Prey - Michael Crichton It would make such a good movie, with someone like Peter Jackson who had success with a book-to-movie with gorgeous special effects.
I hate watching movie made from books because most of the time they dont match up....but A few I'd like to see are: Wicked- its already on braodway but it would look amazing on screen. Bling- Erica Kennedy Better than I know my self- DeBerry and Grant And finally I'd love to see both of the books that Astro is working on as movies. I've read bits and pieces of them and they'd make really great movies.
Funny you post that...A Dirty Job is the next book I'm reading. Lamb is my favorite book of all-time.
I'd love to see Aztec by Gery Jennings get made into a movie. Actually, it's such a sprawling epic it would be better served with an HBO series.
I'd like to second: Enders Game The Hyperion series (the last two books are far more cinematic) Game of Thrones (the whole Fire and Ice series, once its done) Aztec The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay plus Snow Crash Stephen King's The Mist I am looking forward to The Golden Compass
i was reading the thread until i thought i might see enders game. that by far is my nomination. one day i bet you will see it.
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I just looked it up on imdb. It says Ender's Game the Movie is coming out in 2008. It is supposed to be a mixture of Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow
BAM! Should be awesome if they do it to the scale of a show like Rome... HBO miniseries: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117957532.html?categoryid=14&cs=1 HBO turns 'Fire' into fantasy series Cabler acquires rights to Martin's 'Ice' By MICHAEL FLEMING HBO has acquired the rights to turn George R.R. Martin's bestselling fantasy series "A Song of Fire & Ice" into a dramatic series to be written and exec produced by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. "Fire" is the first TV project for Benioff ("Troy") and Weiss ("Halo") and will shoot in Europe or New Zealand. Benioff and Weiss will write every episode of each season together save one, which the author (a former TV writer) will script. The series will begin with the 1996 first book, "A Game of Thrones," and the intention is for each novel (they average 1,000 pages each) to fuel a season's worth of episodes. Martin has nearly finished the fifth installment, but won't complete the seven-book cycle until 2011. The author will co-exec produce the series along with Management 360's Guymon Casady and Created By's Vince Gerardis. Martin's series has drawn comparisons to J.R.R. Tolkien, because both are period epics set in imagined lands. But Martin has eschewed Tolkien's good-vs.-evil theme in favor of flawed characters from seven noble families. The book has a decidedly adult bent, with sex and violence comparable to series like "Rome" and "Deadwood." "They tried for 50 years to make 'Lord of the Rings' as one movie before Peter Jackson found success making three," Martin said. "My books are bigger and more complicated, and would require 18 movies. Otherwise, you'd have to choose one or two characters." Aside from writing the most recent draft of "Halo," Weiss recently adapted the William Gibson novel "Pattern Recognition" for WB and director Peter Weir. Benioff and Weiss were repped by CAA and Management 360.
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The Hobbit, though I have heard something about that being made already. DragonLance:Chronicles (technically a trilogy) could make a good series of movies. The Iron Tower Trilogy, very Lord of the Rings-ish. World War Z. The Legend of the Jade Phoenix trilogy (from the BattleTech universe) I really liked. Caverns of Socrates would make a good movie. The Civil War (the recent Marvel Comics event) could be a great movie. The Tyrants and Kings trilogy by John Marco would be fun to see on the big screen (and could be followed by the trilogy consisting of The Eyes of God, The Devil's Armor, and The Sword of Angels). I would also love to see the Thrawn trilogy from Star Wars made into films, just keep George Lucas away from the script, the directors chair, and the editing room. On another note, I must be the only person on this board that thought Ender's Game sucked and would be perfectly happy never to hear it mentioned again.
The problem with adapting novels into movies is that there is a lot more material in a typical book than you can fit into a two hour movie. In that respect movies are much more analogous to short stories. Unfortunately short stories aren't that popular of a medium so there's not a whole lot of source material to draw from.
