Name a work of fiction you'd LOVE to see made into a movie

[charlie and algernon]

I'd love to see Stephen King's Cell made into a movie, it seems to be stuck in pre-production hell though. The opening of the movie could be intense as he depicts in full detail, the beginnings of a zombie apocolypse in downtown Boston. I'd also want to see how they deal with the telepathy.

[mcctatas]

1. Anything by Christopher Moore...

but especially "The Gospel According to Bif, Christ's Childhood Pal"

[Redneck Socialist]

8. Fundie heads everywhere would explode.

That was a great book.

[mcctatas]

13. I'd just consider that an added bonus!

:evilgrin:

[grannylib]

2. I'd love to see "In This House of Brede" redone...it was made into

a movie with Diana Rigg in the lead role, I think, but with key characters left out. Demi Moore is a big fan of the author (Rumer Godden) and I'd love to see her get the rights to re-do it, and do it RIGHT. I wouldn't want to see her play the lead, but I think she could do a good job of producing it, and there are a couple of supporting roles I could see her in.

It's one of my favorite books ever.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

3. Somebody's Baby by Eileen Kagan.

I read this a few years back. It's about a Jewish girl from a very oppressive family in Kansas who meets a boy from the other side of the tracks and falls in love. She comes up pregnant. Her parents then have him arrested. He had skipped out on parole from a prior stint in prison. She was set to meet him outside her Ballet School one afternoon. They were going to Oklahoma to get married. He never shows up.
She's sent to a Catholic Pregnant Girl's Home, where she goes to give birth. She ends up meeting her best friend there. She gives birth to a baby girl.
Then the book changes to her adult daughter in present day, who is wrestling with finding her birth parents. She was adopted into a Catholic family who is loving and supportive. She has the cutest little three year old girl. It is a beautiful story of reunion, love, and triumph over old demons.
Yep. I could write the backs of novels. LOL
Duckie

[baldguy]

4. Stranger In A Strange Land

But the explicit sexuality, depiction of mainstream religion & lack of violence will forever keep it off the silver screen.

[peruban]

36. I LOVED that book.

It did seem like Robert Heinlein pretty much phoned in the last third of that novel, though.

[Tom Kitten]

5. Death Kit by Susan Sontag

It was well written but so weird to this day I don't know if the events depicted in the protagonist's mind were real or imaginary. I do know it would not be a commercial success.

[yellowdogintexas]

6. 'The Joyous Season' by Patrick Dennis. One of my favorite books ever

and hilariously funny. Every bit as much of a riot as 'Auntie Mame'

[HughBeaumont]

7. House of Leaves.

Not like it's ever going to happen, but one can dream.

[ghostsofgiants]

9. I was going to say that.

Such an incredible book.

[kentauros]

10. Larry Niven's "Ringworld"

John Varley's entire "Titan" series

A.E. van Vogt's "Slan"

James Blish' "Cities in Flight"

James P. Hogan's "Gentle Giants of Ganymede" series

Harry Harrison's "The Stainless Steel Rat" (I think I've heard it was, but low-budget)

Frederik Pohl's "Heechee" saga

Jack L. Chalker's "Well World" series

Robert Monroe's "Ultimate Journey"

F. Anstey's "The Brass Bottle" (it has been done, twice, silent and sixties version; just redo it from the original 1899 story as a period piece)

C.S. Lewis' "Narnia" books ... oh wait

[Fire Walk With Me]

18. I've read all of those except for the Anstey and Monroe.

Don't ask for much, do you? ;)

I'd love to somehow see Dhalgren (see my current autosig) made into a sprawling, gasping long-term phenomenal event.

Or perhaps Holy Fire or any other Bruce Sterling.

[kentauros]

26. Well, that's kind of the extent of the authors I've read.

I haven't read as much fiction in the last couple of decades, though, so though I know of Bruce Sterling, I haven't read any of his works. Same with Dahlgren.

Monroe, by the way, is kind of thrown in there as a "joke". "Ultimate Journey" was the last of three books he wrote about his OBEs (out of body epxeriences) and reads much like fiction for the content. To some, it is fiction by the subject matter alone, but I'd love to see a decent spiritual movie made of it :)

Anstey didn't write much and I've only read The Brass Bottle and seen the 60s movie with Tony Randall, Burl Ives and Barbara Eden. I'd just love to see it taken back to its roots as the silent supposedly did. I've never seen the silent version. I suppose I could write to TCM to air it sometime... ;)

[Broken_Hero]

11. The Dark Tower

and the Annals of the Black Company...DT by Stephen King, Black Company is by Glenn Cook.

[Rhythm]

12. "Good Omens"

I have been hypothetically casting this thing in my head since i first read it back in the '90s.

