Fav. Book 2 Movie Wish

[Tsel]

ss’s post in the Fav. Trilogy Film thread inspired me to start this thread.

What Book or Book series that you have read do you wish they’d make into a movie?

Automatically assume the movie will be very well done and of the highest caliber.
Now post your wishes and as many as you want.

I wish they’d make a movie out of...

1. Arthur C. Clarke’s – Rama books
2. Stephen R. Donaldson’s - The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

Tsel

[Gray Lensman]

Good topic, Tsel.

Where do I even start...?

I mainly want to see Doc Smith's Lensman series adapted properly. There was an anime adaptation made of it. I thought it wasn't too bad until I read the books, and afterwards found it unwatchable. That movie turned Kimball Kinnison into Luke Skywalker and pretty much ripped the books to shreds. I would love to see the main four books of the series (Galactic Patrol on through Children of the Lens) handled with the same kind of faithfulness that LotR got.

Elric of Melnibone. They'd have to get an outstanding actor to play Elric, but it could be a fun epic fantasy series if done properly.

Brust's Jhereg series is a personal favorite, especially if they got the right guy to play Vlad and a good voice actor to play Loiosh (Vlad's sarcastic pet jhereg). If done right, it would be a nice mix of fantasy, swashbuckling action, crime, and intrigue.

I could go on and on with this, really.

[Elliot Kane]

Well, I think I'd watch all of those so far. Good choices, guys.

I'll add:

Amber series by Roger Zelazny
Legend by Gavid Gemmell
The entire Musketeer series by Dumas
The Great Game series by Dave Duncan

[sps1000]

Two books since I don't read much:

A proper adaptation of 1984. I hate to say it but the british version released in 1984 stank except for the Eurythmics soundtrack. Get a more character-driven director on it and make dirty and dingy sets and you would have a winner, make me feel that Winston and the rest of the citizens of Airstrip One are being opressed, the movie didn't feel like that, you just got snippets. IMO 1984 is one of the few movies you need to make 3 hours long to get it right. Christopher Nolan or M. Knight Shammylan are my top two choices for it. Basically take the same care as Stanley Kubrick took to adapt the books he made to film (read A Clockwork Orange then watch the movie and dare to tell me the translation isn't perfect).

While we're at proper versions of Farenheit 451 (which if the Director who directed Forest Gump, the Green Mile and the Shawshank redemption is still attached will be perfect), Animal Farm, Brave New World and Lord of the Flies. The adaptions I've seen of these films border from mediocre to downright horrible (cough Animal Farm and Farenheit 451 cough cough).

Things Fall Apart, another book I fondly remember from High School, I just think it would be cool to see this book on film.

And Now for the book I haven't read for High School: Have a Nice Day by Mick Foley. Mick Foley's life is very interesting. I mean he was a man who followed his dream and succeded though he got pretty beat up in the process. Isn't this the epitome of the American Dream? You could do this in two ways. Go Raging Bull style with a different take on each of his most famous wrestling matches, or you could go the personal route and show the emotional route. Cameos by The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and Vince McMahon would be a must, and could make this a must-see for even the most casual of pro-wrestling fans. Though the amount of gore in this movie would give Kill Bill vol. 1 a run for it's money I mean the guy lost his ear and participated in Barbed Wire matches for chrissakes!

[janggut]

how i wish that Terry Gilliam has the money & motivation to go back & finish The Count of La Mancha, the doomed & unfinished adaptation of Don Quixote.

also to erase from people's mind the quite horrible David Lynch's version of Dune (though i read somewhere it was somebody else who botched this as Lynch wouldn't cut the film the way those stupid hollywood execs wanted, so they hired somebody else to botch the film). & i hate Toto for making me feel that this movie is so 80's as it should feel timeless. well, Kyle Mclachlan's hair is already a dead giveaway.

i wish for a Dune trilogy.

[Tsel]

I'm with you Gray.

The Elric books would make great movies if the same attention to detail and money was given to them as was the LoTR Trilogy.

I really like Moorcock’s style; you’re hit wit action from start to finish in his Elric books.
The first book hits you almost immediately with Dr. Jest.

Wow! ;D
Tsel

[dvdavenport]

I'd like to see the rest of Gene Brewer's K-PAX trilogy made into film.