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Which novels do you think would make awesome movies.....

Which novels got turn into movies and your asking 'WHY' did they do that??? There are so many better books out there!!

Which good novels got turned into very poor movies.


Dotting this so I remember to come back after work.

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jacob saltband wrote:
Which novels do you think would make awesome movies.....

I would love to see Man in the high castle done by David Lynch possibly Spike Jonze. Maybe Tarrentino.

Jacob Saltband wrote:
Which novels got turn into movies and your asking 'WHY' did they do that??? There are so many better books out there!!

Starship troopers. Not a huge Heinlen fan. He's ok but not the best. I didnt care for tone of the novel or some of the specifics in it. Little did I know, Verhoven would make a masterpiece of satire out of it.

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Which good novels got turned into very poor movies.

Nothing off the top of my head. I'll be back though.


The "Lensman" books would make great movies--the Foundation novels not so much...

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The series by Chrisopher Paolini, Eragon etc.., while ok didnt see why the first book was turned into a movie so quickly. I've read lots of books as good and LOTS better.

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Never understood why 'Song of Ice and Fire' was turned into a pay channel tv series. I've read the first 4 books and just hoped that in the 5th books the auther would kill off the entire upper class on the westeros continent.

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If graphic novels count, I thought V for Vendetta was a poor adaption.

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Jacob Saltband wrote:
Never understood why 'Song of Ice and Fire' was turned into a pay channel tv series. I've read the first 4 books and just hoped that in the 5th books the auther would kill off the entire upper class on the westeros continent.

I really enjoyed Game of thrones as a book and series. The books tend to get worse and worse with each release though.


Jacob Saltband wrote:
The series by Chrisopher Paolini, Eragon etc.., while ok didnt see why the first book was turned into a movie so quickly. I've read lots of books as good and LOTS better.

It was just because it was the big new YA series at the time.

I think it could have made a good movie if the writers, directors, and actors hadn't all been utterly incompetent in such a spectacular way.

Guess they get one point back for the special effects team being on the ball.

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I think that 'Jinx on a Terran Inheritance' would my an awesome movie. Good characters and good story, with special effects now it could be dont very well.

'Doomfarers of Coramonde' would make a good fantasy movie.

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A book series I think would a good tv series is 'The Garrett P.I.' novel by Glen Cook.


I think they should make a Dragonlance movie. I've heard there is an animated movie (I've not seen it), but I'd like to see a live action version.

In the "WHY" category... Battleship. I know its not a book, but that movie left me with so many unanswered whys:

Why THAT game? Why aliens? Why cast an actor with an Irish accent to play an American admiral? Why didn't the movie studio have their security remove whoever pitched this disaster to them? Just WHY???

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Battlefield Earth was done very badly. They didnt even try to come close.


Okay. Now that I've had some time to relax and think about it. This is going to include stuff that I think would work better as a mini-series of even full series, but that I'd like to see a movie of at the very least.

Let's start with what I want to see:

