What books would you like to see filmed?

[Deej]

What are some books that you would like to see made into a film? I'm thinking The Alienist would be cool. Cool period setting with a whole hell of a lot O' serial killing. Be cool to watch, if done well. They's probably make it  into a Josh Hartnett angsy movie though.

[Vermin Boy]

I'd like to see some of Daniel Pinkwater's stuff on the screen. He does children's books, but they're some of the most bizarre, absurdist stories I've ever read (titles include "The Worms of Kukumlima" and "The Snark-Out Boys and the Avocado of Death"). My favorite book of his is Borgel, about a boy whose mysterious uncle takes him traveling through "time, space, and the other" in an old car, where they wind up on a quest to find the Great Popsicle.

[Foywonder]

A $150 million dollar version of THE HOBOKEN CHICKEN EMERGENCY directed by Michael Bay!

[Pancho]

The Dream Quest Of Unknown Kadath by Lovecraft.  Of course they'd turn it into the Phantom Menace if they even tried......... "Meesa Cthulhu" Oh the humanity................

[Fearless Freep]

After watching Lord Of The Rings, I now think it's possible to do justice to Donaldson's series.  Any of which I would love to see as movies

[The Burgomaster]

DIRTY WHITE BOYS by Stephen Hunter. It's about 3 convicts who escape from prison and go on a killing spree. The book has many graphic and disturbing moments, and is extremely well written. A couple of years ago, I heard rumors that it would be made into a feature film, but I haven't heard anything about it lately.

[Trollificus]

Zelazny. Creatures of Light and Darkness or Lord of Light. They are ready-made for the ball-out, over-the-top digital effects approach. And interesting, too.

[Mofo Rising]

Foywonder wrote:
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> A $150 million dollar version of THE HOBOKEN CHICKEN
> EMERGENCY directed by Michael Bay!

If you like, you could watch the $150 dollar version.

I think Jeff Long's The Descent could make a pretty good movie.  You'd really have to cut down the plot though.

[Bernie]

ALIENIST would be a natural, I'd think.  

Every few years, there are rumors about a film version of Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End.  But it never happens.

With the interest in Gangs of New York, Ken Baker's Dreamland would be an interesting thing to try to film.

[Funk, E.]

Neuromancer by Gibson
Shadow over Innsmooth, H.P.L.
Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky
The Plague, Camus
The Foundation series by Asimov

[Mofo Rising]

Funk, E. wrote:
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> Shadow over Innsmooth, H.P.L.
> The Plague, Camus



Shadow Over Innsmouth was adapted into DAGON.

THE PL.AGUE has been filmed, although it was relocated.

[Drezzy]

Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis.

Ellis, for those of you that don't know, wrote the novels that the films Less Than Zero, American Psycho, and The Rules Of Attraction.

Upon checking imdb.com, I see that a movie of Glamorama is due out in 2004.

[The Burgomaster]

Actually, another great book was INCIDENT AT TWENTY-MILE by Trevanian (the same guy who wrote THE EIGER SANCTION). It's about a lunatic and a couple of other guys who escape from prison during the late 1800s and terrorize the residents of a small town in the mountains. It is partially based on real characters and actual events, but mostly fictionalized. The villain is an intelligent, clever Hannibal Lecter sort of guy (except he isn't a cannibal). I read the book in two sittings. Couldn't put it down.

[lester1/2jr]

I was very into the book Chang and Eng about the siamese twins.  My version would involve martial arts.  I'll leave it at that. www.changandeng.com

[Scotty Xtreme]

I would like to see a big budget, but well done and pretty darn close to the original material, version of the Douglas Adams Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy  series.  I'll throw in extra bonus points if they can fit Jeffrey Combs into it somehow.