"A Hundred Years Of Solitude"
Actually, this novel would probably be better served as an HBO mini-series since it spans several generations and features so many main characters that it probably couldn't all be covered in one feature film. But I could see a talented director creating a 210 minute Epic which might capture the overall theme of the novel.
"The Da Vinci Code"
I hear this one is already in pre-production, but I have the feeling they will emphasize the international thriller/action aspects of the novel (in other words, a Tom Clancy clone starring Harrison Ford) rather than the conspiracy and religious aspects which made the book fascinating. This novel should be made in an Oliver Stone "JFK" style and really go in depth into the heart of the conspiracy. It would be quite controversial (since it basically attempts to expose Christianity as a fraud.)
Quote from: Shadow Boxin""The Da Vinci Code"
I hear this one is already in pre-production, but I have the feeling they will emphasize the international thriller/action aspects of the novel (in other words, a Tom Clancy clone starring Harrison Ford) rather than the conspiracy and religious aspects which made the book fascinating. This novel should be made in an Oliver Stone "JFK" style and really go in depth into the heart of the conspiracy. It would be quite controversial (since it basically attempts to expose Christianity as a fraud.)
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Well, Ron Howard wouldn't have been my first choice, but I think he'll take the subject matter serious enough to make a sincere adaptation.
I think one of the Terry Pratchets would be good.
Quote from: ***beady***I think one of the Terry Pratchets would be good.
Yeah, and they'd gain an amazing cult status too.
I want Tim Burton to do "Geek Love" like I heard he was going to and I wanna do "Truck" by the same author. I also might do "Sick Puppy" by Carl Hiaasen.
I'd like to see some of Dan Simmons' horror novels on the big screen.
Carrion Comfort is my favorite, but it would need a bigger budget to be done right, I think.
I'd love to see Summer of Night, and the set design for the creepy old school.
Song of Kali could be a creepy, creepy thriller.
My ultimate novel to cinema dream... The Dark Tower series.
But done well. Like, PJ well.
Hell yeah! Pj's done them fantasticaly.
I would also like to see any of the Edgar Alan Poe stories turned into films, or short films like the Twilight Zones.
Robin Jarvis any of his. But, I think that would have to be done cartoon style.
Eric Idle, 'Road to Mars', would be good.
'The Cigarette girl', by Carol Wolper I reckon would do quite well.
And I think there is some sort of film or some programme series made of the 'K-PAX' books by Gene Brewer. Haven't got round to wacthing them yet, but the books are brilliant!
I think it has been made into a movie, but I'd love to see a newer Catcher In The Rye done by the Coen Brothers.
Davinci Code should be done by Lynch, because something so serious should be cryptic like that.
Helter Skelter should be made into a movie, as well. I'd like to see either Lynch or Burton get their hands on it for the dark twist. (Like a story about Manson needs a twist, let alone a dark one)
Quote from: Walrus, KooKookajoobI think it has been made into a movie, but I'd love to see a newer Catcher In The Rye done by the Coen Brothers.
It's never been made into a movie. Salinger won't release the rights and vows never to do so.
Quote from: Walrus, KooKookajoobHelter Skelter should be made into a movie, as well. I'd like to see either Lynch or Burton get their hands on it for the dark twist. (Like a story about Manson needs a twist, let alone a dark one)
It's already been made as an awesome mini-series, but I heard word somewhere that they were thinking about doing a feature.
Quote from: MacGuffinQuote from: Walrus, KooKookajoobI think it has been made into a movie, but I'd love to see a newer Catcher In The Rye done by the Coen Brothers.
It's never been made into a movie. Salinger won't release the rights and vows never to do so.
That's respectable
These books are favourites of mine when i was a kid and have always wanted movies of them.
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
This Island Isn't Big Enough For The Four Of Us
My Babysitter is a Vampire
Stinky Stanley
When (and I don't mean if) I became a great film-maker, I'd love to do Brave New World and the Stranger, because as I read them a few months ago, I thought they would be great as movies. I know they've been adapted before, Mastroianni was in a '67 version of the Stranger, haven't seen it but sounds like a good casting choice for Mersault. Today, I would have Adrien Brody, he seems perfect. BNW hasn't been made but on TV. These would be great movies.