  • Urban Magic and Magicals Anonymous by Kate Griffin: Urban Magic came first, and follows the trials and tribulations of Matthew Swift, a recently resurrected sorcerer who is no longer quite human since starting to share his body with the Blue Electric Angels, and more recently the Midnight Mayor, Protector of the City of London. Currently has 4 books, A Madness of Angels, The Midnight Mayor, The Neon Court and The Minority Council. Magicals Anonymous is the spin-off series, following Penny, an apprentice shaman learning from an angry goblin and trying to lead her tribe, a support group for people with magical issues (druids with allergies, a woman who turns into a flock of pigeons when she's nervous, and a necromancer with a really bad skin condition are the least of it). Two books at the moment, Stray Souls and The Glass God. These two series share a setting, and have quickly become my favourite urban fantasy along with Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere and American Gods (for anything to get added to that list is rare). Ideally I'd like to see them done as a collection of mini-series (probably 3 - 6 episodes per book), and to make sure that they keep the same actors for characters who appear in both series.
  • The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie: Brutal fantasy. Has magic, but it doesn't appear all that often, and when it does, it can cause as much harm to the wielder as their enemies. Action packed with angry northmen, noble armies and a blasphemous empire ruled by religious magic users who feed on the flesh of humans to increase their power. Logan Nine Fingers has to be one of my favourite fantasy characters in recent times.
  • The Immortal Empire series by Kate Lock: Modern day urban fantasy based on an alternative history where the Black Death caused vampiric and lycanthropic mutations amongst the nobility. Vampires rule England, Werewolves rule Scotland, and half-breeds are treated as favoured bastard children and trained as security forces (as they have lesser versions of their parents weaknesses). The terrifying Goblins are caused by a blending of the werewolf and vampire strains of the virus.
  • Pretty much anything by Cristopher Brookmyre: I'm pretty sure they already did a mini-series adaptation of his first novel, Quite Ugly One Morning starring James Nesbitt, but I've never yet managed to track a copy of it down, and I want to see his unique blend of humour, crime fiction and brutality on the screen.
  • Skullduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy: One of the coolest series of children's novels I've read. Main characters are the skeletal magic using detective Skullduggery Pleasant, and his teenage apprentice Valkyrie Cain. They fight dark magic users and try to prevent the return of The Faceless ones. What more do you need? (plus I'd be interested to see how they handle the point where the books basically turned into nightmare fuel for a while)

Things I wonder why they bothered:

  • The Golden Compass (Adapted from The Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman): Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed this film. But I had to pretty much ignore that it was meant to be based on the first book in that series in order to do so (thankfully I'm good at divorcing adaptations from the source if I need to). It deviated so much that they almost would have been better off just trying to claim it was an unrelated story.
  • Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (adapted from the Dylan Dog comics): Not necessarily a bad film, but so average that it just makes you wonder why anyone bothered.
  • Eragon (adapted from Eragon by Christopher Paolini): Horridly rushed. They wrote the damn thing so quickly that they managed to kill off a character in an early version that ended up being incredibly important in the later novels, necessitating a quick rewrite to shoehorn him back in. Just a terrible effort all round.

I could probably come up with more for both lists later after some more thought, but I'm about ready to crash right now anyway.

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Want them to turn The Emberverse Series by S.M Stirling into a TV series and cast Viggo Mortensen as Michael Havel. Think of it as Game of Thrones with more likeable characters That would be SWEET!

Why:Battleship Just...no. I couldn't even sit through it.

Agree on Skullduggery Pleasant.

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Why can't an American admiral have an Irish accent?


So: China Miéville: Movie potential, or not?

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Carnacki, the Ghost Finder could make a good movie or TV series.

The Bladerunner (which has nothing to do with the movie, but Ridley Scott liked the title) would make a solid movie, especially in these days when health care costs are such a big concern.

And I'd watch the hell out of anything based on Shadowrun.

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A lot of novels that I like, are pretty much totally unfilmable. "First And Last Men" by Olaf Stapledon, Just about anything by Stanislaw Lem, his novels don't have enough boom boom for modern scifi audiences and are pretty much thinking films. Princess of Mars suffered terribly from the changes made to make it "up to date". So pretty much most pulp classics are in the same boat.

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LazarX wrote:
A lot of novels that I like, are pretty much totally unfilmable. "First And Last Men" by Olaf Stapledon, Just about anything by Stanislaw Lem, his novels don't have enough boom boom for modern scifi audiences and are pretty much thinking films. Princess of Mars suffered terribly from the changes made to make it "up to date". So pretty much most pulp classics are in the same boat.

Yeah, I really liked A Canticle for Liebowitz, but I wouldn't trust anyone to make a film adaptation of it.

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And I'd watch the hell out of anything based on Shadowrun.

Yeah, 'cos nothing could go wrong with a movie based on an RPG.

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The Bladerunner (which has nothing to do with the movie, but Ridley Scott liked the title) would make a solid movie, especially in these days when health care costs are such a big concern.

While I liked Scott's adaption of Bladerunner, I agree that he left the novel with enough that it could be revisited and not even be close to the same movie.

