Books you read when you were younger you would have like to see a movie made

[Callysto]

I have read many books from when I was a kid. Thinking back about them recently when coming across a notebook I would keep track of them in, I got the idea about what if it were to be made a movie of.

James and the Giant Peach.      I know they made a computer like animated version but I would rather see a movie made with real live people.

[Tranquil Featherman]

Tom Swift Adventures (that's Tom Swift, Sr. )
although I think maybe Doc Savage could've been a close call for that.



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[Ellie]

"Nightbirds on Nantucket" and "Wolves of Whilloughby Chase".

[Dave:Blackeye15]

The Big Friendly Giant. Except it would be a horror movie about Giants eating people and then the armyies and airforces of all the worlds come and fight the giants but the giants are too powerful and they smash the tanks and jets, and missles, and cannons, and eat all the soliders and people. It seems as though there is no hope for man kind when the BFG (Big Friendly Giant) comes and gets into Kung- Fu battles with all the evil giants and he wins! And humanity is safed. Now I wanna see a movie like that! Ok a guess a movie following the book would be good I guess. (I'm make my own version of the BFG and it'll be a blockbuster hit baby!)

-the first rule of fat club-

[The Burgomaster]

Tranquil Featherman wrote:

> Tom Swift Adventures (that's Tom Swift, Sr. )
> although I think maybe Doc Savage could've been a close call
> for that.

I read a few Doc Savage books when I was younger, plus a few of the comic books. I recently got back into a Doc Savage kick, and decided to buy the whole collection of paperbacks. I have #1 through about #110, and I plan to buy the others eventually. I am reading them in order (however, the order of the books is not the same as the order in which the stories were originally published during the 1930s and 40s). The stories are definitely cheesy and are written at about a 6th grade reading level, but they are fun to read. The books are only about 110 - 140 pages long, so you can read them pretty quickly.

Anyway, I'd love to see a Doc Savage movie. They made a really cheap movie back in the 1970s starring Ron Ely. I heard rumors that there was some interest in making a new version with Arnold Schwarzenegger. I think he would be a bad choice for Doc Savage. He has the muscles for it, but he would be completely wrong for the role. Ron Ely wasn't bad, but he wasn't muscular enough.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.



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[Vermin Boy]

Anything by Daniel Pinkwater (Borgel, Lizard Music, The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death). Even though they're written for kids, I'd highly recommend them to anyone; they all start in standard "young adult novel" territory, but quickly ramble off in absolutely insane directions. I give his books a lot of credit for warping me at an early age.

[Brian Ringler]

I think the long walk would make a good movie as long as it was done like somewhat like the movie They Shoot Horses, Don't They

[Dunners]

Farmer Giles of hamm :)

[Neon Noodle]

I remember reading "The Pushcart War" as a younger lad and thinking it would make a cool movie. Morris the Florist could have been portrayed quite well by Danny Devito.

I also liked Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" but that would do better as a 30 min spot on "Outer Limits".

[dean]

you know i think they already made a BFG movie [animation] and they forced us to watch it when i was in primary school.  it wasn't too bad i guess, but i like the action/kung fu/godzilla feel to it

i think they've either made one, or are in the process of making one: Alice in Wonderland, live version, but based on the game 'Alice' instead [just a creepy interpretation of the book, serial killers and whatnot]

thats a movie right up tim burton's alley!

speaking of which, i hope his willy wonka film is freaky as hell!!
hurray for sick minds!

[JohnL]

I didn't read the typical books when I was younger. My vote would be for Ghost House I & II, Ice Prison, Mastodonia...

[NEC]

The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis (The Man Who Fell To Earth; The Hustler/Color Of Money). One of my favorite books of all time, and if it's to be done right, it has to be a 6-8 hour miniseries on HBO. I first read it in JH and it blew me away.

[Nemo2342]

Willy Wonka and the Great Glass Elevator.

[Kirk]

Bug Wars by Robert Asprin

[Fearless Freep]

"Stranger In  a Strange Land" by Heinlein would be cool
Of course, "Starship Troopers" by Heinlein would be cool if they actually made it like the book.

The "Foundation" books by Asimov, if done as a series.

"Dragonriders of Pern" by Anne McAffery

Some of the earlier "Xanth" stories by Piers Anthony.

"Plague Dogs" by Richard Adams