Books That You Want To See Made Into Movies

Plus the 7th book is unsatisfying. Esp the fate of Flagg.

 

The Liar's Club and Cherry, both by Mary Kay Karr

A Man in Full, Tom Wolfe

Any of those "First year in I-Banking" books, like Liar's Poker, Monkey Business, F.I.A.S.C.O or Riding the Bull

Anything and everything by Bob Woodward (loved Shadow), Martin Mayer or James B. Stewart (just to counteract all the stupidity at movie theaters these days).

A Saga of Wealth: the rise of the Texas Oilmen by James Presley (just so we could know where all those street names like Fondren, Cullen and Sterling come from)

Black Fire: A Story of Henri Christophe by Covell Newcomb (Mom's from Haiti, she gave me this book when I was in junior high and I spent a whole Saturday at the library reading it)

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale by Verna Aardema ("punish the mus-kee-to! punish the mus-kee-to!")

D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths by Ingrid and Edgar D'Aulaire

The first two Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books.

Basic Business Statistics by Mark L. Berenson, David M. Levine, and Timothy C. Krehbiel (maybe then I can f***ing understand it, or at least give a sh*t)


I would also be curious to see Grapes of Wrath in book form

 

Good call on the Dragonlance trilogy Moniker. Although really you could make a fairly awesome trilogy of movies with most of the Weis & Hickman trilogies (Dragonlance, Darksword, or Rose of the Prophet). Dragonlance would be the best bet though. Epic fantasy storytelling at its best. I found a website a while back that was trying to come up with a "dream" cast and I drew a blank. I couldn't even begin to figure out who could play what, although I personally think maybe Uma Thurman for Goldmoon could work. Don't know if she's the "classic" beauty the books pictured though.

 

How about that. I go looking around a bit and find that the first book in the Dragonlance Chronicles, Dragons of Autumn Twilight, is actually being made into an animated movie. Probbaly direct to DVD. The cast is pretty solid, including Michael Rosenbaum as Tanis, Lucy Lawless as Goldmoon, and Keifer Sutherland as Raistlin.

This IS IMDB talking though, so take it with a grain of salt. I can't find any mention of it on the actors' websites, so I have series doubts about it's actual existence. It would be nice to get something, even if it is animated.

 

I'll probably get to it next week. My wife is listening and she loves it.

 

I'm finishing up The Fountainhead right now and the only thing I can think about is how I want this made into a movie NOW. An adaptation was created in 1949, but I need something fresher. Damn this is an awesome book. No motion picture could compare to it, of course, and it would probably need to be 4 or 5 hours long to get everything in...but I really really want to see it attempted.

I'm in love with this book.

 

I had forgotten about this...

Actually, I liked it more at the beginning then the end, mainly because it seemed to get a bit repetitive and the humor wasn't as good as in the other two Moore books I've "read" (audio books). While the book can certainly be deemed offensive by many Christians, I tend to separate fiction from reality and don't let that sort of thing affect me. For example, We both enjoyed the movie (many years ago) of "The Last Temptation of Christ". It was interesting to see that perspective. Meanwhile, our parents' generation was urging boycotts.

 

there is a spiderman book where venom, carnage and spidey all square off...and i think the fantasic 4 make an appearance.

 

Any of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch novels, John Connelly's Charlie Parker novels would work well too.

How about Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time. They could make a movie...and then another..and another...and another.

Tad Williams's Memory Sorrow and Thorn trilogy could work, since it's a relatively short series compared to other epic fantasies.

 

I'm about to start reading this book. My teacher recommended it to me. She told me it was long but well worth the time to read it.

 

It really is an incredible book. I honestly didn't think I could feel this strongly about any books but Steinbeck ones. This might have surpassed East of Eden for my favorite book ever. Then again I do get really excited about the current book I'm reading. But, this one is a special, incredible piece of art. I didn't really like "anthem" very much when it was required reading in high school, so i never read The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged.

You're going to love it.

 

Any of the Christopher Moore books that I know about have the potential to be good movies.

I know "Practical Demonkeeping" was snapped up by Disney, but given their current focus, I doubt they'll ever make it into a movie.

Sort of related to this, I heard an author tell a story recently about his latest book. He wrote a screenplay and shopped it around. Everybody passed. Not a single bite of interest. He eventually decides that his screenplay would work well as a novel, so he re-wrote it as a novel and it was published. Almost immediately, the same film companies that weren't interested in the story when it was shopped to them as a screenplay started bidding against each other for the film rights to the novel.

I just thought that was funny for some reason.

 

dude, what the **** did i post?

i think i was being sarcastic.



um Kite Runner.

I don't know.

I hate books.

 

Three novels that would make a fantastic movie, or a series on HBO. Robinson has won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards for his SF writing. Unlike most of his work, these take place in the very near future, and deal with abrupt climate change, the consequences, and how it impacts those involved in attempting to deal with it on the national level, scientifically and politically. Hard science fiction, based on what may very well be happening now, and excellent reads.

Here's a synopsis from Random House of the first novel:

The bestselling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt returns with a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of global warming as they are played out in our nation’s capital—and in the daily lives of those at the center of the action. Hauntingly realistic, here is a novel of the near future that is inspired by scientific facts already making headlines.

When the Arctic ice pack was first measured in the 1950s, it averaged thirty feet thick in midwinter. By the end of the century it was down to fifteen. One August the ice broke. The next year the breakup started in July. The third year it began in May. That was last year.

It’s an increasingly steamy summer in the nation’s capital as Senate environmental staffer Charlie Quibler cares for his young son and deals with the frustrating politics of global warming. Charlie must find a way to get a skeptical administration to act before it’s too late—and his progeny find themselves living in Swamp World. But the political climate poses almost as great a challenge as the environmental crisis when it comes to putting the public good ahead of private gain.

While Charlie struggles to play politics, his wife, Anna, takes a more rational approach to the looming crisis in her work at the National Science Foundation. There a proposal has come in for a revolutionary process that could solve the problem of global warming—if it can be recognized in time. But when a race to control the budding technology begins, the stakes only get higher. As these everyday heroes fight to align the awesome forces of nature with the extraordinary march of modern science, they are unaware that fate is about to put an unusual twist on their work—one that will place them at the heart of an unavoidable storm.

With style, wit, and rare insight into our past, present, and possible future, this captivating novel propels us into a world on the verge of unprecedented change—in a time quite like our own. Here is Kim Stanley Robinson at his visionary best, offering a gripping cautionary tale of progress—and its price—as only he can tell it.


Can't recommend these novels enough (read them! you'll freak out), and they are not only topical, but tailor made for a film or HBO treatment.

 

I remember as a kid I used to read these ridiculous books that lets you pick what happens next and then proceed to that page.

That would be awesome if they can make one of those into a movie where we can pick the outcome.

 

I liked the alternate ending options at the end of the butterfly effect. like when ashton kucher kills himself in the womb. classic.

 

DragonLance Movie