Topic: Books that could and maybe should to be made into a movie (Read 9960 times)

Khalee1 · « **on:** September 23, 2006, 01:31:11 am »

Dragon lance I love those books

The Hobbit they need to get with it and make that into a movie. And yes I got the animated version but I want live action.

Javora · « **Reply #1 on:** September 23, 2006, 06:39:41 am »

I'd like to see the Drizzit series get put into a movie. I think something like that could really put AD&D back on the map in a good way.

Sirgod · « **Reply #2 on:** September 23, 2006, 10:19:30 am »

My Son Christopher, well he used to work with Tracy, anyway they are doing an Animated DL movie as I type this.

Stephen

Dracho · « **Reply #3 on:** September 25, 2006, 10:36:05 am »

Chronicles of Thomas Covenant would make a good made-for-TV miniseries on SciFi.

So would the "Lost Brigade" series, or any of Harry Turtledove's stuff. Especially the SciFi series where aliens invade Earth at the height of WWII.

Sirgod · « **Reply #4 on:** September 25, 2006, 10:47:58 am »

Quote from: Dracho on September 25, 2006, 10:36:05 am

Chronicles of Thomas Covenant would make a good made-for-TV miniseries on SciFi.

So would the "Lost Brigade" series, or any of Harry Turtledove's stuff. Especially the SciFi series where aliens invade Earth at the height of WWII.

I have always wanted to See CoTC made. There was talk also along tiem ago, of Stranger in a Strange land being a series (like back in the 70's) , But I doubt it would fly today.

I don't think I'm alone, When I mention that some Star Trek novels would have made Good TV.

Stephen

Dracho · « **Reply #5 on:** September 25, 2006, 10:56:39 am »

You know, a great idea would be instead of a new star Trek series, to make a group 2 hour of made-for-TV Star Trek movies that are based on episodes on the more popular books.

Think about it, instead of 12 1-hour shows a season they could do 6 2-hour shows, and the budget would be roughly the samel And the writing wouldn't suck, because the plots are already there!

Sirgod · « **Reply #6 on:** September 25, 2006, 11:55:04 am »

Along time ago, Pre-Voyager, there was talk of doing something like that With Capt. Sulu on the excelsior. I would have loved to see that, But the Novel 6 movie idea is also something I could enjoy.

Stephen

762_XC · « **Reply #7 on:** September 25, 2006, 12:22:55 pm »

Red Storm Rising. woohoo!

Hexx · « **Reply #8 on:** September 25, 2006, 12:27:43 pm »

Quote from: 762_XC on September 25, 2006, 12:22:55 pm

Red Storm Rising. woohoo!

While it's probably my favourite Clancy Book, I think they are doing Rainbow 6 next (iirc)

Sirgod · « **Reply #9 on:** September 25, 2006, 12:45:20 pm »

What's the novel that Followed Clarks beginings? I loved that one by Clancy.

Stephen

Hexx · « **Reply #10 on:** September 25, 2006, 01:52:38 pm »

Without Remorse

Sirgod · « **Reply #11 on:** September 25, 2006, 02:03:32 pm »

That's It, thanks Hexx.

Stephen

Dracho · « **Reply #12 on:** September 25, 2006, 02:05:41 pm »

You know, the WEB Griffith books would make a good movie too.. Any of the series.

Or Mack Bolan baby!

Commander La'ra · « **Reply #13 on:** September 25, 2006, 02:39:00 pm »

I'd love to see a really good big-screen adaptation of one of the better Horatio Hornblower novels.

Capt_Bearslayer_XC · « **Reply #14 on:** September 26, 2006, 08:34:41 am »

Red Storm Rising would be cool. Red Phoenix (by Larry Bond, who helped Clancy with Red Storm Rising and mader the Harpoon game) was another good one revolving around a North Korea/South Korea conflict.

I would also like to see the Riftwar Saga, by Raymond E. Feist, done.

Dracho · « **Reply #15 on:** September 26, 2006, 09:05:04 am »

Team Yankee would be a great movie.

EmeraldEdge · « **Reply #16 on:** September 26, 2006, 09:24:55 am »

I'm always a little surprised they haven't made movies out of Daniel M. Pinkwater's books. I mean, c'mon. Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars was great and he had a ton of really odd ball books. Just up the quality of the film so they aren't some quick drop to get the kid crowd type movie with lame acting, lighting, cinematograpy.... they could be a lot of fun I think.

GDA-S'Cipio · « **Reply #17 on:** September 26, 2006, 02:53:19 pm »

Quote from: Dracho on September 25, 2006, 10:36:05 am

Chronicles of Thomas Covenant would make a good made-for-TV miniseries on SciFi.

So would the "Lost Brigade" series, or any of Harry Turtledove's stuff. Especially the SciFi series where aliens invade Earth at the height of WWII.

I think Covenant would be hard to do as a movie. You could film the action sequences easy enough, but the story of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever would be hard to get across.

On the other hand, I'd *love* to see either of those Turtledove epics turned to film. The star of a Turtledove story is the story itself; viewed through the eyes of a large cast of characters all too close to the action to see the what they are looking at. (Not as true in the Misplaced Legion series as it is in his later series.) I think this writing style would work great in a translation to film, and I think the WWII alien invasion saga would be perfect. As soon as I started reading those books I've been "filming" trailers for those books in my head for years.

The early scene where alien fighters suddenly dive/blast their way through a formation of Lancaster bombers.

The (also early) scene where the German tank commander sees one of his lead Panzers explode, and order the formation to stop because he suspects mines. Then he looks up and sees alien fighters firing air-to-surface missiles at his column and orders them to move! move! move!

The alien reaction when the Nazis attack their parked motherships with Big Bertah, and their shock when they realize that their anti-missiles aren't going to stop the incominhg rounds because those aren't missiles, they're shells!

It would be fantastic.

-S'Cipio

Dracho · « **Reply #18 on:** September 26, 2006, 03:09:22 pm »

The Lost Regiment (sorry, it's regiment, not brigade) is not the Lost Legon series, thought they are very similar in plot..

One has barbarians, the other has 7' cats with a bad attitude. Think Gen. Sherman vs. the Kzinti.

http://www.amazon.com/Rally-Lost-Regiment-William-Forstchen/dp/0451450078/sr=8-1/qid=1159301225/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-5584093-1217543?ie=UTF8&s=books

When Union Colonel Andrew Keane led his blue-coated soldiers aboard the transport ship, he could not have foreseen that their next port of call would be neither in the North nor the South, but on an alternate world where no human was free. Storm-swept through a space-time warp, Keane's Regiment was shipwrecked in an alien land, a land where all that stood between them and destruction was the power of rifles over swords, spears, and crossbows.

Into this serfdom ruled by nobles and the Church, Keane and his men brought the radical ideas of freedom, equality, and democracy, a technology centuries ahead of the world they must now call home. Yet all their knowledge and training might not save them from the true rulers there, creatures to whom all humans were mere cattle, bred for sacrifice!

The Postman · « **Reply #19 on:** September 26, 2006, 04:57:33 pm »

Enders Game is supposed to come out in 2008. If they butcher that as badly as Starship Troopers. I will probably skip it.

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