Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:32 am Post subject: Which novel would you like to turn into a movie and why?
Got the idea for this from the other thread I started about books.
If you were a movie producer and had the resources to make any movie you wanted as long as i t was based on a novel which one would you choose?
Mine would be the Dragonlance Chronicels. Its technically a trilogy but needs to be read as a whole to fully appreciate it. Its got the scope, and depth to be made into and epic movie which could easily match or surpas Lord of the Rings in my opinion. Its also got some fantastic characters who would become instantly memorable if portrayed correctly.
I would love to see Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" made as I was very happy with Tim Burtons interpretation of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and it proved that it is now possible to make some movies close to what there writers envisioned.
"Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" has some amazing moments in the book that could only now be interpreted correctly.
One of my favourite bits is when the Grand parents takes a pill that makes them so young they go to where you go before you are born and Charlie and Mr Wonka travel in the Great Glass Elevator to where they are to bring them back, very creepy. There is also a whole host of other fantastic things all different to the first story
A very interesting book set in Manhattan, Manhattan is crawling with Vampyres. PI Joe Pitt is one of them, and he’s not happy about it. Yeah, he’s tough as nails and hard to kill. But spending his nights trying to score a pint of blood to feed the Vyrus that’s eating at him isn’t his idea of a good time. Going his own way, refusing to ally with the Clans that run the undead underside of Manhattan–it ain’t easy. It’s worse once he gets mixed up with the Coalition–the city’s most powerful Vampyre Clan–and finds himself searching for a poor little rich girl who’s gone missing in Alphabet City.
As you can tell I pasted most of the info but it is a very good book and I think it will make a good movie. _________________
Have you read any Anita Blake Vampire Hunter books by Laurell K Hamilton? From the description of your recomendation I think you'd like it. The first 8 books are excellent. Its set in current day earth where vampires, warewolves and all manner of supernatural creatures co-exist with the general population and have all the rights that any normal person has. So you can't just go into the vamp's lair and stake him, you have to get a court order first.
Anita Blake's day job is raising the dead for all maner of reasons, everything from sorting out the details in a will to finding out the idenity of murders. However she is also on retainer to the local PD as a specialist in supernatural crime and a licenced vampire hunter.
I personally think the books would make an excellent TV series. The main character developes really well over the series of novels. Also the vamps and lycanthropes have a really intricate well thought out society and structure which leads to some interesting situations.
Unfortunately after the 9th book the auther seems to get a bit over obsessed with the sexual aspects of the whole vampire thing and the books turn into supernatural porn novels. I don't mind the sex being there but I prefer my books with a least a bit of a story.
I'm adding all of these books to my list of what I should read, some of them sound very similar to a movie I saw a few years ago called "THE BREED" starring Adrian Paul.
I liked it and if the books Jonny & H have mentioned have the same elements as that movie did, I think I will enjoy them _________________ http://www.withintheshadowofthetree.com/
Carl B Harrison
I'd like to see "Dominatrix", the memoirs of Mistress Chloe, turned into a film. Alyson Hannigan playing the title character.
If we're talking novels, though, Jeff Noon's Vurt. A completely weird but brilliant cyberpunkish novel. With Alyson Hannigan playing Desdemona.
However, the one book that's had plenty of adaptations but none that were faithful enough to the book for my liking, is Dracula. With Alyson Hannigan playing Mina Murray, Christina Ricci as Lucy Westenra, Johnny Depp as Jonathan Harker and Christopher Lee as Dracula himself - no-one else would be fit for the part.
J. _________________ "It's ok to be different, it's good to be different, and we should question ourselves before we judge others." -- Johnny Depp
I'd like to see "Dominatrix", the memoirs of Mistress Chloe, turned into a film. Alyson Hannigan playing the title character.
If we're talking novels, though, Jeff Noon's Vurt. A completely weird but brilliant cyberpunkish novel. With Alyson Hannigan playing Desdemona.
However, the one book that's had plenty of adaptations but none that were faithful enough to the book for my liking, is Dracula. With Alyson Hannigan playing Mina Murray, Christina Ricci as Lucy Westenra, Johnny Depp as Jonathan Harker and Christopher Lee as Dracula himself - no-one else would be fit for the part.
J.
Yes, Alyson Hannigan Does have a million and one talents the thought of her being in the above movies makes me want to book my cinema tickets now
A link to an artist impression of Alyson Hannigan, do not look if you are easily offended
Carl...... don't worry I'm not easily shocked the other photograph is fine, it's just art
I've given it great thought and I came up with a large list and then oddbodd posted his choice and you, your answer so in for a penny....
A book I think would shock, and is certainly not for the easily offended is, "The Captains Slave" it's a very atmospheric and exhilarating book to read, yes very risky and erotic but if you want to be affected by a piece of literature and feel it would make a interesting movie and still be as effective, that's one of my first choices. I'll probably want to post some more when I've given it some thought. _________________ Sylvester
Interesting choice of book there Sylvester.. you just keep proving how much of a dark horse you really are.
Never read the book myself but a quick google soon confirmed my suspicions regarding it content. Looks very interesting, think I'll be adding that to my reading list, possibly near the top.
So tell us Sylvester, how exactly did reading this book affect you ??
BTW Carl, great pictures, seen that one in the locker room before (I think I might even have the magazine it was in) the one you put the link in for was tremedous though. Would have prefered it if you'd linked direct to the original though. would have saved me a bit of digging to try and find the site you got it from. Some more nice pics on there. VERY interesting one of Buffy and Willow
Hisumohito, something you might be interested in if you like her is the screensavers you can get from Freeware Site. I'm not sure if there's one specifically for Alyson but there's a general Buffy one, with some gorgeous Alyson pics and a fabulous one of Charisma Carpenter in PVC.... _________________ "It's ok to be different, it's good to be different, and we should question ourselves before we judge others." -- Johnny Depp
Carl...... don't worry I'm not easily shocked the other photograph is fine, it's just art
I've given it great thought and I came up with a large list and then oddbodd posted his choice and you, your answer so in for a penny....
A book I think would shock, and is certainly not for the easily offended is, "The Captains Slave" it's a very atmospheric and exhilarating book to read, yes very risky and erotic but if you want to be affected by a piece of literature and feel it would make a interesting movie and still be as effective, that's one of my first choices. I'll probably want to post some more when I've given it some thought.
Have to agree with hisomuhito Sylvester you really are a dark horse, my flabber has never been so gasted.
Must admit after reading an exerpt from it, me thinks I will be adding it to my collection.
BTW, hisomuhito, sorry for not posting the web link, just thought I would link to the pic directly for oddbodd, just incase he had not seen it before. Here is the link for anyone else who is interested.
BTW, oddbodd I would like to welcome you to the forum. I couldn't do it before as you hadn't posted, so now that you have, welcome and thanks for bringing a bit of alternative interest to the forum, it seems to have inspired a few stirrings in some of the members. _________________ http://www.withintheshadowofthetree.com/
Carl B Harrison
Again, not for those easily shocked but it is a fine piece of art work. Got to admit they don't really look that much like Buffy and Willow but its still a nice pic.
and Sylvester, you know your welcome to gast my flabber anytime
(Damn.. I think I'm proving Carl prediction from a few weeks back correct.. Will have to try and not be so predictable in future....)
Thanks for putting up the pic, Carl, but I had indeed already seen the pic. I still have the pictures from that issue of FHM safely kept in a plastic wallet. Not that I'm obsessed or anything.
_________________ "It's ok to be different, it's good to be different, and we should question ourselves before we judge others." -- Johnny Depp
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