The principle characters change in my cast list, but James Earl Jones HAS to be the Metatron.

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. 'If I Never Get Back'

It's about a guy who passes out drunk at an Amtrak station in San Francisco and wakes up on a railroad platform in 1869, gets on a train with the Cincinnati Red Stockings, hooks up with 'em and also gets involved in stuff like the Irish Fenian Revolution.

It was the first novel by a guy named Darryl Brock, who I think is an English prof at Berkeley, or was.









And Mutley_R_Us still has my copy.

[Bertha Venation]

35. Seconded.

Whom would you cast?

[NanceGreggs]

15. "Time and Again" by Jack Finney

A time travel yarn that would require an enormous budget to do it justice.

I've been waiting for years ...

[kentauros]

16. Well, for time-travel another great one would be

"The Man Who Folded Himself" by David Gerrold. Of course, with the seeming gay "self-love" issue in it, it might not get made, either.

Also, "The Door into Summer" by Robert Heinlein

That title always reminds me of Roger Zelazny's "Doorways in the Sand" even though it has nothing to do with time-travel :)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

28. That's my vote--although you could computer generate a lot of 1880s New York

Hey...it could be an anime by Satoshi Kon, who does a lot of realistic and semi-realistic anime like Tokyo Godfathers and Millennium Actress.

[Initech]

17. Chuck Palahniuk's "Survivor"

Bad ass book. Hell reading it I had already pictured Benicio Del Toro as Tender Branson.

[eauclaireliberal]

19. Robert Lundlum's "Holcroft Covenant"

nt

[Orrex]

21. Did I miss a smiley there? Or did I just not get the commentary?

I haven't seen the film, but...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holcroft_Covenant_(film)

[eauclaireliberal]

23. Thanks, I had no idea it WAS one!

Next stop: My Netflix page.

[Orrex]

20. Foucault's Pendulum

And Dan Brown can go fuck himself.

[nomorenomore08]

22. A film of 'Blood Meridian' is supposed to be in the works, which I find intriguing to say the least.

Only question is, who's gonna play the Judge? Will the Big Show (the wrestler) shave all the hair off his body, including the eyebrows? :P

My problem is that a lot of my favorite works (stuff by Faulkner, Kafka, W. S. Burroughs, etc.) are either basically unfilmable, or have been filmed already. So I'm short on ideas here...

[eauclaireliberal]

24. Ya know, Robin Cook novels would make good good medical-horror

Outside of Coma, there's a few that are creepy as hell. Brain comes to mind.

[mduffy31]

25. His books Contagion and Chromosome 6 would make good movies too

[applegrove]

27. I'd love to see Sembene Ousman's "God's Little Bits of Wood" turned

into a movie. It is about a strike on the Dakar Niger railway in the 1950s. It is such a visual book it is almost a movie already. It follows more than a few characters along their journey during the strike. They all come to some sort of profound realization about some aspect of themselves. Was a great book.

[CBGLuthier]

29. Zelany's Amber series

Would love to see it get the LoTR treatment. 5 books but they were rather slim and could easily be turned into 2 or 3 movies.

[kentauros]

30. Didn't he do more books after the first 5?

It was a great series; I should dig it out and read it again :)

[CBGLuthier]

39. He did another five officially

Second series just wasn't quite as good sad to say. There are also a few short stories and then a horrid ripoff prequel by another writer that just copies the opening of Nine Princes in Amber with Oberon in Corwin's place.

I didn't think of it earlier but I would also really love to see Lord of Light. Amber, the first five anyway, is my favorite series but Lord of Light is my favorite novel.

[azmouse]

31. 'Summer of Night' by Dan Simmons

and his book 'The Terror'.

[auburngrad82]

32. "Conservatism Works"

You did say a work of fiction...

[FloridaJudy]

33. John Varley's "Titan" triology

Titan, Wizard and Demon. The film technology's already developed to create the critters and the artificial world. I think it would kick butt with the right director (think Guillermo del Toro) and the right cast.

[peruban]

34. "The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Goethe

I've been kicking around the idea of writing a screenplay for that novel for years now.

[Bertha Venation]

37. Although I think it would be impossible, I think _Beach Music_

would make a great movie. Same author as _The Prince of Tides_, and if you think that was a good movie, read the book. Standing alone, it was a good movie. But after reading the book you'll see that there is really no way to get one of Pat Conroy's expansive novels into a decent movie. They're too big, just too, too big. And too good.

And if anyone says "miniseries," I'll slap 'em. :)

[RiffRandell]

38. The Secret History by Donna Tartt.

After it was published I heard rumors about it, but over a decade later, nothing.