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[Film] Books that you would like to be adapted for cinema



Pevenseagull

Pevenseagull

meh
Jul 20, 2003
20,832
Further to the sci-fi films thing, I would love to see PKD's 'Ubik' made into a film.

A few people have had a pop at it to no avail.

I reckon there's a cracking MOVIE in there somewhere.
 




Whitechapel

Whitechapel

Famous Last Words
Jul 19, 2014
4,440
Not in Whitechapel
Maybe more of a Netflix series than a film but when I was a teenager I read a set of books called CHERUB which I always thought would have made a good show, especially after the rather excellent adaptation of A Series Of Unfortunate Events show.

They were teen spy books, but the tried to be more realistic than Alex Rider, young James Bond etc. So rather than a sole 12 year old thwarting the plan of an evil billionaire who wanted to destroy the world, there would be a couple of kids who’d help infiltrate a group of drug dealers in Luton or try and find information on an animal rights group that had resorted to violence.

The contrast between the drama of missions mixed with the teen angst of the main characters lives between the missions would work really well as a teen drama on Netflix imo and the nostalgia factor would be 100% be enough for me to watch all of it.
 




Pevenseagull

Pevenseagull

meh
Jul 20, 2003
20,832
Whitechapel said:
Maybe more of a Netflix series than a film but when I was a teenager I read a set of books called CHERUB which I always thought would have made a good show, especially after the rather excellent adaptation of A Series Of Unfortunate Events show.

They were teen spy books, but the tried to be more realistic than Alex Rider, young James Bond etc. So rather than a sole 12 year old thwarting the plan of an evil billionaire who wanted to destroy the world, there would be a couple of kids who’d help infiltrate a group of drug dealers in Luton or try and find information on an animal rights group that had resorted to violence.

The contrast between the drama of missions mixed with the teen angst of the main characters lives between the missions would work really well as a teen drama on Netflix imo and the nostalgia factor would be 100% be enough for me to watch all of it.
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Adolescents infiltrating drug gangs and the bad side of PETA in Luton sounds like a difficult production pitch.

But I'm sure it would be better than Baby Reindeer.
 








SkirlieWirlie

SkirlieWirlie

Well-known member
Jan 6, 2024
207
I've enjoyed all of the sci-fi novels by John Wyndham and pity more haven't been used as the basis for TV series or films.

I'm sure of they were they'd be updated and contemporary, but love the period feel of the books and would prefer them to be set in that era.
 






GT49er

GT49er

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Feb 1, 2009
49,460
Gloucester
Anne McCaffery's Pern books would be wonderful - but having read, and loved, them all, if they didn't get the dragons to look like I pictre them, it would be a non-starter!

Edward Marston's Railway Detective books would be much easier to convert to film. The downside would be that producers and directors who go to the ends of the erth for authenticity, and employ experts to get the clothes right, the hairstyles right, etc, etc. would get the chance to continue to triumphantly demonstrate their ignorance of railways. After all, a steam train is a steam train, innit? Victorian setting, locomotive built in 1940 - what's the problem? It chuffs, doesn't it?

After all, if Hitchcock was satisfied with Robert Hannay's train from London to the Dumfries area of South West Scotland in the Thirty Nine Steps thundering southwards over the Forth Bridge, anything goes, doesn't it?
 


lawros left foot

lawros left foot

Glory hunting since 1969
NSC Patron
Jun 11, 2011
14,134
Worthing
Build a bonfire.

To paraphrase Edmund Blackadder

‘Build a Bonfire,A huge, roller coaster of a novel in four hundred sizzling chapters. A searing indictment of lower league football ownership, with some hot gypsies thrown in.’


I made up the bit about hot gypsies.
 


Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
NSC Patron
Oct 8, 2003
56,729
Faversham
Dark Materials.

But I'm still waiting for book 9. What's happening? ???
 




Weststander

Weststander

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Aug 25, 2011
69,953
Withdean area


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anygivensunday

Active member
Jul 5, 2012
217
Singapore
Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. I think James Franco has had a couple attempts at getting if off the ground but it might be unfilmable.

Anything by Elmore Leonard, a wealth of material as 3:10 to Yuma, Jackie Brown, and the tv show Justified will attest.
 








Razzoo

Razzoo

Well-known member
Sep 11, 2011
5,353
N. Yorkshire
anygivensunday said:
Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. I think James Franco has had a couple attempts at getting if off the ground but it might be unfilmable.

Anything by Elmore Leonard, a wealth of material as 3:10 to Yuma, Jackie Brown, and the tv show Justified will attest.
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Apparently it's currently being made by a director called Hillcoat, I hope he does it justice.
 


Bold Seagull

Bold Seagull

strong and stable with me, or...
Mar 18, 2010
30,503
Hove
beorhthelm said:
i'm always surprised Snow Crash hasn't been made to a film. it reads like one to start, at least to being with.
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There are a few of Neal Stephenson’s I’m surprised haven’t been adapted. Seveneves, Cryptonomicon, Anathem (you can imagine the pitch ‘In the Name of the Rose meets Dune).
 


Deportivo Seagull

Deportivo Seagull

I should coco
Jul 22, 2003
5,523
Mid Sussex
GT49er said:
Anne McCaffery's Pern books would be wonderful - but having read, and loved, them all, if they didn't get the dragons to look like I pictre them, it would be a non-starter!

Edward Marston's Railway Detective books would be much easier to convert to film. The downside would be that producers and directors who go to the ends of the erth for authenticity, and employ experts to get the clothes right, the hairstyles right, etc, etc. would get the chance to continue to triumphantly demonstrate their ignorance of railways. After all, a steam train is a steam train, innit? Victorian setting, locomotive built in 1940 - what's the problem? It chuffs, doesn't it?

After all, if Hitchcock was satisfied with Robert Hannay's train from London to the Dumfries area of South West Scotland in the Thirty Nine Steps thundering southwards over the Forth Bridge, anything goes, doesn't it?
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Another for the Series

Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch.
 








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