Now I am not talking about comic books...but novels, shortstories, etc.

For me I always wanted to see Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves turned into a movie...but it will never happened. I think it would be impossible. But the stories(and whoever has read this book knows what I mean) within are amazing. Probably my favorite novel.

Night.

All the books of the Shannara series. :)

Tom Selleck
Now I am not talking about comic books...

Aw nuts! I was ready to say Green Lantern.

Pretty much all the books I liked as a child have been made into movies, and I don't particularly care for any of them. The most abominous has to be Stewart Little. There's something to be said for reintrerpretation of a property, but that movie had so little to do with the original story that I'm not exactly sure why they used the license at all. It was a very meloncholy story about friendship, and the producers turned it into something altogether different.

However, if there could be one book I'd like to see adapted, it would be Jurassic Park. Yes, I know there already was a movie, but I'd like to see them do it again, only this time, there should be more dinosaurs eating people. In fact, I would like to see Laura Dern reprise her role as Dr. Satler just so she can get eaten. And then just to add insult to injury, she could reappear later in the film as herself, actress Laura Dern, so that she can be eaten yet again.

You know what I'd really like to see? Screw all this new-agey crap! I want to see Hollywood revisit Sherlock Holmes. Maybe even Miss Marples. I love classic mystery!

Neilsama
You know what I'd really like to see? Screw all this new-agey crap! I want to see Hollywood revisit Sherlock Holmes. Maybe even Miss Marples. I love classic mystery!

You completely took what *I* was going to say! The classic mysteries need movies. Not PBS made-for-TV stuff. I want to see them on the big screen with decent budgets for good acting and cinematography.

Aside from the mysteries, there was a book I read as a child that might make a fun movie. It was called Half Magic and was about a coin that granted wishes, but the magic was faulty, so it only granted the wish halfway. A boy wished to be invisible, and he was made half invisible (with his half organs showing o.O).

My dad also informs me that Sphere was a good book. It was a horrible movie. It might be worthwhile to take another stab at that one.

I would like them to do The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. The only problem with this series is that there are 12 books and one movie per book just would not work. Two movie per book would be difficult. It would have to become its own mini-series in order to work, I think.

Also, the Belgariad by Eddings would be fun to see on the screen.

usedbooks
My dad also informs me that Sphere was a good book. It was a horrible movie. It might be worthwhile to take another stab at that one.

Sphere's excellent -- all of Crichton's early stuff is, up until about Airframe when we started to see some questionable materials. In fact a couple of his earliest -- Eaters of the Dead, and The Great Train Robbery -- are some of his most interesting.


I'd like to see Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson done as a film. Aside from being one of the greatest cyberpunk novels ever written, it's also one of the greatest cyberpunk parodies ever written. (Sort of like Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen vis a vis the gothics.)

Loud_G
I would like them to do The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. The only problem with this series is that there are 12 books and one movie per book just would not work. Two movie per book would be difficult. It would have to become its own mini-series in order to work, I think.

Also, the Belgariad by Eddings would be fun to see on the screen.

There's a lot of hot air in all those books. I grant that the writers know exactly what they're doing and are highly skilled and able men, but that also means they know how to nurture their golden geese, even when all they feed them is gruel. :(

Yeah, so I'd say those two series could possibly be condensed into single movies, (they wouldn't be very good though), and would work very well as trilogies. Actually Eddings's books could probably be made into a single movie and be good.
-I'm not disparaging them here by saying that (although I have in the past), It's just that even though there are some great characters, premises, worlds, situations, plots etc, they are stretched thin to expand the series...
But condensed they'd probably actually make GOOD movies if they could move away sufficiently from comparisons to The Lord of The Rings and Dune (on which they draw quite a bit) -(Wheel of Time condensed into a trilogy)
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You know, I'm at the point where I'd rather not see film versions of my fave novels. When I was younger I wanted to see the Lord of The Rings made into a film SO badly, and then when it was, it was such a narrow, little artistic vision of a pop-culture movement that'd been growing for half a century that I was quite disappointed. -Akin to having a 90's boyband being given exclusive rights to remake all Led Zeppelin songs in all forms (film, video clips, CDs, live performance), excluding all others and eclipsing the original. Yeah. :(

Come to think of it though, it'd probably be interesting to see Big Hollywood try bible stories again. The old Testament ones. If they could cut the artificial preachy crap and try telling them like they do with the Greek stories; sword and sandal epic action war movies, I think that'd be a good thing. It'd give us a better appreciation for such mainstays of our culture and help a lot of people see them in a better, truer light: inspiring (or not) semi-historical mythological, "big" stories that are as much a part of Western culture as anything else.

ozoneocean
When I was younger I wanted to see the Lord of The Rings made into a film SO badly, and then when it was, it was such a narrow, little artistic vision of a pop-culture movement that'd been growing for half a century that I was quite disappointed. -Akin to having a 90's boyband being given exclusive rights to remake all Led Zeppelin songs in all forms (film, video clips, CDs, live performance), excluding all others and eclipsing the original. Yeah. :(

Thanks for that. I'd been feeling lonely.

The Anita Blake series. It's like a more adult Buffy. Plus Anita is so ridiculously overpowered that it would amuse me to see that on screen.

I was gonna say The Lovely Bones but that's being made into a movie by Peter Jackson now. I hope he doesn't drag it out.

The Lovely Bones was sad. The main character is murdered in the first chapter but she continues to tell the story from her POV in heaven. Everyone moves on and she watched her family fall apart.

Good Omens

'nuff said.

I'd like them to do the Bartimaeus Trilogy, but they could so easily make that crappy. The same thing with Artemis Fowl, although it's been confirmed.

tea_green
The Anita Blake series. It's like a more adult Buffy.

"Adult" in the "complex emotions" sense or the "sex" sense? Buffy never shied away from dealing with thorny interpersonal relationship issues, and I've never read Anita Blake but my daughter and wife devour it voraciously so I hear about it second hand -- I'd gotten the idea that the stories were tons of fun but mostly paper thin.

Shade's Children by Garth Nix. That book is the epitome of 1337.

fern
Night.

by whom? what is it about? I am interested to find out more.

night is by eli weisel, and it's about the holocaust.

I wanna see "Sirens of Titan" turned into a movie!! If they got the right director and a reaaaaaaally hot guy (a good actor though... ) to play Malachi Constant...
I can think of only 3 actors who I think would be able to pull off both the unimaginable hotness AND talent:
1.) Edward Norton!
2.) Ewan Macgregor!
3.) Zac Efron!
I would accept Michael Cera too, although most people don't find him attractive... wow I'm such a cradlerobber!!

it would work well if they didn't use CGI special effects, just like, puppets and models and claymation and such... that would be the brilliantest film ever to be filmed.
The plotline is both hilarious and meaningful, and to me seems very easy to adapt into a movie-- it's a very sci-fi book, you know?
oh and it's by kurt vonnegut!

I want a "God Emporer of Dune" movie so bad. Sure, it'd probably be slow as fuck, but oh would it have potential...

Rich
I want a "God Emporer of Dune" movie so bad. Sure, it'd probably be slow as fuck, but oh would it have potential...

I'd settle for a good adaptation of Dune. Neither Lynch nor the HBO series has really captured it for me yet.

The Bio of a Space tyrent, those would make some great sci-fi/action films.

Mr Chappers
The Bio of a Space tyrent, those would make some great sci-fi/action films.

I really need to sit down and read those. I started them once and was so shocked at the rape scene in the beginning by the author of A Spell for Chameleon (even though I'd read Anthonology) that I set it aside for a period of mental "genre adjustment" and just never went back to it.