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The one I ask Why is Lifeforce. Based on an OK novel called Space Vampires by Colin Wilson (which I read years before they turned it into a movie), they radically changed the theme of the book to fit the traditional vampire themes.


Jeff Long's book The Descent would make a great action packed movie. Vin Deisel or Tom Hardy as Elias Branch. Yeah, sign me up!


Pan wrote:
RainyDayNinja wrote:


The Bladerunner (which has nothing to do with the movie, but Ridley Scott liked the title) would make a solid movie, especially in these days when health care costs are such a big concern.

While I liked Scott's adaption of Bladerunner, I agree that he left the novel with enough that it could be revisited and not even be close to the same movie.

Probably because (as Rainy Day Ninja said) Bladerunner the film had nothing to do with the novel The Bladerunner, beyond the title. Bladerunner is an adaptation of Phillip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, not Alan E Nourse's novel The Bladerunner.

That said, Ridley Scott purchased all rights to the title, so any adaptation of Nourse's novel will need a new title.

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Charles Scholz wrote:
The one I ask Why is Lifeforce. Based on an OK novel called Space Vampires by Colin Wilson (which I read years before they turned it into a movie), they radically changed the theme of the book to fit the traditional vampire themes.

Because it turned out to be awesome.

If the new Mad Max movie revitalizes the post-apocalyptic road flick, I'd like to see a more faithful remake of Roger Zelazny's Damnation Alley with Kurt Russell as Hell Tanner, though Ron Perlman would be a close runner up.

I'd love to see The Years of Rice and Salt done as a television series.

Basically, it's an alternate history of an Earth where the Black Plague wiped out 99% of Europe, leaving China and the Middle East the only empires left to explore and colonize the planet. What makes it really interesting is the story uses Eastern philosophical conventions to tell the story from the point of view of a group of souls who are reincarnated over the course of several centuries. Sometimes the souls are reincarnated as family, friends or enemies and one time one is even reincarnated as a tiger because he was kind of a tool in his previous life. Each season could use the same actors playing different roles in a different one of the ten time periods the book uses.

Unfortunately, I don't think it could ever get made in the U.S. It's way too hard a sell. Aside from the constantly changing settings and characters, there is only one white person in the entire story and it's a nameless, female slave who is only mentioned in one sentence. Another thing is there's basically no Jesus. Without Europeans to spread Christianity, Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims take over the world. Advertisers wouldn't go anywhere near it. Imagine the bloodbath as the collective heads of the commentators on Fox and Friends simultaneously exploded from the notion of a world without white people and Jesus.

It would be glorious.


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Wait...being reincarnated as a tiger was a punishment?

Sign me up for being a tool then, it sounds sweet.

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I know, right? The reincarnation in the book operates under the traditional idea that animals are further from enlightenment than humans so jerks and criminals can be demoted to animal life. The soul who becomes the tiger murdered two people in its previous incarnation. She actually had a pretty good reason for it though so that's probably why she didn't come back as something like a maggot.


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We need a good adaption of the Dresden Files. I also think that The Lies of Locke Lamora would work well as a movie.


Yeah....I agree...Years of Rice and Salt is probably impossible to adapt

Um...I would love to see the Hyperion Cantos series adapted, But the budget would be ridiculous for a TV series, and there is no way you could fit it into even a three hour movie.


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Man/Kzin Wars (i.e. N-space hijinx involving K'zinti)

The various Adventures of Flinx

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey

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Thought of a couple more I'd like to see...

Did anyone ever read any of the Ebenezum trilogy from Craig Shaw Gardner? Characters and items like Cuthbert the cowardly talking sword, the Horn of Wonk and the rhyming demon Guxx Unfuffadoo inspired some of my earliest D&D sessions. It'd be a fun trilogy to adapt.

Also, an adaptation of Robert Rankin's The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Laika would be awesome.


I'd love to see Startide Rising, but I just don't think the pace would be done well (most of the problems with making sci-fi novels into movies). You aren't going to get another 2001 movie anytime soon.


Heroes Die by Matthew Stover (if you haven't read it, READ IT)

It's already written like an incredibly cinematic R rated fantasy epic. It deserves the full treatment.

