothing in the narrative structure of the book to make it 'unfilmable'.
Whilst I agree there is nothing in the basic narrative of the book to make it unfilmable, the fact that the violence is so intrinsic to the nature and meaning of the book that to film it without would be to miss the point, and very essence, of the book.
I, for one, would not be interested in seeing a "watered down" version of the book, and it would not do the source material justice.
Conversely, it would also take a very deft hand to bring out the atmosphere and imagery of the book, and the majority of modern directors seem to have difficulty balancing violence with subtlety and beauty.
I did wonder if the Coen Brothers may be a good choice: The way they did No Country for Old Men was impressive, and showed signs that they may be able to take on Blood Meridian. I doubt it will happen though.
Euro - MemberI would love to see an A.B.C Warriors (from 2000AD) movie
Cinergi Pictures already have their Hammerstein special effect sat in a box somewhere. Mekquake might need a bigger box.
Watchmen. That has yet be made successfully into a film.
HaloI still cling desperately to the hope that someone will pick it back up...
I'm about 99% certain it has been picked up again. I'll need to retrace my steps to find where I found that out to 100% though.
fervouredimage - MemberWatchmen. That has yet be made successfully into a film.
Say what now? They changed the ending so it made more sense, but other than that it was very loyal. Unless you really miss the barely-relevant-pirates
I'm really surprised that the Third Policeman (why would that spring to mind) has never made it to the screen. The only reason I've seen for it having not done so is that it doesn't fit into the three act structure of typical movie. That doesn't seem unsurmountable though.
Yes, could be ace but easy to make a hash of. Now I'm wondering whether anyone's had a serious attempt at filming anything Borges wrote.
Did Borges write anything long enough to turn into a film?
I'd like to see Peter F Hamilton's Nights Dawn Trilogy in film, but as each book is so massive, not sure it would transfer.
Now I'm wondering whether anyone's had a serious attempt at filming anything Borges wrote.
A quick google reveals this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116061/
@jon1973 - yes, Wyndham's "The Chrysalids" would be excellent - would love to see how they handle the post-apocalyptic landscapes and mutations.
Also good IMO would be his "The Kraken Wakes" - could put some climate change spin on it too with rising sea levels.