Speaking of Catcher in the Rye, there's a load of similarities between it and Taxi Driver (which I'm sure has been talked about somewhere here before). That's a good substitute until Rye goes public domain in a hundred years (or whenever).
Also, just remembered that I read M. Night Shyamalan wants to adapt Life of Pi. I need to read that book, it's just gathering dust.
gone with the wind
errr... didn't i just make this thread 2 weeks ago?
Sex and Sunsets by Tim Sandlin (starring Robert Downey Jr. and Elisabeth Shue)
I want a talented director to do Moby Dick. I know John Huston did it way back when, but I'd love to see someone else have a go at it.
Tarantino's Moby Dick, starring Harvey Kietel as Ahab and Sam Jackson as Queequeg.
Queequeg: "Why does my black as have to be chasing around some cracker whale?"
Ahab: "Motherfucking whale ate my goddamn arm, that's why!"
i want ghostboy to adapt and shoot "heavier than heaven"
..what a bout "See Spot Run"..i would like to see that into a short film...
..but maybe the reason no-one has trried it is b/c the pure essence of the novel is ambigious.....
it's already in pre-production, but i can't wait for glamorama.
and speaking of ellis, american psycho could have been alot better. so, i guess i'd like to see it made. again. and better.
also, i'd like to see the stranger beside me, but without the ann rule narrative. however, i think it's already been done. for television. "american nightmare" is a pretty cool title. :oops:
i don't read much. :(
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and speaking of ellis, american psycho could have been alot better. so, i guess i'd like to see it made. again. and better.
I thought it was a fine film, one of my favorites of the year. I can't wait for Mary Harron's next... she was involved in
The Weather Underground, apparently.
Anyone seen the movie of
Play it as it Lays?
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and speaking of ellis, american psycho could have been alot better. so, i guess i'd like to see it made. again. and better.
I thought it was a fine film, one of my favorites of the year. I can't wait for Mary Harron's next
same here... and i thought it was awesome how harron juxtaposed satire and horror. great performances. funny and unsettling in all the right ways.
in keeping topic with the thread, i'd like to see "the autograph man" by zadie smith adapted to the big screen by mike leigh.
To keep with my usual self, I didn't like American Pyscho (movie) at all. The dialogue explained everything and left little mystery to anything at all the killer may have been feeling. The rationalization is that the killer and his story encompasses the feeling of spirit on modern day Wall Street in all its drive and ambition, but if gone awry. I don't see the intention for that, though. General story of man with drive and pushed to pyschosis that he kills to meet pleasures not found elsewhere. The fact that he works on Wall Street and such is only thing that is contemporary about him. And the ending, well, it gets a 10 in trickery and cuteness.
To keep with the topic, I want Perfume: The Story of a Murderer to be adapted by myself.
~rougerum
Quote from: The Gold TrumpetTo keep with my usual self, I didn't like American Pyscho (movie) at all. The dialogue explained everything and left little mystery to anything at all the killer may have been feeling. The rationalization is that the killer and his story encompasses the feeling of spirit on modern day Wall Street in all its drive and ambition, but if gone awry. I don't see the intention for that, though. General story of man with drive and pushed to pyschosis that he kills to meet pleasures not found elsewhere. The fact that he works on Wall Street and such is only thing that is contemporary about him. And the ending, well, it gets a 10 in trickery and cuteness.
does anyone else find this paragraph incredibly incoherent? i'm sure there are some interesting insights but i can't make sense of this paragraph.
Quote from: pookiethecatQuote from: The Gold TrumpetTo keep with my usual self, I didn't like American Pyscho (movie) at all. The dialogue explained everything and left little mystery to anything at all the killer may have been feeling. The rationalization is that the killer and his story encompasses the feeling of spirit on modern day Wall Street in all its drive and ambition, but if gone awry. I don't see the intention for that, though. General story of man with drive and pushed to pyschosis that he kills to meet pleasures not found elsewhere. The fact that he works on Wall Street and such is only thing that is contemporary about him. And the ending, well, it gets a 10 in trickery and cuteness.
does anyone else find this paragraph incredibly incoherent/poorly written?