Also, the Mistborn books by Brandon Sanderson would make great movies.

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Tinkergoth wrote:
Pan wrote:
RainyDayNinja wrote:


The Bladerunner (which has nothing to do with the movie, but Ridley Scott liked the title) would make a solid movie, especially in these days when health care costs are such a big concern.

While I liked Scott's adaption of Bladerunner, I agree that he left the novel with enough that it could be revisited and not even be close to the same movie.

Probably because (as Rainy Day Ninja said) Bladerunner the film had nothing to do with the novel The Bladerunner, beyond the title. Bladerunner is an adaptation of Phillip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, not Alan E Nourse's novel The Bladerunner.

That said, Ridley Scott purchased all rights to the title, so any adaptation of Nourse's novel will need a new title.

Interesting I have never even heard of Alan E Nourse. Barely comes up on internet search.


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  • The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie: Brutal fantasy. Has magic, but it doesn't appear all that often, and when it does, it can cause as much harm to the wielder as their enemies. Action packed with angry northmen, noble armies and a blasphemous empire ruled by religious magic users who feed on the flesh of humans to increase their power. Logan Nine Fingers has to be one of my favourite fantasy characters in recent times.
  • Seconded. This is a great series. I'd be just as happy to see it get a TV series like Song of Ice and Fire did, though the books are concise enough I think they'd make a solid transition to film.

    If HBO is going to keep grabbing up books to make serials out of, they should get Glen Cook's Black Company. I'd love to see a good adaptation.


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    Annals of the Black Company by Glen Cook would make a great series of movies.
    Simon Green's "Nightside" novels would make a fun TV series.

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    Nightside series by Green would be interesting if done right.

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    Pan wrote:
    If graphic novels count, I thought V for Vendetta was a poor adaption.

    On the other hand, "Wathcmen" was a superb adaptation.

    Books I think would work great as films or TV series:

    1) Hyperion would make an amazing TV mini series of about 6 episodes. A movie sequel of the second book (fall of hyperion) would also be awesome.

    2) The Expanse is some very filmable sci-fi (a TV series is currently in production, much to my cautious excitement)

    3) The Dark Tower is a risky one... but if there's a chance of pulling it off well, I think it's worth the risk. "The Talisman" could be a cool movie.

    4) Both "The Dresden Files" and "Repiarman Jack" could be fun movie franchises. While we are discussing F Paul Wilson, I would LOVE to see a good version of "The Keep" being made.

    5) Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson would make a great action flick. In fact, the entire book gave me the feeling that Sanderson is saying, "look people, I'm tired of my books not being turned into movies, so let's make one that Hollywood can digest". Mistborn, on the other hand, would probably not work all that well on screen since it's so reliant on a complex magic system that does not have the strongest visual components.

    6) The Fitz trilogy by Robin Hobb is classic TV material. I guess this is also true of the Liveship Traders as well.

    7) "His Majesty's Dragon" and the first couple of sequels would be so insanely awesome as movie I can't believe there are no major movement in that direction yet. Hopefully this will be Jackson's next project after he's done with "The Hobbit". After all, his dragon Smaug is pretty memorable...

    8) I still have faith in the possibility of a good film adaptation for "V for Vendetta".

    9) "The name of the Wind" looks like a great choice for either a small screen or silver screen adaptation, however they should probably give Rothfuss some time to produce a third novel that compensates for the unforgivable amateur mess that was his second book.

    10) The Death Gate Cycle - I only read the books as a child but from what I remember about them, they all featured unique, interesting world and relateable characters. I would love to see 7 movies for this book cycle.

    11) Jurrasic Park was an AWESOME choice for a movie, and I have high hopes for the next one!

    12) The first Borune novel was a great choice for a movie, but not in the lackluster way it was already done. The book is such great source material that they should transport it mostly unchanged to screen.

    13) At the Mountains of Madness. I don't really have to explain this one, do I?

    I'm sure there are more, but I kinda ran out of time for now...


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    The one I ask Why is Lifeforce. Based on an OK novel called Space Vampires by Colin Wilson (which I read years before they turned it into a movie), they radically changed the theme of the book to fit the traditional vampire themes. ....

