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

[Pevenseagull]

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]

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.

 

[beorhthelm]

i'm always surprised Snow Crash hasn't been made to a film. it reads like one, at least to begin with.

 

[Pevenseagull]

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.

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.

 

[The Clamp]

Perhaps a series of the Flashman novels.

 

[papachris]

Pretty much anything by Jo Nesbo. A couple of his books have already been made into films headhunters and the snowman. His books are really gripping, in particular those featuring his detective 'Harry Hole'.

 

[SkirlieWirlie]

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.

 

[Razzoo]

This could be great .It's gruesome though but a great tale.

Batavia's Graveyard - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[GT49er]

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]

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]

Dark Materials.

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

 

[Weststander]

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.

The BBC made this, it was magnificent.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074t3c

 

[anygivensunday]

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.

 

[sussex_guy2k2]

As I said in the sci fi thread - the Red Rising books are peak sci fi and need to be made into a series or film.

 

[birthofanorange]

Weaveworld by Clive Barker.

 

[Razzoo]

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.

Apparently it's currently being made by a director called Hillcoat, I hope he does it justice.

 

[Bold Seagull]

i'm always surprised Snow Crash hasn't been made to a film. it reads like one to start, at least to being with.

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]

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?

Another for the Series

Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch.

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

Piranesi

I'd love it to have a lavish production on the big screen

 

[Bakero]

A Series adaptation of De Bernieres Latín American trilogy would be nice.