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What book or fictional story would make a good movie?

Posted on 05/21/2015 8:30:11 PM PDT by MNDude

It seems like there's not many original ideas in Hollywood...how many remakes is there of Dracula or King Kong?

Yet, I'm sure there's got to be thousands of great books and stories that have never been made into a movie. Which fictional stories would you like to see as a movie?


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To: MNDude
I think the Greeks - probably Aristotle - settled this question 2500 years ago. IIRC, 36 basic plots, all of which are employed in Classical Greek Drama. Preserved to us through the efforts of anonymous Irish monks in cold cellaria in inhospitable climes throughout the Continent while the Huns and Goths raged and plundered through several bloody centuries.

Every author who has ever written in English owes a debt of gratitude to the Greeks and those who have built on their achievements.

Also, thank the Lord, we have Gyros!

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I am prepared to give my life in their defense."

21 posted on 05/21/2015 8:44:23 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
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To: MNDude

There’s a couple I’d like.

The first is the Elric saga by English fantasy author Michael Moorcock. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, and it would be tough to do well, but I’d like to see it done. It would even have it’s own ready-made soundtrack. Hawkwind’s dedicated an entire album to the novels, and Moorcock co-write the BOC classics “Black Blade” and “Veterans of the Psychic Wars.”

The second would be an adaptation of a video game. Now, I know most video game movies suck, but with the right director, this one could be great. In the late 90s, there was a fantasy game called Planescape: Torment that had the most innovative and unusual concept/storyline I’ve in a game. Essentially, it is the story of an amnesiac man who cannot die (permanently, anyway) and has been going through a cycle of death and forgetful rebirth for centuries, if not millennia. As the story progresses, we discover both how and why he became immortal, and why the cycle of death and rebirth must stop. It’s surprisingly deep stuff, especially for a video game. A lot of philosophical issues of sin and redemption, and ultimate justice. Great game that could make a fantastic film, IMHO.


22 posted on 05/21/2015 8:44:39 PM PDT by DemforBush (Ex-Democrat, and NotforJeb. Just so we're clear.)
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To: MNDude

23 posted on 05/21/2015 8:45:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: MNDude

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Great and very funny read!

24 posted on 05/21/2015 8:45:42 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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To: stanne

It was done and Kirk Douglas was great as Odysseus


25 posted on 05/21/2015 8:45:59 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: MNDude

26 posted on 05/21/2015 8:48:30 PM PDT by RandallFlagg ("When you have to shoot, SHOOT! Don't talk." --Tuco)
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To: nopardons

I must check it out


27 posted on 05/21/2015 8:48:55 PM PDT by stanne
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To: MNDude

I have tons of ideas. Hollyweird would never do them.


28 posted on 05/21/2015 8:49:20 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: BenLurkin

You’re in luck.

A version of this (supposedly named ‘Uprising’) is currently in development. Slated for a 2018 release.


29 posted on 05/21/2015 8:49:33 PM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: doorgunner69

Not if it gives Scalzi any money


30 posted on 05/21/2015 8:49:57 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: stanne
I haven't seen it since I was a kid, but I do remember loving the movie.

Sadly, AFAIK,it's never been on T.V.!

31 posted on 05/21/2015 8:51:20 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

I could do a couple too


32 posted on 05/21/2015 8:51:22 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Red_Devil 232

My favorite part was when one of the characters suffered a head wound and they applied a tourniquet.


33 posted on 05/21/2015 8:52:05 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: MNDude
i would love to see them make Edward E. "Doc" Smith's two Space Opera series made into movies . . . that would be a lot of fun in the spirit of Buck Rogers:

The Skylark series

The Lensman series

We have finally come to the point where special effects could do real justice to such swashbuckling space opera and fun space battles of the imagination of "Doc" Smith. . .

34 posted on 05/21/2015 8:52:22 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: MNDude

King Kong was written for the screen (inspired by some fictionalized travelogue films of the 1920s and 30s).

There could be another “King Kong” just as “Star Wars” was written for the screen, and novelized for the “home audience”.

As to what books would adapt well, many feature films were adapted from short stories (Freaks, The Fly, and 2001 among them).


35 posted on 05/21/2015 8:52:22 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: MNDude

A very true to the book, Walter Jon Williams “Hardwired”.

They actually did make a movie of this but it’s not that great and some diversion off the book.

Needs to be better towards the actual novel story and the effects needed could be done very well now.


36 posted on 05/21/2015 8:52:55 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: RandallFlagg
Never happen...

Hollyweird would be scared to death the ideas in that book might "catch on"....

37 posted on 05/21/2015 8:53:38 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: MNDude

The Marching Morons
By C. M. Kornbluth
http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/kornbluthcm-marchingmorons/kornbluthcm-marchingmorons-00-e.html


38 posted on 05/21/2015 8:54:11 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: MNDude

I also wouldn’t mind seeing The Foundation trilogy made in the epic style of LOTR and such. Delve into the psychohistory angle of it.


39 posted on 05/21/2015 8:54:15 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: nopardons
TIME AND AGAIN, by Jack Finney

In development:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2303754/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

40 posted on 05/21/2015 8:54:33 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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