    Lifeforce......Yes.

    If you're in the mood for Mystery Science Theater 3000 level schlock, perhaps below that level, Lifeforce is a unique life experience.

    Spoiler alert, if you want further information on the greatness of Lifeforce in a very detailed way, see Lifeforce. If this appeals to you, then strap yourself in, grab the popcorn, licorice and soda and prepare for pure awesomeness.

    Oh, and I'd love to see Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell done well, perhaps with a Peter Jackson level attention to detail treatment. (I see someone like Gary Oldman having a lot of fun playing Mr. Norrell.)

    And Fred Saberhagen's Book of Swords series would make a great B-movie or trilogy.....

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    I'd love to see Startide Rising, but I just don't think the pace would be done well (most of the problems with making sci-fi novels into movies). You aren't going to get another 2001 movie anytime soon.

    Totally agreed (on all counts). Plus some of the heroes are dolphins and chimpanzees, which might make the studio execs scratch their heads a bit.

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    Ive always thought that The whole wheel of time series could be awesome as like a long tv series sort of thing, with special effects that allow you to see the one power being wielded (or not, could always wait till it came out on dvd/bluray with that as a special option. The issue of course with ever wanting to see a book come out is that my interpretation of what i thought was awesome about it could well be something everyone else hated..

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    To be honest, I'm not really that big a fan of screen adaptations of well-known stuff. The LotR and Hobbit had the misfortune to be made by a director with no subtlety whatsoever, and GoT is alright but even then a lot of the nuances are lost in the adaptation. I personally prefer the cinema running in my head. It's a sort of truism of cinema that good books make lousy movies. Things work better, in my view, if they bring something you didn't know about to the screen. If it's a book you know and love, an adaptation is pretty unlikely to please.


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    pres man wrote:
    I'd love to see Startide Rising, but I just don't think the pace would be done well (most of the problems with making sci-fi novels into movies). You aren't going to get another 2001 movie anytime soon.
    Totally agreed (on all counts). Plus some of the heroes are dolphins and chimpanzees, which might make the studio execs scratch their heads a bit.

    Rise of the Planet of the Apes showed that you could do a good just with a chimpanzee protagonist. I actually think Startide Rising could be adapted well. It's the dolphins that might require a bit of head scratching from movie execs at this point.


    Wheel of Time would be awesome in either TV or film. It would be really hard to do well however, especially in the later books.

    Marvel Comics from the 80s: I'd like to see more of the Marvel comic book stories I loved in the 80s made into movies. I really dislike how directors (who don't even know the characters!) change so much about the characters, change the plotline, change everything, when it was never needed. The reason why the Lord of the Rings movies were so successful is that Jackson made very few changes to the book.

    Stuff I like: Contest of Champions, Spiderman mini-series (Kraven, Venom), X-Men (Brood aliens, Days of Future Past which I hope they don't mess up, sentinels, Hellfire Club), Dr Strange, Iron Fist, Secret Wars, Mutant Massacre, Scourge.

    Star Wars Expanded Universe: I'd like to see some of the Star Wars novels made into movies. Again, a wealth of great storylines, no need to change everything, it just needs to be changed into screenplays.

    Dragonlance: God, I would love if they could do it right, but it seems like when they try it always comes out cheesy.

    World of Darkness: Writing content using the World of Darkness (masquerade - older version). Vampires, werewolves, mages, wraiths. All good stuff. Would be hard to do since it's the characters that matter... but still.

    Game of Thrones is awesome btw. :)


    WHEEL OF TIME is in development at Universal, as it has been for about five years. I gather they are having problems between doing a TV series which wouldn't be able to do the really big effects sequences justice, or a film series which would have to cut 95%+ of the story for length.

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    So: China Miéville: Movie potential, or not?