Does anyone else find that responce to be demeaning and avvoiding of responce itself? I make no claim to be a good writer and considering everyone else can argue with me, I find it good enough for the message board world.
~rougerum
ok in response to your post:
"The dialogue explained everything and left little mystery to anything at all the killer may have been feeling"
ok cool that makes sense. good point
"The rationalization is that the killer and his story encompasses the feeling of spirit on modern day Wall Street in all its drive and ambition, but if gone awry"
hmmm...can't say i know exactly what that means. perhaps you're saying that the film draws a parallel between wall street brutality and violent brutality. well to respond- that was never overt cuz there were no scenes of corporate bloodletting, so to speak.
"General story of man with drive and pushed to pyschosis that he kills to meet pleasures not found elsewhere. The fact that he works on Wall Street and such is only thing that is contemporary about him."
say what?! this makes no fucking sense.
"The fact that he works on Wall Street and such is only thing that is contemporary about him" good point but doesn't that contradict what you said earlier about violence in wall street/violence in reallife (or what i think you said).
"And the ending, well, it gets a 10 in trickery and cuteness. "
ok, yeah, that makes sense. valid point.
i haven't had a problem with any of your posts in the past. but this one was too cryptic and just nonsensicle. and i don't think it's bad of me to call you on it.
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"The rationalization is that the killer and his story encompasses the feeling of spirit on modern day Wall Street in all its drive and ambition, but if gone awry"
hmmm...can't say i know exactly what that means. perhaps you're saying that the film draws a parallel between wall street brutality and violent brutality. well to respond- that was never overt cuz there were no scenes of corporate bloodletting, so to speak.
My idea was to correlate the two: Wall Street ambition in a sense being brutal and also the brutality of killing someone and what kind of drive it requires. For people who defend the purpose of this man killing, they usually give that example. That the drive of both are similiar and in this man who kills, he was bred in this world but went awry and replaces all normal pleasures with the pleasure of killing. He is that far gone from everything in his society. I disagree with that argument because nothing really is shown of him being driven by that society to kill people. At the beginning, he is already insane. Through out the movie he interacts with all the Wall Street yuppies and complains about them and then shows similiar drive in killing people. To really complicate the subject would be to show how, if he did, spring board from the world of Wall Street ambition into killing people. The movie never really does it. Its just details his actions and thoughts while being a murderer which seems to undermine the potential of the subject at hand.
Quote from: pookiethecati haven't had a problem with any of your posts in the past. but this one was too cryptic and just nonsensicle. and i don't think it's bad of me to call you on it.
It isn't bad to call me on it. Its bad to only reply to an argument by just calling me on my bad writing. It makes you look like what I said wasn't worth replying to. The point of my last post.
~rougerum
whatever you guys are saying...
i don't believe wall street or society or whatever drove him to kill. it's just that his "people", and more importantly him, are, like someone already said, so outside of our universe and so completely engulfed with bullshit that the things that really matter don't, even if it's when your friend is dragging a corpse onto a sidewalk in front of you.
but anyways, i think harron made it almost slapstick-like.
it all just seemed too colourful. too silly. i know it's supposed to be funny, but this was silly. like when that hooker was running down the halls, and that stupid music was playing. "how suspenseful". not that it should have been, but that seemed like what it was trying to accomplish, which if it did, would have been just as bad.
i did like the chase-manhattan scene, though. but i guess that's because that's only part where the atmosphere of the movie seemed appropriate.
I need another cup of coffee before I tackle this thread. Jesus.
I'm going to watch American Psycho for the first time tomorrow...
don't expect to much of it, though.
What about a new version of Bright Lights, Big City?
Definitively want to see that story filmed in a good way...
Donna Tartt's The Secret History?
Although there's a big chance it would be a major disappointment.
You always have ambivalent relationship with those films based on favourite books.
You want to see your favo boo filmed, and after that you can only be irritated, annoyed, disappointed. In most cases, at least.
Soon we can "enjoy" Fishburne's version of Coelho's The Alchemist...I don't know...
My new favourite book:
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