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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
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To: CityCenter
The Great Divorce, CS Lewis Excellent choice! I'd love to see it--the visuals lend themselves very well to cinema. When do you start production?
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posted on
05/22/2015 3:38:50 PM PDT
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Hebrews 11:6
(Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
To: MNDude
The Earth Abides
Brave New World
Kidnapped
Heidi
A remake of 1984
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posted on
05/22/2015 3:42:49 PM PDT
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Chickensoup
(Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
To: familyop
They are both books that I think should be movies.
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posted on
05/22/2015 4:06:28 PM PDT
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tbw2
To: Mad Dawgg
John Ringos Troy Rising Series. Today's CGI could handle it, and the sci fi elements are not all that far fetched!
To: MNDude
The best-selling Big Lake series by Nick Russell.
Best described as Mayberry meets Twin Peaks.
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posted on
05/23/2015 6:54:15 AM PDT
by
chaosagent
(Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
To: MNDude
My list:
Magician’s Nephew (CS Lewis)
Hyperion (Dan Simmons)
11/22/63 (Stephen King)
Long Shot (A Marvel comic)
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posted on
05/23/2015 8:35:27 AM PDT
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MNDude
To: MNDude
As a long running series, Neal Stephenson’s “System of the World” trilogy.
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posted on
05/23/2015 8:43:20 AM PDT
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Covenantor
("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
To: MNDude
The frontiersman by Alan Eckert
To: MNDude
James Ross. Unintended Consequences.
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posted on
05/23/2015 9:00:13 AM PDT
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Darren McCarty
(Leaning towards Cruz or Walker in 2016. No Jeb. No Graham.)
To: LivingNet
"The frontiersman by Alan Eckert" Simon Kenton was a Man.
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posted on
05/23/2015 9:01:32 AM PDT
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Flag_This
(You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
To: BBell
Big bump for ‘The White Plague’ (this is out of print??? Are you kidding?)...also ‘Lucifer’s Hammer’ and ‘Unintended Consequences’.
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posted on
05/23/2015 9:17:26 AM PDT
by
who knows what evil?
(Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
To: MNDude
Pirate Alley (by Stephen Coontz)
One Second After (by William Forstchen)
To: Hebrews 11:6
I wish! It’s really hard to get the rights to his work.
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posted on
05/23/2015 3:04:55 PM PDT
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CityCenter
(Walker, Cruz in any order.)
To: CityCenter
I’ll bet. I just lent my CD of it to a Christian friend who really couldn’t quite appreciate it, so it’s not for everyone. Still, it’s completely and uniquely extraordinary. It would need the right screenplay treatment to convince the owner—I mean, if you held the rights, you wouldn’t let just anyone do it. I suppose Douglas Gresham or his heirs?
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05/23/2015 3:40:06 PM PDT
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Hebrews 11:6
(Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
To: a fool in paradise
Wow! Thank you. I think King Kong (1933) holds up to the day.
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posted on
05/23/2015 4:54:46 PM PDT
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Oratam
To: Hebrews 11:6
Yup, and for such a short book, it is filled with pages of content. Would be really kewl to see what a good special effects treatment could do with it.
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posted on
05/24/2015 9:56:56 AM PDT
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CityCenter
(Walker, Cruz in any order.)
To: sevlex
I agree Enemies Foreign & Domestic wold make fanatic movie or TV mini-series.
To: MNDude
I've always wanted to see William Faulkner's [i]Light in August[/i] filmed - it's one of Faulkner's few novels that would work as a film (i.e. mostly not written stream of consciousness).
There's also a long list of novels that have been adapted to film but were done so poorly that another filmmaker should take a shot.
To: ek_hornbeck
I was really busy, unfortunately, when this thread first appeared. However, there is one action/political intrigue thriller book that seems so topical today that it is a guaranteed hit. Except to the lame "progressives" who presently hold the reins of power in the U.S.
The book? Atria Books, 2001, by Vince Flynn; the title : Term Limits.
As a memory tickler, this author was one of Dubya's favorite authors, and one day in the presidential limousine, Dubya asked him how he got his facts about the inner workings of government, particularly the intelligence services. Seems his novels were spooky; way too real and worrysome to some in government. His answer? a smile, and "I've got my sources..."
Although Flynn died before finishing his latest thriller, released this year, before it was published it had to be vetted by the CIA and FBI.
It is a wall to wall thriller, not taking a back seat to the traditional writers of the genre. It would make a great movie! And it displays the arrogance of the inner workings of politics and abuse of power enough to make you see red. And current events seem to be mimicking a 14 year old novel!
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posted on
06/02/2015 11:45:18 AM PDT
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publius911
(If you like Obamacare, You'll LOVE ObamaWeb.)
To: publius911
I'd love to see somebody give this a shot:
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posted on
06/02/2015 11:52:25 AM PDT
by
Interesting Times
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