 
|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
|
|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
96.227.20.102
You have complete control over the project and an unlimited budget. What book(s) would you like to see as a movie?
a few...
Color of DistanceSomething by Robert Anton Wilson
0385242719/3:21,3:22/3:40,4:10,192:17,229:9,239:10!
Edits: 12/26/08Follow Ups:
Foundation Trilogy Love that mule
Hyperion
Fall of Hyperion
Endymion
Rise of Endymion
Ilium
Olympos
Ringworld
First choices being "Stained Glass" or "Who's On First".
*
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Albert Einstein
...by Eric Frattiini (2004); translation to English by Dick Cluster (2008).
.
0385242719/3:21,3:22/3:40,4:10,192:17,229:9,239:10!
nt
I like underdogs. What could be more underdog than a leper saving the
universe? Regards,
J.R.
.
N/T
"...You're all welcome to stay for the next set...we're going to play all the same tunes, but in different keys..." -Count Basie
How wrong can you go with a werewolf spy in WWII???
*
...kindergartener it's good enough for me! The film might be short on plot but the special effects would be to die for! Perhaps Jim Carrey could play ALL the characters!
Ender's Game and the followup Speaker for the Dead
The Mote in God's Eye
Cat's Cradle and Sirens of Titan
Edits: 12/27/08 12/27/08
Phillip K Dick. Or even "UBIK". I'd be be happy with any attempts to put P. K. Dick on the big screen.
;^)
.
*
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Albert Einstein
(nt)
NT
NT
David Aiken
nt
...and I'm not Jombi.
Kind of related, I was in a reading club one time and this question came up:
"What famous work of fiction has had a religion formed from the body of it's pages"?
Some wit pipes up with "Other than Stranger In A Strange Land I can only think of the Bible."
Now that's testament to greatness.
J.B.
nt
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without an intervening culture." Frank Lloyd Wright
nt
...as the new musical "That Boat", directed by Lina Wertmuller (Seven Beauties).
Oh the humanity.
"Das Boot" as a musical, now there you go. I can just imagine Jurgen Prochnow doing a little jig before the British destroyer attack, singing a re-worded version of "Under the Sea." BOOM.
CC.
let's not forget DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE GIRLY BOMBS. I was serious about Melville. This book is sonorous. It is written in a Puritan argot and reading it is almost like poetry. With modern CGI special effects and a very good musical oriented cast from Broadway, it could be something special. It would have to be greatly stylized almost like sailor chants and work songs. John Houston tried in the early fifties and swore that God was against him. Ray
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without an intervening culture." Frank Lloyd Wright
.
*
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Albert Einstein
I was thinking Puritan Gothic. The early New England, New Bedford, but Americana and steeped in religious symbolism. Not so much dance numbers but work songs similar to the ditch digging scene in OUR DAILY BREAD by King Vidor. And Ahab's stump pacing, sounding out a dull cadance, only coming out in moon lite. And all male acapella choir in 6 track surround. The book is an all male happening except for the congregation at Father Maple's sermon and the farewell at the dock. But modern CGI could really impact the whale and ship at sea scenes. Casting would be very critical. GRH
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without an intervening culture." Frank Lloyd Wright
GW
d
Trevanian's ShibumiRand's Atlas Shrugged
Heinlein's, Tunnel In The Sky
Edits: 12/27/08 12/27/08
The Pillars of the Earth.
The Analyst.
And, a really good documentary on the JFK assasination (sp?) that isn't
just bullshit speculation and fake drama.
Mike
I don't know if either Ridley and Tony Scott will be involved first hand but it looks like Follett will not be doing the screen treatment.
Word is they are shooting for something along the lines of 'The Tudors'...so it's a total toss up at this point.
Would have made one hell of a film.
J.B.
Uckk. I enjoyed that book. Hate to see it turned into another T&A-laden costume soap for pay cable. I suppose someone's got "Sarum" lined up for destruction too.
We're chasing terrorists in the wrong place...they're on Wall St.
...I tend to think that there's only one logical format for the "definitive" JFK assassination documentary...and that would in fact be a book. The issues aren't all that visual, in my estimation, so that it's more of a discussion than a layout of information in a visual argument...
This is the kind of thing cgi was (or should have been) invented for - recreating an epic cityscape of the past that would be impossibly expensive to do well in reality. Adults might like to see this history brought to life on a grand scale. And the macabre and grisly story of America's first known serial killer would bring in the teens too.
Someone has bought the film rights to the book. The imdb had reported on two competing productions about the serial killer H.H. Holmes, one with Leo DiCaprio as the lead and the other with Tom Cruise based on the book. But it seems nothing has come of it after several years, perhaps because of the fear of competition watering down the box office take.
I've been hoping it would make it to the screen for a while now but only it it's not gutted as so many great books are.
J.B.
Pournelle's War World series. I've read it a dozen times and would
love to see it on the screen.
After you, Marco Polo
A sequel to Contact (yeah, I know, no book, at least not yet)
There are several other scifi books that I'd like to see as movies.
One would be Earthman's Burden. It is very Sixties, and might not work for
audiences today. But it's very funny, and more than a little innocent.
Post a Followup:
| FAQ |
Post a Message! |
Forgot Password? |
|
||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Top of Page ]
[ Contact Us ]
[ Support/Wish List ]
[ Copyright © 2025, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]