    Yes, though not all of them. UN LUN DUN, RAILSEA, THE TAIN and THE SCAR could be done brilliantly. PERDIDO STREET STATION is probably out due to the insectoid sex scenes, though if you took them out it could be done. IRON COUNCIL might be way too pro-socialism for an American studio to take a punt (and the effects budget would be insane). THE CITY AND THE CITY I think is unadaptable; the 'unseeing' stuff would just look bizarre on screen. KRAKEN could work as well, but it's one of his lesser novels. EMBASSYTOWN is probably too cerebral, though maybe someone like Nolan could take a crack at it.

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    Yeah, I really liked A Canticle for Liebowitz, but I wouldn't trust anyone to make a film adaptation of it.

    Someone did. It was a segment of a BABYLON 5 episode called 'The Deconstruction of Falling Stars' ;-) Apparently the writer later realised he'd inadvertently borrowed the plot of the novel subconsciously.

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    Um...I would love to see the Hyperion Cantos series adapted, But the budget would be ridiculous for a TV series, and there is no way you could fit it into even a three hour movie.

    Bradley Cooper - the HANGOVER guy - has been trying to launch a movie adaptation of HYPERION for the last couple of years. I'd love to have seen those pitch meetings.

    "So the dude from THE HANGOVER wants to make a sci-fi version of THE CANTERBURY TALES featuring a robot made of spikes and an android version of Keats, and the whole thing abruptly stops mid-flow and will require a sequel with a CGI budget in the billions? Hmm."

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    I'd love to see Startide Rising, but I just don't think the pace would be done well (most of the problems with making sci-fi novels into movies). You aren't going to get another 2001 movie anytime soon.

    Paramount was developing a STARTIDE RISING script in the early 1990s but abruptly cancelled it around the time SEAQUEST DSV aired. I strongly suspect they realised that talking dolphins are not going to be convincing on screen, ever.

    The chimpanzee-centric UPLIFT WAR, in which dolphins don't appear at all, might work, though.

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    Heroes Die by Matthew Stover (if you haven't read it, READ IT)

    HEROES DIE and CAINE BLACK KNIFE would make great movies and/or TV series. But BLADE OF TYSHALLE and CAINE'S LAW are 100%, completely unadaptable. I don't even see how the hell they'd do it.

    Matt Stover should definitely write one of the new STAR WARS movies. His STAR WARS novels are among the very best STAR WARS things ever written; his REVENGE OF THE SITH novelization was considerably better than the film itself.

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    Also, the Mistborn books by Brandon Sanderson would make great movies.

    One company's already tried but ran out of time and the rights reverted. Apparently they got a fair bit of interest, but I think the movie studios fell foul of the recent reduction in many film budgets post-financial crisis (unless you're a sequel or a superhero film). MISTBORN would require a fair bit of money to do right.

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    Wheel of time is completely untranslatable into a movie without losing soooo much of its meat.

    A TV show with 40 minute episodes, around 23 episodes per season, every season one book. Also they should film a lot in advance because 13-14 years would make actors age much more then 3-4 years that pass in the novels.


    Necroscope and the rest of the series-Has awesome vampires, vampire created monsters, really cool powers such as mind reading/teleportation, zombies, ghosts, secret agent types. Not sure why this movie has been stuck in development hell.


    To be honest most books I really like have turned out to be huge disapointments when turned into TV or a Movie. Some things are best left for the imagination. Exceptions exist, Lord of the Rings way better than the turgid books, Game of Thrones probably the best adaption of a book ever, The Stand in my opinion the best of the King books to film

    Would like to see if done properly:

    First Law trilogy others have said why, great books, great characters.

    A decent Conan movie based on the books, maybe using the Pict stories. 1st Conan movie was great, newest one was utter pants.

    Clive Barker Weaveworld or Imajica, awesome books.

    American Gods (may be happening) and Sandman graphic Novels.

    Preacher comics but I severly doubt it as the content is wayyy too blasphomus for TV or film.

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    Those that should not be made ever:

    Malazan books, some of the best fantasy books Iv'e read but no way you could film them.

    Wheel of Time as Hama said no way could you do it and if you did do 1 book per season...I would really hate to watch books 8-10. Maybe do those as 1 series instead.

    Nights Dawn Trilogy, great books, might work as a tv series but no film please.

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